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It does open up some really interesting scenarios, though. For instance, I know a company that displays a large amount of data to it's users, so sticking that in WebSQL is useful to them as it makes that data easily queryable. However, since data is their thing they don't want it to persist!
I can judge Ayn Rand's philosophy partly on that of Aristotle given that she claimed to be a philosopher who owed nothing to anyone else in her philosophy other than Aristotle. Which I personally think is a completely ludicrous and frankly egotistical thing for anyone to try and claim.

So how am I being dishonest?

Also, how have I misunderstood the idea being presented here;

"For instance, in the definition of table (“An item of furniture, consisting of a flat, level surface and supports, intended to support other, smaller objects”), the specified shape is the differentia, which distinguishes tables from the other entities belonging to the same genus: furniture."

Now admittedly, the book may expound upon this and create a completely different interpretation based on the overall context, but given that you presented me with this excerpt and claimed it as a reasonable argument, you will forgive me for dealing with only the words that were in front of me at the time.
To add more detail, the reason is would not show the IP of the Tor servers is because you only send ARP requests for IPs on your same subnet. If the IP is not on your subnet there is no reason to send an ARP because you already know you cannot talk to it directly.
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These people were idiots:

The document also claimed that more than $500,000 had
been charged to credit cards and given to "charities
and revolutionary organizations."

Usernames and e-mail addresses were also released;
people were exhorted to "use and abuse these password
lists and credit card information to wreak unholy
havoc upon the systems and personal e-mail accounts
of these rich and powerful oppressors."

First, a lot of those credit cards belonged to ordinary people, not the "rich and powerful oppressors".

Second, when the credit card owners see the charges, they will dispute them. The credit card companies then will take the money back from the "charities and revolutionary organizations", and hit them with a $15-$30 chargeback fee per card.
Invalidating bitcoins would not work though. additionally, it is against the philosophy of bitcoin, basically to be a currency without supervising powers.

You literally have to think of bitcoins like real cash. I know that it feels unnatural at first, as usually everything you do software side on a computer is reversible, but that is not the case with the way bitcoins work. Everyone who runs the bitcoin client validates transactions and when a certain threshold is reached, the transaction is successful.

Therefore, to prevent the validation of transactions, you would have to run an astonishing number of clients which refuse validation.

The only way you could intercept stolen bitcoins at this point is, that the services which you can use to exchange bitcoins to dollars keep a db of stolen coins and prevent those from being cashed out.
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What a bizarre obsession. The only reason this is at the top of HN is because the word "nude" is (misleadingly) in there.

Obviously airline security in the US is deeply flawed because look at how many planes are being hijacked or blown out of the sky by terrorists! I mean there have been -- wait, let me count -- ZERO on American soil since September 11, 2001. With about 28,000 commercial flights per day in the US alone, approximately 3,800 days after 9/11, that multiplies out to 106 million fights without a successful terrorist attack. Not a bad batting average if you ask me.

With apologies to Churchill, I guess this airline security regime is the worst system there is -- except for all the other systems.
Supposing they were real users they would have had to disable javascript to not show up in google analytics.

My guess is that instead it was a rented botnet.

Essentially you payed to DDOS yourself.
You might as well add a few 'drop table;'s in there, just in case. That way, if/when your potential employers accidentally wipe the databases at Facebook (or wherever they happen to be invading your privacy), they'll have two lawsuits on their hands!

(The first being the one you file for an invasion of privacy, of course).
A) Using < would cause parsing problems when the stylesheet is embedded in an enclosing HTML document. B) If you think about it, the selector is still functioning the same: you are simply moving which node is being "targeted"; I would therefore hope that you could also do "$el + el" to select nodes that came before other nodes. (edit: Reading the linked update to the specification, it seems like the people who wrote it did not see that this would be a useful, beautiful, and arguably important generalization; sigh.)
Somehow it seems to have worked OK judging by results. See my separate comment about 106 million flights since 9/11/01 without any successful terrorist attacks.
New object versus mutating the current object depends on convention - in Python, there is a "replace" function on the native string type that returns a copy (http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods); in C++, std::string::replace mutates the string in place.

