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Pure speculation on my part, but given the limited suitable equipment space available in each BART station, it's likely that BART has deployed a neutral host (i.e., BART-owned, not carrier-owned) distributed antenna system[1] throughout their stations. In that case, it's easy for them to cut power to the actual RF gear without carrier intervention (and without having to worry about those pesky strings of 48V batteries keeping things running.)

The bigger issue to me is that is almost certainly illegal to willfully disrupt 911 service, and it's unlikely that whoever flipped whatever switch, be it disrupting commercial power to carrier-owned base stations or a BART-owned DAS, was able to disrupt texts/voice calls to other parties selectively without disrupting 911 service.

[1] http://www.infinigy.com/PDF/InfinigyNeutralHostWhitepaper.pd...
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How about volunteering for the Khan Academy? Also try asking your question on programmers.stackexchange.com. I bet they'll like it, with the ambitious tone and the good book reference.
Please, if it wouldn't be much work, change the mechanism for coloring down voted comments to be via the stylesheet instead of via font tags with color attributes?

Also, there is an oddity in the way comments are organized. They go like this:

font tag that sets the comment color
"first paragraph text NOT in a p tag"
p tag
"second paragraph text"
p tag
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...
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(Not using actual tags to avoid any quoting problems, and closing tags omitted). This leads to amusing results--for instance if you use a user stylesheet to try to set comment colors, by coloring all the paragraphs under the comment span, it only actually colors the middle paragraphs. The first and last paragraph of each comment are not affected.

If there is no specific reason for this odd layout, fixing it would make the site a little more friendly for those who want to tweak it with user stylesheets. (I'm tweaking the font size, to make it easier to read on my aging eyes).
"ignorant" and "ignoring" are different forms of the same word ("ignore"). One describes a person that regularly ignores something ("ignorant") and the other describes the act of ignore ("ignoring"). So, to say that people aren't ignoring the issue, they're just ignorant, is the same thing.

Perhaps you mean that people aren't aware of the issue. This is closely related to being ignorant, as one who is paying attention (i.e., not ignoring things) will realize the problem fairly early, but not quite the same. Well, people aren't aware because they choose to ignore important matters for trivial distraction.

When it boils down to it, the blame for any long-standing regime can only be placed on the populous that lives under its control. Kings and sovereigns cannot govern without at least the implicit consent of obedience from their subjects. We can make excuses but it isn't going to get us anywhere. We need to become serious about the issues in our government and move to correct them, with the knowledge that people do not sacrifice the tokens of earthly prominence easily.
BART is a government agency, not a private institution.
I think extensions of this idea -- running a pic modifier with useful information or ads (gasp!) or NSFW censorship (!!!!!) would be the next logical step for various people.

That is, once the tech is there. Face abstraction is a completely different ballgame than, say, product pictures or porn.
Wonder if the 'iPad hack' had anything to do with this...
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HN has a TOS and is a private institution. Further, HN is not part of our public telecom infrastructure - ie if I'm being stabbed during the protest they were trying to thwart, I wouldn't use HN to call an ambulance.

BART shutting down cell service is irresponsible, deplorable and something we're going to see more and more as the first world descends into the kind of place we all see it becoming.
Love this idea! I wonder if this will evolve into a celebrity thing too (ie talk to Taylor Swift for ten minutes). Very interesting.
Based on his story, I would guess that:

1 - someone got their hands on Apple's private encryption keys

2 - some got their hands on a list of Apple id's or device UDID's

3 - Apple knows this, but wants to fix the problem behind the scenes and keep it under the radar.

My memory of Apple's in App Purchase system is a bit rusty, but my guess is a combination of 1 and 2 is enough to cheat it into buying products on someone else's behalf.

Then again, it could also just be a reused password.
Had to happen, thanks to Sam and other crooks.
If anyone is interested in this stuff try reading Hayek's "Road to Serfdom."

