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This post doesn't actually say anything. It says that DNSSEC amplification is a known attack --- nobody is suggesting Bernstein "invented it" --- and that there are other amplification vectors besides DNSSEC. The latter point would be compelling if those vectors were as powerful as DNSSEC, but they aren't.

The notion that the problem is "actually open redirectors" (nameservers configured to answer queries from arbitrary points on the Internet) is indicative of the weird reasoning that the IETF DNS people have used all throughout the DNSSEC process. Open redirectors means DNSSEC is a viable mechanism to get ISPs to flood random sites off the Internet? Just mandate that ISPs not run DNSSEC that way! Secret DNS names mean that verified negative answers in the DNSSEC protocol will breach confidentiality? Just mandate that nobody have secret DNS names!

Daniel J. Bernstein did a much more convincing takedown of dakami's reasoning in a talk at 27C3; I'm not going to recap it. I'd just say Daniel J. Bernstein has earned the authority he speaks with regarding DNS security; the vulnerability dakami is famous for discovering is one that djbdns --- released many years before that vulnerability was disclosed --- was designed in part to address. Obviously (if you've ever installed djbdns), Bernstein did a good job of handling the open redirector problem as well.

Kaminsky got on the wrong side of this issue, which is ironic, because he's put a lot more time into practical DNS security than the people he's arguing on behalf of.
The UK Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999 [1] are reasonably good in this regard IMO. It gives effect to an EU directive, so most/all EU countries should have similar protection.

Summary of major provisions:

> s.8(1) - An unfair term in a contract concluded with a consumer by a seller or supplier shall not be binding on the consumer.

> s.5(1) - A contractual term which has not been individually negotiated shall be regarded as unfair if, contrary to the requirement of good faith, it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations arising under the contract, to the detriment of the consumer.

> s.7(1) and s.7(2) - A written term must be in plain intelligible language. Any doubt is resolved in the customer's favour.

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/2083/contents/made
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" the transaction value is $4.05 billion, with Disney paying approximately half of the consideration in cash and issuing approximately 40 million shares at closing."

Half of it is cash, that is $2.025B. Represents an a pretty healthy chunk of cash on top of the $2B in Disney stock. It will be interesting to see what he does next.
I've never had problems in Osaka.

Though the mamasans and bar girls in WanChai in Hong Kong can be quite aggressive. Leave a hand for them to grab and you'll be yanked into the bar very quickly!!
This looks like a good excuse to pick up Lua.
A couple of reasons I switched to entirely REST-based apps:

In case you want to provide an API to other users who aren't going to be making native Django calls.

In case your app is going to be based on Backbone (which maps models endpoints to REST endpoints, to oversimplify things.)

In case you need to consume your app from a mobile app, or external site, or whatever.

In case you want to surface your data in any way without having to give read/write access to the database directly -- you can implement REST and API Token authentication that maps to users so that they can read and write to the data that they have access to, but no more.
They're making a sequel trilogy - that's pretty big news in itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sequel_trilogy
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Funny, my use is very similar to yours, just with a different software stack. I use Firefox bookmarks for frequently visited pages, Pocket for read-it-later articles and Pinboard for (tagged) future reference.
Just some friendly feedback that I found it hard to discover what this service is all about. I hit the index page to get an overview, but it took clicking through to the Real Estate and Mobile sections to piece it together - I would normally not do that, but I was extra curious in this case. I think you might want to make some of the overview/intro content available on the index page.

Also the FAQ has a very prominent "How does HelloSign work?", but doesn't seem to answer that question. (ie: "HelloSign lets you upload your signature and quickly apply it to documents", or whatever it actually is)
I wish they would release the architecture reference manual to the public... all we have is the instruction set right now. Not enough to do bare metal/os work.
In addition to native Django ORM calls (to whatever DB you're using), we've also used tastypie to surface MongoDB and SOLR search results to REST endpoints.

Edit: I should mention that both were pretty painstaking the first go-around, but mostly due to my ignorance of the platform. I am thankful to know some more seasoned Tastypie users, so getting answers was pretty easy, and the Google Group is really good for Tastypie as well.
Maybe now we'll see a BluRay version of ANH where Han shoots first...
This pricing is not out of line in the least if you're treating this as a real business. Hourly wages would probably be in the $12-18 range. With 2 cleaners per job, that looks like an acceptable margin while also providing for all the normal overhead. Certainly a different approach from PathJoy.
The concept is very good...it's nice to have a one-stop shop - so to speak - for info on a certain topic. My two cents so far:

1. The neutral colors is a good thing...I think it gives the site a minimalistic as well as non-pro/non-con feel. Great job there :)

2. The Logbook page (and basically any other page needing to display lots of text-heavy content): perhaps opting for a layout style that enables people to scroll less while viewing more content? Something like jQuery Masonry combined, perhaps, with Twitter-style page scrolling?