I'm not sure what you mean by not mentioning what is passed in. Keep in mind: I have never programmed in Objective-C. I am going on intuition alone.

No namespace support is a bummer - it means you're going to end up with long identifiers all over the place.
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Slate appears to have a similar partnership, with the first such post appearing earlier today: http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora.html
That looks really cool, but it doesn't work in Xcode 4.3, unfortunately. I found a bit more information here: http://blog.ablepear.com/2012/02/something-wonderful-new-obj...

Apparently it's a feature in Xcode 4.4 in the beta release of the Mountain Lion SDK. There's no developer preview for Lion, though. Fingers crossed that Xcode 4.4 will be released for Lion and not just for Mountain Lion....
So it would seem that the best defense is to tunnel all traffic from ones home to an IP in another country, if they are tapping a line and checking which IPs you're talking to.
Those changes weren't detrimental to the wealth of congresspeople.
Actually, I'd love to be able to write SELECT queries in Javascript that were identical to the queries that I write on the server. Yeah, the data comes from an AJAX-JSON call, but then I deal with it exactly the same. I'd love that.
Given the number of years it'll take for CSS3 to be used reliably, this information isn't very useful.
What in the parent post do you disagree with? It's probably obvious to you, but it's not obvious to me.

I understood his point to be mostly that syntax melts away after time, and you will just see the concepts. It seems that you are objecting to the notion that "Programming in Objective-C is easy," but I don't see that in his post.
That lacks a sensible baseline to compare against. The flaw that 9/11 exploited was the conventional wisdom drilled into everyone that, if your plane is being hijacked, you shouldn't resist, because hijackers just want some money/prisoner-exchange/whatever, and by resisting you'll only be putting your fellow passengers in more danger. Post-9/11, nobody believes that anymore, so the one proven hole was plugged.
Facebook's "ownership" of your data is no different from that of Yahoo! Mail, GMail, cell phone companies, landline phone companies, the postal service, Western Union, and all the other organizations people been sending messages through for hundreds of years. (Skype being P2P and encrypted might make it an exception...)

Facebook has no more or less access to/ownership of your life than your ISP and cell phone company.
I have a Filco Majestouch with browns at work, and one with blues at home. I mostly prefer the blues, but they are obscenely loud so just aren't that practical for an office environment. The browns are not much louder than a normal keyboard unless you are really pounding away on them.

If you are already using a Kinesis, you won't get much out of a Majestouch - They're as straight as an arrow.
All the material's still online, if you want you can just go ahead and start on it. I started yesterday.
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What causal effect do taxes have on any of this?
That fails once somebody has demonstrated an easily replicated attack that works on the current system, though...
I used to have a 12 dimensional reputation until spacetime cooled and I had to take on this 3 dimensional one and discard my lizard form.
I principally agree, but the analogy from the excerpt you quote represents a chicken-and-egg problem.

Where did the medical experts come from? Every tried-and-tested medication was once a new, experimental treatment. Every doctor was once a quack without medical training (the analogy starts hinging here, but I hope you get what I'm trying to convey).

So yeah, it's most likely a better idea to use a battle-hardened approach in crypto in most cases, but that shouldn't become a fundamental stance opposing anything new because, well, it's new.
In case some of you haven't seen this video.

Live on Germany TV man walks through body scanner and builds explosive with everything that passed on the scanner.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idICUSiGcqo
The article's point, if taken with the appropriate grain of salt, is interesting. Driving through rural, economically depressed America is like taking a time machine to an earlier, less affluent time (before economic productivity increases led to increases in the standard of living).

Note that even a few years ago, much of the country still used dial-up, yet most of us on HN have probably had fast internet for 12+ years.

If my standard of living increased by 1.5x I'd consider the $200/month broadband option totally reasonable for home internet, yet today I settle for Comcast's mid level option.
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Condoms are almost completely irrelevant. A primary issue is women being prescribed contraceptives for medical conditions other than preventing pregnancy. Contraceptives like "the pill" contain powerful and varying hormone cocktails which have numerous uses. Different brands/types contain different cocktails at different doses, meaning that the situation is not as simple as "just get the cheap one". The particular one that works for that use is prescribed, which most certainly can be 1000USD/year.
It's not so much de-politicizing (as you say, it's inherently political), but how much editorializing commentary you add on top of it. It's somewhat a matter of taste, but I think the same content could've been conveyed with less editorializing, which would've made it easier to share with people not politically predisposed to agree.
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> Isn't the psychology half the battle?

