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Since you recognised this issue so long ago, I'm sure you have some recommendations regarding how we can solve it?
Night school is certainly possible, although i'm not really sure where. I've looked into SJSU but it seems there would be at least 2 semesters of pre-req's before getting into the interesting upper level CS courses.

Still I have tried to get a basic understanding of what is taught in cs courses. To that end I am currently in the middle of watching the 20 lectures in intro to data structures ( http://www.youtube.com/user/UNSWelearning#p/u/195/RpRRUQFbeP... ) but i don't feel its quite the same to watch a course as it is to participate in the labs and assignments. So far i have an understanding of basic search algo's and big O notation from the course, and learning more.
Japan developing cyber weapons for Counter Attacks
Linux noob, lesson learned
Interestingly, the German state of Saxonia does nearly as well as Finland in the PISA tests.
It is important to keep in mind that black holes do not "pull" things towards them, they have the same kind of gravity that any other object has, and are also affected by gravity in the same way as other objects. A "miniature" black hole will land at the same time as the basketball.
FDR-like, sweeping political moves require not only an FDR-like President, but a corresponding Congress and popular support. For reference, FDR won 57% of the popular vote, while Obama got 52%. And when things didn't immediately improve after the 1932 election, the Democrats maintained their majority in 1934.

Compare the dominance here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1932prescountymap.PNG to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2008prescountymap.PNG

In short, the circumstances of the times did not allow for the kind of complete shift that the Great Depression triggered.
>The problem with Marxism is that whenever it doesn't work, people say it wasn't tried enough.

You see, that's funny, because a much more obvious example can be found in free-market austrian-school economic policies.
Erm, yes it is, with Metropolis light transport...
A popular uprising in smartphone applications
I also have three of them...

I think once that file was online even for a few minutes, the card numbers mentioned in it are not safe anymore. It will be leaked again.

If it's not some kind of provocation (files with false data) then this is a pretty big crisis. I'm going to have to monitor my credit card logs closely in the next few weeks...
Yes, really. Its what Google used to be like - before every search term became a commercial opportunity to be exploited.
You have to counter the forces against freedom with an array of approaches, free software being only one of these. Without having a clear understanding of the economic and political understanding of the driving forces behind the ratcheting up of state control, resistance will be pretty much futile, I fear.
free software, yes. GPL software, no. BIND is ISC liscensed...
That's because it's a VoiP app - which was listed in the article as being one of the classes of apps allowed to run in the background indefinitely.

Skype is not unique. All VoiP-declared (has to register itself as such and Apple has to approve that classification for publishing on the App Store) apps act like this.
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To be fair, there's actually a large number of reports of crashes and freezes in the App Store. I wouldn't consider SimCity Deluxe for iOS to be a model citizen in terms of application stability.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simcity-deluxe/id380017992?mt...

If I trawl through all my logs in Xcode, the number of app crashes I've seen with the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S from third-party apps can be counted using just the fingers on my hands. I think there was once an application that proved to be a bit unstable, and it ended up replaced by an alternative pretty quickly.
I'll tell one thing which won't solve it: religious zealotry and advocations for everyone in the world to commit to FSF purity.

Open software advocates should treat closed and controlled systems in the same fashion that techies implore content creators to treat piracy: an unstoppable force of nature that must be accepted and competed with, rather than feared and demonized.

Also underlying both issues: the need for improved business models to sustain free software and open content. People like to get paid, and t-shirts + donations doesn't always cut it.
> We have posted this message in pastebin, but it seems they have deleted the file.

That Stratfor dump with 75.000 card details is still on Pastebin. Why this one deleted and the other is still there? (I believe both should be deleted.)
This was my sentiment exactly. Any idea why he's so keen on sequential keys? They're mentioned as desirable several times in the article.
He didn't send unsolicited email, he sent email that they had agreed to as part of receiving a service for free.

Similarly, Facebook sends email automatically related to the use of their services.
> I can't argue with the theory presented in the article - and I read it very, very carefully. All I can do is present the reality, and demonstrate it conflicts with the theory.

This article is not, repeat NOT, presenting "theory". This article describes the way iOS is actually built to work -- it is a factual description of all and only those behaviors that iOS engages in. It is a complete, and accurate, description of iOS's behavior because it is a recapitulation of the behaviors that iOS's designers built it to exhibit.

The only contrast here is between the reality of the way iOS works (the article) and your misunderstandings of reality.
I mean high-performance implementations. Techniques to (statically) compile prototypes into efficient code were developed, but they are largely irrelevant to Javascript. High-performance modern implementations of JS rely on tracing JIT.
Stallman might, but the article doesn't mention that. The article basically says, "These two recent laws are scary, so support free software."

