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> There's an old adage from the cold war that "You cannot show weakness to the enemy." Study how the Cuban Missile Crisis was eventually resolved, and you'll see this doctrine at work.

Not really. The "not showing weakness to the enemy" stuff was what nearly destroyed the world in the Cuban Missile Crisis. It wasn't until the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, sent a long and emotional telegram directly to President Kennedy imploring the President to join with him in taking a step back (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Secret_neg...) that a way out of the crisis began to present itself.

From Khrushchev's telegram (full text here: http://microsites.jfklibrary.org/cmc/oct26/doc4.html):

Armaments bring only disasters. When one accumulates them, this damages the economy, and if one puts them to use, then they destroy people on both sides. Consequently, only a madman can believe that armaments are the principal means in the life of society. No, they are an enforced loss of human energy, and what is more are for the destruction of man himself. If people do not show wisdom, then in the final analysis they will come to a clash, like blind moles, and then reciprocal extermination will begin...

Mr. President, we and you ought not now to pull on the ends of the rope in which you have tied the knot of war, because the more the two of us pull, the tighter that knot will be tied. And a moment may come when that knot will be tied so tight that even he who tied it will not have the strength to untie it, and then it will be necessary to cut that knot, and what that would mean is not for me to explain to you...

Consequently, if there is no intention to tighten that knot and thereby to doom the world to the catastrophe of thermonuclear war, then let us not only relax the forces pulling on the ends of the rope, let us take measures to untie that knot. We are ready for this.

Kennedy took Khrushchev up on this initiative; what defused the crisis was a secret agreement where the US agreed to remove all its nuclear missiles from Turkey in exchange for the Soviets pulling theirs out of Cuba.
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This is a P.O.S. infographic though. It glosses over the fact that no one could decide on the proper video format, and percentage readiness doesn't specify the version of each browser or why it is only N% ready. The rainbow of colors used to identify each feature isn't even a rainbow (orange at the end?) and hard as s--t to tell the difference between some colors. And so many other screw-ups. It is worse than a USA Today infographic dumned down for the majority. But, to an exec with little time on their hands to actually read it, it probably looks just dandy.
Yes, from the sound of it the "wireless" part was simply how the device reported back to its owners.

Probably a good call, really. It requires physical presence, but done right it could be nigh undetectable, whereas reporting over the target's uplink could alert a very sharp target, and possibly even reveal who its masters are (based on destination).
I find it a little strange that, at present, more than 400 people have upvoted the link, but the linked youtube video has less than 400 views.

Edit: I am not trolling. It was just an observation that I found interesting even though it may not directly add much to the conversation.
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Its just an easy way to look for recipes basically, you don't have to know what your looking for just browse.
A search feature would be useful though.

The authorisation is only if you want to save favorite recipes. Other than that you can use the whole site the same way.
Part of the problem here is the fact that they really are anonymous, so if Anonymous goes after two different targets on two different days, there's no way to know that it's actually the same group both times. So even if you could prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what their goals were for one particular attack, that would have zero bearing on the motivations and goals behind any subsequent attack.
Dismissal of an argument by laughing at foreigners doesn't do wonders for your point either.

My observations of usage come from working in IT at a wide variety of companies, from corporates to small businesses, including doing customer support at an ISP. I also have been coding HTML since December '93, so am no novice when it comes to the habits of people online. Personally I would say that people use the location bar as rarely as possible, and usually navigate by remembering a path to something, so once they are used to finding a login page through google, they tend to go through the same process again and again rather than typing in the URL, as even though that would be much quicker, it requires more actual thought.
Why do so few people get this? Why, for example, do people continue to insist "the war is unjust, but I still support our soldiers"?
Impressive - but I think it would be simpler to just keep the air bag inflated.
No shit.

I honestly thought that statement was so stupid that it didn't need "<SARCASM>" or the like.