That is why it is known as "security theatre". The wikipedia page is comprehensive:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_theater
Yes! George Friedman (of recent Stratfor infamy) argues that within 50 years the US will face a drastic shortage of workers and will set up immigration recruitment programs.
Provide more facts and fewer conclusions.
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Sideloaded APKs do update over the market as long as it has the same package name and signature as the version from the market.
Only two words come to mind: plausible deniability
> There's a simple explanation - the authorities' main priority is to prevent copycat attacks

The weapons used on 9/11 were surprise and that standard operating procedure in a hijacking situation was to do as hijackers said. Both weapons were ineffective by the time the 4th plane found out.

The authorities main priority has been to be seen to be doing something.
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Nope, you didn't do anything wrong. I just didn't get a chance to test the CSS version before releasing. Feel free to open an issue on the GitHub project, and I'll get right on it!
"Getting 20K people to click on a video for $46 is amazing given current CPC rates."

Getting 20K first world people interested enough to click might be amazing but watching a few thousand of these a day at those rates might make minimum wage in say Ulan Bator.

Mongolian minimum wage ~ $4 a day

1/20,000 of $46 is .23 cents

That's ~1,600 vids a day but a worker would prolly see less then a third of the total so let's say 5k videos a day. Prolly counts as a view as soon as you watch a second or two though -- you'd need 10 vids a minute to maintain 5k a day.

Meh, a "Mongolian Turk" horde seems possible but bots seem far more likely and attractive as you say.
I'm re-considering the license for the font itself. I agree, attribution on a commercial site would not be ideal. Attribution in code, however, seems reasonable.

I used the classes from the Glyphicons set for backwards compatibility, but every icon was designed from scratch. If you look closely, you'll notice many of them are quite different.
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Very well put! (I was going to mention that, in reality, it's all about everyone else who's watching, but I think you did a better job explaining it.)

What's most interesting is that (based on anecdotal evidence), lost liberty and ridiculous security theater has done much more to harm America's image among it's "friends" than among it's enemies. I doubt Afghanistan or Pakistan care much about American airport security, but when I'm at Istanbul International, and the flight to JFK is the only one in the entire airport that requires extra screening, I see what that must look like to every European there (hint: they aren't thinking about what a great place this U S of A must be...).
Just because you can't measure the ambient temperature in liters doesn't mean the liter is a useless metric.

FWIW, Cory Doctorow already dealt with this issue in "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom". In it, the measure of social capital is called Whuffie, and there were multiple scores based on it. Mentioned in the book were:

- absolute Whuffie (Which, contrary to the article's title, is meaningful. An absolute measure of clout is what's being implied by the observation that everyone knows who Barack Obama is, and the number of people who know much about me can be measured in the dozens.)

- 'right-handed' Whuffie, which is a measure of a person's reputation among people you regard highly. Think "personalized Google results."

- 'left-handed' Whuffie, which measures a person's reputation among people you regard poorly.
Planned and in the works. The paid version will also include all vector icon files as well as a desktop TTF of the font itself.
Yeah, except for the sexual assault. No big deal at all.
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You're focusing on the wrong thing. The problem with the American airline security system is the invasive nude imaging, needless radiation exposure, and the hundreds of millions of hours of human time it wastes annually.

Here in Japan, I arrive at the airport 20 minutes before a domestic flight, show no ID, take my lighter and PET bottle with me, and we haven't had any terrorist attachs either.
Are you really suggesting murdering hundreds of innocent people is more honorable than lying for the sake of easing people's fears? I don't respect lying either, but let's not get crazy here.
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Things were so much simpler back when transparent colors were always premultiplied.
Actually the C++ STL is known for being pretty small... that also depends on if you even count the C stuff that C++ includes.
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1. "Nude Body Scanners" is a common name for the backscatter machines, and is generally understood as such. I'm not sure if you're asserting that people are randomly upvoting this article on the off chance it contains naughty material, but quite a few people—here and elsewhere—are heavily interested and involved in the TSA's use of these machines due to their isolated and cumulative effects on civil rights, so it shouldn't be surprising that it's at the top.