If it sounded like I was criticizing Stallman, that's unfortunate, because that wasn't my intention. I was criticizing the article, because it invokes Stallman's name but fails to actually deliver any relevant wisdom from Stallman.
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Which one is more safe? Letting it go so media picks it up, forcing people to renew their cards with less damage to end users or covering it and let the underground community sit on it, using random cards time to time from an endless stash?
Not sure why you are being down-voted. I've experienced the same thing on my iPhone. I suspect it's because a bug in one of the applications that is allowed to background indefinitely causes it to start eating up the CPU. Not sure which one, but I do occasionally need to reboot my phone when it starts getting hot and draining battery by itself.
No, all the considerations of which labels to show and where to put them have to be made at each zoom level. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1311136
A mix of a Sharp MZ80K (only game was a shoot em up) and a Sanyo MBC 550, NO GAMES.
Religious or political? I suppose in the Middle East the two are conflated.
I thought Anonymous were against corrupt politicians et al, and not just general populace :(
I think we are giving the government and Obama far too much credit for being stupid/naive/uncunning.

Of course the NDAA funding auth is going to be passed. It must be - thus, they throw on insidious clauses like the detainment, and Obama is the lucky guy who just happens to be in the unfortunate position where he must sign it even though he opposed certain items.

Here is an idea: require all laws to be single subject, single focus. If it is a funding measure, it cannot expand powers/modify any existing laws other than to either increase or decrease funding. If it is a law, such as one that is focused on the detainment of [whomever] then that should be a singular law stating under which circumstances this law shall be applied.

This is the number one source of corruption in the government, the ability to abuse the structure of the legal system.

By doing this one thing, you will cripple lobbying, create transparency and create accountability (you'll be able to understand where each rep is on each issue)
This was definitely one of the thing that stuck out to me, as I was (still am) learning about this industry, people throwing around the term 'MVP', all with their own definition and vision of what is an 'MVP' – from wireframe sketches (huh) to static screens. Some even blur it with videos explaining what their product is supposed to do (but no actual product yet). Do MVP really need work? Or is it sufficient as long you determine that there is value in your product via whatever means you choose? Hmm…
Xbox Streaming Music Video App
The Muzu.tv streaming music video app, which launched on Microsoft's Xbox marketplace in December 2011, has been gaining a lot of traction in a short amount of time.
One interesting thing about student performance in the US is that on the average it's not that bad early on (e.g. in grade school) but then takes a sharp dive. It is amazing to me what such comparison articles do not take into account: the toxic, sports-based culture in American highschools.

As a foreigner, when I encountered how sports culture derives high school and, in continuation, college student mindset. In high school, athletes and cheerleaders pretty much rule. Every high school in all countries have popular, good looking kids but the the esteem these kids have in the US, I think, is unheard of in other places.
You can write a audio, GPS, VOIP, etc app that does more than just do audio, GPS, VOIP, etc in the background. For example, you may think the app is only playing audio or doing GPS updates, but it can be badly-written and updating UI and/or other intense stuff. Now granted, iOS will still kill those apps if they start taking up too much memory/resources while in the background.

But I think the article is accurate, you shouldn't ever have to manage apps. iOS is night and day compared to Android's task management (where iOS is much better for users).
I think comparing the Raspberry Pi to the original OLPC concepts is rather misguided. The OLPC is a computer that can be used immediately. It's turnkey. It has a display, and input devices, and comes in a case.

The Raspberry Pi reminds me more of the Heathkits my father used to buy, but we're talking more of the radio kits as opposed to the 25" television sets. It's a computer, yes, but it's not the entire puzzle -- it's just a piece. If you build a radio, you want more than just sound -- you want something to easily change the frequency, more usable controls, a case, and a power supply that's a bit more manageable. The OLPC gives you all of that as part of the kit (and in the case of the OLPC, preassembled), whereas with the Raspberry Pi you've got to piece together the rest of the system. There's nothing wrong with that, but it does limit its accessibility if you're trying to get kids to program. Sure, there's something to be learned buy gathering up all the components, but it's limited, as it's not much more than plugging in some cables with standardized connectors.

The Pi may have more horsepower, but it's basically just an engine. Don't get me wrong, it's a great idea, but there's quite a bit more involved so someone can really explore what the hardware is capable of when compared to the OLPC.
My CC was in the list that the hackers published. Just canceled it...

