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This should make EMC sit up and take notice. Amazon is doing great. I would have expected dropbox to do this after icloud was released. They should atleast mimic this now.
Jobs was a consumer electronics tycoon with an obsession for design and product; Hsieh is a touchy-feely retail tycoon with an obsession for customer service and company culture. They're about as different as two founders can get.
The key question is "was it copied from the other work". Of course these issues you raise can be important in proving the copying.
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I'm on 3 w/Samsung Galaxy SII & Cyanogenmod and it's not sending any phone-specific headers.
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Just tested this on O2 Germany. They don't do it.
Stage 1 clinical trials take healthy individuals, give them the drug, and wait to see if it kills them. To go from stage 1, through stage 2 (which determines effectiveness), through stage 3 (which determines safety for general distribution) takes 10-15 years.

In other words, this is not news. There are probably hundreds of similar clinical trials every year.
"We just need the software to be smart enough to handle it well."

You just shifted the complexity with one sentence, it doesn't make it any easier.
Just tested this on SGSII and can confirm the same.
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I don't know about the UK but in the US accounting, law, and medicine require appropriate licensing keeping supply low and wages high(er). But I dont think programming will ever reach the prestige of law/medicine since in the former you are engineering machines whereas in the latter you are engineering the human body and society, which will always be way sexier.
http://www.fastsms.co.uk/
Google and others can and do try to protect users from spoofing - in my opinion, every communication service provider should try to prevent their users from being misled by impersonators.

I'm not sure educating all users about the spoofability or otherwise of all existing communication systems is the way forward as a tech community - there's more we can do in terms of bolstering existing security and trying to validate/flag existing messages.

I've never enabled the ability to 'call from my number' for any services, so I would expect that others would be unable to spoof mine.
What about the situation when you have a client that is using activex?
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Somewhere else in this discussion someone compared it to peering, which is quite a good example.

You grant (read: sell) permission to other people to deliver text messages to your subscribers. The very same way you get a text message from carrier A while being a subscriber of carrier B. Now enter international territory. You interconnect with lots of networks, each of which can (in my experience services like that were often from/cheapest in eastern Europe) hand out access to more people to send on their behalf.

Google can only try to protect you in limited cases. Check if the mail says it is originated from Google and notice that it isn't (flags a lot of false positives, if you are a valid sender, sending in a non-standard way). Checking headers (easily forged for most parts). Things like SPF [1] where you, as the admin of a domain, can tell the world that really only host X sends mails on your behalf.

The world might not care though - and the burden is again not on your very own 'carrier' (Google here), but on everyone on this planet that runs a domain.

There might be other ways, but inherently this problem is unsolved. Unless you went to a key signing party and verify that the data you got was signed by the key that you _know_ belongs to the sender (and you trust him not to give it away. And you trust him not to lose control of it or at least revoke it).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework
Do you have numbers or references on the deleveraging point? I know that Google, Apple and Microsoft are sitting on vast cash reserves...but is this what is happening in the economy in general? If this is the case, then this is as far as I can tell good news. Debt serves a purpose, but if it causes systemic problems like we've seen in recent years then it should be kept low.
So the complaint is that no one tells the world about the insecurity of text messages. And the blame is laid on a network provider.

Yes.

This is wrong.

I agree ;)

First of all I think it's a bad idea to jump on the (valid!) privacy complaint against O2 in the UK with this unrelated thing.

Unrelated in terms of technical differences but not in terms of the broader trend which is this: UK networks do not care enough about their customers' privacy and security. The Leveson enquiry, the O2 issue and the existence of SMS spoofing all prove that.

Second, as many pointed out already: This is not a problem of any carrier.

If Apple were a carrier, would they let this happen to their customers? I do not think so.

just as yahoo/google etc. cannot protect you from most spoofs in the mail world.

Yahoo maybe, Google tries pretty hard.

And - gasp! - you can do similar things with a call (ever noticed that Skype offers to call 'from your number'?).

Requires verification. This is not relevant.

If the article wouldn't hijack a real issue _and_ wouldn't blame the wrong target, then I think there's a valid point somewhere in there: We, the technical crowd, should find a way to educate people around us about inherent trust issues. But that should be a constructive project, not mud slinging.

In my opinion the real issue is that the networks do not care enough to fix lots of problems.
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I don't care about the GPU, but I'm glad to see XBMC running on the thing.

