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If I read an inflammatory and disturbingly arrogant comment, in which personal opinions are presented as facts, and contrarianism is practiced as an artform, there's a near 100% chance tptacek wrote it.
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Anyone without a Facebook account of `median person' content and traffic will be flagged ORANGE for further investigation. Of course this includes the homeless and off-grid.

New phone app opportunity:

Chaff-bot of expected `median person' content and traffic into their's and your own Facebook account.
It’s non‐trivial to turn PDF into series of images. Why would they go through that trouble? It’s insane.

Thanks.
>This page has also been translated into Russian here

It is not in Russian. It's in Belarussian.
You mean where it says, "Elon Musk is not a guy you like to bet against" ?

It's a positive article on the company. It says the stock is high priced and there are technical and business challenges if it's going to justify the price.

Musk and the fanboys don't take it very well if anyone falls short of unconditional adulation. To me this is a source of great amusement.
But he's not even denying that they directly collect information from those companies. It could be that the slideshow is misleading and PRISM is not the collection program but just the interface to the databanks from the collection program.

But we aren't upset about what PRISM is doing we are upset about what the NSA is doing. So clearing PRISM's name is pointless and could just be a way to mislead without directly lying. Or he may just be lying.
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For anyone who wants numbers - coal puts out approximately 100 times the amount of radioactivity as nuclear power plants do and is responsible for about 1,000 times the deaths. There is a good stackexchange discussion with more detailed statistics, nuances etc http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/1018/do-coal-pla...
Japan reprocessed fuel and was using mixed oxide fuel in one of the reactors at that site. The plutonium was processed and mixed with uranium so that it could be used in a reactor that was originally designed for uranium. I'm not familiar with the details, but any design elements put in place for the plutonium fuel would have been retrofits, not extremes.
X's worst-case isn't ever the whole picture. Even if most applications do a lot of drawing in the worst-case mode that doesn't rob them of the richness of communicating more useful detail as well. Even when you're "just" getting a big picture you're still getting something much more than a picture; it's a real window and it's really connected to your X server in a meaningful way. VNC has a real window featuring real pictures of real windows that are really not connected to you.

X is by all means a Rube Goldberg machine and nobody's contesting that. That doesn't mean throwing the baby out with the bath water is the better way to solve the dirty baby problem, even if it is easier—who needs soap when you can just eliminate the baby?
I think there's a big difference between privacy of information about you and privacy of your physical self, which is a bit jumbled in this article.
Sadly as I've gone back through sources that I learned this from, the case for it is not nearly as strong as I had believed. :-(

Doubly so given that the Corsican constitution predates the US and has many of the same ideas, but clearly with no native influence.

Still, there are parallels, and the case is strong that Benjamin Franklin was personally moved by the Iroquois example.
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But how can you rely on tzinfo and your custom implementation behaving the same? How do you know what version of tzinfo you're running against? What if it changes?

The expensive, costly answer is to rigorously test each version and keep up to date with every change on an external dependency managed by a organisation you have no control over.

The other answer is to just use your package everywhere.
Ok, this is a safer design. Anyway, my point is that loosing the cooling system of an active nuclear plant is much worse than loosing the cooling system of the shutdown nuclear plant (but don't try that at home). So it's not necessary to rush to dismantle the nuclear material, because of the fear of a tsunami. Those material should be handled properly.
The United States, despite what it may now be, has a historical foundation as the "beacon of democracy". The seeds of philosophies from antiquity and the enlightenment took root in the founding of the country, and the United States pioneered modern western democracy.
FYI, regarding the headline: James Clapper is the Director of National Intelligence, not the Director of the NSA. The DNI is the boss of the U.S. intelligence community in general, including but not limited to the NSA.
Imagine if the CEOs came out with something vague aluding that PRISM is exactly what we think it is. This would hurt profits and would most likely upset stock holders. I'm really not sure if this would intertwine with any sort of profit maximization laws or what have you, though.
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I have often thought that any successful attempt at AI would have to reproduce the behaviors associated with fear/paranoia and lying. (Or maybe I'm just taking The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy too literally.)
Erm how is it non-trivial? Ghostscript + Imagemagick would be two commands.
I'd consider "give us every piece of data you ever get" a bulk/blanket request - yep.
You missed the main part of the disaster where the cores of reactors 1, 2, and 3 melted down (fuel rods melting and collecting in a pool at the bottom of the core) after the cooling failed. This led to hydrogen explosions, the boiling away of most of the coolant, and some problems with the waste fuel pool (also lost cooling shortly after the meltdown I think).

Also it wasn't "after a few days." The site wasn't stable until almost nine months later (December, 2011).
what is the situation in germany?
and in total, there are FOURTEEN natural gas plants that generate more than 200 MW in the entirety of the United States operating today.

