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The Common Criteria Evaluation and Validation Scheme (CCEVS) is a form of software accreditation that focuses on software security.

You can view the results for the Windows 7 accreditation at [1]. The website also has comprehensive documentation on the methodology used to accredit the software (including visibility of the source code).

[1] http://www.niap-ccevs.org/st/vid10390/
This would actually make my current bill go up, without adding any additional services (aside from the free smartphone hotspot, which wouldn't get much use), and with less total data than we currently have.

The problem is that we don't use very many minutes or text messages. Those just aren't valuable services for everyone (especially the minutes).

I had high hopes for this when I first heard the rumors. Once again, Verizon proves that they don't "get it".
well ok, with imessage it doesn't work, but you also talked about phone calls. I agree, blacklisting should be there.
True, and just to be clear, when I said "I doubt they care very much" I meant "I doubt they care very much about not being compliant with the OSD." It does, of course, make sense that they make have a position that overlaps with a point from the OSD, for their own reasons.
Yes. Headless Macs are important for those who need high end displays. Depending on your needs, Apple really never was in that market.

Apple's displays are now all glossy, have dropped from 16:10 to 16:9, and most have such color inconsistency across the panel that they're impossible to calibrate. An iMac without a yellow band somewhere on the screen is like a unicorn these days.
Some weapons of war require custom code, but for those systems that can use COTS software, you would rather see them use Windows and possibly other commercial software, rather than linux/*bsd and their F/OSS ecosystems?

I don't think that would accomplish much except hurt the DOD and hurt open source software that various parts of the DOD contribute to.
I'm seeing the same thing on my 1366x768 display. I think screen height is often overlooked in responsive designs.
This segmentation for two kinds of Android users is exactly the problem. If you are an IOS user, whether a poweruser or not, you will get the latest upgrade and a range of new features by default. This delights users, they don't have to care about the issue to be satisfied with the device.

Perhaps I am lazy, perhaps I am somewhere in between those two archetypes you mention. I want to hold the device i buy before i buy it, as such i need to go to my provider store and see it, dare i say, touch it. This fact alone eliminates the option of seeing the nexus variant.

You don't have to follow the Techrags or details to want the latest and greatest.
I think the OP was talking about the costs of lawsuits and their effects on business, not risk of doing business in general in various places.

Also: I don't think that, in the context of France, the change in presidents is really all that radical. I suppose I could be proven wrong, but I don't see them as being that much further apart than, say, GWB and Obama, even if the latter two are shifted 'rightwards' compared to what the center is in France.
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It is a problem because it is an explicit sign to women thinking of applying to that company that they would not be welcome in the organization. Fewer organizations that welcome women mean a less attractive industry for women, which is the polar opposite of avoiding gender inequality.

Pretty much any time you're discussing inequality, if you reach for "it would be OK if the situations were reversed", you are choosing to ignore the substance of the problem, which is that 99.9% of the time the situations are not reversed.
I agree with that statement about Tmobile, but if you just stick with the reference devices (G1, Nexus, Nexus S, Nexus Galaxy,) you get all the updates from Google as they're released.

I've stuck with the Google reference models since the G1, and while I'm usually behind on "what's new" (I'm currently on a Nexus S, while the Nexus Galaxy has been out for awhile now), my wife is constantly buying the 'new' Android hotness, and is perennially jealous of my phone, even when it's older and has less features.

I get the software updates faster, everything works, and nothing has been mucked with, ala Blur or whatever. Meanwhile her phone is dual core, has HDMI out, and is better on paper, but crashes often, becomes unresponsive and lags on Android updates.
It's not how much you offer, but how well you pull it off.
Want a job you are qualified for? Too bad, born in wrong country.

Welcome to global labor protectionism. American guy wins, you lose.
This isn't true. Phone support is provided for domain administrators of paying apps customers.

http://support.google.com/a/bin/request.py
"our understanding of the natural world is still sadly primitive" You are talking for yourself ? For humanity ? For scientists you never met ? I honestly don't know who you are and how well suited are you (you're a specialist in bioengineering ?) to tell us how much "we" know or we don't. I'm just a software engineer with some basic understanding of genetic engineering, but my wife is a genetic technician in a lab, and it's amazing what operations they performed on a daily basis as part of their university classes and recently in research projects in real labs (and this didn't start yesterday or only with my wife's generation). So I'm very tempted to believe that you just woke up speaking about some limitations you don't personally know and it's not even in your area of expertise. This does not mean that today "everything" is possible or that we achieved the grand mastery of DNA. It's just that for the "right people" the understanding of the natural world is more advanced than you have ever dreamed (unless you are one of the "right people").
The only banal point is arguing that freedom of speech and privacy are antiquated. I like how you frame OP as a hick because his opinions differ from yours. Is it easy being the smartest guy you know?
... and, another 'X for Y' me-too startup gets me-too money!
I looked at the team graph and thought it wasn't going to be very informative, but was surprised to see some of the very distinctive player patterns (e.g. Battier).