Next up, I want to see some Ubuntu Pi edition, and perhaps even some ChromeOS fork.

My hope is to be able to attach that to the back of a monitor/TV and get a usable browsing and movie watching machine.
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Glad this is being brought to attention finally (as it seems it's been discovered before), but this is just yet another case of a UK mobile operator losing my trust.

O2: Send number in plain-text to every website visited. [1]

Orange: Increase fixed contract price by RPI through use of dodgy contract clause. [2]

Three: Place a non-payment flag on my credit report for no apparent reason. When I realise years later, they remove it and don't even apologise.

I'm running out of operators which haven't negatively impacted me, and to be honest, I think some of the blame must land with OFCOM.

[1] - http://news.sky.com/home/technology/article/16156276

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_%28UK%29#Controversy
If it's the second, then market forces might eventually balance out and make hiring people an attractive choice again.

It's definitely not going to balance out so that it becomes economical to hire people for today's low-skill jobs. At any given time, there will be jobs that machines are capable of, but that it is more economical to hire people for. However, the skill level required for those jobs is going to keep increasing.
Being a good editor rather than writer applies to design and coding too. Of course this is probably why the article is in HN.
Could not agree more. People trust their phone network. I think the networks do not deserve that trust.
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Yes it can with reasonable accuracy, but it's a whack-a-mole game, because there is no standard, many attempts have been gamed successfully by spammers, not all email servers are configured to use the latest "practices" (since this gets expensive) and not all email clients are configured to use the latest practices because that would trigger many false positives.

I just did an experiment.

Using my local Postfix email server with the default settings, I just sent an email from bill.gates@microsoft.com to my GMail account. It arrived in my Inbox just fine. And I'm sure that if I sent this to dozens of people, then GMail would have flagged it, but it chose not to.
Both, really. I work as a consultant for a company that provides consultancy for clients that use ETL products (software/'appliances' etc).

Your second comment is true, however the DW industry has in the last year figured this out and started to embrace the "Big Data" movement. Informatica (the largest player in the DW space according to Gartner) added HDFS connectors to its latest release, for instance.
Do we have digital nomad-friendly economy and businesses?
Little confused here. Has the Pi project changed from "low-cost education computer for the masses" into "iOS-killing mobile game platform"?
Very interesting introductory post about digital nomads. Nice to have nomads around, however do we have nomad-friendly economy? Are businesses nomad friendly? What about the law?

Follow up: Hard times for nomads? Only for now... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3509589
On the contrary, I feel average is the new skill. There are many a time where you need just average skilled workers. High skilled workers may find such tasks mundane while for average skilled workers the same mundane tasks may be challenging. IMHO, I would love to have a good mix of high skilled and average skilled workers.
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Seriously, I enjoy visiting HN and loading all the articles and comments in a new tab that appeal to me then slowly going through them but since first landing on this beauty I've been clicking through images for the last hour!
It's modular - only use what you need.
Why do you assume that SMS messages come only from phones having an IMEI? Not only IMEI can be changed at will and is not connected to the phone number, you can send messages from a service which has legitimate reason to send the message as you. That's possible by design.

It's not that I believe that perfect security isn't possible. I believe that this issue cannot be fixed in any reasonable way without redoing most of how the current system works. I did some telephony-related work and I don't see any way this kind of limitation can be put on top of our current networks (both regarding sms and phone number spoofing).
Google tries - but cannot. Ultimately it can only do the same dance that it does with spam. Learn, improve, tweak - and never succeed.

I think a general project to explain encryption/signing would be awesome. I'd _love_ to send mails to my bank, to the government etc. and have them be legally binding. I'm sure it could help against quite some amount of spam as well, if you understand that an address isn't to be trusted by default.

I .. don't get that last part. How do you think is the process of being able to authorize a 'from' number? Technically gazillion of services could probably do it. It's inherently simple if you are well-connected. Skype certainly doesn't need to ask you first and have a kind of exchange with you and your carrier that 'unlocks' their ability to use your number in an outgoing call. It's a policy that protects them from abuse (i.e. they care, because of legal implications and because of possible business impact if they'd abuse it). [1]

They don't need to get your ok though, if they don't want to.

