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This is off the top of my head so maybe somebody will correct me, but:

Persona is a login system that cares about your privacy. With social login systems, the website you are logging into contacts the social login provider (Facebook/Google+/Twitter/what-have-you) when you attempt to log in. So you end up leaving a trail of breadcrumbs behind you of every site you visited (and used a social login on). Further, many people are not comfortable giving sites access to their social accounts because of privacy concerns.

With Persona, the idea is that your identity provider (can be your email provider, persona.org , or someone else) will have a key publicly available on their site. Your browser would generate a certificate that can be verified against that key. However, since the same key from the provider is used to authenticate all accounts on that provider, all the provider finds out when a website contacts it for the key is that someone is trying to log into said website. Plus, the website could cache the certificate and now the provider does not know this either.

There is more to this so you're probably better off reading one of the other links.
Many bitcoins have been lost permanently or are in cold storage. Only a small percentage are available on exchanges.
"sign in with persona" may be confusing now but "sign in with your e-mail" it's pretty clear
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/persona/branding
With MtGox you can also make cash deposits at any local Chase Bank branch. MtGox has extremely easy to follow instructions for this on the 'funding' page in your account. This may only be available to verified users, I am not sure.
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Should we perhaps have sent the request through anonymized pidgeon? When you send an e-mail to someone you can find out quite a lot of information from headers, from a nick or a given name.

When contacting ISPs some people attach contact information so that the ISP can request more information, maybe even make a call to verify identity and discuss the matter to help resolve it.

This doesn't mean that the information is intended for the abuser himself. I'd expect the ISP to send anonymized information/questions to the owner of said service, and not just forward "everything" (especially without discussion with the reporting party).

Reporting DDoS and abusers risks putting a huge target on yourself, your company, your servers, etc.

That is what the issue is about.
There's a lot of special rules here, though. "Effective Javascript", in the the objects chapter is the best guide I've read to understanding JS objects. A quick tip is to implement lightweight dictionaries as literal objects to avoid prototype pollution.
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Er... "they" have also published the full source code involved (at https://github.com/mozilla/browserid ) and a privacy policy at http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/privacy-policy/ that you can compare to said source code as desired, if you're using Mozilla's identity provider.

As far as the architecture of the overall thing, there are also http://identity.mozilla.com/post/7899984443/privacy-and-brow... and http://identity.mozilla.com/post/11145921163/browserid-desig... and a technical specification at https://github.com/mozilla/id-specs/blob/prod/browserid/inde... that describes the exact data flow involved.

And if you read those, it should become pretty clear _why_ this is better for privacy than the FB or Google login systems. For one thing, the identity provider is never told that you're logging in.
Thus, the Satoshi: the smallest denomination in bitcoin, at 0.00000001 bitcoins. To continue with the above speculative fun, one satoshi would be worth .004 dollars.

If the M3 money supply were replaced with bitcoins overnight (assuming 21 million bitcoins and an M3 of 10.3 trillion circa 2009), a bitcoin would be worth $490,476.19. One satoshi would be $0.004947619; a big mac would cost 806 satoshi. Which is only about half the the current USD->Yen exchange rate.
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A thousand times this. A currency that is designed to be radically unstable in value is not a currency. Out of control deflation is just as bad as out of control inflation.

Bcoin is nothing but a bunch of runaway tulip bulbs. Have fun if you want to buy on the way up and... sell in time, woe to you if don't.
I tried to log in to this site https://current.trovebox.com/ which was linked on the Persona home page: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/

I tried to use my gmail address and it gave me this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13941904/persona.png
Am I just making up a password for a Persona account and it's using my email address as the user id? I can see how some people would type in their gmail password in by mistake.
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I think the difference is what you're building the startup for.

Many startups aren't built to last. They're built to get to a certain size and then sell off their product and make a decent profit from it all. In this case, burnout isn't a worry because, if you get to the point where you're burnt out, your startup failed anyways (in that it didn't achieve the goal of attracting the attention of a larger startup-eating company). It's in these environments that the 24/7 grind is most apparent. Or companies that started with this model and then realized they couldn't sell and now have to try to turn their quick-buck idea into something that lasts.

Some startups, though, are built to last. These are places where burnout is a concern because they plan to be around for 10 - 15 years and they don't want to have to replace their entire staff every two years. In these companies, getting a good work:life balance is important for attracting and retaining talent.

