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According to the article they're using drones to look for him. I would be extremely surprised if they were to attack him with one. In any case, Obama does not have, or claim the authority to take him down with a drone; his actions against terrorists elsewhere are based on the Authorization for Use of Military Force, which is explicitly limited to members of the organization involved in the 9/11/2001 attacks.
I've had my online alias as rm2kdev since i was 13 back in the y2k. Its just stuck with me all these years :)
It is true. And the trend has been obvious for longer than most people realize.

Go read chapter 9 of The Innovator's Dilemma, first published in 2000. This chapter is based on an analysis he did of electric cars. Given the rate of battery improvement he thought that a mass market affordable electric car would be viable for the mass market somewhere around 2020.

At current trends, that's not too far off from when Tesla can be expected to try to make a mass market electric car aimed at ordinary people.
fair enough ;)
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No it isn't, and you're mistaken. Go read the White Paper in which the legal reasoning is laid out; Dorner would not fall within the scope of the AUMF.
Let's just remember Apple has cloned others' ideas. Mouse. mp3 player. keyboard on macbook pro (originally on sony laptops). FaceTime? Done Asia/Europe for a few years before Apple came out with FaceTime. The way Apple was advertising it, it seemed as if Apple had invented it...

And please, rounded corners on electronic gadgets?

Lastly, the magnetic connector on macbook laptops? Many many years ago I bought a hot water pot (japanese model) that had with magnetic power connector. It was sold many years before macbook pro came out with the magnetic connectors.
Ah. Oops. Yes, a surprising amount of stuff in universities is de facto open to anyone who is interested.

But people who aren't at universities usually do not realize this.
Wow, can you imagine if that was REAL? Some of those speeds looked like they would just turn you to mush.
Just be careful about scope when you say "refine every part with the same approach" or you'll end up with TextMate 2.
Lots of people are convicted based on circumstantial evidence. DNA evidence always turns up in movies and TV shows, but in the real world it's seldom available. For example, if you shoot someone from fifty feet away, none of his DNA will get on you, or vice versa. If you wear gloves, none of your DNA will get on the gun (assuming that the gun is ever found).

What's even worse is that lots of people have been convicted of serious crimes even though DNA evidence existed that could have proved them innocent (by proving someone else committed the crime). There's even an organization called The Innocence Project[1] that's devoted to exonerating wrongly convicted people. But even the handful of people who are lucky enough to be exonerated sometimes spend decades in jail before their convictions are overturned, and some people have been proven innocent after having been executed. And the worst thing is that some courts will refuse to reopen cases even when convincing evidence of innocence has been produced; they'd rather let innocent people rot in jail than suffer the embarrassment of having made a serious error.

Also, the story says the defendant was "broke", which means that he was probably represented by an overworked public defender rather than a hot-shot lawyer.

[1] http://www.innocenceproject.org
No problem. Thank you for fixing it.

It's ironic because I was just about to go try writing a news reader. I actually found the validator while reading the RSS 2.0 spec.
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Yeah -- It's definitely by design.

It's also by design that milk and bread are in the back corners of the store.

But, ecommerce makes this disdain for the shopper unsustainable. 10 years ago, if you're store sucks, you don't really have a choice. Now, if you're store sucks ... well I can buy a majority of the stuff I need through Amazon, Diapers.com, etc.

So, could HelpPing be a timing play? Helping change stores right when they need to change ... so that they can survive to 2020?

This sounds too theoretical even as I type it
It's a little off-topic, but your chances of getting out from under $100k of debt as a musician are not that good. That's a big barrier for a lot of people.
Yeah, the moment we realized what was going on, it was like one of those horror stories you tell as a kid: "...the call was coming from INSIDE THE HOUSE."

The only way an attacker could have come across this URL would be if they had access to our codebase specifically - the string in the "extra_log" param was hardcoded in the PHP endpoint. It didn't even occur to me that they might have placed it there. Only when someone pointed out that this param was actually md5("october") did we start to wonder if it might be a drill.
This is the best-timed monday morning coding surprise Ive had for ages. I was just about to start looking for an angular calendar. Many thanks!
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> explicitly limited to members of the organization involved in the 9/11/2001 attacks.

that has not been true for a long time.
It's funny. All the things you mentioned (even disposal!) are essentially a function of pack architecture. Elon Musk has consistently stated that Tesla is a hardcore engineering and technology company, with the R&D subject being... pack architecture. Just look at their patents: http://www.faqs.org/patents/assignee/tesla-motors-inc/

Tesla Motor's solutions to these problems has been:

* Many small cells. Small cells are easier to cool and you get tighter temperature uniformity.