California alone has over 45,000 MW of natural gas capacity, including 46 plants over 200 MW. They add about 1,000 MW more every year (that state alone), and they're built very quickly and cheaply. Replacing nuclear plants with fossil fuels isn't remotely sensible, but it is easy.

http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electric_generation_...

[.xlsx] http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/powerplants/Power_Plants.xlsx
The beauty of logic programming is that you can basically apply your problem solving skills very directly.

However some parts of say Prolog are a little unusual. The typical way of writing OR as multiple clauses directly violates DRY and I usually use the alternative IF-THEN-ELSE notation (->). I also use logical loops (basically foreach)...at the end of the day it's kind of a paradigm mix (arithmetic and write sideffects, too).

Grammars and constraints are pretty fun though. It's a very good tool to have in your toolbox. Prolog is certainly the language that expanded my mind the most after having worked with JAVA/Python before.
Thanks for the suggestions! :)
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I don't think "beacons" work through time like that. I don't think you would say that Damascus is a "beacon of medical science", though there was once a time (preceding and during the Islamic Golden Age) that you could have certainly said that.
Never, ever going to happen. Who gets to keep the "right" time? How could it ever be fair?

In fact, I think the general level of confusion and annoyance at a change like that far outweighs the annoyance of dealing with time zones.
I may be willing to believe the NSA are misguided, but nobody uses the bad guys' name for themselves on purpose. The NSA used Minitruth as the name of their backdoor? Gimme a break.
It can't be. It's on the internet so it must be true.
Not one of the nuclear power stations currently planned or under construction are in the Western world (unless you count Slovakia).

Not even the traditionally very nuclear-friendly France.

Is this just a coincidence or is it the handiwork of some hyper-sensitive faction of the environmental lobby with bottomless coffers to buy political clout across whole continents?

This table lists stations under construction or operational stations with under-construction reactors and current net
capacity under 1,000 MW. Planned connection column indicate connection of first reactor, not thus whole capacity.

Power station	Cap(MW)Start Conn	Country	Location
Braka Nuclear Power Plant	1,340	2012	2017	UAE	23°59′6″N 52°17′1″E
Belyarsk-4 (BN-800)	1,364	2006	2014	Russia	56°50′30″N 61°19′21″E
Changjiang Nuclear Power Plant 1,220	2010	2014	China	19°25′23″N 108°48′45″E
Fangchenggang Nuclear Power	2,000	2010	2015	China	21°40′36″N 108°33′38″E
Fangjiashan Nuclear Power Plant 2,000	2008	2013	China	30°26′29″N 120°56′30″E
Fuqing Nuclear Power Plant	3,000	2008	2013	China	25°26′39″N 119°26′46″E
Haiyang Nuclear Power Plant	2,000	2009	2014	China	36°42′33″N 121°22′54″E
Hongyanhe Nuclear Power Plant	4,000	2007	2013	China	39°47′52″N 121°28′19″E
Kakrapar-3	1,664	2010	2015	India	21°14′19″N 73°21′00″E
Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant 1,082	2012	2017	Russia	54°56′20″N 22°09′40″E
Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant 1,834	2002	2013	India	8°10′06″N 77°42′45″E
Leningrad Nuclear Power II	2,170	2008	2013	Russia	59°49′50″N 29°3′26″E
Lungmen Nuclear Power Plant	2,600	1999	2013	Taiwan	25°02′19″N 121°55′27″E
Mochovce Nuclear Power Plant	1,654	1987	2015	Slovak	48°15′50″N 18°27′25″E
Novovoronezh Nuclear II	2,228	2008	2013	Russia	59°49′50″N 29°3′26″E
Ōma Nuclear Power Plant	1,325	2010	2014	Japan	41°30′35″N 140°54′37″E
Sanmen Nuclear Power Station	2,000	2009	2013	China	29°06′04″N 121°38′23″E
Shin Ulchin Nuclear Power Plant 1,340	2012	2017	SKorea	37°05′34″N 129°23′01″E
Shin Wolseong Nuclear Plant	1,920	2007	2013	SKorea	35°43′20″N 129°28′44″E
Taishan Nuclear Power Plant	3,400	2009	2013	China	21°54′34″N 112°58′45″E
Yangjiang Nuclear Power Plant	3,000	2008	2013	China	21°42′35″N 112°15′38″E

Source:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_stations#...

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"Retorts to the nothing-to-hide argument about exposing people's naked bodies ... are relevant only if the government is likely to gather this kind of information"

Yes, because it is crazy to suggest that the US government might be collecting images of people's naked bodies...