People tend to think that if you're passionate about what you do (or love what you do), then you want to spend every waking hour doing it. But this kind of behavior is self-destructive. Even if you think you want to do it now, it will eventually wear you down and be unsustainable. Everyone needs to take breaks and have other interests and activities. And sometimes you have to force yourself or your employees to strike that balance.
When savings go up there is more capital to invest in new ventures, interest rates go down (more money chasing investment opportunities) and it signals the markets that it is a good time to take risks. When savings go down, interest rates go up and it signals the markets that it is a bad time to take risks. Inflation distorts those signals and makes people take risks when there aren't enough savings to justify those risks. High risks and low savings are a recipe for disaster.
While we're at it, why doesn't SVG support webcams, networking, and email? Any modern rendering system should at least support email. Maybe it does but I haven't seen any serious providers using it.

While we're on the subject, SVG should also support a third dimension. With 3D printing becoming a reality, I think this is a crucial feature to have.
As long as a single bitcoin exists, there'll still be more fractional bitcoins available to divide among people than there are US cents*

* may not be precisely true, but it's something along those lines.
I might be wrong, but I think if you're a heavy Photoshop user (their target demographic) you'll be already familiar with the panels Photoshop provides, and their custom panel will draw your attention. IMO, the "Try Me" banner also ensures the user keeps their attention focused on the demo.
Not enough to derive a home address:

That leads us back to the pseudonym discussions: Not every name that isn't on ones state-issued id is anonymous. With mine, even without clicking on my profile, you can easily find out my name and yes, my address as well.

If I connect to an IRC network (mostly freenode, or gnome/gimp) I'll be online as darklajid as well. I ran a tiny irc network a couple years ago and used the same handle. For me that's not at all hard to believe.
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Firepad will eventually support rich-text copy/paste and import/export as HTML (export is actually already supported through the API, but not exposed through the existing UI), as well as lists, paragraph indent, and all of the other features that you'd want. They just didn't make it in for the v1 release. :-)

As for similar projects that are already more HTML-friendly, maybe check out Etherpad[1]? It has HTML import / export, though I haven't tested it out.

1. http://etherpad.org/
My point was that forcing SimCity's fans to adopt a cloud-based version of the game was a big mistake, and everyone involved accepts this now.

> Sim City wasnt written in web technology and needed to be online

The present version of SimCity requires players to log on. The game will not work without a Web connection. This has created a huge outcry from fans of the game.

> its possible to write applications using web technology that dont need to be online.

If we define "online" as "connected to a network", then yes, Web-based applications require one to be online. And most Web-based applications require an Internet connection.

> Those arguments have nothing to do with each other ...

Cloud-based storage and Web-based applications have nothing to do with each other? Most Web-based applications store their results in the cloud. If you adopt Web-based applications, you're also adopting cloud-based storage at least temporarily.
It is not, actually.

A reasonable guess for "Sign in with your email" prompt is that you'd need to go through a typical account creation process using your email as a primary ID. In other words, the message looks like a synonym of "Create an account".

There gotta be more thought put into how to make people aware of Persona mechanism, because it is quite different from all existing sign-in options and it needs to be learned of explicitly.
Should we just call them cyber criminals? That's a lot of syllables. And it doesn't differentiate between technical crimes and crimes like cyber bullying and internet predators. If we really want to get away from hacker and criminal being synonymous to some we need another term that exclusively means "perpetrator of technical crime" to differentiate between the two.
> Our goal is to start connecting homes in Austin by mid-2014.

The timeline Google's followed in Kansas City suggests it will be another year until service is available to a significant chunk of Austin, and likely well into 2016 or beyond before the whole city is hooked up. Fiber to whatever suburbs are invited to the party will likely follow after that.

But hopefully the build-out gets ramped up, both in Austin and KC, now that Google's had some time to work out some of the early kinks.
Deflation is when counterfeited money (deposit liabilities/other side of debt-asset journal entry) are written off. Deflation in a debt-asset based financial system means money is destroyed and becomes more scarce and valuable. Since debts are exponentially increasing cost contracts, when the monetary supply--based on exponentially increasing cost contracts--contracts, you get exponentially increasing appreciation of the currency.

Governments are running trillion dollar deficits because they have to because the private sector isn't borrowing enough to expand the debt-assets required to service previous debt contracts that require service in debt contracts.

Bitcoin's relative appreciation to fiat currencies and other benchmarks is not driven by a contraction in money supply due to debt-asset write-offs.

