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I use TunesKit[0] on Windows. It’s $45 but works extremely well. Which is good, because as far as I know it’s the only working method of stripping iTunes DRM right now. Unfortunately, Apple managed to partially break it with iTunes 12.10 so you have to downgrade to 12.9 (they provide a download link in their FAQ).

[0] https://www.tuneskit.com/m4v-converter/
It's very disingenuous to compare taxes to harassment from cops and organized crime alike.

Also just restaurants probably tons of stuff will continue to be off the books anyways, heh.
It was voted in the last instance a couple of days ago.

There will be some delay until it's implemented and apparently there are plans to contest it.
I've been through it. My understanding is they select course material based on where you are in your process.

I think you will get more out of it if you have some idea already and are more ready to commit. If you aren't there, you can watch the same materials available for free until you are more clear and ready to commit.

/2cents
They had unpatched windows machines exposed to the internet, without any type of firewall.

It's honestly surprising that it wasn't listed at the top of Shodan for all the lads to have a giggle with.
Absolutely. I think this is more of a failure of the IEEE Security and Privacy program committee (PC) than that of the university. The chairs should have desk rejected it on ethical grounds. Failing that, at least one of the reviewers should have noticed this was fishy and raised the alarm. And failing that, someone in the full PC meeting should have been like "whoa, hol up." (though this last failure could be partially explained with PC meetings now happening online instead of in person, so less engagement)
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I was really impressed by how simple it is to increase quota on AWS. It was just simple elastic IP quota increase and few things related to VPC quotas. I haven't used Google cloud as much, so I can't comment on it.

If you don't mind me asking, what quota increase was rejected?
The optimal thing for them to do would be to build the framework and ship partially corrupted JPEGs that don't actually do anything nasty to Cellebrite. Cellebrite can verify that the machinery is there (not a totally idle threat) but no one can prove that Signal has actually done anything illegal. Cellebrite then wastes a bunch of times gathering and analyzing the files without actually learning anything from it. They also get more incentive to start finding and fixing their software's vulnerabilities, which throws off work schedules.

And Signal can develop a few land mines to deploy at any time, and just... hold on to them for a rainy day.
I suspect at least half the people exonerated by the Innocence Project are in fact guilty. However, I think that sloppy police work should never be rewarded with a guilty verdict, even if it's likely the defendant is guilty.
I’m fairly convinced we’re only about 5-10 acquisitions away from cannabis becoming legal via the legislative branch.

There’s 3 larges sectors that are still holdouts. Healthcare, alcohol, and tobacco industries.

Healthcare will never flip because there’s almost no revenue for them. The only thing they might be able to do is partner with Bayer and license/patent specific strains.

Tobacco exists because it’s addictive. CBD and hemp already offer sedative natural alternatives that are healthier and safer for the consumer. If you find anybody taking Wellbutrin or any drug that can cessate the nicotine withdrawal, they can easily kick the habit via cold turkey, or substitution.

Finally the last big industry is alcohol. I could talk about this pivot for hours but ultimately, look at what AB/InBev is doing. What have they poured millions of r&d into lately? Seltzer drinks. Edibles are expected to be the largest growth segment of the legal cannabis industry for the next 10 years. I already see it in various circles. Seltzer drinks are easily the next step for the alcohol industry. The issue now is how are these cards going to fall. Will they try to pace their way and drop tons of r&d into the legalization/testing efforts or will they try to leverage all of the existing infrastructure that exists in the legal cannabis industry?

That’s why I think we’re only about 5-10 acquisitions away from finding the answer. And once we have the answer, legalization will easily fall afterward.

Edit to add: Biden is doing a great job but this wasn’t one of his bullet points. He might have a difference of opinion. He might pursue something at the federal level. But I’m not counting on it. I fully believe that if these acquisitions happen before 2022 we’ll see it on ballots.
Copyright law isn't the same thing as Trademark law. Copyrights don't expire because the rightsholder failed to enforce their rights, only trademarks do.
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One would assume wages go up you compensate.
Tactically, what would this look like? Getting large numbers of AWS or Azure customers to move over? Companies have higher priorities than changing their cloud provider, they want to focus on growing their business.
I can definitely see this being an issue if your product bombs funerals, helps regimes cover up human rights abuses, or deports undocumented people.

Fossil fuels are a maybe.

This really shouldn’t be a problem for 99% of customers though.
Ask HN: Is access to information a problem in preventing pandemic deaths?
If selling bald eagle feathers is legal, the incentive to kill one is bigger. Now unless you’re caught in the act of killing a bald eagle, there’s nothing they can do.
What is your IdP? Do you integrate with Azure AD? Bringing your own provider? Using Microsoft accounts? Does your org use M365 at all? Or are you just using teams out of the suite?
False equivalence. Unless you want nasty old feathers it's impossible to obtain them without killing the Eagle, but there is sex work without trafficking.
When I was doing deprecations on GCP, it was minimum 12 months for any deprecation. Five seems shockingly fast!