Guess I was wrong. Not about how stupid a reference to getting someone on the record as "supporting anonymous" was, but about not needed to telegraph the joke here.
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Really? I was able to open my Humble Bundle download link on my phone, which took me to a mobile-formatted page with direct links to the APKs. I just had to tap on them, open the "finished download" notification, and tap Install.
ARP packets would not show Tor server IPs, they would only show the IPs of his laptop and his router.
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If the TSA has to investigate abnormalities with a pat down, you might as well opt for the groping to begin with.
There is an excess of lawyers in certain areas; an excess of IP lawyers doesn't map to an excess of divorce attorneys.

>if you're a lawyer, do you charge the amount that covers your loans, or the amount that nets you the most profit?

If all lawyers were interchangeable, your argument might hold, but the artificially high price of legal education leads to a misallocation of resources--The increased cost of student loans can cause lawyers to move into specialities that are higher paying, causing shortages in one area and surpluses in others.
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Exactly.

It's like if any company asked you for this info - I would ask for access to the CEO's email - or the financial drive and tell them that in order to work there, you'll need to perform an audit of their ethics and finances to ensure your not engaging in a relationship with a criminal organization.
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On the other hand, it could turn out to have been valuable practice in the event China gets really serious about cyber attacks.

Besides, I would guess there's a rather limited amount of work the FBI's cyber crime unit can do to help bring in mobsters.
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Ah, that makes more sense (and makes me less paranoid).
That fee goes to the carriers and payment processors. Google doesn't take a cut.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/10/android-marke... Paragraph 4
That there is good generally in the world, one cannot entirely dispute the fact that since at least when Nixon signed the Banking Secrecy Act, we have been largely in a state of freefall regarding 4th Amendment rights.

I don't see it as a case where there is no hope however. Read all three opinions in United States v. Antoin Jones (the GPS surveillance case). Not only did the Supreme Court unanimously buck previous cases to say that this was a 4th Am search, but a clear majority (the Alito and Sotomayor opinions, remember Alito was joined by Breyer, Kagan, and Ginsberg) expressed concern about the rise of a surveillance state. We may be getting to the point where the court is starting to push back big time.
I used to work at the airport and one of the odder duties was to test the screeners every few days with metal gun, grenade and bomb shaped items. The guy who trained me had a couple ways of getting them past without fail if he wanted to (usually he didn't care because they failed enough if they were put through normally on the belt).

The sad thing is these are the exact items they are supposed to be looking for and the things they are best equipped to detect and still a 20%+ failure rate.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

As quoted from Oscar Wilde, so this post might be recursive ;)
It's not supposed to work, it's supposed to provide job security.
As an Icelander I must ask about the origin of your nickname. Einhverfur means autistic in modern Icelandic. Einhverfr would mean the same if the term had existed in Old Norse.
There was a time when we didn't have the right to drink alcohol, or marry people who were colored too differently.

We do fix some stuff eventually.
"This means you throw out overclocking"

Not necessarily. You can get surprisingly good overclocking results on most Intel chips even using the stock heat-sink/fan these days (and it has been this way for a while, at least since the Core 2 Duo days and even the generation prior to those).

But yeah, for someone who isn't even sure he wants to build his own rig and who won't be using the machine primarily for gaming the overclocking can be skipped without much real world loss.
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Right, and the comparison is usually not over price, but perceived quality. The best example for doctors is elective plastic surgery. Do you get a boob job from the cheapest or the best? The glut of expensive surgeons in the L.A. area indicates cost is not a major factor.

For lawyers it might be a lawsuit. Do you go with the cheapest lawyer? Most people go with who they think is most likely to win the case (or net the most money from the suit).
Great. I can't wait until the next guy hides a bomb in his rectum. What kind of device will search for that?
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Right. What I meant was that all of the actual negotiations happened in secret. They had to, because of the doctrine. There's no shame in showing humility and even offering a friendly hand, but when the offer is made to your adversary, it is almost always done in secret.
Excerpt from the article:

A friend-of-a-friend tipped us off over the weekend to a rather clever way that Facebook is taking it one step further: non-existent sound files.