* Active temperature control. Energy is cheap compared to the capital cost of the cells. Active temperature management earns back its own range penalty. It enables the widest choice of cell chemistry.

* Physically isolate the cells to prevent cascading failures.

* Robust battery box rigidizes the vehicle's frame.

* "Skateboard" architecture not unlike GM's Autonomy concept / Hy-Wire prototype (except no fuel cells). You get a low center-of-gravity, battery swap capability, and an aerodynamic belly for free. Pack is easy to access using a standard vehicle lift. Compatible with novel business models, like "buy the car, lease the battery".

* Fine-granularity diagnostics and charge/discharge control. Improves pack reliability, longevity, and performance.
it isn't. Most people seeing the title, myself included, about the drone used (falsely) assumed it was armed.

It's being used to look for a guy in a mountainous area.
Sometimes even the smartest and most expensive engineers fail to find things 14 year old kids in their poster-laden bedrooms seem to be able to find these days... Google, Facebook and other tech companies seem to see the value in having a bounty program for security issues and bugs as well and by the looks of it, Dotcom is offering the same reward amounts as Google and Facebook are offering, so I guess by your logic Google and Facebook (two companies with larger amounts of money and smart engineering hires) are ripping people off as well? You are forgetting that Dotcom has to hire competent engineers to fix the reported issues, I doubt a lot of people finding the bugs and vulnerabilities are providing code samples and fixes to Dotcom. They're merely finding the holes and it's up to Mega to get their team of engineers to fix the issues.
Article speculates on alternate crime theory without describing most of the evidence that was used to convict him. Seems like this applies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridges_law_of_headlines
No, they don't serve the same purpose that market markers and specialists do. MM and Specialists serve to stabilize the markets and are obligated to create and maintain orderly markets.

HFT have no such obligation, so they can create liquidity and remove it whenever they want. They caused the Flash Crash in 2010 by removing a large amount of liquidity when the markets needed it the most.

If HFT were forced to maintain liquidity like real market makers and specialists, then I would have no qualms with them. But they want to have their cake and eat it too, they say they provide liquidity but only when it's convenient for them, and that is the part that is total BS.
One of the major observations about transport is that it's a "build it and they will come" sort of thing. Creating efficient transport links can create demand for travel (just as how if you build more roads, people drive more).

GDP is a better thing to look at then current demand because it gives you an idea of the economic capacity of the region to create demand for travel, on the presumption that demand for travel is intrinsically roughly proportional to economic activity. It's a counter-point to the common refrain that American cities are insufficiently dense and near to support high speed rail. If I can get a high speed train from Frankfurt (GDP: $220 billion) to Paris (GDP: $560 billion), distance 460 miles, why can't I get a high speed train from Detroit (GDP: $250 billion) to Chicago (GDP: $570 billion), distance 280 miles? Why would the demand for travel between the latter pair of cities be intrinsically lower than the demand for travel between the former pair?

The larger point is that while the U.S. may be too big to support HSR criss-crossing from NYC to LA or Atlanta to Seattle, it is divided into several mega-regions, each of which have economic density not that different from that of European countries.

Boston-NYC-PHL-DC, Vancouver-Seattle-Portland, Detroit-Chicago-Minneapolis, Birmingham-Atlanta-Raleigh, even Houston-Dallas-Oklahoma City all link population centers that are roughly the same size and same distance apart as major European cities.
I got embarrassingly far into that video before I realized what was going on.
Yet the conflict between "It's the trip, not the destination" and the fact that your salary arrives at the end of the month can cause much grief when not balanced in the mid term.
The above statement you're responding to is clearly a statement that islam itself is horrible, and muslims suffer for it. This is not a racist statement for obvious reasons.

