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>>Pure unadulterated bullshit or trolling.

How? You really need to explain.

>>Er.. I'm from India too.. and kamaal.. you seem to be stuck in the small college student protests about reservation around 7 - 8 years ago.

Yeah, may be. Most people who come from a middle class general category are going to suffer from reservations. Because they will be doing all the hard work only to watch someone who scored some thing like half their marks eat all their opportunities.

>>Nobody wants to be born in a lower caste. In the end, such comments are just jokes.

Have you ever visited a local Taluk office? Say some where in Bangalore? Do you even know how much bribe is given simply to obtain a OBC certificate because some one needs a job, or to get a seat and doesn't have the required marks to get one?.

>>So, i have to ask... whats your angle kamaal.

Let me put it the other way, what's your angle. I've put my views clear.

You should elaborate how denying the hardworking general category students their due chance is helping the country.

>>Also, your rant here is only against the backward sections of society, which have been denied equal opportunities for ages and have now become a political pawn in the reservations fiasco.

So is this now a revenge cycle? Are we supposed to make the general category suffer because some 20 generations back a ancestor of their made a mistake.

>>I question this, because India, as you know has reservations for women too, already in many educational institutions, pending in the parliament.

Last time I checked most women who stand for elections in my area were the wives of most prominent rowdies/mafia types.

>>So, instead of quoting something relevant like the impact of various reservations the country has implemented for women, you seem to just pout out your own agenda.

>>Don't wanna make the world a better place? Please don't try to make it worse.

Sorry you need to give your agenda, not me.

And how are you making the world a better place by denying the hardworking their due chance. And taking all their opportunities and giving to some one who probably didn't do 1/10th the work they do.
That seems very high. You are apparently a very good technical writer.
Heh, for once I actually didn't intend the pun ;-)
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I like the fact that Node comes with a small core. I'm tired of vast, bloated, incomprehensible libraries that are going to take me more time to learn how to use than they'll be worth.
What if the drones are more likely to cause a 10x 9/11 event, by helping al Qaeda's recruiting efforts?

I don't know that that's a likely outcome, but I think it's possible. In any case, I think this idea that we can pre-emptively kill everyone who might possibly attack us at some point in the future is both dangerous and evil.
This is exactly why I don't try to play the stock market (or the Bitcoin market).

From a press article on the 25th it sounded like the price dropped suddenly but then quickly rebounded to "nearly break-even". I guess that "nearly" was the problem.

Is there a particular reason why the trader couldn't wait it out another day or two to see if he could make up the difference? I suppose with the money tied up in stock the company no longer had sufficient liquid assets to continue operating.

The article wasn't clear, but it sounds like his intention was to pocket the 'winnings' for himself somehow?
It's hardly surprising that there's a huge burst of growth when a language and its package repository first takes off. I'm sure if we looked at the 4 year periods where each of Perl, Python, and Ruby were hitting their stride we'd see similar numbers.

It's nice that node.js is succeeding, but it's hardly changing the face of open source. It's treading a very well-trodden path blazed by Perl starting about 28 years ago.
This seems like a great idea, since people who are into BitCoin are likely to use online dating services.
TIL. However, a cursory skimming of the Wikipedia page seems to indicate that it's an internal conflict.

Not really relevant to this discussion.
Hm very interesting, but how so? The average person probably doesn't use their car because it's at the airport for 200h/year, but doesn't use their car for 8000h/year in total, where it could be used by someone else.

It's probably easier if you can have a car for 10 days straight instead of just an afternoon, but that's where you want to be or not?
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See the work of Prof. Steve Mann, specifically "EyeTap". I understand one of his ex-students is on the Glass team, however "an entirely new kind of device" it is not. It has a heritage of ideas and implementations that are around 30 years old.
I will call for a reservation policy if you show me instances where a good well deserved talk from a women was rejected at a conference just because she is a woman.

Are there cases where a talk from a woman was judged not because of its merit but because the speaker's gender?

If all woman who have good talks are getting their chances, I don't even see a problem here.
There is already an Android app[1] that does something similar. You put your finger up to the rear-camera and it detects your heart rate.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=si.modula.andr...
Sometimes writing tests takes an inordinate amount of time compared to the amount of value they provide. I worked on one project in which we were spending 70% of the time writing tests. The scope of the project was small, and the uptime requirements were light, so we ended up just throwing out all tests. It never crashed in production and we were able to iterate on new features much more quickly,
most people have a better grasp of probability than you suggest. What they're scared of is not so much the remote possibility of being a bombing victim, but the complete lack of control they would have in such a situation. there's a much higher chance of being in a car accident than in a bombing, but you can mitigate your risk of a car accidnet by paying attention to your own and others' driving, and in most cases you'd have the opportunity to take some evasive action. Likewise you can mitigate your risk of getting mugged by not going into dangerous neighborhoods or suchlike. And so on.

