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As an engineer, that's why I went to law school. I thought law could be represented deterministically...but that's a naive assumption. A stochastic model fits much better, which is why I'm now extremely interested in artificial intelligence.
Then you could hide something in the arches of your feet or under a wig.
Am reminded of the quote from Futurama;

"All that is ours was once flushed down your toilets. Over there is our aquarium. This is our library.

Nothing but crumpled porno and Ayn Rand."
> have the background colour of the display changed

Have you thought this one through?
That's true, but I'd guess that's true of much desktop software. People don't use Microsoft Word because of its efficient C++ code; they use it because it's semi-standard, has lots of features, and overall is good enough. I would bet giant piles of legacy code are a bigger reason for not moving to C# than anything language-specific is.
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Clearly, this will require a well paid committee and 5,000 page investigation.
Fort Awesome is the organization, Font Awesome is the product.

It was originally hosted at fortaweso.me until Hacker News brought it down.
> The best rule is to assume everyone is LE trying to catch you.

This sounds wise. But I'd argue that it's wiser to not be engaging in activities where you even have to worry about that. If your rule is the best rule, my rule is even better. :P
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That would be a reasonable and most probable bureaucratic response to this issue (apart from the option to simply ignore it), but it would double the radiation received and increase inconvenience. Ironically, the opposite of what the guy is fighting for.
You have to be crazy brave or crazy ignorant to do this kind of analysis and share it in the USA.

At a minimum his name will now show up on the no-fly list for the rest of his life. If he realized this, I am in awe.
Why have people stand sideways when you could sell twice the number of machines to scan people from two aspects!
How does the customer know it's even Stripe's javascript running at all? There's nothing preventing the injection of malicious JS to capture the card number.
On that note, IKEA is the only company I can think of that successfully designs their products and branding to look "cheap", as you define it. Countless other companies seem to go for a more "trashy" look, akin to tabloids.
They aren't authenticating the card. They are doing a checksum on the digits entered using the luhn algorithm.
Its the reason I boycott techcrunch articles (aside from the lack of any editing).
This brings to mind an interesting point- economic migration. An Alabaman(?) wanting to set up a start up is likely to move to california or new york- suppressing the GDP of Alabama and increasing it for CA/NY. The same migration applies to the already-rich.

Similarly, on an international scale, the USA is likely to be the destination of choice today. So as we see China begin to surpass the USA economically, the effect of any change of 'preferred economic migration destination' will likely amplify the natural GDP changes.
Can't they add some time based depth information to discriminate ?

Or add a slightly absorbing background , additional maybe. ...
Hi Guys, Jon here, the creator of the TSA video you're discussing. Thanks for picking this story up. As a tech guy myself, I'll be happy to answer any questions you have.

--Jon
Yeah that's not normally sufficient for many of the CC licenses (not that I'm an expert), as they often require it to be shown on a visible (i.e. browsable) page, such as a 'credits' page or similar.
> the cost to become one

the cost of law school is a fixed (and by the time you become a lawyer, sunk) cost, and therefore has no bearing on supply decisions.

moreover, how does the cost of law school jack up prices in a world where there is an excess of lawyers? if you're a lawyer, do you charge the amount that covers your loans, or the amount that nets you the most profit?

the very fact that there are excess lawyers is evidence that regulation of who gets to become a lawyer is not increasing prices. now i'm not saying that lawyers are efficiently priced, merely that regulatory capture is not the reason for this.
he said he was the first person to sue the TSA over the nude scanners.. I'd bet he was already on it
Also the lack of any decent threading abstraction - ick.

What? Grand Central Dispatch is a lot easier to work with than most explicit threading mechanisms and with the new block support is a lot less verbose than the typical Java thread-based approach.
One of the core problems with even talking about the issue is the general disdain Reddit users have for one another, or to be more accurate, the disdain individuals have for the collective. The idea that content can be "better" or "worse", and this can be judged by an individual to the exclusion of the group, completely circumvents the entire concept of Reddit - crowdsourcing news.
I wouldn't even give them the password to accounts I have on their systems, they should be able to access it themselves if the requester really has permission to view that data. The only exception I would make is to encrypted hard drives that they gave to me, but I would just de-crypt before ever giving them my password.
Crazy guy who did this here. Before I made the video, I spent the last 18 months manipulating the court system against the TSA. The TSA does not want to add me to any no-fly list (or more realistically, the "selectee list") because every time a legal battle starts, I'm entitled to more and more discovery in court, and more and more of their lies come out.

--Jon
It'd be really interesting to hear from you in more detail about this process, and any gotchas that you came across during the process. If you ever get time for a follow-up blog post I think a lot of people here would enjoy the read.
The problem is you are applying linear Earth-scale concepts of space to the whole Universe.