Those two points are what I have to share now...if I have anything else I'll mention it
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From my basic understanding of Android it could just use an intent to at least pre-fill some forms with it.
You can make a chat a separate window that is adjustable if you want. Just click on the pop out (arrow going up and to the right) button on the upper right of any chat window.

After watching my Mom use the computer, I understand why Google doesn't create a new window my default. She can't switch between windows in her normal workflow (she can't remember where they went or the keyboard shortcuts to switch between windows). It's not as if she's new to computers - she has been using a PC since the 80s when she used Autocad to draft. She just doesn't really understand how to use multiple windows in a workflow and doesn't want to remember keyboard shortcuts.

I think is an important rule in design - are you building something you can use, or something that your mom can? More people are in the latter camp, and if you can design something simple enough for your mom, it probably is useable by people like you.
It solves a few problems like serialisation and enabling browsable APIs which makes it easier to both develop APIs and let others consume them.
For me, the second part is more important than the first.
What about a Pixar animated Star Wars movie?
Can someone provide or point to a layman's definition of "realism" in quantum mechanics?

Recently on a call-in podcast I listen to, a caller has claimed that the following article shows that a) realism has been disproven and b) that proves we are all in a computer simulation:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2007/apr/20/quantum...

>Now physicists from Austria claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not exist when we are not observing it

Sure. Anyway, I'm certain this guy is equivocating, but I don't even know where to read up on the relevant topics. And I read articles like these and they keep using the word realism without defining it.
A nice bit of irony, coming from you.
> I’ve always believed that Star Wars could live beyond me, and I thought it was important to set up the transition during my lifetime.

This is effectively Lucas' slow decent into retirement; he's not actively directing Episode 7 but instead consulting. Say what you want about the movies and franchises, ILM and Skywalker Sound are gold standards created by a tech visionary.
According the Wikipedia entry, that was abandoned.

Edit: The press release says it's scheduled for 2015! I totally missed that.
You'll get nothing and like it.
I feel a great disturbance in the force, as if... Sigh. I can't even make the joke. I fear the Jarjification of all I held dear as a child. Sad panda.
But that still says Oct 30th, so it hasn't been updated
I was about to come on here and post this same thing.

The worst part is the font. Almost unreadable using Chrome/Win7 (Their own browser!).
> Am I right in saying that Disney's movie division is headed/managed by the Pixar guys?

Sort of. John Lasseter is head of creative at both Pixar and Disney Animation. I think Disney may have other movie divisions.
Wow, got gooseflesh on reading this news.
i get goosebumps just thinking of it
Normally I'd agree but I came in here to post this same thing as the page is almost unreadable for me in Chrome.
Correct if I'm wrong, but I think that Many Worlds Interpetation does not explain a thing.
It's like religion - one can think it's possible, other - impossible. But it can't be proved or disproved
Sorry Siri... You've got a new big brother in my opinion.
I'm fairly entrenched with Tastypie at the moment, but I've always been jealous of REST Framework's "document at the endpoint" setup.

Can I ask how you're determining whether or not the client is making an API call vs visiting the page directly? It'd be great to be able to supply Document templates that surface like REST Framework does, but I can't make out whether you're checking the client, the action, the protocol or something altogether different.
Disney paid $4B for Lucasfilm.

Six years ago, they paid $7B for Pixar.[1]

Pixar used to be a subsidiary of Lucasfilm.

This means that John Lasseter is now going to have control of all of the assets that allowed him to get into making movies in the first place.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixar#Acquisition_by_Disney
I'm starting to believe that we confuse the mathematics of quantum mechanics with being the actual underlining physical phenomena, to the point where we start to believe that "wave function collapse" are real, rather than just a way of looking at something via probabilities; or being the models, or abstractions, or the artifacts of the maths involved.
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Disney buys Lucasfilm, plans to release Star Wars Episode 7 in 2015
1. Get off my lawn

2. Die in a Fire
Well. You can't use a browse-wrap contract to enforce a binding arbitration clause to strip your customers of the right to avail themselves of civil courts. That doesn't mean every other term of a browse-wrap TOS would necessarily fail in court. It is particularly difficult to compel arbitration in consumer relationships; its doable, but clauses that seek to compel arbitrary have to meet a higher standard than some other contract terms do.
Nobody seems to like my theory that the programmers of the simulation we're all living in were deferring procedurally generating that level of detail until it was necessary because we'd actually examined it closely.

They're probably still cursing our Hubble telescope, not to mention computers with their decreasing semiconductor scales.