Does anyone have good arguments against leaving the files where they are now and not deleting them from pastebin/megaupload/...? Since the beast is already out of it's cage, there is no point in chasing it. It is even better to let the public d/l the file and try to find themselves if their card and other details like emails, passwords were stolen.
A huge part of Finland's economy is Nokia, which manufactures an American invention

At least before February 11th that wasn't true. While the first-ever cell phone may have been built in the US, Nokia has contributed quite a bit to how modern phones work. You may remember Apple for instance paying patent royalties on 3G tech to them.

USA puts more money to R&D than anybody else, but it isn't like the rest of the world is just stealing innovation.
You could try to write a very simple app to run in background and waste memory on purpose (e.g. creating some shit in a loop) if you really needda replicate such a scenario w/o emulation. In my experience, as usually you can get away with ~30mb of "wasted" memory per each instance before iOS kills the daemon. So just launch a couple of those and enjoy.
There are a lot of different things to take into consideration when creating a map with many scales for online usage.

Most heavily used digital maps (e.g. googles, bing, open street maps etc.) use pre-rendered tiles. However this is besides the point, as at each scale (or set of scales) usually a different data source is used so that a specific amount of generalisation can be applied.

For example, a small scale map (showing a larger land area) would show not only fewer streams than a large scale map, but would also not show every little bend and curve; this allows for the appearance to be less muddy. However as the user zooms in they would expect to see higher detail in stream direction.

Often this is still something that is difficult to reproduce with an algorithm, often being left to selecting different datasets based on scale.
As a possible victim I prefer spreading the list as quickly as possible. All major commerce sites and payment companies will take note of this and stop accepting these card accounts.

Obviously it will still be a huge hassle to reissue all those cards but it will minimize the financial damage.
I am much more concerned about criminals or foreign governments seizing my data (from a lost or stolen machine) than I am about the US Government. If USG wanted the data for legal reasons, it would be pretty easy to detain and get a court order. If the USG illegally wanted data from me, it would be easy to just black bag and monitor the endpoints.

Disk encryption means not having to apologize profusely to everyone when/if your laptop is stolen. That's the real low hanging fruit.

Of course, the only sensitive data I have is authentication credentials (easily revoked), commercially sensitive stuff, and personal privacy (which has much higher value to me in keeping secret than to anyone else in publishing), so I feel pretty safe.
It's OK to Be Neither: Teaching that supports gender-variant children
What hammerdr said. But in addition, I'll add: if Congress can override the veto (this bill passed both houses of Congress with greater than 2/3s of the vote, so it's unlikely they couldn't), then they most likely will.
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I do see that you can go a long way with relational databases just using experience.

However, they do have a formalised mathematical basis and I think you dismiss it too quickly. If you do spend the time to learn the maths then it will push your abilities that little bit further. You'll also likely find it quite easy to pick up given that you already understand the field well.
same for me, except around 2003. RMS is a difficult guy but he tends to be right.
with just enough differences to make them incompatible with each other.

It stopped being funny when tar ran out of letters.

-Z = compress, -z = gzip, -j = bzip2, -J = XZ

Now for lzip they had to resort to --lzip...
At least it would allow us to enjoy different implementations of the DNS blocks etc.
I just gave a talk last week at 28C3 [1,2] about how all the personal details of Israeli citizens are up for grabs for anyone inclined enough to get them.

I'm ashamed to see that we've learned nothing in the past 10 years.

[1] - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow7cvZOzp6w

[2] - http://speakerdeck.com/u/yuvadm/p/28c3-data-mining-the-israe...

EDIT: Israeli media now claims that 400K is an exaggerated number, and the actual number of leaked CC is much smaller.

EDIT2: I'm gonna go ahead and publish a mirror list [3] for the leaked data and for affected accounts by email [4]. I might be affected and I prefer to know if I am ASAP, even if this means the data leaks more, which it will anyway.

[3] - http://pastebay.com/186092

[4] - http://pastebin.com/EnY7E0Hw
Is it really fair to say the user "agreed" to receiving these? At best I think we can say that they were tricked into receiving them. After completing the cards they were forced to either 1) Throw away their work or 2) "Agree" to receive some unwanted emails about freemium services the author creates.

Doesn't that sound a little sneaky and dishonest to you? If the cost of the product is not cash money, but something else, shouldn't you tell the user up-front instead of giving them an ultimatum after they've already spent some time in your service?
"Actually you are most likely wrong."

I take it you're kidding, so I'll treat it as such. Taubes, and only Taubes, has blamed refined carbohydrates as the single and absolutely positive source for all our dietary-related maladies. Clearly, you chose to ignore the example of the professor who went on the Twinkie diet.