You can see it yourself by opening just about any email sent by Facebook in the past year or so (and possibly even earlier) and looking at its raw HTML. Somewhere in there will be a bit of code that looks like this:

<img src=”http://www.facebook.com/email_open_log_pic.php?mid=XXXXXXXXX... style=”border:0;width:1px;height:1px;” />

<bgsound src=”http://www.facebook.com/email_open_log_pic.php?mid=XXXXXXXXX... volume=”-10000″/>

The first bit, the img source line, is Facebook’s tracking pixel. It tells the mail client to ping Facebook’s server for an image that doesn’t seem to actually exist. Facebook’s server sees the request, and can use the email’s unique 28-character identifier, shown above as a series of X’s, to flag that email as having been opened.
Thanks. Now they'll just make us do both.
Instead of $el > el syntax, wouldn't a simple version be better?

* el < el

I've run into many situations over the years where being able to select parent elements based on a child would have come in handy. I think it would be a lot simpler to just use < for direct parents, as > is used for direct children.
I think that everybody agree on that. The question is: are those very very expensive scanners the only way to achieve that goal. If it is, then fine (I'm not american, so it's not my taxes that are blown), but if there is another way, then you should be worrying about your taxpayer's dollars.

Just as an aside, Ben Gurion airport relies much less on pseudo high tech, and has had incredibly good result.

(http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/744199--the-israel...)
Disclaimer: I dont know much about how bitcoin works

It would seem though that one would need a third party transaction 'escrow' (for lack of a better word) which could invalidate bitcoins should they be stolen.

Basically saying "this bitcoin transaction is valid, therefore these bitcoins of value x are valid"

If things are stolen, then you could disable those bicoins.
When you opt out you're required to get a pat down though, correct?

src: http://blog.tsa.gov/2010/11/opting-out-of-advanced-imaging.h...
It's even easier. I was carrying a metal external hard drive, put it through the belt with no problem. You could easily take out the HD and put some explosives in there instead.

edit Also, if combining fluids really is a threat, they're allowing liquid medicine bottles, now. It really /is/ theater.
You really don't see how a group could be both "loosely organized" and have yet also have members who act as leaders?
I remember this stand up, which was actually before 9/11. He goes on in that standup to say here are lethal items you can take on board: "a knife, an icepick, a chainsaw... and the only thing they'll tell you is that you have to fit it under the chair in front of you". Things have changed in that respect, I guess.

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I think those are updated 'eventually', to cope with the scale. I've noticed the same thing.
But it's not secret from your adversary ("the enemy" that you're not supposed to show weakness to), since you're making the secret offer to him.

If anything, the lesson of the crisis is how important it can be to keep from looking weak in front of your friends. Kennedy kept the missile deal secret from the American people for a good reason: he may very well have been impeached had he made it public, and it would have shaken the confidence of our other NATO allies in our overseas commitments if they learned that Kennedy had removed the protection of (obsolete, but still) nuclear weapons from NATO-member Turkey in response to Soviet pressure. And winning even a small concession from Kennedy is probably the only thing that saved Khrushchev from being toppled in a coup by Soviet hard-liners after the Cuba debacle.

Sometimes your friends can be the worst enemies of all!
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It sounds like that's the reason for the Pi in the first place? A simple piece of hardware hobbyists can target software to.
Lawyers from other countries can and do come to practice in the US. It typically means getting an extra degree (LL.M.) and taking the state bar exam, but I've known a few people, particularly transactional lawyers from Canada, who seem to have made this transition. In general it would be easier coming from a common-law country like Canada, UK, Australia, etc.
>The idea that content can be "better" or "worse", and this can be judged by an individual to the exclusion of the group [...]

This happens in every growing online community. As the community grows, the new members don't necessarily have the same interests as the original ones. This happened at digg, reddit, and now even HN has posts about declining quality, which is another way of saying content can be "better".
Go back to FDR, what they did then was some scary stuff

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So now they'll just require two scans, one turned 90 degrees.

How hard would it be to construct a prosthetic fat suit that's invisible to scanners? I bet not very.
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This is why I love living in NYC. Tech doesn't touch every corner or anywhere near it. The diversity of occupations and activities is grand. That isn't to say that the Bay Area doesn't have these kinds of activities and people, but I can go weeks in NYC without bumping into the tech scene, something that can't quite be said about the Bay Area (at least from my personal experience.)
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I'll second that Quora recommendation. There is a great community there of quants, general hf engineers, MFE students, and others looking to get into the field.

