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I think This is a very naïve, unfair take on one of the world's most sophisticated, complex, real-time booking systems that is unparalleled in what it enables. [1,2]

The front end definitely can be much much better; but the issue is very simply there are not enough tickets to match the demand.

"From 29 tickets booked in a day in 2002, it has reached to 13 Lakh tickets a day as of now. It is reported that the IRCTC system is currently capable of booking 15K tickets a minute online and can handle 3 Lakh concurrent users to handle any surge in demand." [1]
(13 lakhs is 1.3 million)

"Of the 15 million passengers who climb aboard one of 8,520 trains each day, about 550,000 have reserved
accommodations. Their journeys can start in any part of India and end in any other part, with travel times as long as 48 hours and distances up to several thousand kilometres. The challenge is to provide a reservation system that can support such a huge number-regardless of whether it’s measured by kilometres, passenger numbers, routing complexity, or simply the sheer scale of country. " [2]

If anyone has better references on the frankly astounding technical accomplishment that the CRIS Passenger Reservation system, please share.

"Passenger Reservation System (PRS): A nationwide online passenger reservation and ticketing system, developed and maintained by CRIS, was developed in C and Fortran on a Digital OpenVMS operating system using RTR (Reliable Transaction Router) as middleware. Also known as CONCERT (Country-wide Network of Computerised Enhanced Reservation and Ticketing), it interconnects the four regional computing systems (in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai) into a national PRS grid. It allows a passenger anywhere to book train tickets from any station to any station. PRS handles reservations, changes, cancellations and refunds, reserving over 1.6 million seats and berths daily. Complex rules, validations and fare-computation techniques are interwoven in the application" [3]

[1] https://inc42.com/features/how-online-train-booking-ticket-p...

[2] http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/bitstream/123456789/25869/1/Unit-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Railway_Information...
The point here is valid: a “free email address for life” is equivalent to a statement like “You can sleep on my couch as long as you need to”. It’s true until it isn’t.

Unlike crashing on someone’s couch, for an actually very insignificant amount (and a nonzero quantity of technical skill), you can own actually own the domain and the email server and not depend on the charity of another, and not be even possibly inconvenienced someday by the service ending when someone turns out the lights on their way out.

The cost of maintaining such a service is also minimal, but nonzero and can be an intimidating feat to attempt. The alpha nerds will beat their chest and state that they are so technically inclined that this approaches zero for them.
Dude... i cash out in chf. I am not a trader, i just happen to earn some of my money in crypto. Some of which i hold in usdt to protect against losses in the crypto market. I can still regularly see it going up and down while the chf value basically stays the same. it would just be way less annoying to watch with a more stable currency.
Are we now redefining now what a calendar year is just so that we can somehow get to the result we want? that's not science, it's not how it works. You're saying that even though for the past decades we're looking at mortality per a normal calendar year, now we need to redefine this, because the results just don't fit with our opinion and beliefs.
Seems to have been a hospital-acquired infection? Those are a nasty problem at the best of times. Remember MRSA?
> C# would do, too, but it doesn’t have Clojure.

Do you mean .NET would do too?
I know very well how much vetting is done in Debian, and how little is done by most distros.
I agree. HTTPS is great, at definitely needed for a lot of things. But I don't need my cat pictures encrypted, I don't need lots of things encrypted, and frankly, I don't want it to be encrypted when it's not required, it's a waste of resources, both processing and network.

Then there is the case of all the old computers that either lack the processing power or support for modern algorithms.
Can you please be more specific? How does it make Qubes look compromised? The Qubes website is absolutely not the only place to get the Master Key. See the discussion linked above: You can get the key from t-shirts, from qubes-os.org website, from Github, from the Qubes Discourse forum and other places. You can also find this key signed by different people.
AFAIK, for railways ticket bookings, yes; not banned but illegal. However, it's common knowledge that they exist and are used.
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> [...] it's already clear to me that in the US wearing face masks is more like a religion or a political statement [...]

What about wearing masks in countries where there are mask mandates with different levels of strictness and requirements? At which point does the personal decision to wear a mask, when not strictly mandatory, become a "religion or a political statement"? Are mask mandates elsewhere religious or ideological decisions, rather than debatably effective public health decisions?