As for the beta thing: GCP's definition of beta was basically everyone else's definition of GA, since the GA requirements were so insane (e.g. 99.999% internal availability) that getting there would take literal years (see the GCF beta to GA taking like 18 months?). I totally agree that it's weird that things would stay in beta for so long, as opposed to hitting industry standard levels so users can have confidence in them, but setting GA as far higher than the industry was part of Google Cloud's plan.
ELI5: what happened here?
That’s not true, at least if we’re talking fourth amendment issues in the US. If the evidence was thrown out, any additional information gleaned from that evidence could be thrown out too. And in a scenario like what you described, it likely would.

That’s not a guarantee, of course, and it could be possible for police to corroborate that you had contact with someone else in another way (through records from a wireless carrier or by doing shoe leather investigative work) and use try to get data on that person to get them to testify, but if their only link was through messages that had been deemed inadmissible, they can’t use that witness.

The more likely question in a scenario you describe would be if the compromised Signal data would be enough to raise questions about the validity of all the data on the device. I.e., if Signal is out, can they use information from WhatsApp or iMessage or whatever. Past case law would suggest that once compromised, all of the evidence from the device is compromised — but a judge might rule otherwise.

It would be cool if Signal or another app could use those exploits they’ve uncovered to inject randomized data into the data stores of other messaging applications too. You know. Just as an experiment.
Great points here.
Advertising isn’t black/white. I want to see ads telling me there’s a local farm selling produce a few minutes from my house. Or that the new Marvel movie is coming out in a couple months.

These things bring value to my life. How else would I know about them?
Thanks for your answer!

> The endgame is probably not to fully automate these lists but to have software generate a starter version and then give the community ways to edit it.

I agree. There has been a lot of recurring-interesting topics discussed on HN but there's no one place to tag them all. Relying on you/someone else to pop up and give the curated links is currently the only way for others to know what have been discussed before.
There should be tax credits for sex workers; for centuries they plainly have not been getting the protection under the law that tax money is expected to pay for.

That’s a strange argument. What does a tax credit for a sex worker today do for a sex worker 150 years ago that paid taxes but didn’t get protection from the state?
>We've used Appengine for 12 years now, and every time they've decided to deprecate services, there's always plenty of notice, a superior replacement, and usually lower costs.

That doesn't remove the cost and time of updating your code and migrating.
I was reading this post and salivating. Delicious. Godot is my favorite engine right now, and for me the very best. It just clicked with me. I tried pretty much all of them. And did my fair share of personal engines through the years. Godot has it all covered.
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The pitch is basically "Tailwind without all the tooling"[1] so I'm excited to hear what you think.

[1]: https://cavepaint.github.io/cavepaintcss/
> I'm vaccinated, why the hell should I wear a mask

0. To prevent fresh distribution of constantly mutating variants so that we don't lose this wonderful chance we currently have of ending the pandemic. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/health/coronavirus-...

1. Signaling to intransigent anti-vax anti-maskers that wearing a mask is the right thing to do for the sake of others, because social messaging works.

2. Making it harder for intransigent anti-vax anti-maskers to blend in.

3. Informing others around you in a communicating society that you care about them, because nobody but you knows that you're vaccinated.

4. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belt-and-suspende...

b. It costs you nothing.

I'll probably think of other reasons later, but these seem good enough for now.
I doubt it. STDs are pretty bad you know.
And here it is in apl :)

(width iterations) ← 127 64 ⍝ perfect size for a nice sierpinski

advance ← {2|-⌿¯1 1⊖⍤0 1⊢⍵} ⍝ on a torus
x←width⍴0 ⋄ x[⌊width÷2] ← 1
{⎕←' ⌹'[⍵]⋄advance ⍵}⍣iterations⊢x

And the random variant (not as pretty, but still has some nice triangles):

{⎕←' ⌹'[⍵]⋄advance ⍵}⍣iterations ?width⍴2
I haven't heard this particular Baba Ramdev remedy, though I don't think he'd suggest olive oil - he'd pick something native.

Part of the issue in the Indian middle class (with presumably similar things in Pakistan) is the strong desire to find wisdom in old folk remedies. I can't begin to count the number of WhatsApp forwards early in the pandemic touting gargling with salt water as a means to combat the virus. That, or nigella seeds, ginger, tulsi, ghee, etc.
Hypothermia is the only one I'm aware of. There is some useful data there that has helped treatment.
This is not important. That sort of slavery is easy to deam legal without getting into what the forced work is.