Reading questions within the topics of Trading, Quantitative Finance, and High-Frequency Trading should give you a decent understanding of the basics and provide some good reading materials for beginners.
I also agree there is too much political stuff in the video (which I pointed out when I shared it on facebook). A simpler argument against the scanners is that they fundamentally are less effective at detecting major threats than are metal detectors. Thus whatever minimal security holes they close, they open up larger ones. Moreover these are inherent in the technology so it isn't a question of just fixing a few things.

I am not entirely anti-AIT. I think the machines can have a place, for those for whom there is some reasonable suspicion of wrong-doing, and following a metal detector. But the way they are implemented poses severe privacy and security problems, as if someone decided you could solve security problems by buying fancy machines (an unfortunately common problem).

The problem is that as long as the federal government sets standards for airport security, this will be a problem. It doesn't matter if it is the TSA or the NTSB making these decisions--- big corporations will pay lobbyists to get the message to them that their machines are better than the old stuff and therefore should be used in this way. It matters even less if the TSA agents are doing the screening or not, except that with them monopolizing that market there are fewer voices against.
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The problem with this, of course, is the immediate (ie, sudden and possibly very visible) danger posed to people with devices embedded in them. Pacemakers and MRIs do not interact well.
These guys need to get over themselves. JQuery provided a really nice way for designers to copy/paste effects onto web elements. And then they took it way, way too far, to the point where whenever I see a "new JQuery plugin to do X" I just look the other way.

JQuery just gets in the way these days.

$("#element") is an anti-pattern. That code should just return the DOM node, not some silly object with unknown attributes. We're way past the point where you need to abstract the entire document object model, and I argue you should never have done that to begin with.
A friend gave it to me. But ein- can mean a number of things (the one, also according to Kris Kershaw "paragon of") in Old Norse, right? As can hverf- (generally related to transitively or intransitively turning)?

I always joked that it could mean the "one who turns things around" or "the paragon of shifty people."

I assume the tie to autism comes from the idea that it's turning within oneself?
Exactly. And just because there's a draft specification, doesn't mean browsers will implement it.
PolarSSL invents no new ciphers. It implements the well-known ones.

More to the point, it is in my unprofessional opinion easier to verify the PolarSSL implementations because they are all completely standalone. By design you can compile a single .c file and it will do what you expect.

OpenSSL has its advantages, to be sure. It's more widely used and thus theoretically yields better for Linus's Law. Its maintainers also take great care to squeeze extra performance out of different architectures.

But for my case having the smallest possible reliable implementation of the SHA-512 algorithm is what I want.
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This is a non-story. They cite a couple of examples in the article, but the headline makes a completely unwarranted leap of induction to "employers and colleges across the country". I bet there are more cases every year of "employers and colleges across the country" who ask applicants to strip naked as a prerequisite for a job offer.

Even if we take this argument to a logical conclusion where every employer will eventually feel compelled to do this, this would destroy the value proposition of Facebook entirely. It would effectively turn Facebook into LinkedIn. If it can't be used for fun, people won't use it, which is entirely against Facebook's interests (which means they'll adjust the privacy policy and sue offending employers).

The idea that this is a serious phenomenon gets clicks, but it has no legs to stand on.
The introduction to <i>Thinking, Fast and Slow</i> by Daniel Khaneman immediately made me think of security theater. He starts by discussing how humans are generally rational, but intense emotions of fear, anger, etc. often cause us to act completely irrationally. While I imagine the book goes on to describe how the individual can stop emotion from perverting what should be a rational judgement, I wonder what defense we have as a society against making bad, emotional decisions on things that shouldn't involve emotions. I understand reactionary emotional decisions and opinions tending to snowball behind them, but why does it take so long, if at all, for rationality to take over?
> I also agree there is too much political stuff in the video

An honest question: How does one de-politicize an obvious political topic?
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