Leaving aside the question of whether masks are or are not effective (and if so, to what extent, under what conditions, etc.), I think that it's disingenuous to dismiss the decision of people who wear them as an irrational or ideologically motivated choice. Many of them honestly believe (rightly or wrongly) that scientific evidence supports that using a mask is an effective way of either preventing their own infection or community spread. It is in the nature of human society that we don't meticulously research every rational decision we make, but rather rely on general approximations and societal consensus.

I think that talking about wearing face masks as a religious or political statement is in itself a political statement.
How would you detect something like that? Thats at the discretion of the party running the webserver/service and it's not directly observable. Cloudflare acts as a reverse proxy in front of the real origin server (which uses https), but that affects really a lot of internet sites nowadays (Cloudflare, Akamai, aws/gcp/azure and so on). CDN-origin connectivity is also encrypted, afaik you cannot downgrade and strip ssl (at least not with Akamai)
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That's why it's important for features like this to be enabled in at least a couple of major browsers at roughly the same time. That way, users will blame the website operator instead of the browser when they suddenly can't access an insecure website.
This for sure is true, but that does not change the fact that we have a system for “part time work“ that is far easier than for example in germany or austria.

In my social circle the majority works 80%. Something that is normal and possible here and unheard of in austria
Stingray's mounted on horses...i love that picture ;)
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At first it's opt-in then it becomes the default setting.
Are you a developer? If you are then you should be used to thinking at least 2 steps ahead and just seeing what's literally visible in front of you.
That is funny thing, where people think that someone will come over and "promote them to senior".

Reality is when you do "glue work" more and more you become senior and only then you should be promoted to reflect reality.
In 2012, the swiss people also rejected a referendum about longer holidays. Another weird one is the Federal Gambling Act, a referendum of 2018 that made it legal to DNS block unlicensed gambling websites (for tax reasons). The swiss people basically voted to approve censorship with that one.

[0]https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/voters-say-no-to-longer-holiday...

[1]https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/votes/201806...
This article has a lot of words without saying very much.

The tl;dr:

Mounties purchased some sort of intelligence gathering software, and kept it secret for "national security" (i thought that was CSE or CSIS's job?)

Mounties have some sort of darknet search engine. Article implies the term "darknet" is being used liberally, possibly to include spying on protestors, but is very unclear on the details.

Mounties have some sort of vuln in facebook that allows them to see your fb friends even if set to private (this is probably the most significant revelation in the article imo)

Mounties use proxy software when working undercover (no kidding, never would have guessed that one)

Mounties have software to do sentiment analysis on intercepted or publicly available messages

It is implied that the mounties have a caviler attitude towards privacy violations.

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The article is a little light on details and high on unstated implications. I'm not exactly happy about all this but this is hardly a bombshell of privacy violation. Maybe there is bad things there, but the article just doesn't have the technical detail to judge.
I think it would be an amazing currency.

- Good alternative to Universal Basic Income since people can produce it themselves directly.

- The unsanitary aspect of it will help prevent too large accumulation of it. People will have a stronger incentive to put their money to work instead of hoarding it.

- Not difficult to measure since it can be weighed and banks could print paper bills that are backed by it using weight as the units of account.

The main downside I can see is that it will encourage people to eat more and demand for laxatives would grow significantly.
I don't know. Let's say that some non-technical family member goes to this site intending to look at vacation pictures.

Imagine if those pictures have been replaced by something else. If you can't think of a long list of replacement images that could be very useful for a spearphishing attack, then you're not having enough imagination.

This attack could also be used to get the poster of the photos in trouble.
I wonder how this is possible. I suspect that the i9 was designed for high-TDP usage, and thermal throttling just kills performance. That would mean that the MBP offering an i9 was mostly marketing, which is pretty hilarious.
They have more money than they know what to do with. Let's face it, this is a company that runs what's essentially a very simple web site, yet they have a 34B market cap.
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I'm not sure if I trust EFF any less than I trust Mozilla.
I hope we have a better chance of eradicating covid, than we do measles. A first factor making measles harder to eradicate is that it can strikes fairly early in life, and covid appears to affect young children much less and not to be as transmissable either (studies show schools are a source of transmission, but that's largely 15+ yro teenages AFAICT). Transmission in necessarily vaccinated very young children won't be as much of an issue. Secondly, measles is much more infectious. People that come in close contact with contagious measles cases almost always get infected (90%), whereas with covid there are clearly many cases in which people get lucky. Over the course of the cov19 disease it may be likely you'll infect people, but each short exposure by itself is a fairly low risk; unlike with measles. And that helps, because it means that with measles you'd expect to need a much higher degree of vaccination to achieve herd immunity that with a less contagious virus like cov19. Intuitively: when a case does slip through it's much more likely to explode and infect many others when the virus is measles, than when it's cov-19.