The graphics are brilliant. Is the image -> graph effect part of some library I haven't heard of?
I highly recommend that you measure your actual data usage.

I'm on an unlimited plan and these data numbers look ridiculously low...at first.

Using 3G watchdog, my average usage over 5 months is about 505 MB per month.

With that said, this pricing seems a bit steep.

I pay $113 per month with one smart phone (Droid Bionic 4g) with unlimited data and one dumb phone for my wife. That includes the ridiculous fees + taxes.

With the new plan, I'd pay more $40 + $30 + $50 = $120 and still not get a "free" hotspot b/c the device would have to be on the plan ($20 + $10 for my laptop and kindle fire). This is of course before fees and taxes.

So Verizon had cooked up a price increase under the guise of "friendlier" pricing.
I've been contemplating going back to a dumb phone for some time. The problem is, the dumb phone models are all really crappy now. I've been looking for a new one for my wife, but you can't find anything that isn't pure crap. If one were paranoid, one might think the phone companies are doing this on purpose...
I guess when you call 3rd party apps that implement things features it's a little hard to tie things to one operating system version...
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No, of course not, but they do see me do something on ICS that you can't otherwise do and they say, "Wait a minute? I thought you had Android. You do? Then why can't I do that!" followed by frustration and anger.
coincidental; unexpected.

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True, and even CRTs had the issue that if you set a resolution that created interference in the shadow mask it would look like crap. There was a always a 'best' resolution to a CRT even if it was forgiving in terms of different settings.

Given the 'free' GPU we get with machines these days (and by free I mean its always included) it seems reasonable to use its oversampling anti-aliasing feature for desktop display. I'm not sure why you wouldn't do that unless it was some sort of power issue.
My issue with the lackluster update is that I purchase a computer to last me ~5 years. The last mac pro I purchased was the octocore mac pro. I use it to run Logic, Reason and associated plugins, and find I can comfortably run 24-48 track projects quite easily so I havent really felt a pinch to upgrade. I have 16GB ram and 4 TB of disk space in it, so I think it still exceeds what most desktop/laptops are capable of to this day. Back to the point, since I want my purchase to last, it better have the current state of the art on the day of purchase so that accessories and upgrades are easily added.
Yes, but Siri wont, 3D maps wont. If the main features of the update don't make it to the device, what's your point?

edit: the -> your (I know the point of updating the 3GS, I don't understand the OPs point in its attempt to mock Android)
and yet much of science fiction that many us enjoy consistently reflects a much better possible future, as this 2011 article details http://lfs.org/newsletter/029/04/Somin.shtml

If anything technology offered just as many avenues for people to escape a totalitarian world as to succumb to it.

With regards to this guy's game, it probably brings reminders of all the silliness with regards to Civilization game. From melting icecaps to near constant nuclear war its a sign of an AI that that too easily bounces from one extreme to another.
Doesn't work in IE9. That was the limit of my experience :(
No, because the MPAA/RIAA don't run the Great Firewall or other government censorship systems.
Unfortunately this is like a high end Commodore64: it starts simple but soon you have a rats nest of cables separate power for all the external devices. I want less cables not more. Also, I don't think thunderbolt cables can be screwed in, so you run the risk that a cable could get tugged and pulled out.
Presuambly EVGA and the Other Workstaion Class kit makers will be holding a viking funeral for the Old Apple Woz would be invited to light the funeral pyre
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In windows you can change it to 120 in the usability-settings. Many UI-elements start to look like shit though because the text doesn't fit etc.
This article seems relevant to the discussion, too:

http://blog.bestvendor.com/2012/06/did-apple-steal-these-ios...