If you're the victim of a bombing, on the other hand, you probably won't have any warning or any time to do anything about it. By the time you figure out what's happened, you're already maimed/ dying/ dead, or one of your loved ones is, or whatever. Remote though the risk is, the randomness and immediacy of it are a lot scarier. I've been in close proximity to a car bomb; it's shocking because it's a lot bigger than you are, and whether you are a victim or not has absolutely nothing to do with your skills or reaction time, it's purely a matter of luck.

It's like getting killed by a falling tree or a sinkhole opening up under you or something. The risk of that actually happening is tiny, but what's scary is how helpless you would be if it did. Unlike car accidents or confrontations with wild animals or people, you probably won't get the opportunity to think/talk/fight your way out of danger in the former situation.If you think about movies, TV etc., people are always getting in jeopardy but worming their way out of it somehow or another. We find it much more shocking when we see someone get killed without having any time to react to the danger they're in.
Nice, but a tool that I will never use. Sign up, get added to invite list, forget about service, invite comes, completely ignore.

I don't understand the invite process. I would rather get into the service right away and see promise with a broken system rather than get on an invite list. I can handle broken, but I will likely never use your service if I have to wait for an invite. You guys got your one shot to grab me and by the time your invite arrives, my attention is off somewhere else.

Also lame is the "tweet" for a quicker invite. Why would I tweet about your service before I have had a chance to use it?
Would love to read that article if you have a link.
Sure it can, but the donations need to be bigger, then you can quit your job and get a new job in Open-Source.
But that can lead to financial troubles if the donations stop...
It depends on how sophisticated the identify theft is. I had a good friend who was taken for about $9000 in credit card fraud in 1998/1999, with Well Fargo. It took him the better part of six months, and endless correspondence with WF to prove all of the purchases were not his. There are lots of stories of people who were financially wiped out, to the point of bankruptcy, because of Credit Card/Identify fraud.

With that said - almost everyone seems to feel comfortable handing out their credit card to random taxi drivers, waiters, sales staff - with no idea whether a copy of their information is being taken down. Heck - if you give them the Credit Card, they even get your CCV as well.
Theres a few good tutorials on www.google.com on how to do this kind of thing. Maybe you should post something up there.
It's unsurprising that the "SEO" industry is taking gender equality seriously: They obviously wouldn't want to besmirch their reputation for ethical conduct.
This.

I was born and raised in rural India and have seen numerous Dalits benefit from reservations. Reservations in India is a complex sociological arrangement and deeply linked with Casteism and systematic repression for centuries. Just citing few examples of candidates from non-deserving backward castes is not enough to invalidate reservations. There have been attempts to hijack the issue for political political gains, but that's the problem with the political class, not with the Reservations.
Fahrenheit 451 isn't about censorship, though. People often mistake it as a book against censorship, but in reality it's a book against television.

You can read more about it here http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news/ray-bradbury-fahrenh... and listen to bradbury (quicktime required, sorry) here http://www.raybradbury.com/at_home_clips.html

Edit: Also, paper burns at 451 degrees Celsius, not Fahrenheit.
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These ads are a little strange, but perhaps Facebook is targeting the younger demographic with short attention spans? Perhaps in light of the recent market reports that suggest teenagers are losing interest in Facebook?

Assuming this might be the case, think back when you were a teenager.

Family meals were really monotonous when all you could think about is running back upstairs and resuming your IM sessions with your friends.

Boarding planes (not flying in them mind you) is hella boring and if you look around today, almost everybody who has taken his/her seat is glued to their phones to ease the banality of the entire process.

And the droning out of the CEO? Well, maybe that was Facebook's feeble, yet well-intentioned attempt to poke fun at themselves. Who can't appreciate a little self-deprecating humor?

Finally, I could be completely wrong and Facebook needs to hire a new agency to handle their media image.
No, it is most emphatically not a brute force attack in character space. A brute force attack (as I am sure you know) is exhaustively checking every combination; running through all combinations of characters is a way, way, way bigger search space. Restraining ourselves to looking at word combinations makes the search much more practical (just how practical depends on how much entropy is left).

Anyway, wikipedia says:

"In cryptanalysis and computer security, a dictionary attack is a technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by trying likely possibilities, such as words in a dictionary."