Of course, just because it's an easier problem - hopefully - than measles eradication doesn't mean it's achievable. But at least it's plausibly achievable.

(There are warning signs too; like animal reservoirs which are a factor for cov-19 but not measles, so it's not all roses.)
that’s something different. Every country asks where you will be staying on their immigration entry forms. This thread is about local police, no immigration and customs agencies.

In Germany, it is required that when you move to a new apartment you walk into the nearest police station or town hall within a few days and fill out a form telling them your new address, who you live with, what their religious affiliations are, etc. You will get in trouble with the police if you do not do this.

In China they take it even further, and even tourist have to do the same. If you stay in an Airbnb in China and do not register with the local police, it is possible you can get in real trouble. This is not “write your hotel’s address on the immigration form”, it is “tell the local cops where to find you.” There is a huge difference in my mind at least.
It obviously is. Having just an HTML site now becomes more expensive for no clear reason. Which makes more sense for people to check out Gemini.
WebExtensions have permissions and I doubt the EFF requests passwords and history for this extension. It’s also open-source, and although installing it from addons.mozilla.org could introduce some sort of MITM opportunity, as a recommended extension Mozilla puts it through a review process, so it’s about as tame as an extension this capable can get. But yes, it is always nice to reduce extensions installed.
> You know how you know a company is Swiss?

Here is the official commercial register entry of the Canton of Geneva. The company was founded in 1996: https://ge.ch/hrcintapp/externalCompanyReport.action?company...
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It's just different priorities. When they launched Windows 10, they didn't have Edge. Now, a lot of users are familiar with IE 11. They're most concerned with their corporate customers. Earlier this year, they have announced that they will only support IE 11 until next year, giving time to their corporate customers an year to make the transition.
Some context here:

Indian railways website is very slow and pathetic (so bad that there are lengthy discussion on HN about it. search for IRCTC).

Given the shortage of tickets thousands of people try to book tickets at 7am when the window to book a certain class of tickets call `Tatkal` opens. Thousands of people are trying to book the exact same tickets from say 7am and by 7:10 am all tickets get sold out.

Now, if you could prefill all the forms and just press submit you might be able to buy the tickets before others. Railways website specifically tries to not allow any kind of pre-filling. The app merely bypasses that restriction. (I have written scripts in past to do just that when I lived there).

Railways is a classic colonial government system and operates pretty much as if India is still a British colony. They have their own police force called RPF which arrested the boy under Railways act 1989 for “unauthorised business of procuring and supplying railway tickets” which the boy did not do at all. Not to mention, the railways form has a captcha so it was not even a programmatic submission. There are railways mafias in India who buy tickets by bribing railways staff and I suspect these people are responsible for getting this boy jailed as his solution helped more genuine passengers to book their tickets by undercutting the "agents".

It remains to be seen how the courts apply the standard here but it will probably take around 10-15 years for the courts to come to a verdict.

Personal Rant: When I was in India, I had the misfortune of relying on Indian railways to travel home from college. I was so pissed that I was determined to get out of India so I have to never deal with Indian railways. I had tried all possible ways to hack the booking system and had my own chrome extensions to fill up the forms.
The Last Question is my all-time favourite piece of science fiction, undeniably Asimov’s best.
But wait, everyone is blaming people in Europe and the US for feeding the virus and not behaving properly, comparing them with countries like Taiwan, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand. So when is it ok to compare random countries with different climates, different political systems, different population structure and health infrastructure, only when it suits us?
Thanks for mentioning this! This about:config flag is also available in Firefox ESR 78 already (but there is no GUI for it yet).
> had to sign a letter confirming the visit and infraction.

sorry, what infraction?
That's not enabled by default, you first have to flip the "Encrypt All Sites Eligible" switch.
The fact that all of this still has had to be deduced ad hoc in some reverse engineering-type paradigm also should give anyone pause. The fact packet filtering works is better than if it didn't but that's almost besides the point. The problem is Apple deliberately obfuscating important security details from the user. It's literally asserting privilege of itself over the user/device owner in an essential way, if not entirely through filtering protocol than through informing about the protocol.
If my choices are to implement a security control which forces a layer of security, or forgo that security control so Alice can upload her Holiday pictures to a host which doesn’t support HTTPS either, I know which one I’ll pick. Alice should either host her photos on Instagram, or learn how to run letsencrypt.