In reality space (or space-time) is curved - as you approach the "edge" of the universe you actually are traversing a loop around a 4-dimensional hyper-sphere.

The common analogy of an ant on the surface of a balloon is quite effective. As the balloon expands, the distance between points on the surface of the balloon certainly grow and they become further apart. The ant can measure this, see this, but for the life of him, no matter how far he walks, he cant find the "edge of the universe".

Of course it is hard to visualise this analogy when projected into our 4-dimensional universe, but it's the best we've got.
The background is not metal, it is open space that does not reflect xrays. The targeted metal objects also do not reflect xrays.

It is more intuitive to say that these machines are not threat detectors (like metal detectors), they are people detectors. The lack of a person is considered to be a threat within the bounds of their silhouette. Place a threat outside the silhouette and it is undetectable.
Easy answer, is to either say "I'm not on Facebook" or simply give them access to a fake account. Everyone should be setting their Facebook settings to be reasonably strict so that they would have a damn hard time telling you have another profile.
Well and? Is that the society you want, where you keep your head down to keep out of sight of the authorities?
As the self-proclaimed first person to file legal action over this, I'm sure he was already on a few lists, right?
If you use the new AppCode Obj-C IDE, you can get formatting like the latter for free.
Is it possible that the TSA actually observed the metallic object at your side, but decided that it wasn't threatening based on its shape?
Simple, yet brilliant; equivalent to a side channel attack on most systems. I can't believe nobody had noticed that before, including myself.
I'm not buying it. There are a lot of reasons that reporting could be just as devastating as not reporting, except it's more likely to happen.

Imagine a James Lawyer at your prestigious $1000/hour partnership. He finds out Joe Partner is up to no good. What are his options?

Blow the whistle, get Joe Partner in trouble, get black-balled (if not outright fired [but, of course, not for whistle blowing]) and eventually (or immediately) have to find a new job. In trying to find other jobs, James finds nobody is interested in him in any capacity remotely near his previous level of employment, because, like any close professional community, everybody knows James is a whistle blower. He eventually has to settle for a position in a local law firm, make 1/3 what he was making before.

Or, don't blow the whistle. If Joe Partner eventually gets caught, James might get caught up in it, or he might be able to skate around it.

Do you really think no lawyers knew about Bernie Madhoff or World Comm or Enron? To say this ethical code of conduct justifies the high prices is laughable.
That is not proper support for PHP, but they have had it in BETA for a while. Pagoda Box is the closest to Heroku around, it even does a lot of things much better.
interesting. I wonder why no one has tried this yet.
Creator of the video here. The other posters are correct that it's not simply a color change, it's that the backscatter effect reflects similarly from the object as it does from the wall of the device. There are no quick fixes: standing sideways might work, but now screening time doubles (which is actually a big deal to the TSA), the radiation dose doubles, and the machine's software isn't designed for that. There are different scanner manufacturers that have made machines that address this problem, but do so with 5 scans -- 5 times the radiation. Plus, there are other faults to the nude body scanners, and this is just the one I chose to publish. The scanners need to go.
::hug:: Thank you.

Keep on fighting the good fight man.
Actually not on any list yet. I'm always surprised when I successfully print a boarding pass and it does not have the dreaded "SSSS" on it.
Right. I get it. Basically an infix notation. Seems inconsistent with the rest of CSS.
What do you mean by associates? Do you mean non-lawyers engaging in document preparation? If so, they might be criminally liable for the unlicensed practice of law. If they're also licensed attorneys, then again, you're paying for the firm's time, not a single lawyer's time. If a partner tells an associate to do something against the rules (i.e., superior tells subordinate to act illegally), "the subordinate is bound by the Rules of Professional Conduct notwithstanding that the lawyer acted at the direction of another person." (Rule 5.2(a)). The only exception is if it's an "arguable" question and the superior's instructions were reasonable in light of this.

For non-lawyer assistants, (see Rule 5.3), the lawyer must make reasonable efforts to ensure that the non-lawyer's work complies with the professional obligations of the lawyer. This mostly applies to cases when a non-lawyer assistant is sorting through documents and accidentally loses one that's later found by the media. Again, if they're doing anything that's the practice of law, they're committing a crime. The subordinate would be criminally liable, and the supervising lawyer would be professionally liable under Rule 5.3.
Consider also that when GPD of the richest 300m Chinese surpasses that of the GDP of the USA, that is the point at which the battle is essentially won in favour of China, because they will be a larger high-GDP market than the USA at that point (and with better prospects going forward). This point will come far before the GDP per capita is equal.
So they should keep using the metal detectors then. I wonder if they'll make people go through both.
37signals, have you had a SSAE 16 attestation (newer version of SAS70) performed yet on this new product yet?