Anyone's opinion on the system of islam, no matter how horrible or even disgusting they find it, does not constitute a racist opinion, obviously. Claiming that islam itself is the main reason for the current state of muslim countries is merely stating the obvious, and is no more racist a statement than that communism seems to have failed.

As somebody who's studied law, let me just say that I fully agree that islam is a horrible system. Islam itself, imho, also fits any reasonable definition of racism due to (amongst other things) the laws that openly discriminate based on skin color, religion, and sex. And it's a law system that was rightfully considered archaic in the dark ages, when it was created. It is stupid for giving power of life and death to people who are loosely specified and giving blanket reasons for "the state" to kill people (google "3 reasons to kill a muslim", "dhimma", "women testify islam" for a basic introduction to these issues).

Aside from that, the central figure of islam, the "prophet" is a paedophile, a thief, a mass-murderer, a rapist, a slave-trader, someone who kidnapped innocents into slavery, torturer, and plenty worse. That's the figure islamic "holy" texts describe.
And it's the jury that gets to decide whether there's reasonable doubt, so the standard is extremely variable.
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I enjoyed it, though some of the rides were a little far fetched :)

The CGI was mostly believable, and the acting was not bad.
The victims of US executions are not required to be covered under AUMF: "the Department does not believe that US citizenship would immunize a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida or its associated forces from use of force abroad authorized by the AUMF or in national self-defense". So, the "or in national self-defense" clause would apply here. And also a careful reading reveals that nothing hinges on it being Al Qaida specifically. Attacking US law enforcement would easily be reason. And none of this requires due process so this whole argument is moot anyhow.
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Agreed. But I think the guy is silly, I would not take him seriously. But when one of my friends, and he is not an exception (just a good writer), wrote an excellent article on the topic, unfortunately in Arabic [1], and the Google Translate version is incomprehensible, you can a better sense of what the very strong opposition to the new regime and this attitude of theirs.

In short, his thesis: my Muslim brothers and sisters, we are nothing. I am not going waste time talking more about it more than has already been repeated countless times, but suppose we wake up and all the Muslims are gone. Will scientific research stop? Will any technology and medicine production cease? Will anyone miss Muslim society as a whole for its contributions back? No. And that is what we should worry about.

Ironically, he wrote this editorial months ago in reaction to the same video that got YouTube banned very recently. I show this as to not kid the people who come here into thinking Egyptians want censorship and cannot handle the though of someone offending them (this article mocks this viewpoint at length), it is just you must realize English is not the native language (only the ruling elite) or this is huge intellectual movement against most of these things. Unlike the ruling party and more conservative elements, they are focused internally and not externally to work on their image. Take it as you want.

[1] http://tahrirnews.com/columns/view.aspx?cdate=19092012&i...
The article doesn't do this persuasively.

I'v seen the process, and I know of what the process is in one of the Big Firms. There is almost always someone above you to check your work, because the drudgery and pain of a model is farmed of to an analyst. The associate/seniors take a look at the work, and finally there is almost always a sanity check which is not trivial.

All of the major finance firms have lots of people who've burnt their fingers with excel mistakes.

They know that their analysts and their associates can and will break something. (Heck the analysts do so regularly, I'm sure there are several analysts freaking out over REF errors right now)

The London Whale wasn't just because mistakes in excel. There were several things that broke here.

The assumption that the users are unsohpisticated in the use of excel is a bit naiive. If anything, the most arcane applications and commands of excel will likely be best known in the major banking firms.
Why does it have to take 40 hours of your life every week? Why not less?
It looks like he was already a target for an ATM camera. Someone needs to explain to gizmodo that IR optics do not kill people.
Clearly, only the top brass in the Kremlin could ever get their hands on them. ;)
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Just a quick tip for those of you who are on a browser or OS that doesn't make it easy to see highlighted text. e.g. Chrome on OSX

Paste this in your console. It makes every text black.

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Or make it a bookmark...

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Screen has it’s use too though. Install it on the servers you connect to. Then you can take advantage of session durability...

Which tmux also has (tmux detach / tmux attach).

...and sharing...

Which tmux can also do, arguably better, because it doesn't require a setuid binary.

If you need to create multiple console windows inside that server connection, then Screen allows you do to that as well.