The day where certs are no longer freely obtainable is the day another self governed free TLS provider will appear and force their way into the market by providing installers to inject CAs into system cert stores.

There’s always TOR if you disagree.
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As a visitor to the website, how can I be sure it's only holiday pictures ? If I get to your friendly website and it asks me for private information, and I'm willing to give it because I trust you, what tells me only you will receive it ? How do I know it's your holiday pictures, and not some scam someone else wants to trick me into ?
especially if the diplayed warning looks like a "ThIs Is An InSeCuRe SiTe" warning.
self signed cert? WaRnInG!!!111eleven
no https? WaRnInG!!!111eleven
cert expired 2 hours ago? WaRnInG!!!111eleven
> Nobody's talking about the world moving away from google. We're talking about the world simply not having non-repudiation built into email. A sender of an email doesn't owe you non-repudiation as a feature. Sorry if you think otherwise. Senders can add non-repudiation as a feature if they want to, which satisfies your purchase receipt scenario.

Please explain to me how I can make Amazon (or any other webshop) add non-repudiable contracts to their order flow? That's right, I can't. And no, I don't think that Amazon "owes" me non-repudiable emails, but now that we have non-repudiation by accident, it's certainly nice to have, and the world would be worse off if we removed that feature and replaced it with nothing.
Can anyone think of some OSS Emeriti?

I think Guido van Rossum is a prominent example, but I can't think of anyone else right now.
Everything just points to the dmca takedown request being treated as if it was invalid; the repository was restored more quickly than needed and without any real changes.
What action am I meant to take in response to these stories? Put £5k aside to buy shares?
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> these are used when you're making your own builds anyway

That's the problem: they encourage building with tons of random stuff pulled from the Internet on the fly, sidestepping OS distributions completely and providing no reproducible building, no vetting, no license review, no long-term security.

The leftpad disaster is a good example.
Frustratingly it doesn’t always work that way - one I have seen that is just bizarre is Qantas inflight wifi. It actually allows captive.apple.com to bypass the captive portal, so your iPhone, iPad or Mac thinks it has internet access. So you try to navigate to a page or use an app and just hit HTTPS certificate errors! So you have to think of some other site that is only HTTP or get the information card and enter the address it tells you to log in!

It’s crazy, because somebody must have had to configure something to explicitly let that through (not understanding the purpose of it?) and it just completely breaks it! I’ve tried to leave feedback (there is a link from the portal page) that they’ve screwed it up but it hadn't been fixed the last flight I went on..
Mario‘s attributes are a composite of different measurements that are partly needed in different contexts of the simulation.

They are just data. And like any data we should be able to query it without knowing Mario‘s special access pattern.
The parent wasn't talking just about scale, but distributed systems at scale. You could argue that making a call to a db is a distributed system but that is usually not what is meant. FP without side effects is excellent for transforming immutable data. History is by definition immutable so it suits that. It doesn't fit quite as well with a distributed system that has changing state, where the current state of the system is the primary concern for users.
I think you missed my point about him already being in the high risk group. She implies throughout the article that someone in his small Appalachian town who didn’t wear a mask is responsible for killing him yet he was already unhealthy and in and out of the hospital. It’s a large stretch. By her logic, she should be blaming the hospital but that wouldn’t make sense either.
To add some data to that: there is a correlation between disease spread and GDP reduction, and it's the one that consistent with your anecdote: The economic impact is greater where the disease is left unchecked :

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-health-economy, and then specificaly this scatterplot: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/q2-gdp-growth-vs-confirme...

(unfortunately, the graph doesn't include countries like china, vietnam, and many other asian countries, because that would make the trend even clearer.)
This is a great step, but I wish browsers would allow you to set domains that are considered to be secure origins in all cases. I have a decent intranet with transport security guaranteed by VPN, but because it isn't "HTTPS" I can't access tons of browser features.
He is emeritus in remission though, recently hired at Microsoft:-)
Why do Covid-19 deaths in Sweden always appear to decrease
Well stingrays (or similar devices) weren't mentioned in the article, and mounties don't ride horses anymore.
So they've refinanced that debt?
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I read it as "Kate's" and say that out loud occasionally and am understood