1: This is based on a limited experience in my past, where I had (legal) access to an asterisk server with a nice trunk connection to a mobile carrier in DE. I certainly don't have extensive telecom knowledge, but got a glimpse at least.
"A calendar is a to-do list, and a to-do list is a calendar." Well, no, a calendar is an absolutely-have-to-do-at-that-specific-time list. I don't see how you could've gotten that idea from GTD, because David Allen recommends not using your calendar for todos that you'd like to have done today, but don't need to have done today. Conflating calendar and to do list will quickly lead to what dkarl calls the "Do this now or you're a bad person" phenomenon, and lead you to stop using todo lists altogether because they're so depressing.

The biggest win of todo lists for me (I use the GTD-esque Things) has been that it gives me some assurance that I've got everything that I have to do or want to do (even someday/maybe projects) written down and in one place, so it doesn't soak up cognitive energy throughout the day that would be better spent just doing things.
Human-commanded centralized economies, perhaps. But what about e.g. a Google-commanded centralized economy?
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This seems strangely familiar: http://www.businessinsider.com/if-youre-an-average-worker-in...
Indeed companies not spending or distributing cash is slowing US growth too. There are macrodisadvantages. And the complete aversion to paying taxes does not help the budget deficit.
Nope. I actually take a National healthcare system for granted, ideally working under proper scrutiny. I'd rather have what we have here in the UK than what's in place in the US (as far as I know about it). I was talking about this other idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income_guarantee
I suspect this[x] is just a way to bring attention to the Broadcom chip that powers the RPi

[x] i mean the article, not the Pi project itself
whoops. sorry about that. back up now.
This seems like an impossible thing to regulate. What public good are you aiming to maximize? What has the market proven that it can't do without intervention? How will you determine which market behaviours are the "bad" ones?

In the case of gambling, I think the only protection the public needs is education ("the house always wins")--in the UK, at least, gambling regulation is usually in place to isolate gambling from other criminal activities e.g. money laundering, and to make sure the house isn't cheating, i.e. that it's a game of chance. Neither of those rationales seem to be necessary for skinner-box-like-games.
>no disrespect to most of the employees, who probably want to make fun, original games against the will of their superiors

Then they should get out there and make original games. They're as much to blame as anyone. Sarah Lacy's article yesterday mentioned Zynga as one of the sexy places to work in SV. People want to work there, despite the shady practices.

We have this tendency to act like the little guy has no blame in things like this, whether it's war or the financial crisis or making bad social games. Like there's some line drawn between evil corporate and good little employees. Guess what? If the developers aren't going there and punching the clock every day, these games aren't getting made.
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Not quite. Phase I trials often happen in patients with the disease, because otherwise the data you get on toxicity aren't that relevant.

Definitive efficacy is established in a phase III trial, along with safety.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phases_of_clinical_research

This trial is news-worthy for a few reasons. One is that the only documented cases of cure of a disseminated cancer are proabably all due to an immune-mediated attack (exceptions are lymphomas and testicular cancers which can be cured with chemotherapy even if widespread). Vaccines are trying to exploit this mechanism. Another reason is that most of the treatments we use in phase I trials are poorly understood. The treatment employed in this study however utilises a pretty simple and elegant approach - find something that only cancer cells have, then try and bait the immune system with it.
FYI: this is trivially spoofable. I just sent a couple of texts to non-O2 friends by changing my browser headers. Thought about writing a Python script to run through the space of +447740[1-9][0-9]{5} numbers, but thought better of it.
" ... if it's just sitting in the bank ..." it's just sitting there, they (banks) are not lending it out. That's precisely what's happening now.
the volumes are cached... from reading the post, you write synchronously to the iSCSI device, which is Asynchronously sent to S3
I don't restart or shut down my computer that often. Keep in mind your usage habits are not that of everyone else and it makes sense not to enforce updates when restarting. As a matter of fact, someone else was complaining about this for Windows not too long ago on another post here on HN. Dude was pissed because he needed to access his computer and instead had to wait for the computer to finish installing all these various updates before it would boot into the OS. Clearly the user experience could be refined on that but at the end of the day, I'm perfectly happy with the way it currently works.
Not sure whether this is supposed to be more than http://www.songkick.com/. But you should check that one out for a great user experience.
The term "ETL" itself is often used in place of "Data Integration" which is much larger, particularly when it comes to data warehouse design. The wiki article is a good drop off point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_integration

It may be difficult to understand how this is an industry coming from a web development/startup angle (big supposition there) but there are literally thousands of companies with lots of databases varying in age, size and complexity that need integrating, and plenty of companies competing for that work as either implementors or software providers. A perl script might do the job but most products focus on performance, reuse, ease of maintenance and compatability across many different database/file types.
What makes you think so? Interest offered by borrowers is generally low these days and risks are high. So lending isn't happening.
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I'm just talking about supply and demand which should have kicked in if there is a shortage. Perhaps shouldn't have mentioned Doctors thing, which a different issue.
You have a point, declarative approaches almost never delivers as promised, which is "you don't have to worry about implementation".