Which tmux also allows.

Having said all that, like the author I also use tmux locally and screen remotely, but this is more a function of the relative newness of tmux, and ubiquity of screen than of any extra capabilities of screen.
"The slower adaptation to new processes and ideas is a good thing as it means that these new processes are going to be specced correctly and hopefully tested to some degree"

I disagree. Most businesses need more agility and experimentation, not less. There is a huge spectrum of businesses. It would be ridiculous to say to a startup that you need to experiment less and put safeguards to a place, so that you don't make huge losses of revenue. There are lot of traditional businesses in which downside can be guarded easily (retail, many sales organizations) but finding better ways to run the machine can give significant edge.

Most ERPs and Excel-sheet apps don't model automatic stock trading, and don't move billions of dollars without safeguards in place. Rather, they model and assist in existing human processes and the sad fact is that the ERP software is the stumbling point for rapid experimentation.

That is why Excel is so popular.
It's common in engineering. I like it because it makes matching parenthesis much easier.
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I second this. The gift you have is the drive and passion to learn by your self and explore. Let it go free and you'll become an expert. Soon or later you'll be able to turn this knowledge to profit for you and the collectivity.

Our education system is broken in that we don't recognize and develop the skill you have. People are somehow forced to do things they don't feel like being doing.

My impression is that it's ADD. But It's sad ADD is called a disorder, because these people have the remarkable ability to be extremely efficient and concentrated in what they like and are interested into, well above the average. These people could be experts and genius in their field, provided they could develop their skill.
"Since we're discussing the impact of revealing secrets to the public as a whole."

No, you were discussing that. Military plans are irrelevant to the public as a whole. They are only actionable by the opposing military.

The case discussed that originated this three posts up was about use of Wikileaks as a vector to reveal US/Israeli military secrets to the Iranian government. The idea was never to get US military secrets to Old Farmer Sassan from Onion Village in Iran. What on earth would he do with them?

"Somebody is all you need to release secret information to everybody."

No, a whistleblower is what you need to release secret information. The difference being that the whistlebower is someone who doesn't want the secrets kept, because he/she has decided that the secret keepers (the whistleblower's own side) are the criminals. Someone like Bradley Manning. Or Wilhelm Canaris. Who on the Allied side wanted to reveal Allied war secrets? This is your flimsy argument against empowering whistleblowers?

"the failure of the German forces to abandon Pas de Calais was decisive to the operation."

You seem to get all your history from Action Man books

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF...

Do you have any idea of what a fiasco World War Two was?
If there had been a Wikileaks leaking government secrets to EVERYBODY (gasp!) in 1940, I'm certain World War Two would have been smaller, because Japan and the USA would not have gotten involved. The American public would not have tolerated it.

And maybe Britain might not have starved those 7 million Indian people by diverting their food to the British Army.
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I disagree; the word "abroad" above implies this justification only holds off of U.S. soil. "National self-defense," further, implies a national security threat, which one fugitive clearly is not. He is also not a member of al-Qa'ida, and I that language seems specific to that organization.

I agree with your point about due process; it does not take a presidential order to kill an alleged cop-killer; cops kill suspects all the time in the name of self defense or danger to others.
They always have checks and balances, and you are quite right in wondering about it.

Take the usual life cycle of a young financial analyst in one of these firms (not even doing quant stuff)

He makes model, it is sent to his superior who checks it and tells him the out put is wrong, the PE ratios he has calculated for the firm are through the roof, at something liek 18x while the rest of the industry is always at around 3x. (numbers are fictional).

Check your numbers.

Further, the lowly analyst has also made a million errors in even reaching this stage - from incorrect formatting, to incorrect formulas, incorrect linking, to the dreaded ref error.

They do this stuff constantly, and the ones who can do it in their sleep and not die of exhaustion to the brutal hours are the ones who get through to the next level.

People have their fingers burnt regularly, and every day. Bad models still manage to slip through, but are more often than not, caught, or handled.

So people in the industry are frightened witless that something like a bad model may escape into being published.

It took several sequences of failure for the whale to amass the positions he did, and it is an uncommon sequence. Which is why its such a failure on the industry's part.
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