For 10 weeks, the professor had a "steady stream of Hostess and Little Debbie snacks, Haub munched on Doritos chips, sugary cereals and Oreos, too." His body mass index dropped to healthy weight, his bad cholesterol went down 20% and good cholesterol went up 20%, and his triglycerides were cut by 39% -- these are not inconsiderable numbers.

Again, I'm not preaching that diet--I'd never do it myself. However, it is direct, physical proof that Gary Taubes is wrong.

Also, consider that the regions on the planet with the most centenarians (people who live to be 100 or more) are the same regions where bread, pasta and rice intake are high.
The issue is that I can conduct an unlimited-attempts brute force attack against the passcode. I can do about 10 per second on an iPhone 4S, but I do need access to the machine, unless I'm willing to crack open the iPhone and do a destructive hardware attack.

At 10 per second, I feel ok with an 8-10 character numeric passphrase, or a 7-8 character lowercase-only passcode.

I just wish the iPhone had some intelligence about adaptive locking -- lock faster when it's outside my home/car, don't go from unlocked to locked very fast, if at all, if docked in secure places inches from a 9mm. Or pairing with an RF device attached to me, like the Blackberry CAC reader.
whooops... didn't know the wahhabi fanatics could code :> thought they were better at beating up their wifes and sisters :>
Except that some operating systems have a secure erase option for free space (OSX for example).
Side note: this article is a good example why websites should Not make a touch version. While the article looks more iPad-like in the iPad version, it also strips out the map example images, making half of it quite pointless. And off course switching to the desktop version of the site sends you back to the touch version for the next page, as it detects your user agent...
Word.

Recently read Gleick's excellent The Information (http://www.amazon.com/Information-History-Theory-Flood/dp/03...) which made a similar point.

Moving from oral to writing as the primary units of information of communication allowed us to make huge improvements in thought. Argument became enunciable and then able to be analyzed, rather than being a big game of telephone.
Click x, and press enter, enter. You can keep clicking and entering until the list is empty.
Do you have any idea where your card was leaked from?
Can you share what card provider you used?
I was already paranoid about credit cards before I came, now it's really affecting my blood pressure..

(nice username btw, learned the word here..)
There's no argument that an app with infinite background privileges is incapable of getting itself into a 99% CPU eating infinite loop, but that's perfectly compatible with the very accurate technical over-view of the situation given by this article and does nothing to support ghshephard's weird insinuations that the article is merely a "theory" and that iOS "in reality" behaves differently than described.
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It's been a while since I've read it, but I was one of the technical readers for this book—and now that it's done, I need to dig it out and look at it again.

I wanted to get involved in reading this one because of all the great stuff I'd heard about R (mostly on HN, but also from someone I know in the Ruby community who is deeply into stats and speaks highly of R). I found this book really useful when I was reviewing it because I really was coming from a near-zero background (I last studied statistics in '92).

The sad part is that I didn't have a job where doing this sort of analysis would have helped; with what I'm working on now, that may change.

I liked the book, but unfortunately didn't have anything to which I could apply it. It's great to have my reviewer's copy because now I can go through it again and try to find things to apply it to.
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You could just hold down the power button on your computer for 4 seconds and require a password to boot the system.
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> the manufacturers could be cooperating secretly with the authorities

They might not be doing it now, but there's no telling if they won't start doing it later, when the government will ask for data or surveillance because of terrorist threat or <insert the hottest fear-words at that moment>.
My understanding of reality is pretty straightforward - "Over the last 3-4 years, I normally get 36-48 hours of casual use out of my iPhone, or 24 hours of really aggressive use, but, for some reason, on some days, while my iPhone is at the home screen, it is really hot and the battery is draining to zero quickly. Shutting down all of the apps in the task bar, or, rebooting the iPhone, immediately fixes that."

Couldn't we allow for the possibility of a bug in IOS that results in a deviation from the behavior explained in the article? Or, more likely, an application that is using IOS as designed, but in a way that results in extended background processing and CPU drain?

The good news is that another contributor posted a link to "Instruments" - which should let me get a diagnostic trace off my iPhone and determine which of the apps is actually pulling down the battery. I then have the options of (A) figuring out if there is a pref in that App to cause it to stop using battery when backgrounded, (B) Contact the application writer and let them know they have a poorly behaving App, and (C) (most important for me) - Reduce the number of applications I need to shut down to just the misbehaving ones.

Until then - count me in that category of users who believes (through experience) that the advice the Apple Geniuses are giving, that is, to terminate applications when you have an iPhone that is performing differently than when it is initially booted up, is good advice and is a real-world fix to this class of problem. (Though rebooting your iPhone accomplishes the same thing in my experience as well)
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