In reality, as you say, you end up with edge cases where you still need to dive into the implementation in order to find out what's happening.

I don't think it's a good enough argument to dismiss the whole paradigm though. Im prefectly happy with my declarative regular expressions that work 90% of the time, and rather take the hit debugging those hairy 10% that end up not working well, than writing my own imperative parser every time and repeatedly deal with those off by one errors etc..

When you say "it never works" I suspect you really mean "it never works in 100% on the cases".
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the storage for the appliance can be outside the appliance (DAS or SAN storage). the appliance can die, but you just plug in a new appliance and point at the storage, and your back... as for the drobo comment, this should be faster than a drobo... and even ignoring the appliance fail, the off site backup is key.
Yeah . I was down voted because I asked a semi serious question. Awesome.
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The Apple reference is weird..

Regarding 'requiring verification': See my other post. I was certainly able to call using other people's number as source in the past. Can everyone and his mum? I - don't know. I highly doubt that Skype _needs_ (disregarding laws etc) to ask anyone.

But let's get to the bottom: How do you even fix this? See, you got a friend. His name's Bob. He has a girlfriend called Alice.. (okay, just kidding):

Friend is on vacation in Siberia. Wants to send a text message to his girlfriend. There's a valid scenario where a message travels from a remote (sorry to all people from Siberia) part of Europe to the UK - using a very simple protocol and (probably) going through a few hops.

Now your friend isn't in Siberia. Why is this now obviously spoofed? Because he is currently connected to your carrier? A kind of 'drop text messages from somewhere else if connected here' kind of policy? What if you know that he turns his phone off during the night? Store the last point of network access per user?

Text messages have a maximum life time (they are stored until either the time expires or the recipient receives and acks the messages). How would you make sure that this still works, looking at the use case above?

I just think that 'They don't care' is not a healthy thing to believe. You said elsewhere that you have to admit that you're not too familiar with the tech involved (and - I certainly don't claim to speak with authority either), but you outright claim that it can be fixed (I hope you agree that we're talking about 'with reasonable effort _and_ without breaking texting as it works today').
This is pretty cool. I like seeing 'cool hack' kinds of things submitted here.

Incidentally, this is something that Erlang can do pretty much out of the box.
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I think that their "dont be evil motto" played crucial role in their PR and popularity. Net was new back then, google was tapping into new areas, collecting info on every search you do, everywhere you go. they needed their DBE slogan. IT was rather a PR genius than an amateurish marketing.
"The purpose of this study is to test the safety of a treatment called DC205 NY ESO 1 vaccine, given with and without sirolimus, and to see what effects (good or bad) it has on you and your type of cancer."

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Google tries - that is a good thing!

The networks do not. Check this tweet from the mobile network 3: https://twitter.com/threeuksupport/status/162101700595957760
ok, couple of things to start with:

1: iSCSI can be seen as a USB drive over a network. you plug in, your machine sees it as a drive, you write data. you can unplug, and then plug in somewhere else, and as long as the file system is readable on the new machine, you can get your files.
2: the appliance AWS are offering gives you iSCSI volumes, backed by DAS or SAN storage locally, but also backed by S3 storage in AWS.

So, basically, its like having a drive, automagically backed up to S3, but S3 does not need to know anything about what is on the drive. it could be VMs, Videos, your mail server... anything really.
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They know you stole the car because they've got surveillance video so now they're serving you with a warrant to produce the car so they can also prove physical presence in the vehicle. This is my view of the ruling.

The chick got recorded talking about the documents so they're asking for a readable version.
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Sorry for not explaining the Apple reference in more detail. What I meant was I love Apple because they really care about their customers. They seem to give a damn. The networks do not.

Just look at this reply from the UK network Three:

https://twitter.com/threeuksupport/status/162101700595957760

Does that not make your blood boil?

I know that the loophole I found can be fixed. I am not prepared to explain it here because I want the networks to shut off the loopholes I do not know about, as well as the one I do.
The header is no longer being inserted for me. I think O2 must have fixed the problem.