What matters is not how the possibilities are stored/generated, but that you have a pool of possibilities that are substantially more likely, that you can guess first. But if you want to argue some technicality, fine. I don't care so much about the particular labels - what is clear is that, if someone generates their password correctly following the directions in the comic, updated appropriately, a dictionary attack of any form is not effective in reducing the search space below ((word list size)^(words in phrase)), which can be fairly secure.
I object to the characterization that we're killing random people with drones. We are killing people whose stated goal is to attack us. There is nothing evil about that. Use of force to defend ones self, whether preemptive or reactive, is the closest thing to a "natural right" that exists in this world.
This man really did not pay attention. I've rarely seen Apple stock rise the day of a press or investor briefing no matter how good the news. In fact it has often been the opposite. In fact, now that I've looked over just the last year, most of the times Apple issues a press release its shares close the same day or the next below the level they were at the day before the announcement.

Out of 40 times Apple put out a press release in the last year, more than three-fourths of those times the stock declined that day or the day following (31 times). And only once did a positive trading day coincide with a new product announcement. The exceptions were:

Dec. 17, 2012 (iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales in China Top Two Million)
Nov. 19, 2012 (AC/DC Now on iTunes)
Nov. 5, 2012 (Apple Sells Three Million iPads in Three Days)
Sept. 17, 2012 (iPhone 5 Pre-Orders Top Two Million in First 24 Hours)
Sept. 12, 2012 (Apple Introduces iPhone 5, Apple Introduces New iPod touch & iPod nano, Apple Unveils New iTunes)
Aug. 27, 2012 (Craig Federighi, Apple’s Vice President of Mac Software Engineering & Dan Riccio, Apple’s Vice President of Hardware Engineering Join Apple’s Executive Team as Senior Vice Presidents)
July 30, 2012 (Mountain Lion Downloads Top Three Million)
June 26, 2012 (Apple Launches iTunes Store in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan & Nine Additional Countries in Asia Today)
April 25, 2012 (Apple Worldwide Developers Conference to Kick Off June 11 at Moscone West in San Francisco)

I'm pretty sure this has been the trend throughout Apple's history. The worst stock days seem to come when Apple has great news to report. At any rate, Wall Street surely does not care about Apple's new product announcements, at least not when it comes to shelling out for stock. Product sales or downloads, sometimes. New products, very rarely.

It's something I noticed in the early 2000s when I was a Mac reporter and very in tune with Apple's PR/IR efforts, but it's not something I actually consciously tracked, and I've already wasted enough time on something that doesn't affect me except as a curiosity.

Anyway, it never made sense to me the way good news from Apple translated into declining stock prices. But there you go. A little casual observation could have saved this man a lot of hassle.
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> I'd also be, uh, slightly hesitant to bring a circuit board in an altoids tin through a TSA checkpoint.

Terrorism: Mission accomplished.
It would be easier to take Steve Mann seriously if he would just release more/any schematics.
Read the article carefully, and quote me the part where she agrees there is a problem.

The balance of evidence is that she is dismissive of the problem. She says she disagrees with Debra Mastaler, she uses scare-quotes around the word "bias", all but one of her "solutions" are aimed at female speakers individually, of the "do more to get noticed" variety. (The one standout is her accusation against Forbes Woman.)

Nowhere does she acknowledge that a) a number conferences have managed to get much, much closer to parity, without resorting to quotas, and b) a conference that still ends up with 95% males therefore very much has a problem.

This is known as "not doing your homework".
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Hell, the mangled remains of the economy after such an attack probably would not even be recognizable as an economy at all... But bring down our society?

Starvation or hopelessness tends to erode idealism pretty quickly. You don't need any kind of ridiculous Red Dawn fantasy to appreciate the possibility of critical injury; nor would the fall of an empire be an overnight thing. It's relatively easy to identify strategic weak points with the potential to tip a country into a tailspin.
Why Is Mozilla Building a Mobile OS?
So you've redefined a term that already has a well defined meaning to mean something totally different.

Just because I can look at the source of something does not mean it's open source. If it doesn't have an open source license it's just proprietary code that ships in source form.
It's not "quietly" if you spend $20k in engineer time to make a parallax-scrolly webpage to show it off to the world.
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If they sent it to 1 million people and only 0.1% of people complained that is still 1,000 people complaining.
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I bet you can't triforce, either.
By assassinating (and abusing due process) those responsible rather than adressing the issues which continue to allow this circle of violence and retaliatory action to continue ad nauseum.
Same question as always. Money transmission license?
That's the first thing I thought. Oh the irony.
Look, there is a shit-ton of coal in the ground. There is a process for converting coal into oil. The Germans used it during WWII. Not exactly cutting edge technology.

