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I think this sums up the issue really well. But I think that's how the world works I guess !
87% on Rotten Tomatoes makes it hard to argue that "it sucks" is an empirical, indisputable conclusion...

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_into_darkness&#x2F;
They get away with prosecuting leakers because leaking classified information (while often noble) is a crime.

The issue is prosecution of journalists for publishing said info, which is not a crime.
Voting empirically does not provide enough control over the government to justify even traveling to the polling location.
Ah, I apologise. I wasn't aware that was the point, I thought the target audience was in Sweden (the site was down when I made that comment so I hadn't seen it).
Atomic I/O operation support can be taken a step further, though, by adding asynchronous I/O (AIO) support. The nice thing about the Linux AIO interface (which is not generally acknowledged to have many nice aspects) is that it allows an application to enqueue multiple I/O operations with a single system call.

I'm not familiar with the AIO interface, but it sounds fairly handy. Could someone comment on what he means by it not having 'many nice aspects'?
There are notable improvements in this version for ZFS, including the LZ4 compression algorithm that is both faster and better than the previous one. (Benchmark: http://code.google.com/p/lz4/)
He doesn't say he is solving the problem. He merely says that he removes personal responsibility for the problem.
Do you know Sweden? I cannot believe that to be true. We are not talking about Iraq or GB, but a strong European democracy, with no extraordinary ties to the US.

Sure, the victims might be lying. But I would trust a Swedish court to decide on that any day.
And less about the creators/tools than about the community that insists on using the newest/sexiest one regardless of how well it solves your problem.
It didn't take off because it didn't gather enough audience. Most people have a prejudice against SciFi.
It took me several months to convince my girlfriend to watch Firefly and more than a year for BSG, but in the end she loved them both very much.
http://www.nationalpopularvote.com
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While links are never impossible, I am ever optimistic and hope that their employees actually do watch out for the red flags they just spoke about on their blog two months ago.

"Every Palantirian is trained to look out for “red flags” at deployments that might indicate activities that are antithetical to our commitment to privacy and civil liberties."

http://www.palantir.com/2013/04/dont-just-trust-us&#x2F;
Echoing honzzz, in the last century governments killed upwards of a quarter billion of their own people. No corporation has any such power.
The second oddest thing is that the same people who complain about how the corporations are running the world are for some reason much more incensed about governments getting access to this personal data for actual useful reasons (however minor they're perceived) than they are about corporations accumulating this data to sell to each other and anyone with enough dollars (as clearly mentioned in the privacy policies that no one cares to read).

I mean, if corporations are really running the world then we should be more worried about them, I would think.
Secret court says yes when NSA seeks authority to spy
It's not like these programs just got setup without approval. I'm sure they have secret rulings from FISA to justify all this stuff (not that a secret ruling makes anything legal, but hey). The problem with secret courts is obvious.
As I understand it, the US has no controls over the NSA spying out side of the US. So, you'd have less protection. Even if they did, as a result of this, and knowing how other governments bend to US will, I wouldn't trust anything connected to the internet at all.

Privacy wise, the internet is dead. Just, forget it. The war is lost. They can, there for, they will. And that's that.

I mean, does any one seriously think these abilities and powers will be go, or be given up?
Are your emails encrypted? If not, anyone in the pipeline can read them.
I thought it was an excellent experiment and I really appreciate everything you did. I wanted to suggest though, particularly in the "Assembly" part, as an example, that you should link to something like paste bin for the code rather than placing it in-line. Unless you're referring to specific aspects of the code immediately before or after, it's not useful to see the actual code posted in-line, in general. And even then, you should select small snippets of the code (as you did elsewhere in the article). Small nitpick though, thanks for the work, and for writing up everything.
> Those in power want you not to vote.

If that's the case, the amount of resources candidates spend trying to get people to vote is peculiar.

> If you don't vote, you're still entitled to complain but I personally won't take you as seriously because you haven't tried to affect change.

The only way I could even begin to see any validity to your point is if an election were a tie or decided by a single vote.
I wish HN had a way to kill-off these kinds of exchanges.