I ask because my corporation can't use Basecamp unless this new product has coverage.
7/8am til midnight/2am 7 days a week.
So 14-16 hours a day.
Just more security theatre and corrupt politicians (guess who runs the companies the scanners are bought from).

The reality is that they can't keep weapons and drugs out of prisons where there are no freedoms, and there is plenty of time to be as invasive as you want to visitors and residents.

Additionally the security system has failed if the point you pick up the bad guys is by some low paid grunt at the airport staring at a screen. The point of airport security should be to catch occasional idiots and that is about it - something any metal detector can do.

The reality is that anyone determined can get through any security system and wreak terror. The response is to not be terrorised. It is to live well and not in fear. It is to have made their actions completely pointless.
#shutupandtakemymoney

Thank you for your hard work.
There are OpenSSL alternatives if you're prepared to walk the path less travelled.

One I've taken a shine to lately is PolarSSL[1], which has the nice quality that you can selectively compile only those modules you need. Consequently the API is quite simplified and you can use it as a library rather than put up with the framework-y bookkeeping OpenSSL requires.

I wrote a small wrapper to access the SHA-384/512 component in Lua[2]. Compared to a 500k+ OpenSSL .so, the PolarSSL version weighs in at 22k. It was a great learning experience.

[1] http://polarssl.org/
[2] https://github.com/jchester/lua-polarssl
www.google.com is a good example.
Some pattern in the background maybe?
I think you've missed the part where they have already won. Drones are now legal and the police are completely militarized in every major city.

Stay tuned during the RNC and DNC conventions this year to watch why it's too late as congress has voted hundreds of millions of dollars for their own security budgets during the conventions so that protesters can be surpressed as quickly and quietly as possible.

We'll never have more rights than we have right now, it's all downhill.
God forbid you have to copy the boarding pass while covering the SSSS with a white piece of paper =)

Kidding; I've gotten the SSSS before. No fun at all.
I think I can reason why you are down voted. May be it was the delivery style of the message than the message itself. But I think it was unfair to you as you have a valid point. If you strictly want to asses the fastest way to arrive at this result in today's day and age. Your solution is probably one of the fastest ways to do that. I think the author's mathematical tricks would have been very useful in a world where personal computing is not where it is today... say prior to the advent of calculators.
I would imagine that they would demand that every metal container be opened for inspection, no matter its shape.
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Non sequitur. If you don't do something, negative consequences won't happen. You can say that about anything. Don't have sex if you don't want STDs, don't drive a car if you don't want to get into an accident, don't walk down the street at night if you don't want to get mugged.
>Are you criminally liable?

There's nothing in the current law about granting you immunity from criminal liability as long as you hire a licensed electrician, so that's a completely moot point.

>What if you don't and the house ignites in a fire one night caused by improper wiring, killing the future owners, are you responsible? Is the electrician?

In most jurisdictions you can already preform electrical work on your own property. If you install a ceiling fan should have to disclose to the new owner that it wasn't installed by a licensed electrician? Are you responsible for killing the future owner? There are scores of people installing their own light fixtures, where's the public outcry over all the dead homebuyers?

What happens when you hire the unlicensed kid next door to cut your grass, and he cuts off his foot?

What happens when an unlicensed painter falls off a ladder and kills himself?

If you want protection from damage caused by people you hire to work on your house, only hire contractors who are insured. Make them present proof of insurance before the job begins.
This has been what I've been wondering. While going through HNL a few weeks ago my girlfriend forgot to take her cellphone out of her bra before going through the backscatter. Nobody said a peep.
@SoftwareMaven: I never said "justifies," but I did say it's one factor that contributes to the inherent reasonableness of the fees. My argument is based on the law and professional practice, while your counter-argument is based on a hypothetical, conspiracy theory.
Great Point. By not reporting back to me the negative feedback, and the massive amount of pinnings I do, It removes a big element of the fear involved in social sharing, while still having the benefits of being recognized when something awesome is shared.

I still think someone needs to find a way to make social sharing a win for both sides to really start influencing purchasing decisions... Or better yet, hide my friends likes, plus ones, and recommendations, and only share them when I ask,"what do you think of this?"

That would be a nifty function that lets me control when I ask for recommendations (i.e. when I am seeking the approval from friends) but eliminates the lag time of waiting for a response from my friends...
You joke, but it is seriously likely to be that easy to beat SSSS. Bruce Schneier has done a lot of work on fake boarding passes, if you're interested.
Surely any TSA agent would see a concealed object on the side of a body worthy of at least an inspection/questioning.
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Warning: clicking "execute" on the demo page made my machine unresponsive and caused the hard drive to thrash for about five minutes before I could finally kill chrome.exe (I'm running a recent version on the Chrome beta channel).
The TSA generally detects my watch when I forget to take it off, and insist on rolling up my sleeve and checking despite its obvious location.