This comment probably just triggered their simulation-awareness detector. :-)

Actually, I think there's a silly but fascinating SciFi short story waiting to be written about assembling a group of people to try to privilege-escalate out of the simulation without triggering the simulation-awareness detectors. "I need you to think about this, but not all at the same time, or in the same place. Oh, and try to think about it only in vague terms."
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There are two reasons why this won't work.

The first is that the fluid will draw a vacuum at the top of the pump. A vacuum on earth can only sustain 14psi - atmospheric pressure. For water, this constitutes a 33.9' column - after that you could draw a perfect vacuum at the top of the pipe and wouldn't the water to rise higher. Since diesel is less dense than water you might go a little higher, but probably not much.

The second problem is that as you create a low-pressure zone at the top of the pipe, the fluid will boil (cavitate). This gasified liquid will fill the space and drop your pressure. Oils like diesel should have a significantly higher boiling point (aka lower boiling pressure) than water, but it's still a limit.
Keeps Apple out, too.
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It's a bold step to say that it's bad for people to cheapen their life experiences. While I personally agree with the author, other people choose to live their life in a way that is meaningful to them, in their own ways. Who am I to say their facebook, foursquare, twitter, etc. interactions are meaningless and without value? These are subjective measurements. The real question is: are people getting value out of these interactions because they are told to get value out of them, and if so, is it done disingenuously? Case in point, a gambling company (or certain gaming companies starting with the letter Z... I kid, I kid) tend to focus on the compulsive nature of humans in a predatory way. This is where true marketing responsibility comes into play: am I creating a system of measurably-destructive behavior in my users? You can measure the detrimental impact of a user's addition, you cannot measure the meaningfulness of a tweet to it's tweeter.
I just got a group leader position in the UK (currently a postdoc in the bayarea) and I am paying some attention to these experiments in crowdfunding for academic projects. In almost all group leader or faculty position, the research budget is covered by applying for grants. These are very competitive with typical rejection rates of 90%. This is an interesting alternative but there are many caveats. As someone has already noted in one of the comments, you would typically need to write a scientifically grounded proposal. One fear of crowdsourcing for science would be that many "unreasonable" or pseudo-science projects might attract funding if they are popular. This is slightly less of a concern with for-profit projects since popularity needed for the crowdsourcing might be correlated with financial success. The same is not true at all for academic success. The other issue that has already been hinted at is that the required funds are probably too high. A good grant might bring in on the order of 1 million so is it worth more fighting to improve your social networking and fundraising skills or getting more grants submitted ?
A 15% framerate increase from 3 weeks of work isn't particularly impressive. It would be more meaningful if the measurement was in terms of frametime (i.e. elapsed time per frame) since framerate is not linear.

From looking at the patch (nice of them to provide it), it seems like most of the changes are putting mutexes around things to guard against simultaneous access and then parallelizing some loops. It seems to me like anyone with basic knowledge of the game's codebase could have made these changes without any support from a tool like the one they're trying to sell, and probably done it in far less than 3 weeks. If your goal is to run a piece of code in parallel, you don't need a program to walk through that code and identify all the shared state it manipulates (and then go through and make sure that state has a mutex guard). If the software they're trying to sell did that for you, now that would be nice. It seems unlikely that you could automatically modify C++ source code without a lot of constraints, though.

Software to aid authoring parallel C++, or detect places where you can safely parallelize existing code, would certainly be valuable but this is a pretty poor demonstration of any actual advantages offered by their software.

EDIT: From watching the included demo video, the game is running well below 60fps which suggests that they're running it on a low end graphics card (or generally low-clocked machine) to improve the gains from their optimizations. I don't think their results are necessarily real-world as a result of this - someone playing Doom 3 on an actual gaming rig would probably not see a 15% framerate increase because their framerate would already be well above 60fps (framerate is nonlinear, as I mentioned above).
Let's not forget they paid that 7 billion in 2006. I can almost see this as Disney trying to replace the eye for talent and negotiating power they lost in Steve Jobs' passing, along with an amazing IP acquisition.

Edit: Thought of better terms than "creative force".
What percentage would you estimate as the normal overhead for something like this? What would an acceptable margin be? They have $3.3M in investment funding, so it seems like the margin would not need to be very high at the start (if they're going for growth).
Therefore, it should be noted that they directly, or via tacit gatekeeping, have a huge amount of influence on our public dialog and cultural messaging.
The 100% ownership is literal. From the press release: "The agreement has been approved by the sole shareholder of Lucasfilm."
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Lets say you have some experiment which gives you a 1 or a 0, and you have two entangled particles which will give the same result depsite the result being random and the measurements being taken outside each other's lightcones. In Collapse QM there was some instantanious communication making that possible.