I've noticed that over the past couple of years, Apple has kept "stealing" the functionality of very popular apps from the App Store (starting with iBooks, and then others).
also interested in this, but doubt it. It needs more brightness too.
Looking at the big red 1 on both my parents' iPhones' Settings app (not mention the much higher numbers on the App Store app) when I visited them this weekend, I imagine the same segmentation exist on iOS. Different proportions and easier upgradability on iOS, but the basic idea is the same on both platforms. If you want updates, you are able to get them. If not, and most don't, it is no loss to anyone but developers and security.
I took that to be a specific example -- Tor may be detected using traffic analysis -- of a more general principle -- circumvention tools can not hope to withstand nearly unlimited resources. I thought tptacek was pretty explicit in making this more general statement.
I'm afraid you haven't really used voice commands on Android. They do lack the NLP of Siri and the witty responses, but in practice they seem much more accurate at actually understanding what the user is trying to do.

Also you may believe iPhone is king in the ease of use department, but I don't. I think after using either OS for an extended period of time they become second nature and usage of the other can be grating if expected behavior is different. Personally I find Android much easier to use, you may not, and that's okay.
That is correct. The prevailing wage amount was clearly listed on my h1B application form and there is no way legally they can pay you less than that.
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Barely Ok: a subgroup of employees organizes it on their personal time (meaning: not using work email to send an "all@" message, or using work email at all). It's not discussed in the office, and no important work topics are discussed at the event. (So the people who didn't go don't hear "oh yeah we discussed that at Hooter's and decided ...")

Not OK: even if the event is independently organized, pictures posted on company site or circulated via company email; tweets or social-media postings about the event including the company name (including "at Hooter's with my buds from Company X!") all send the wrong message.

If you and your dudes from work HAVE to go to one of these places (keep telling yourself it's "ironic"), you should treat it like buying ointment for an embarrassing disease. Something you do quietly at weird hours hoping nobody you know sees you.
I like the idea that a piece of legislation should come with concrete criteria for its own evaluation. That would be like falsifying scientific theories: "This theory will be falsified if such-and-such a phenomenon is observed." "This law will be repealed in X years if it turns out to have such-and-such an effect on the economy."

Unfortunately, laws can rarely be evaluated in isolation, but only against a wide range of other laws and actual circumstances that constantly shift. It's hard enough to come up with definite criteria for falsifying an advanced scientific theory. It will be nearly impossible to do that with laws, not to mention it's too easy to dispute whether the criteria have been met.
> If you haven't read 1984...

I'd also recommend that you read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for a counterpoint. The sad part is that the way the world is going appears to be a mix of the worst elements of the two.

Of course, the perpetual war in 1984 was a big part of the story, but because we only ever see the world from characters living in Airstrip One, for all we know the war could've been over years ago.
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A 451 could be used in a lot more cases than just DMCA takedown'd documents.
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"Although I don't necessarily think it will be because of war, I can see a potential future where people/persons decide democracy is a less effective system"

Its probably worth pointing out just how unlikely it is that it would be because of war. The democratic peace is probably the closest thing to a universal law of international relations that we have. So if democracy does have drawbacks in terms of speed of decision making, it has more than its share of upside too.
Erm.. even there were some computer vision algorithm involved, he would probably want to run it offline.
Imagine differences in screen resolution being differences in quality, as opposed to scale.

That's exactly what this is, though — the window decorations, for example, in OS X on the new MBP are identical in size to the ones on the "old" MBP, they're just more detailed.

And since they're so detailed (hence "retina display" moniker) that most people won't be able to see any pixels at all and, since in just a few years, all displays will obviously be "retina displays", I think there's a strong argument to be made that resolution-independent interfaces aren't ever gonna happen and that that's not a bad thing at all. (They've been tried for years and they always end up a burden for the developer and/or not working well for the user.) The limitations of human biology make it so that this simple "hack" is actually the easiest for developers, works the best for users, and won't ever need to be replaced. … OK, yeah, one day we'll all have bionic eyes and we'll have to do the same doubling trick again, but presumably "Bionic-Retina Displays" will be cheap to produce by then. :)
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> can I use a thunderbolt port to chain monitors