Bitcoin itself could be declared legal tender and suitable for payment of taxes if a government decided so. Financial crises are ALWAYS about lenders lending money that doesn't exist. The fancy name used to be fractional reserve lending, but since we went to a floating currency system, it's just asset-based lending and no reserves required.

Value isn't something anyone can "fix."
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Frequently, people in a hiring position treat prospective candidates like cattle. They forget there is a human being behind that resume or portfolio.

All it takes is a reply like this:

"Hello _______, We are very appreciative that you took the time to send us your _______. Once we get a chance to review your ______, we will contact if you we feel like you are a good fit.
Best Regards,
_____________"
SVG is Scalable Vector Graphics.

And http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Multipage
Would you consider this an alternative to Google App Engine? (except that it's focused on Rails instead of Python/Java/Go)
>Only in America.

You don't seriously claim all of Europe is prepared for a 2000 year flood. I doubt a lot of nations can afford it.
Similar things have happened: look into the history of blockchain forks.
I think more companies could do with having an intern or assistant to help handle these kinds of things. No, you don't want your $1K/hour CEO manually replying to 150 emails, but having someone who represents the company simply acknowledge your existence goes a long way towards good will.

It's the same with client relationships: we may be neck-deep in server fires at the moment, and know there's no way we'll be able to fix something today, let alone before the end of the week, but simply having someone reply "Yes, we'll handle this, and I'll take care of following up with the development team for you and get back with you shortly" goes a long, long way to putting a client at ease.
Everyone does have their own cursor state and can edit the document separately (even in offline mode). People are testing the limits of it right now though, so you're probably seeing a fair amount of "select all" + "delete" and other annoying behavior.

If you want to try it without other people messing with it. Click the "Private Firepad" link in the upper right corner.
You've absolutely nailed it. I'm going to steal this metaphor in the future.
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Why is it unrealistic to expect a company to respond to each and every resume?

I can understand a "personalized" response to be unrealistic. But at least a simple automatic e-mail saying "Thank you for applying, regretfully the position is now filled" or anything indicating "don't wait for an answer" should be the norm. Especially with a lot of large companies indicating that an answer could take up to 2 months.
If their stage 1 is verifying the signature it's going to be pretty hard to hack the firmware (since you need to crack the key or find some other hole to get your firmware to run), so at that point they could care less about logging in to double-check the key wasn't cracked. In that case the integrity check is more likely just making sure the firmware isn't corrupt, or just checking the version to see if it needs an upgrade in general. If on the other hand they are just verifying which firmware is applied, the stage 1 probably isn't verifying the signature, so in that case we really could fake out the check.

Flashing the chip directly is probably significantly easier than attacking the UI's signature verifying feature. Once you learn how it's pretty fun to examine random devices' firmware directly ^_^
In this podcast (http://productpeople.tv/2012/12/19/patio11-part1/), he says that he worked about five hours a week on it as a side project (although it also talks about how he would work on weekends, so maybe it was a little more than that.)
Say I bisect some issue to a particular commit. Knowing which branch it was made on tells me what issue it was trying to solve, which gives me context for the entire branch.

It also means I can easily request all commits made in the master branch, to see what features were merged in recently.
Maybe it's an DC/UK/Govt/MassMedia thing, but when technically competent
people around here see or hear the word "cyber" used, they usually
have to try to not snicker visibly.

$ grep -oi cyber cyber-weapons.htm | wc -l
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I wouldn't dispute that Musk will go down in history as an entrepreneur and not a father. That's not the point.

The point is that when you show Musk as an inspiration for entrepreneurship, you should look at his whole life- because being a serial entrepreneur absolutely has an effect on your personal life.

The title of the story is "Why is there only one Elon Musk"- there are many, connected answers. His personal life is part of that. Just because it doesn't define him doesn't mean it isn't relevant.
I wish people would focus less on fast development and more
on something that better maintainability 2 years down the road.

Hoodie focuses on the data model, not the application logic or UI. If there's one thing I want to be consistent and maintainable and to have a really solid support stack under it- if there's one area I value maintainability and consistency- it's the data layer, which this very much attempts to provide a consistent development experience for.

An app built with hoodie I could see as being maintainable- even as you gut the entire stack and drag your rails app to flask, or your php app to java, hoodie has defined only the kinds of objects and patterns of accessing them that you'll reuse in whatever your actual app stack is. Hoodie targets the data, which is the thing. Everything else? Who cares. Here's to maintainable data.
Why not? I'm pretty ignorant about SVG (and about writing 3D/vector games in general), so I don't immediately see a reason why SVG wouldn't be well-suited to games. Is it just because browsers aren't as performance-optimized for it as they are for <canvas> and WebGL? I suppose for a "modern" game you'd want to have all sorts of textures and shaders which maybe aren't part of SVG?