In Many Worlds you'd find that for each measurement the wavefunction split into two branches, one corresponding to 1 and one to 0, in each location. From the sites of both measurements the decoherence spreads outwards as particle interactions happen, and when they finally touch the two 1 segments and the two 0 segments merge, and there is one area split along 1/0 in the wave function instead of two.

That's all horribly simplified, but should get the idea across.
George lucas sells Pixar to Jobs. He sells it to Disney and becomes largest single shareholder. Jobs fam now owns a part of Lucasfilm. Crazy.
How does it do that? Disney has had a reasonably friendly relationship with Apple due to Steve's presence on both boards. Now that he's gone that might weaken, but he had a long time to win hearts and minds over there.
"(...) still get killed (...)" I presume? :)

Nothing particular yet, just assessing the possibilities.

Also, would it be possible to somehow easily download the scripts? In the Terms, you state: "customer is solely responsible for backing up customer's application and customer content." It should be easy to download content from the `storage` object, but how about the code?

Also, it seems I can choose any subdomain for any script, so subdomains are not tied to user by design?

What is the meaning of the following sentence in Terms and Conditions: "Customer has, in the case of Content that includes computer code, accurately categorized and/or described the type, nature, uses and effects of the materials, whether requested to do so by Planet Rational or otherwise." Described/categorized where, to whom, in what categories? What materials?
Try to start with the first book in the series - Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms by Donald E. Knuth
How can they make their regular service work for $25/hour then?
Those are absolutely a bug. They probably screwed up and didn't put mutexes around every piece of shared state.
Or, we could simply not do DNSSEC. DNSSEC + many tens of millions of dollars of open redirector cleanup work is not an inherently better solution than simply not doing DNSSEC.
Good. I wonder if this also addresses the problem when you are replying to a long chain of email conversation, the compose box includes the entire chain while also displaying the chain above the compose box. Very unpleasant.
I suppose that, in theory, he could have given away non-voting shares to some of his employees over time. But then I would have expected the press release to specify that he was the sole voting shareholder, rather than "the sole shareholder."
People still drink macro-brews, and expect them to taste good? Come on.
Hopefully he invests in immortality research. The trend of billionaires dying without even trying to engineer a solution is retarded.

He should start with focus ultrasound. It allows to grow/shrink any part of the body and so essentially reach immortality.
So looking at the patch:

1. The allocator was a bottleneck; wonder if tcmalloc would have done better?

2. Computing what to draw? (idInteraction) was reduced to a for-loop and parallelized

3. ... lots more pre-rendering stuff ...

Unfortunately they didn't annotate the patch with the size of the win for any given change, or write up an analysis on what the changes were (I'm unfamiliar with idTech, too).

If they got the biggest win from improving the allocator, well, that's not very interesting. If they got the biggest win from the other stuff, and the tool told them what was safe to parallelize then that's much more interesting.

Actually, the whole thing would be better if the write up explained how they used the tool and what it did and how much improvement they got at each step...
Wow...I can't remember being this blown away by a search development since...I don't know when (being able to Google mathematical formulas is pretty amazing, but not as everyday-useful)...

I asked both Google and Siri, “How much damage did Hurricane Sandy do?”

Google heard it as “How much damage did Hurricane Sandy too?” and returned with official Hurricane Sandy emergency info and latest news stories literally as I stopped talking.

Siri took nearly five seconds to register my question as “How much damage did hurricane you do” and responded with hockey league standings for the Hurricanes team.

And the execution of Google's product is more stylish than Apple's...given Google's lead in collecting voice data, nevermind their lead in search technology and algorithms...how can Apple hope to even compete in voice search except by forcing Siri on iOS users?

*edit: Here's a screenshot comparison:
http://danwin.com/words/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/google-vs...
I didn't know there was an episode 7 in the works...
Wonder if they'll get a seasoned director for Star Wars 7, or if they'll go with a controllable newcomer like Sony did with Amazing Spider Man.
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Because that momentum transfer is mediated by a fundamental force, typically the electromagnetic force. Entanglement is a property of the particle, and is not mediated by a force: the collapse of the wavefunction of one particle doesn't /cause/ the collapse of the other, rather they both collapse simultaneously.
Came for the dismissive hand-waving that I fully expected to be the top comment and I wasn't disappointed.

What's the improvement factor where you'd be impressed? 50%? 60%? It's remarkable in my opinion how little work it took to improve upon an already very-optimized engine, in the constraints that they set for the developer, by a developer who's never worked with game engines in his career.

Edit: No longer the top comment; it was when I commented.
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They just announced it as part of the acquisition as per my comment below
It's buried in the press release. Episode 7 in 2015.