Yes.
Siri and Maps are only 2 features of iOS 6. There are many other features that the 3 year old 3GS will benefit from.
Google sort of does that, although you have to go to Chilling Effects and look up the takedown.
I study finance in Sydney, am graduating next semester and knows how to code too! Rare to see someone in similar situation on HN! Send me an email (see my profile) maybe we'll have more to talk about. :)
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Actually, I thought it was pretty clear in the article that it's not ok to use locks (mutexes) under the definition given. I tried pretty hard to use the most widely accepted definition of lock-free, even exchanging e-mails with Maurice Herlihy about it.
One of the big reasons I love the hacker culture is the lack of sexism, if you are good you are good, doesn't matter what sex, race or religion. The only thing true hackers care about is your level of skill and dedication.
I see what you mean and mostly agree but not with the example you chose: Chinese government never intended to completely block sensitive content. If they wanted so they would use other technologies. Any Chinese netizen with a VPN can go outside and many of them do. What the Chinese government do, successfully, is to make the sensitive content slightly harder to access, compared to local "safe" content. Then, like the water choosing the downward slope, most information consumed by Chinese netizens is inside the GFW.
Yes, but it's on a 15" screen. I haven't had a 15" screen on my desktop since 1994. Resolution is important, but for many tasks, so is size. The new MBP has a 2880x1800 screen, the old Apple 20" display had a 2560x1600 screen. So, while the MBP has a few more pixels, it's not that many more pixels.

Having seen neither, I can's speak to quality issues on the two screens.
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there is no requirement for new devices to install the newest version.

No, but only the really low-end Android phones are coming out with 2.x anymore and that number is going to dwindle quickly over the next year. And ICS is not as crucial as some people make it out to be since 2.x is a decent platform already and a lot of features have been backported.
Both Qt and Gtk are really good at that.
But It would also violate causality And render the reply button below irrelevant:
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Like what, specifically? ICS is great, but it's mostly improvements under the hood and window dressing--things that in the grand scheme of things really don't matter. 99% of the things that frustrate me about my Android phone are hardware-related (too little RAM, slow camera, TPM) and no software update can solve those. Yeah, the browser and calendar are improved.
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I have less than a year old (when I bought it) Android device. Running 2.2. It's not Android's fault (perhaps slightly), it's device manufacturers fault. And many of them suck in this.
Right, I wonder if the Thunderbolt isn't going to replace the expansion cards in the future. As long as latency is as low there is no other reason I can think of to maintain expansion card chassis, and thus discontinue the Mac Pros for the Minis.
I'm not saying that we've seen the last word in mobile operating systems, but neither iOS nor Android have made any fundamental UX changes in the last few major updates.
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The FSF publishes new revisions (see: GPLv3). Some projects are released strictly under GPLv2 (e.g. Linux), but it's more usual to release software under "... or, at your option, any later version published by the Free Software Foundation".
Weirdly, I both care tremendously about gender equality, and also think this is much ado about nothing. I guess the issue is my libertine nature, and refusal to assume that anything with sexual overtones is innately hostile, offensive, insulting, etc.

One of the co-founders at Fogbeam Labs is a woman, so this is not empty rhetoric on my part. I respect women tremendously, and would not have invited this woman to join the team if I didn't have tremendous respect for her technical chops, intelligence, etc. But I don't buy into this PC crap of assuming that taking the team to Hooters for lunch is somehow equivalent to sexual harassment or "creating a hostile work environment."

Now, I'll grant that in some cases there may be a correlation between a team that chooses to eat at Hooters (or strip clubs or whatever) and a team that is made up of guys who only see women as sexual objects, and who might be prone to acting in uncool ways. But I don't believe in throwing the baby out with the bathwater... deal with these things on a case-by-case basis, focusing on the specifics, instead of making wild generalizations, IMO.

Anyway, I believe in celebrating human sexuality and wish that more people (male and female) could quit being so damn defensive about the fact that men like women and women like men.

And please don't take any of this as excusing examples like the ones cited in the article, where a male co-worker physically assaulted a female co-worker; or cases where repeated sexual overtures are made after the initiator has been asked to stop, etc. Sex is good, sexual harassment is bad. Let's just not assume that the two are equivalent, or that one should never mix business and pleasure.
The issue doesn't have much to do with gender, really.

Firstly, one need not be male in order to be happy going to a place like Twin Peaks. The only time I've been to Hooters, I was dragged there by a bunch of chicks.

Secondly, one need not be female in order to be unhappy going to a place like Twin Peaks. Older, more respectable-looking men, men with daughters who would be round about the right age to be waitresses there, or extremely religious men, would feel uncomfortable there.

Thirdly, this isn't the only kind of company outing that can make people feel uncomfortable. Going to a steak-only restaurant can make vegetarians uncomfortable; on the other hand going to a vegetarian restaurant will make the omnivores uncomfortable.

Anyway, the point of the story is to organize your company outings, if you must have them, at someplace everyone will enjoy. Which, as far as advice goes, falls into the category "bloody obvious". No need to stick your genitals into it.
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