Sex work = trafficking is, best case, a misplaced utopianism that makes things worse here and now, and often a far worse patronizing moralistic sexism.
Speeding and parking tickets are the obvious outliers.

Most other things, drug investigations, assault, etc are not earners.
What does a billing issue look like? Is it something trivial, like they charged you for $X+X, but you only used $X (e.g., they double billed you -- should be solvable with a phone call)? Or more complex, e.g, they charged for more egress than you actually used (kind of hard to prove or disprove after the fact)?
I’m on ipv6 at home and aws is finally pretty good on IPv6 for me - security groups / vpc/ instances - is a very nice feeling
There's extremely poor data on human trafficking in general, and not even a lot of consensus on what it is. (The legal definition is often at odds with how the phrase is used in popular media.)

FWIW, New Zealand legalised prostitution fully in 2003, and it seems to have had no negative effects. There was a major review 5 years after the law was passed (so 2008). Safety up, crime down, fewer sex workers on the streets, and at that time, no instances of human trafficking for the sex industry were able to be identified. (Come to that, I'm not sure any have been since either.)

Of course, individual laws exist in a larger framework of laws and culture, so it's not always clear that adopting a single law will have the same effects in other jurisdictions. Still, the NZ experience has been almost unremittingly positive.
What you're describing is far more totalitarian than I think you understand. Corrupt selective enforcement is an evil, but prosecutorial discretion is a necessary component of a free society.
I dont have much to add technically, I just want to show my gratitude, it has been very helpful for one of my projects.
There are lots of ways of enforcing laws against people who are not caught in the act.

Most convicted of murder are not caught in the act, for example.
The thing is they change/deprecate/retire paid-for services too (in a brutal contrast with the competiton).

Two quotes from one of the posts referenced in the submission (from Steve Yegge):

...I know I haven’t gone into a lot of specific details about GCP’s deprecations. I can tell you that virtually everything I’ve used, from networking (legacy to VPC) to storage (Cloud SQL v1 to v2) to Firebase (now Firestore with a totally different API) to App Engine (don’t even get me started) to Cloud Endpoints to… I dunno, everything, has forced me to rewrite it all after at most 2–3 years, and they never automate it for you, and often there is no documented migration path at all. It’s just crickets. And every time, I look over at AWS, and I ask myself what the fuck I’m still doing on GCP. ...

... Update 3, Aug 31 2020: A Google engineer in Cloud Marketplace who happens to be an old friend of mine contacted me to find out why C2D didn’t work, and we eventually figured out that it was because I had committed the sin of creating my network a few years ago, and C2D was failing for legacy networks due to a missing subnet parameter in their templates. I guess my advice to prospective GCP users is to make sure you know a lot of people at Google… ...
A prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.
I think this post by signal is not much beyond exceedingly well-crafted nerd sniping [edited for claity]
Yes, yes, yes. YouTube can solve this problem easily by requiring annotating ads "chapters" from the uploader, then having a higher paid tier that skips these chapters.
The question of whether damaging reports would be illegal is separate from whether booby traps are illegal. And they're not, in the broad case: Booby trapped packages are only illegal if they cause bodily harm or damage or are negligent along those lines.
It's a neat idea. Less TA and more fundamentals than TradingView.
You can't traffick humans without kidnapping them and holding them against their will. The whole point is we already have laws on the books to prevent that regardless of whether prostitution is legal or not.
> The public is absolutely entitled to an index of the public information web, not controlled by a private company selling ad services. One day, we may get it.

You aren't entitled to one paid for by google but I don't think there is any reason you can't fund the PBS of search engines. There in fact save lack of interest or motivation why you couldn't start working on it tomorrow and lobby for government support.
At least now the police can do their sting operations legally.
I don't want to defend the researcher, but that's not a solution. The way it was done was at least blinded (even if ethically wrong).
I agree. Frankly, I rank corporations even higher than governments on my list of entities I absolutely do not trust with my location data.
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This is all very cool Microsoft, but what I really want is Visual Studio and C++ running on Linux with full debugger support like on Windows.
In most? cases it should make up for that in lowered cost savings moving forward.
It's far from the academic consensus that this is more trafficking than there would otherwise be.

Legalization in more areas would also probably help, because an empty place (it's illegal in Vegas IIRC) going to have a harder tim serving sex tourism from the whole country.
Well, mathematics is completely conceptual, so beings with a different approach to cognition will have an interesting take on it, if any
It's pretty clear that prostitution is bad. It's a bad career choice, it's not safe almost by definition, it involves the sale of a person's body which is dehumanizing, and it's bad for marriage and for people being in long-term relationships.

The questions are whether you think it's appropriate for the law to have an opinion about these things, whether you think the current law is effective, and whether you think the current law infringes on people's liberty too much.