He wrote it in the 30s as a response to the push for more central planning.
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If all of my tools had performant implementations of this abstraction, I would just use them. Unfortunately, much of the time this abstraction is provided, it is significantly slower than fiddling with indices.
I'm with you. Look past blame, and evaluate the causes behind the failure as a collectie in order to examine ways to ensure that the problems aren't repeated in the future. Blame perpetuates ego in group programming. Possessing an ego while dealing with a distributed project like this gets you further from the reality of things and makes it harder to prevent errors.
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Another update, I'm being told that it shouldn't have taken as long as it did (both from the initial takedown, and then once it was brought more directly to their attention yesterday). I'm getting a good sense that

a) this isn't how it should work

b) this isn't how it normally works

c) they'll work to improve it

Hard to ask for too much more
If it doesn't work when you really need it though, you can't fix it.
Thinking about the issue some more - maybe I was wrong to disagree with your edited initial comment. I really do think that the American public is both apathetic and ignorant, and the majority of the country's current problems derive from these failings.

They are apathetic, but they are not apathetic towards any specific issue. No, they are apathetic to anything that would seem to distract them from the normal course of their daily schedule. I do not think that it would be difficult for "ordinary" people to take a few minutes and become informed about what is going on. If I know, you know, and (probably) most of the people on Hacker News know - well, it can't be impossible to find out.

I think that, well, most people content themselves that party affiliation and straight-ticket voting are all that is necessary to ensure a functioning democracy. It just seems strange to me, that in a country where so many people pride themselves on being patriotic, there is so little intellectual curiosity with regards to how it functions.

The tyranny of the majority is usually used to refer to the potential for the opinion of the many to disenfranchise the rights of the few. I wonder if there is something more insidious than this though. What could be the side effects of the self-selected nonchalance of the many?

I was once told that to talk about a problem without providing a solution is not a good way to advance in society, but, really, I'm completely at a loss. How do you get the majority of people to be interested in something that does not provide immediate economic benefits (without resorting to indoctrination)?
That's like saying if the internet were shut down tomorrow, Google would just find a new revenue stream.

Yeah, maybe they would, but it would be about a million times smaller.
I'm pretty sure being able to use your cell phone to dial 911 is a basic human right in America.

You can pick up any cellphone that has a battery in it, regardless of contract status, and call 911. That is of course unless you ride BART during a protest, a time when you are much more likely to be in need of emergency services.
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BART has continuous cell service even in tunnels.
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Probably. One of the statuses on the facebook page begins "All we can hope for in life is a strong moral compass that helps guide us in doing the right thing and when something happens that might seem unfair we need to realize that those incidences are in the minority."

Of course, since they're saying that "Starbucks has informed me that they will be shutting off the card", it's also possible that Starbucks has some reason to shut it off that's entirely unrelated to that.
...as the first world descends into the kind of place we all see it becoming.

Which is what?
My first piece of advice is to ignore what everyone tells you and find a path you're comfortable with. :) What's been hard for me is deciding when to explore and when to exploit. With a full time programming job that's mainly applying my knowledge, not doing real research, I have much less time to explore, but back in high school and the summers in between I had lots of free time to learn a little of this and that and play around a lot. I started with a PHP+MySQL book and for the first couple of months or so just plowed through it, typing in the examples manually or doing my own variations of the topics. When I learned about the "ternary operator" I made a web page that just printed out alternating rows of color.

My second piece of advice is to find a problem, ideally a bunch of problems, that you want to solve and that programming can help you solve. Solve them. Definition of problem: something to solve. ;P e.g. a program that prints the Bottles of Beer lyrics out, increase the start number until you can crash/slow down your computer or server, build a blog website, image gallery, video game with PyGame, or in text, native QT app calculator, project Euler math problems, robots, whatever. The key is you have to have a desire to work on whatever you're working on. When you lose that desire for your current project, procrastinate by switching to a different project.

My third piece of advice is to learn how to use the git source control manager and interfacing with GitHub. Then troll some Python repositories ( https://github.com/search?type=Repositories&language=... ), find some with an open issues list and an issue that isn't assigned to a particular person, fix the issue if you want/can, and submit a pull request. Now you can say you've contributed to open source software!

Edit: if you really have no ideas of your own, which I'd find hard to believe, you can do a small project I've been meaning to get around to for a while so I can blog about it. (I blog mostly to my past self.) Implement a clone of the game Pong three times in an imperative, Object-Oriented, and functional style of programming.
Don't forget the incredible advances in safety in modern cars.
...and Apple has booked solid all the lathes capable of carving a laptop body out of a single block of metal.