Edit: Or perhaps it's because the other technologies "carve out" a piece of the page just for themselves whereas SVG doesn't and so browser reflow/layout code has to be invoked more often when SVG elements are being used?
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I was referring to #FFFBED of the blog background.
Even just an automated response to know it arrived to the correct place. Treat the application like TCP rather than UDP.
I find that doing something related to what you're doing is probably the worst thing you can do. Let's say you run your specs and 5 of them fail. You fix #1 and then re-run the spec, then go and fix #2 whilst waiting to see if your first fix is good. You will end up juggling and trying to fix multiple bugs at once, which is a recipe for failure and sadness.

I strongly endorse just staring at the screen whilst waiting.
This.

All it takes is an auto-responding filter. It is one of the shittiest feelings to send a resume to a company and get no response. I've done it many times, and I have had many no-responses. The feeling never got less shitty.
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This is a legitimate concern.

It's also one that isn't very easy to solve, regardless of how you slice it. Most sites that let you create your own username still require an email address. If you're using the same email address, we're back to square one here. Persona absolutely does not increase your trackability, and by giving users at least the option to use multiple, different email addresses, it's better for privacy than, say, Facebook Connect. That's a win in my book.
Wow, I thought Personas were just stupid themes for Firefox, but this is actually pretty interesting.
To be wholly fair, I have rarely enough used Virgin Cross Country that I can't bring to mind any explicit badness therein.
I haven't been keeping up to date with Persona, but doesn't this open a window for email account breaching? I can picture some malicious websites mocking the "Sign in with persona" process and gaining the email AND associated password for that account without much trouble. Unless I've misunderstood Persona's point and the password is different from the user's email password.
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I am unable to scroll down on the page without it jumping back up to the animated demo thingy. Chrome 25 OSX.
Are there any actual standards for how abuse reports should be handled by service providers? What Hetzner is doing here appears to be pretty reasonable to me (it matches what companies like Level 3 and nLayer do).

I can understand why you might not want sensitive email forwarded to the abuser, but why would you send that information in your initial complaint? For all you know, the person you're reporting to is the abuser.
Agreed, I was really surprised to go through the login.persona.org site; I thought it'd be "type in email, hit login, go to yahoo to say okay, done".

Perhaps this sort of flow is possible, but just requires more work?
"SVG really isn't well suited for games"

I would disagree... as a graphics file format it is very suitable for games, specially given its size. It is not intended to be a multimedia document format (I believe he is comparing SVG with SWF which is not valid since they have different design goals).
Since programmers and other tech workers still have difficulty understanding the details of Persona, this seems to be a clear PR issue. It's a lot like trying to convert normal people to Linux by telling them it's great and if they don't believe you they can read the source of the kernel. Not a very compelling defense.
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Yes! His work is great. Made for a great starting point for building Firepad. :-)
But Persona is all about using your email as your primary ID.

Otherwise they'd just let you use keypair directly, without a hassle of having third parties (email providers) leasing you an identity.
Directly from the article:

Julius Schorzman of DailyCred, the instant CRM package for any web site, implemented Persona and remarked “We’ve seen from our internal metrics that more than 70% of users still prefer email and password authentication over social log-in like Facebook. Implementing Persona is actually easier than Facebook Connect, or any OAuth implementation we’ve seen.”

People want control over their identity on the web. Social sign-in doesn't meet this need.
Some of the responses you are getting are as if you are the anti-Musk but you are right. People can choose family life, they can choose professional or a balance.

I see one as an individual perspective and one as a society perspective. Musk will be remembered for his incredible achievements, he will not be remembered for being father of the year (any time soon at least according to your post).
Even if their initial email requested it, wouldn't you assume that a large provider like Hetzner has at least partially automated their abuse handling? I wouldn't count on a human actually reading it before it gets forwarded to the customer.
I usually just modify the ram arguments for the actual machine.

vb.customize [
'modifyvm', :id,
'--name', node[:hostname],
'--memory', node[:ram].to_s
]
We use this to perform cluster testing locally with 4 to 6 128mb nodes. :)
For abuse reports to be taken seriously you need to provide timestamped logs and legitimate real world contact details, in exchange there is the expectation that reports are not forwarded in an unsanitizied fashion to end users. (I worked an abuse desk for a few years)