(To be clear, I do agree with the article. I just couldn't help but laugh a bit at the idea that the government taking nude photographs of people is depicted as "extreme.")
I like the idea—assign sounds to breakpoints, and use this to understand how the code works while it's running. Too bad it seems to be Xcode-only.
Trivial means “there’s a button for that” in this context.
It’s our own fault… Deal with it.
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How much spying occurs is extremely difficult to measure, I think we can say without a doubt that this isn't their only tool.

One could infer that the colours on the map measure how much surveillance they have to do on their own, as opposed to receiving information from external intelligence networks. For example, green provides the most intelligence information while red is the least cooperative.

Based on that we can assume that Germany is less cooperative -- as a matter of fact we can also assume international allegiances from this map. It appears the US has trouble penetrating the BRIC nations[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRIC
You've got to be joking, right? Please tell me you don't have kids. Please.
Power stations != reactors. We have 2-3 reactors under construction in the United States. Each reactor is 1GW+

This should clear up the disparity: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries...

Edit: Also China's per capita consumption of electricity is a fraction of the per capita consumption of the developed world and is growing incredibly rapidly. I wouldn't be surprised if China is outbuilding the US in everything from renewables to natural gas to coal.
This column seemed like just another excuse to promote HireArt. In the second paragraph he links to his previous column about them, as well as directly to their website. The rest of the article seems to focus entirely on them, with two more name-drops of HireArt, six of its founder Sharef, and two of co-founder Sedlet. Between the two of them they're quoted six times, including two quotes that make up the majority of the paragraph in which they appear.

And as he disclosed in the previous column but apparently didn't feel inclined to repeat this time:

> The way HireArt works, explained Sharef (who was my daughter’s college roommate)

If Friedman hadn't jumped the shark before, he certainly has now. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist writing as a shill for a start-up run by friends of his daughter. It wouldn't surprise me at all if we find out down the road that he has an additional undisclosed interest (investor, perhaps?).
The baby should be able to clean itself, all grown up, educated, gainfully employed, and well on the way to paying off its student loans by now.
McCarthy did not abandon "just about any legal constraint", it is plainly untrue. There were no mass imprisonments of suspected communists without trial, no summary executions, no concentration camps for suspected communists - nothing of the sort that communists were actually implemented for years. Instead, people were called into legal proceedings - in which they could also have counsel if they wanted - and were asked if they were communists. And if they didn't want to answer that - they took the Fifth.

>>> He enlisted industry, traditional elites, and whatever political support he could find

Unlike any politician with the cause, which never ever uses industry, elites and other political support. I didn't know we are practically surrounded with fascists - our whole government is composed of fascists, almost everybody relies to support of the industry, elites and political groups affiliated with their causes! You opened my eyes!

>>> What's especially scary is that you write off his wholesale destruction of careers

I do not "write off" anything. I explain that if the person is a voluntary member of a totalitarian organisation headed by a violent dictator Joseph Stalin, organisation which murdered millions in its home country, drowned multiple countries in blood and caused uncountable deaths and suffering all over the globe, and currently is actively engaged in both hot and covert war with the US - I can understand if some people do not want to entrust sensitive positions to the judgement of such people. Either these people are not of the sound mind, or their personal goals are not aligned, mildly speaking, with something that the rest of Americans would want to happen. If you think not wishing to associate with such people is morally reprehensible, you may want to seek friendship with some KKK or White Pride or Westboro Baptist Church members, but my ethics says these are not the people I'd like to be anywhere near them.

>>> despite the tactics baring a striking similarity to the CCCP's enforcement of party politics

Surely, that's exactly how it happened in the USSR - if somebody was found working for foreign organisation bent on overthrowing communists, he was asked nicely if it is true, and after he refused to answer the worst could happen to him was losing his job, after which he would either just find another one or live off public assistance. This system is exactly what is widely known as GULAG. True story, bro.
How can we recover from a 'recession' with government making decisions that thwart the very essence of what our currency is? Trust.
Why aren't people charging ahead with Thorium power? Seems like Thorium should be a no-brainer - low radioactivity, safe operations.

But there must be some problem with Thorium, because it isn't getting built-out. Does anyone know why?
"The terminology in the article is somewhat idiomatic"

Do you mean idiosyncratic? Not trying to nitpick. I was genuinely confused until I concluded that it must be a typo.
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"used to facilitate".

These are the key words. It appears to be a pipeline, from government to independent corporate networks. The government uses this "system" to retrieve whatever they want to retrieve, and whenever they want to retrieve, the information from independent corporations, following of course the legal procedures.

Well, we can all go to sleep better now.
Also from these times:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY

An example of coverage, very similar to what we read now:

http://www.whale.to/b/ms.html
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Been a while, but I was taught that the gerund in Latin implied worthiness. So "dicendum" could be "worth saying".
Some places will charge you with "addressing words to officers". The real problem is a cop can arrest you for anything and call it obstruction of justice. And then either the prosecutor will reject the case or you'll get charged and have to spend $2000+ to plead not guilty. Or pay an attorney $250 to get a plea deal of the lowest possible infraction.