This sounds crazy not least of all because they use milling machines to make cases and not lathes. But I'm willing to be educated.
I mostly agree but I also think it has been done. You couldn't give me an Air for free and get me to give up my Sony VAIO Z. I also have a VAIO TZ here which was way ahead of the Air in its time. To me Sony is one of the few companies building truly innovative PCs but unfortunately they aren't moving enough volume to make them really price competitive at the low end. When you buy them fully loaded they are often slightly cheaper than a high end Macbook (with Apple's killer upgrade prices) but they just don't compete mass market wise in the cheaper price ranges.
I have a macbookpro and a dell, well I prefer my dell
I understand PayPal needs to take certain unpleasant measures to mitigate risk. The problem I have with them is their disrespectful attitude towards customers in general and their arrogant tone in particular.

If something goes wrong they don't say "Sorry, we believe there may be a problem so we had to suspend your account. Not to worry, just send us X or call us on this number.", but rather something along the lines of: "You're a fraudster, we disabled your account, go figure out yourself how to fix it. Here's a few unhelpful pointers."

They managed to beat the competition because of their superior fraud detection ability. Because of their succes, they now have no incentive to work on customer service.

The web allows for some unprecedented powerful corporations to come into existence and most of them (Google, Apple, Paypal, Facebook, Amazon, etc) have already abused that power on several occasions, particularly regarding small business. Get used to it...
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That was my original goal. I'll get them on board eventually. I think a lot of charities stand to benefit from celebrities connecting with their fans.
Yea, here's a better one. Game consoles, both popular and unpopular, with tablets both popular and less popular :

http://www.ryanwatkins.net/images/tablet-gameconsole-sales.p...
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I just cannot wait for a startup to disrupt this space.
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> "ignorant" and "ignoring" are different forms of the same word ("ignore"). One describes a person that regularly ignores something ("ignorant") and the other describes the act of ignore ("ignoring"). So, to say that people aren't ignoring the issue, they're just ignorant, is the same thing.

"Ignorant" means "Lacking knowledge or awareness in general; uneducated or unsophisticated" not "a person that regularly ignores something" - ignorance has nothing to do with ignoring things. Seriously, if you're going to try to make an argument that hinges on definitions, at least make the effort of checking if the definitions you're claiming are correct or not.
> I was once told that to talk about a problem without providing a solution is not a good way to advance in society, but, really, I'm completely at a loss.

I raise my glass to you, as we've arrived to the same place. I don't know, either. The old trope goes that we get the government we deserve. And here it sits. It makes me so angry and frustrated because it's one problem I can identify regularly in my world that I am powerless to address. The issues are too large, too systemic, and too self-perpetuating. Another trope: to enslave a man, convince him he is free. Fearing a powerful government, ours was too feeble to prevent the rise of corporate power with influence on all, accountable to none.

I fear something must break first. I'm sadly reminded of Brave New World – everyone doped up on whatever meager pleasures they've been convinced matter. Until people lose their cable TV, their Doritos, their strip mall shopping centers, they can get fucked but still convince themselves of their prosperity. And perhaps they have it, relative to history, and relative to the rest of the world. But at what cost? How many choices are no longer theirs? How much information can they no longer trust? How much of their potential is capped because of opportunities denied to them by corporate interest?
Dictionaries are just some pencil pusher's opinion. ;)
I'd imagine Starbucks was loving the free publicity as long as it was working, but when things started to turn sour they didn't want the controversy and decided to assert their rights.
In the extremely unlikely case that Bitcoin becomes a generally accepted currency, I suspect the government will regulate it. Such regulations will most likely provide a monopoly such that only certain credit card gateways and Paypal can facilitate transactions in them. Which means you're back to square one.

That said, Bitcoin looks like a crowd sourced Ponzi Scheme to me, a buggy one at that.
If it was a reused password, I'm an idiot. But, I'm willing to assume I am an idiot. My point is two-fold:

1. Allowing new devices to buy stuff without two-factor auth is weak sauce.
2. The larger meta-point that when we rely on the cloud in a big way, it hurts when we are locked out.
Must be via reuse, as they lock out after the third fail. My concern is that it was a site-unique password.
That sounded crazy to me too, although I don't know the first thing about CNC. The source for that is apparently this site: http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/NewsSearch.asp?DocID=PD000...