When someone opens a new comment branch with "Go fuck yourself" nothing good can follow. In retrospect I probably should have completely ignored this. I, in a very real sense, became part of the problem by providing a stage of sorts. I am sorry for that.
You do see the point: "Funny".
For FreeBSD, I think your choices for virtualization are limited to jails or Virtualbox. Virtualbox on FreeBSD does support Intel/AMD processor virtualization extensions I believe.
Just a quick note about the disassembly challenge he faced (indirect references), having gone through this before: you can get amazingly good results by cheating a bit. That is to say, rather than assuming you actually have to properly execute through the code path, you can get very close by roughly tracking register assignments when making your initial pass through a block of code. (Even better, if you can track potential ranges of values with later calls into a given block. Some of this depends on how you've implemented your disassembler, though.)

I ended up doing this with a SuperH disassembler (with SH2, due to its two-byte opcode layout, indirect addressing is the order of the day), and by doing basic register assignment tracking and adding a few crude heuristics, I was able to get very usable results. No, the end result won't be "pretty"; you'll be moderately embarrassed to show it off., but it will work. :)

(Heuristics: one structure that I had to manually handle were compiler-generated jump tables; thankfully, for my project, I'd had a bit of help from the compiler that was used, and there were distinct signatures I could key off of.)

If you're even remotely interested in the disassembly aspect of this, I'd recommend learning a bit about a piece of software called IDA Pro: https://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida&#x2F; As horrible as the UI of it is, there is simply nothing better on the market for reverse engineering analysis.
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Personally was very interested in this experiment after seeing this article yesterday: http://www.tested.com/tech/gaming/456272-straightforward-gui...;
is this what stands for journalism now? taking random anonymous reader email, googling it casually, and then writing a story on it behind the facade of "oh please don't hold us responsible, we're just quoting random anonymous email"
Looks interesting, so I tried the search at http://yandex.com. I tried a few searches. Eventually I got:

http://i.imgur.com/Q7C0rRd.png

This is not a good user experience. You immediately assume I'm doing something bad / wrong because I did about 4 searches within 20 seconds?

So I read http://i.imgur.com/NITisTs.png

- There are no other users on my network.
- I made 4 search requests inside of 20 seconds.
- I have no plugins that are performing search requests on my behalf.
- I'm fairly certain my computer is not infected with a virus (I'm on OS X, and even have ClamXav running).
Sorry, but that statement about Greenwald is basically true. People are multi-faceted, and Greenwald is by no means perfect. IMHO, he says a lot of extremely stupid, barely defensible things. It doesn't take away from the work he's done exposing the NSA spying. But his success there doesn't make him a saint either.
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For that matter, why even bring up the electoral college? Even if the president were elected by a majority vote, the odds of the election being a tie or decided by a single vote is incredibly small—almost certainly too small to be able to rationally justify the time spent researching candidates or even traveling to the polling location.
> with the failure to close Gitmo

He tried and was blocked by congress. On the rest of the points, I agree.
Or they made what they thought was the best choice among the only two viable choices.

This is a wrong methodology. If you don't accept them - don't make such choice at all. There were other alternatives, but the current voting system prevents anything from competing with the two dominant parties.
That sounds very violent...
Is it the case that people don't have enough control over the government? As far as I can tell, we have exactly the government we want, or at least exactly the government you might expect to get in a compromise between rural middle America, suburbanites, christian conservatives, and urban yuppies.

The people who strongly oppose the security measures taken after 9/11 are in the minority. They were part of Obama's coalition, but were almost certainly outnumbered by teachers or blue collar factory workers. I bet if you polled the public, "NSA surveillance" wouldn't rank among the top 3 concerns of even a sizeable minority of the people.

So when the government engages in legal (at the edge of legality, to be sure, but at least colorably legal), and the people don't strongly oppose the measures, why do we treat it as some sort of failure of democracy?
It's presented as a joke, but his real opinion is in there. George Carlin didn't vote in presidential elections.
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Brilliant, you get comfort from a murdering, torturing, loose cannon nut job, who takes no notice of his superiors. Not to mention making mistakes that kill others. Amazing. Its a live cartoon. Might as well have faith in Batman.

Yeah, I loved 24, but thank god its a wonderful fantasy and not real.

Oh, forgive me, but what was the episode where Jack and co got the bad guys by looking at facebook?
Typical BI blogspam. Should be flagged.
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The best way to distribute this device as far as possible would be to get it in skilled commercial hands. The creators should profit from giving sight to the blind. This sort of technology is a perfect example of wealth creation: the purchaser gains the ability to see and the creator gets money. Everyone wins.