I'm not sure how shape could imply safety, either, since anything could have been concealed inside of it.
We aren't in a competition against Gems or CPAN, in what world does that suggestion even make sense?

People use PHP and a package manager is needed to stop people constantly rewriting the same PHP. That means a package manager is required (we have a good one now) and support is required to take it forward (hence this post).

When will people stop the "RUBY DID IT" mentality and learn to get on with what needs to be done?

1. Build stuff.
2. Sell stuff.
3. Learn to make stuff faster.
good thing you are hosting your blog on wordpress.com. Hope they keep it available!
I doubt that - they'd be taking a huge chance. Even if it wasn't explosives, the person could've been keeping drugs inside that metallic object and thus would warrant attention.
You guys are very welcome... I appreciate the support, and I feel like on this board it's coming from my own people, so thank you!!
What are the chances the TSA wouldn't select you for additional screening upon detecting any metal on your person going through a body scanner? Serious question, no snark intended.
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The savvier kids have been maintaining multiple Facebook accounts for years: one where they friend their parents, family, church pastor, etc., and the other (under a pseudonym) where they have fun. It's like the social equivalent of a TrueCrypt hidden volume. Plausible deniability is the name of the game.
Me too, but I've signed up for most of them anyway. It's risk free and the only reward is personal: knowledge.
All they have to do is make you turn sideways. This video is a well intended but weak attempt
If TradeHill's reporting is to be believed, I find it highly implausible it was all one transaction that was reversed. Also, there's nothing to indicate that Dwolla was the one that reversed it. They were reversed. That much is probable (although TradeHill gives different figures in every report about it). We haven't heard what Dwolla has to say about this yet or seen any evidence about it. “It's definitely true” that we don't know the details, yet.
Really the only thing that makes Obj-C the language hard is that the C layer pokes through often enough that you really do need to understand C as well and C presents a lot of pitfalls to a new programmer.
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Then they'll just extend all US scanned to 2.2m meters width and enforce scanning people lying down in both directions.
No -- TSA policy requires them to investigate all "anomalies" with a pat-down. If they saw & ignored it, they completely broke policy, which is another problem with the nude body scanners: a metal detector has a loud alarm and can't be ignored, whereas an x-ray screen can.
While it's encouraging to see such a thorough debunking of the latest security theater technology, it's always been security theater... Allow me a few quick anecdotes:

My family is friends with a gentleman who was a green beret medic during Viet Nam, and later worked for the CIA. Once, when I was younger (and metal detectors were the norm), we had the opportunity to fly with him. He entered the metal detector before me, and was waved along. Once we were past the detectors, he turned to me and said, "Guess how many blades I have on me?" He then proceded to produce seven blades. They were a combination of ceramic blades (undetectable by the metal detector and sharper than most metal as well) and traditional blades held or placed on him so that they would not set off the detector. It was part of his CIA training to be able to do that.

I went to college at Stevens Institute of Technology. The Chemical Engineering department there has a lab known as the Highly Filled Materials Institute. When I was an undergraduate, I got a tour of the lab. They informed me that they had been working on an extruder that they were selling simultaneously to Picatinny Arsenal and Hersey. It turns out that C4 and Chocolate are both colloidal suspensions with nearly identical properties. A consequence of this is that in the X-ray machines used in airports, plastic explosives are indistinguishable from chocolate.

Shortly after 9/11 my father, a very frequent traveler, had forgotten his nail clippers in his carry-on luggage. Predictably, they were confiscated. When I greeted him at the airport, he remarked on how ridiculous that was, as he produced his fountain pen from his jacket pocket. "They let me on with this," he said. "I could have stabbed anyone in the eye with this and they'd be dead. What was I going to do with nail clippers?"

...I could go on, but why?
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Ouch, my eyes! All those closing punctuation groups!

This seems to come up often, the purported ugliness of JavaScript. To rebut, I'll use one of his own arguments:

I don't really know why people bring this up so often. It's just a non-problem for me.
Right now it seems that number it's on the rise, so I guess is a matter of how long this line of business will last considering cash-strapped businesses wont spend a dime on something that's widely considered to be useless/ineffective.
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You have no idea how bad it was. Look up the Alien and Sedition Acts, or the McCarthy Era.
@learc83: the difference between professions requiring and not requiring licensure is the foreseeability of the risks. A reasonable person should be able to foresee the risk that a painter might fall from a ladder. A reasonable person might not be able to foresee the risks associated with installation of wiring by an unlicensed electrician.
Culture is influenced by human nature, but the two are not equivalent.
Quoting a post on daringfireball (about a story on readwriteweb) that has confused some foreigners hardly proves that "more often they search or follow links".
I am not convinced by your use of italics.