If you are going to predict doom and gloom, you could at least give me a plausible scenario, like a supervirus or nuclear war. Running out of energy is just not going to happen any time soon.

If you wanted to stretch your horizons beyond the 1940s (hard, I know)... you could predict that soon enough we'll be able to synthesize oil using yeast and some energy input.

There are ways to replenish topsoil. Or even not to use it at all. Look up hydroponics-- another not-particularly-new technology.

People are pretty good at dealing with gradual change, especially when there are huge economic incentives to do so.
"just another web thing" really isn't accurate when talking about the Ruby interpreter.
Plenty of the awesome things you can do with android weren't available when it came out. Everything new needs to start small.
Let me offer a different opinion. There was a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993. Thirteen different explosions in the span of a few hours across the city's landmarks. 250 people died. One of the blasts was in the Bombay stock exchange. This was on a Friday, and the stock exchange opened for business on Monday. This was a huge PR win for Mumbai, as the media talked about the resilience of the residents and the manner in which they moved on and didn't let it impact their lives.

It's now 20 years and several terrorist attacks and bomb-blasts have gone by. Mumbai still carries on, but there is no pride in doing that anymore. Everyone just wants it to stop. It's been easy for the government to quickly clean up and talk about how terrorism doesn't impact us. The Mumbai residents keep calm, but no one wants to move on like this.
You really ought to look into the history of the dark ages, because under the Pax Romana Europe enjoyed an extremely well-developed civil society that brought self-evident benefits to the participants, just like our culture of appreciation for scientific progress, the arts, and political theories...a culture which is not nearly as universal as you seem to imagine.

Also, the word you should be using is 'hordes.' Hoards are things like piles of gold or other valuables.
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A: Number of people who benefit from reservations.

B: Number of people who suffer because of reservations.

Over the years B has been far too larger than A.

Thanks to the IT boom in the 90's. One of the biggest reasons best people from India left to the west was because their much deserved opportunity went to some one who didn't do 1/10th the work they did.
Like allow robots to detect if something is alive or dead. :D
I initially misread esquivalience as esquivalence and took it to mean estimated equivalence, as in the word that is to equivalence what guesstimate is to estimate.
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I didn't redefine anything. You are welcome to read about [1] Commercial Open Source. You talk as though the availability of the source-code has no value.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_open-source_applicat...
I think they're very different arguments. uber is saying that this incident is relatively insignificant, since more people died of heart attack today. Schneier is saying that (i) we overstate the impact/probability of terrorist attacks. Note that this is not the same as merely comparing number of bombing deaths with deaths from natural causes; if this was happening every week, surely it would be considered a worrying development, even if the number of daily bombing deaths was still less than deaths by heart disease or car accidents. And (ii) that we should refuse to be terrorized as that gives power to terrorists.

I think (i) isn't a very solid argument since we can't estimate the probability of future terrorist attacks the same way we can calculate the probability of winning the lottery, or as we can estimate the probability of x deaths by heart attack in the next 5 years. For example, suppose we count the number of bombings against civilians in pre-2nd-intifada Israel. In 1999 there were 2 bombings. In 2000, when the intifada started, 5. In the following 2 years, 40 then 47. I haven't checked, but I suppose the same pattern would hold for pre- and post-invasion Iraq (note that this isn't an argument pro or anti the invasion).

I'm not saying that the same thing is likely to happen in the US, I'm just pointing out a weakness in the argument. Overall, though, I think Schneier has a point.
BTW, as far as I understand, this quote is nowadays used in a way that rather different or even contradicting with its original one. Originally, Franklin was rallying up militia to take up arms against roving bands, or perhaps even "extremists" as they might be called today.

So "purchasing safety" was "not joining armed forces that fight criminals and enemies". This was before the revolution, and what Americans call "the frontier" was in Pennsylvania.
You do realize that wearable computers are over 30 years old right? See Steve Mann: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann
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They're not even white. Japanese and Korean games are also very popular.
Those on the other are criminals. They should be found, arrested, and punished.

Wait, you are saying terrorists deserve a fair trial, too? What a strange concept...
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I moved here almost as a random choice. I had never been here before I moved here and I have no ties here either. I had planned on living in many other countries but I sort of stopped here and got content. ;) Maybe after I get to where I want to be with my side projects I will try some other places.