There's a comment re: lathe vs mill over there too. Is this some kind of "submarine" article from Mitac Precision, the fiberglass manufacturer?
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We can split hairs over the dictionary all we want – the practical, end result is the same with either ignorance or willful ignorance.
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Find a bunch of startups, who use a tech stack you know. Email them. If you are a good fit for the company, and they have the funds, they will consider you for a position.

I don't know any Silicon Valley engineers, but I doubt they are especially talented. Some are great, but you get that anywhere. It's the managers, structure, and VC that really makes the difference.

This approach also works for government, and large corporations, but it's 10X harder to get to a decision maker.
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Article misquotes. It said "ministry of lulz".
He's spot on with one thing: manufacturers shouldn't let their customers tell them what to build. The general public usually doesn't know what it wants until it has already appeared.
Steam is the only service that I've tried to use that won't accept any of my credit card... I'm not in a common situation living in China with a French credit card registered with my chinese address but still, I only could pay two times successfully (after a lot of tries) and now I can't anymore (and one would think that it should have become easier since they didn't get any chargebacks when I did buy)

So, in a world where customers can easily chargeback fraudulent charges, I think having security measures that are too paranoid is a great way to lose customers for no real advantages to the customer security.
It's true there's a great deal of corruption. But many kinds of activity that lead to the financial crisis were impossible under the Glass-Steagall Act. You might argue that corruption is the root cause, and lead to the Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act and the Commodity Futures Modernization Act (key enablers that were deregulatory in nature). But it was still the rolling back of a successful regulatory system that paved the way.

BTW, It's interesting to look at the environment in which Glass-Steagall was enacted and compare it to our own times.
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This is about the Air, different product line.
Thing is, it was an experiment from the very beginning. Experiments don't have good and bad guys, only observations and results. And the observation isn't a new one: "systems" like that work nicely until the first few exploits.
Well... Then they care. But I don't think the majority of Python code out there falls in these categories.
So, this isn't necessarily because of Sam Odio, but everyone's thinking it.

And... duh. The take-a-penny, leave-a-penny trays only work when more pennies follow the rules than don't. If somebody comes along every day to empty out the tray — even if they're bringing it right across the street to the Salvation Army — they're going to take the trays away. That's just not what they're for, and if they're not working there's no reason for them to exist.

The net result in the end being that the homeless are still homeless, life is a little bit more of a hassle for shoppers who don't have the right change, people are a little bit less connected with each other, and the dick who was emptying the trays feels like he's "made his point," whatever it was supposed to be.

But all of that being said: This only applies when abuse makes the system unsustainable. Is it? Craig's Cup thinks not: http://www.facebook.com/Craigscup The "experiment" is far from over.
They're still pretty hamstrung by Windows- they can never innovate or differentiate in software, Microsoft won't let them.
Very true. However, they're also a very useful way to make sure that we're all using the same definitions. Since, as you can see, when we have our own definitions we get into long arguments about which one is correct or not, and we try to use our own definitions to refute people who are using different definitions. It becomes quite confusing.

Anyways, it's seems pretty clear (to me, at least!) that Spyro7 was using "Ignore" to mean something like "push out of mind, actively suppress the knowledge of" and "Ignorant" to mean "not aware of, not knowledgeable of", which are the common usages, at least in my experience. That also fits the classic difference between ignorance and stupidity - ignorance is not knowing something, stupidity is refusing to know something (or at least refusing to act on the knowledge).

You can have the last word, if you want. Either way, enjoy the Perseids - watching meteor showers is probably a better use of time than arguing, no matter how fun it can be.

EDIT: Corrected overuse of the word "Anyways".
The social media team at Starbucks struck me as being fairly social-media-savvy. I have some doubts - or at least a lot of confusion - over why they'd want to shut this down now. The publicity wasn't _that_ negative. It seemed like they stood to gain a lot for it continuing to work out too.

But I suppose we'll never know the true story. Whatever the case, I think it's a sad shame.

(I also hope this doesn't kill Jonathan's spirit.)
On the subject of raw computing power, if you live in the US you've probably heard about some NSA or CIA data facility being installed in your general region, and how the local power company built new infrastructure just to power the building. If Google can throw 2000 cores at securing software, how many can a government throw at breaking it, e.g. in preparation for the next iteration of Stuxnet?