I hope the creators become very, very rich. I hope they become so rich that someone else decides to compete by creating BionicEye 2.0.
I will chime in with how it is too. Since there are such tight margins in the popular vote, and large percentage participation gaps, when people vote a protest candidate it has the effect of 'pulling' votes from one of the two mainstream candidates. Ross Perot in the 1992 and 1996 Elections was credited or accused of changing the outcome of the election by taking votes away from Bush (the elder).

The result were more Perot like ideas being pushed into both parties to prevent that from happening.

Protest voting, even in rigged elections like Putin's election in Russia, are very effective political action.
You're right, but the question to ask is "are current leaders more than a product?".
CIA != NSA and I'd be pessimistic on the CIA funding projects for the NSA. They aren't the same org and they have reasons to not be, so they aren't all chummy.

This reminded me of how ham-handed we should expect the media handling of all this will be and how many windmills will be put up for people to teeter at while the real story and grander plan continues to roll past and evolve.
What zpool version is it at?
These weren't warrantless.
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Problem is that when you get a 404, you're typically expecting something else. A game isn't going to change your entire plan and distract you for 10 minutes. Wait.. this is the internet, that is what will happen! Genius!
> Here is the rub, if government does nothing and we get attacked people will complain. If government steps up and works to prevent an attack, people complain.

That's an inane justification for destroying our constitution. If people complain either way, but only one way destroys the constitution, why choose the worse one? Why would people complain if gov't prevents an attack? That makes no sense. I'm not sure you can call it "preventing an attack" when it's the gov't that is attacking us.

> Where is the balance?

There is no balance. The gov't is off the rails when it comes to expanding their budget and justifying expending law enforcement powers for the miniscule chance of a terrorist attack.
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FYI: %h implies --abbrev-commit and %cr implies --relative-date/--date=relative (Commit date Relative).
How is the emergence of superbugs immunity to antibiotic treatments entirely separate when they are different strands of organisms that were previously treated?
I'm trying to figure out if the '1' for the last character of the Google 404 error page is deliberate or accidental... pretty funny!!!!11!!1 (not)
Which one can you opt out of?
My one big concern would be what would prevent this from being used for the unsavoury activities like prostitution or drug production? Concierges, perhaps?
Looks nice and I like the whole privacy-focused ideology, however isn't this just an operating system with a control panel that easily allows you to install programs using a graphical interface vs. the command line? You know, like webmin/virtualmin, cpanel, etc.?

I suppose it makes a lot more sense to install a os + control panel on a device such as the rpi than a webserver (like using XBMC on a HTPC), so your project may have a future :)

Good luck!
Please take this off of the front page. Terrible blogspam.
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Whether or not is it "doable" depends on what you mean by "London" and what standard of living you are prepared to accept.
> As far as I can see there's no requirement that the process is completed "inside a tiny window"

Sure. I was referring to initial input form only. It's limited. Both, in space it can use (I hope Yandex won't let those widgets be huge), and in interactivity, like drawing complex HTML right away, without pressing "submit" (both, Yandex and Google would agree that it's a nice feature :) ((I saw that there are a lot of features, like interactivity are possible, but it's still not good old HTML+JS))

> So yes, widgets, though you seem to underestimate the utility of widgets. There are plenty of travel agencies with widgets for the first booking/search step on third party sites.

Well, you're absolutely right in this statement. For some reason, I'd be rather annoyed by these forms, and wouldn't trust them (same reasons: limited functionality and UI space).

Of course, let's all see how Yandex proves I'm wrong and they came up with great know-how!
If history has taught us anything, it is that at some point, no matter what society or period in time, someone will come along who has outwardly evil intentions and claim power. The less information they can obtain on any individual the better. While I do not think what is currently happening has evil intentions behind it (I think it is fear/money based), I'd rather not take any chances.
Well, of course the gov't withdraws. Even if the NSL is legit, the gov't should probably withdraw for the simple reason of protecting their program and their investigation from scrutiny. They already have the information they need. And, they can simply re-file the NSL later if that becomes necessary.

Now, consider the gov't's probable reaction when the NSL isn't legit, and they know it (I suspect this is the case for the majority of NSL's). The best strategy is still to withdraw the NSL, and evade scrutiny as much as possible.
You know, there's a conspiracy theory angle here.

A tactic I have observed for dealing with awkward leaks is to allow the speculation about the unknown aspects of the leak ramp up to extreme levels, then rebut the more ridiculous theories without addressing the sensible ones. Joe average reads the rebuttal, feels let down that the story wasn't quite as inflammatory as the hype had led him to believe, and moves on.