2. The TSA is not the only system keeping terrorists off planes. We don't have a "double-blind survey" where half the airports were protected by the TSA and the other half weren't, so we can't make any kind of sensible comparison. (A better metric would be, "How many attempted terrorist attacks were directly stopped by the TSA during the airport security checks," and it's widely accepted that the answer is, "None.")

3. These new backscatter machines were not put in place immediately in 2001. A great deal of the time you've mentioned involved elevated security on the part of the TSA, but not specifically through the measures being discussed here, which decrease the actual security of the planes by allowing people to bring items through that would have been caught by earlier measures (c.f. the article being discussed.) A case can be made that the TSA's post-9/11 response has been useless and possibly harmful, but this article is specifically making the point that the backscatter machines are problematic.

4. There have also been zero hijackings in other countries, as well, and those countries have different (and usually much less invasive and less expensive) security measures. If we provisionally accept that it is the TSA, and not the other agencies involved, that is preventing attacks, why does it necessarily follow that the only way to keep planes safe is the drastic measures taken by the TSA? (I can quite easily rid my house of mosquitos by burning it down, but that doesn't mean the only or best way to keep my house free of mosquitos is arson.)
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Still live 19:34-0700. Is this for real, or just some DNS trickery? The HN post says "1 hour ago", wouldn't PandaSecurity respond faster than that?
This is disgusting. But be thankful for it: if a company or school does this, they're letting you know immediately that they're the type of soul-crushing institution that you wouldn't want to associate with in any fucking way. That could save you a lot of time, at least. (have to look at the bright side!)
Comparing TSA employees to the people committing war crimes during WWII is a gross overstatement if not logical fallacy. TSA employees are not "just following orders", they are following what they believe to be the morally best course of action to screen people of potentially dangerous items.

Also, TSA employees are human beings, not robots designed to ignore impolite behaviour and programmed to always deliver polite behaviour. As a fellow intelligent human beings we must understand our own limitations and the limitations of the world in which we live, and strive for mutual understanding rather than wear an attitude of self entitlement.
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That is true of any platform you write for.
I mean, that psychologically, it's like a placebo. While it may or may not actually prevent anything that people believe it does is what's important.

Somewhat similar to crosswalk buttons which don't actually provide jumping the change of traffic light phase queue.

The term Security Theater sounds dismissive and implies there is no actual benefit. It seems in the least debatable to me.
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Want a deadly weapon you can bring on a plane?

http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/assistant/editorial_1...
Good point. I hadn't actually thought of it that way round, although it is obvious in retrospect.

However I do still currently view bitcoin as mostly just an interesting beta experiment.
I've never had an issue with Windows and networking.

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You're joking right? A quick glance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings shows that hijackings in the USA are incredibly rare. There was the four in 2001, one in 1994, and before that the last one was 1978.

All I see when I look at those numbers, is that we're due for another one any time now.
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Honestly. I learned the hard way that you can't take back what you say on the net. No matter how young you may have been when you said it, or how you meant it when it was first written. If it can be misconstrued, it's there for all eternity.

It's to the point where I think you could almost start one of those hipster movements I'm always hearing about. Give it a sophisticated name like Entropism. Set an example by running around the Internet behind seven proxies, inside a virtual machine, with JS disabled, running firefox, with a fake user agent, going over each one of your posts with a style-analysis program and dataset, clearing most history every five minutes, blocking cookies, deliberately messing with the response times of your hardware to prevent device fingerprinting, spoofing your MAC, etc etc.
My understanding is that all you need to do is make sure your app is signed by your market key and it's version code is lower than the update you'd release on the market next and those people will get a proper update from the market. This really shouldnt be an issue. Ive done this on my android phones.
Why can't the TSA rent-a-thugs be cops or something? At least they'd be deterring crimes that actually happen.