There are zero repercussions for a cop falsely arresting you and no one cares about the truth or justice. Just pay to make it go away.
France, Finland, Slovakia, and the US:

http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionRe...
There are many green points in the EU section of the map, we may be able to infer that those nations are indeed cooperative with US interests. US-EU relations are damaged only insomuch as the eurodeputies are willing to push against their leaders.
How about posting a link to the original statement instead of this BI blogspam?

http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/191-pre...
It's only 600 years before it's no more radioactive than the ore it was mined from, "toxic" isn't a binary property. And it's not like it isn't valuable stuff, we're just too stupid to reprocess it.

A lot more than 1,000 people will lose their jobs as the costs inevitably go up. Even more if the grid becomes flaky.
None of this was news since William Binney,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli...
who estimated "that the NSA (particularly through the Stellar Wind project) had intercepted 20 trillion communications 'transactions' of Americans (such as phone calls, emails, and other forms of data but not including financial data)" in the years following the 2005 James Riser NYTimes story.

IMO both journalism and the American people failed to pay adequate attention to this issue, both have gotten what they paid for, and the faux-surprise act of both is hilarious.
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Yes. I saw that mentioned at Geekwire. Before I did, I tried to read the TOS before signing in, but it kept looping me back to the signin page. I wound up trying a sample script with one panel, then split. I'd never submit anything to it.
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I'd be nice to see more without having to signup.
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To make my usual point: the UK does not have a singular legal system; England and Wales has a separate legal system to Scotland, which is itself separate to the legal system in Scotland. People frequently claim the English and Welsh legal system is the "UK legal system".

For example, when it comes to police questioning, until two years ago, there was no requirement to provide a lawyer under Scots law (though there were various other safeguards, which Google can likely tell you better than I!).
Their stance is limited to opposing 'green hats' who are selling to customers that don't intend on fixing the flaws (buying a hacker's silence) and selling to governments whom intend on using the exploits for clandestine operations.
This isn't a rumor or some strange conspiracy this is just how crypto-export controls were done for a short while in the US.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/2/2898/1.html

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.52.html#subj1

>but nobody uses the bad guys' name for themselves on purpose.

Why not, I've heard of software teams naming themselves Cobra from GI Joe.
...,Thomas Paine, and Lysander Spooner:

Spooner advocated what he called Natural Law – or the "Science of Justice" – wherein acts of initiatory coercion against individuals and their property were considered "illegal" but the so-called criminal acts that violated only man-made legislation were not.
None of which are even his day job!
Many: it's a new, untried at scale approach, there's a big "And then a miracle occurs" stage as I recall, and it doesn't burn thorium, it burns U-233 ... which can be used to make nuclear weapons. And is easily isolated from the rest of the stuff compared to enriching uranium or even breeding plutonium, which has to be removed quickly or else you'll get too much of the 2 undesirable isotopes of it.

It doesn't address any of the real problems to my knowledge (you think the Greens are going to be happy with it???), and going back to that "untried" bit, right now it would I think need that "10X" advantage to displace the tried and true stuff that we know can work pretty well.
I'm just hoping that Greenwald doesn't "get in a car crash."
There are numerous groups that may have leaked this. For instance, it could very well be that the NSA itself put this material out there. Consider the following. Perhaps the NSA has the exact capabilities that many people are now complaining against, specifically the direct access stuff. They "leak" a document about this as most people suspect they do anyways. The media publishes these documents. People get worried. New technologies bubble to the surface in response to this. The NSA observes those new technologies. Now, they didn't have to hunt down the tools used to hide data from them. They've cleverly "forced" those tools out into the open. It's a lot easier to spy on people when you know what tools are being used to keep you from spying on people.
That's excellent, thank you!

I see nothing wrong with the UI: better a tool that works than none at all :)
I've pretty much come to the conclusion that he does the direct opposite of whatever he promises. He promised to end all this when he was elected, yet expanded on what Bush had started.
The current alternative is to keep installing solar and wind and (eventually) wave plants ... which the smart money has been investing in, which require no government-paid insurance, and which generate no waste-that-has-to-be-safely-stored-forever.
Is it possible to have an overview of the features without having to signup?
I may be wrong, but it could be easier if I didn't have to click 3 times to signup or even better, if I could try without having to signup.

Anyway, the ui is great, probably an usefull tool combined with cross platform application
Pure blogspam. Here's the original article.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/08/nsa-boundless-in...
Ahh I was working off of terrible data it appears.