It could conceivably be that legalizing prostitution is a good move. But, while I'd like to think otherwise, I don't think it's obvious that we can afford to stop enforcing laws that are essentially about guiding people to avoid bad choices.
>it's impossible to obtain them without killing the Eagle

I find Eagle feathers pretty regularly in the area around where i live. A bunch of them nest across the street and there's another nest in the back of the yard in an old tree that's been used every year for years now. Some are old and nasty, most are pretty fresh though.
> Sorry, what's wrong with California regulating emissions?

Nothing. Ideally it would be at the federal level so California wouldn't have to do it though.

> If 90% of people in Alabama don't want weed legalized, don't force it upon them.

No. The hypothetical ninety percent of people in Alabama have no right to restrict the rights of the other ten percent. It doesn't affect them. They should stay out of it.
Simple solution: Comcast gives you a free email address when you sign up. Use that for your account’s only contact address.

Whenever I login to their crappy site, and start screaming profanities, I see the unread email count, and feel a little happier. At least their spam is costing them (and only them) money.
AAMP?
The latter is really just a more polite version of the former. I think the trust inspiring response would be,

What are your concerns with solution A such that you think solution Y is better? Help me understand so I can explain what you're missing. Or, so I can see what I'm missing.
Fascinating read!
I think this is a totally reasonable concern, but I do want to present another side of it:

There is far more crime that exists than we have resources to prosecute. So, if you're a prosecutor every decision to prosecute Crime A, is also an explicit decision not to prosecute Crime B-Z due to the limited resources.

Which means every prosecutor ever is always deciding which law to enforce and which law not to through the brutal economic realities of opportunity costs. So, saying: "We're going to change the relative priority of Crime A to Crime B in how we allocate resources" isn't that abnormal of a concept.
Being a maintainer is being a gate-keeper, by definition. Don't get me started about their "time", most of these guys are paid to work on the linux kernel, eg. Greg Kroah-Hartman is paid by the Linux Foundation. it's literally his job. Linus has balls, I'm afraid Greg KH is a Karen compared to him.

Other than that, they got caught red-handed accepting shit patch and complain about ethical issues when the fault is entirely on their side for not doing their job properly.

This whole thing points to a single question: how many times did they accept patch from black hat individuals who did not disclose their intention ?

This question the Linux development security model and highlight it being insecure to such social engineering attacks and they still manage to play victims. That's pitiful... Own it, say you fucked up accepting the patch, don't blame other for your own incompetence.
It might be that they're sending the spam to your comcast.net address - many Xfinity customers never check this.
I mean if trials really were speedy and the justice system not heavily backlogged would it be?

Jury nullification is supposed to fill that need.
Yeah, navigating either platform is tough for hobbyists. I can get more lambda invocations than I’ll ever use for free but a single load balancer is like $30/month, never mind instances.
Presumably they are trying to block further meandering political theatre because there has been sufficient process in place and its abnormal to be attempting to re litigate an election that wasn't even close almost 6 months after its lost.
Congress has been using their power of the purse to forbid using Federal dollars to prosecute people and businesses in states where pot is legal every year since 2014.

https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-medical-pot-20141216-st...

Although the courts eventually had to shut down the Obama DOJ for continuing to prosecute in those states anyway.

https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-medical-pot-201...

The votes are there when you aren't openly calling what you are doing "full legalization".
> I feel you're overvaluing the ability to contribute to the linux kernel

The CS department care the ability to publish paper about the Linux kernel.
A misdemeanor ticket can be issued and fully enforced in minutes. The discussion here is about felonies, which require courts, judges, juries, testimony, depositions, and evidence management. That stuff costs a lot of money and employs a bunch of people (some of whom are very well compensated!).

The state doesn't make money on criminal law. It just doesn't.
This week it’s ICE and Exxon-Mobil. Next week, who knows. It’s not worth the risk when Google has a demonstrated history of catering to its employees demands to drop customers.
As humans themselves are.
Only because it is illegal. Eagles die of natural causes. You still aren't allowed to collect those feathers.
> However, on this issue, a group of Republicans and Democrats have been renewing a ban on using Federal dollars to prosecute individuals for pot in states where it is legal since the Obama years, regardless of which party controls the Senate.

Only where the use is consistent with state law limited to medical use; the House tried to expand that to include state law covering non-medical use in 2019 and 2020, but in both cases this change was not included in matching Senate bills and not restored in reconciliation of the bills.
If sex work is real work, then sex workers should pay taxes like real workers. But a credit is not going to happen, purely for political reasons.

We would tax the purchase of sex work as an extra excise tax, just like for gas, alcohol, tobacco, and coca-cola. We want to encourage people not to spend all their money on these things, because over-indulgence could be detrimental. But you could go the other way and say these are paternalistic sin-taxes.