This PRISM business (of which there had been no hint before) is a massive one-up on the seriousness of the Verizon scandal, and its timing in relation to it is deeply suspicious. It wouldn't be too difficult for someone in the intelligence services to make an extremely pithy PowerPoint presentation (also suspicious - it's basically a bunch of arrows from the top tech companies to the NSA) about how the NSA slurps data from all and sundry and fake a leak to a newspaper.

I predict that this story will turn out to be a complete wash, and in the meantime everyone will have forgotten about the not-as-sexy but much-more-true Verizon leak.
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Does anyone have a good recommendation for a lightweight laptop (ideally 11", but 13" is OK I guess) that would run a BSD system out of the box (as much as possible)?

Trying to slowly start a switch from OS X for basic stuff (internet, writing LaTeX, writing some elementary code, etc.), something to replace my Macbook Air would be awesome.
Google does that too for unusual (yet correct) requests. Try googling this:

he is "100000000..900000000" years old
Not sure how this story is breaking and unexpected. This is exactly the type and style of program that was expected right after 9/11. It's totally the NSA's playground and the co-operation and/or backdooring of major, communication-funneling corporations would be assured. How is this shocking? It has little to do with political winds and everything to do with the spawn of the military-industrial complex... the military-infocomm complex.

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I lived in Argentina for a while. It's probably worst there. In many strange ways I see aspects of what I saw happening in Argentina happening here in the US.
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> refusing the job only means someone else will take it

If he's the only person who refuses the job, yes. But the overall effect depends on how many people refuse the job. If a significant percentage of technologists with in-demand skills refuse to do a particular kind of work, it will become harder for a company to hire that kind of employee. Lots of companies in the Valley are already having trouble hiring enough skilled staff, and competing on intangibles, ranging from perceived interestingness of work to perks like gourmet lunches, is one axis they use to try to get employees.
Nowhere in the past two days news has it been revealed that there are warrantless wiretaps in existence. The OP is confused.
The analogy I use is degree is to career what weight is to fitness. It's an indicator, and moving towards it helps your goals, but it's at best an imperfect marker and shouldn't be mistaken for the goal.

People who have degrees find it easier to get jobs than people who don't. But... The #1 person I've ever met in technology (by a large margin) doesn't have a degree. Neither did his CEO, or the CEOs of two of his largest competitors. But his firm and most others do most of their recruiting from top schools.

The degree is like a marker of "200 pounds" for fitness. There are many fit people over 200 pounds, and being 200 pounds isn't the goal. But on average, folks less than 200 pounds are healthier than people over it, so it's a worthy goal.

Getting back to the specifics of your situation... You can learn what you need to get a job, but you'll have to find the job through networking and "showing your work." It will be hard to get in via HR or through any kind of automated resume screen. If you can stomach school, find a way to finish it.

The "Great Ones" who don't need the degree drop out because they're already being too productive and school is just slowing them down.
I always thought it was due to a comment being of less than a certain number of characters, as a way of diminishing throwaway comments that may generally not add much to a debate.
I guess not?
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You could say that about a lot of immoral/unethical jobs.
A person receiving this implant will be able to receive more than just visual input from the world. He could receive input from the internet, or a virtual reality world. I imagine this is the first step of us moving to the net.
People who don't get the joke instantly and start with thinking "ho no, this is really a bad framework" don't think this is funny afterwards.

Know why? Because, well, the joke's on you :)
> refusing the job only means someone else will take it,

Isn't that true for almost any moral stance? Should I stop being a vegetarian because someone else will eat the meat anyway?
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I've completed 3 years of a useless degree that just has big fancy course names that make it look like we actually did things.

Reality: Course material from the early 90's, professors just email us wikipedia links and test us on diagrams and random crap from the internet. It's really really bad. 2 semesters at this school I can fit easily into one month of self study :|

Should I just put relevant coursework + how much of the education I completed? (3 years). I have an absolutely abysmal GPA so I'm wondering if its even worth throwing on the resume at this point.
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I think you need to rethink your argument. As far as i can tell, you're essentially saying "Take this job that's against your ethics or somebody else will".
It's just before you hit the space bar to begin playing the game, "404 Error! Press space to start," then it goes away. I missed it too until I saw your comment, then I went back and checked.
I also want you to elaborate on this.
Sounds like communism, is there really anything like that flat distribution?
And if I'm correct about where you live, the APCOA car park for that station is something ridiculous like 24 GBP per day.
Cut the common letters out of a newspaper or magazine.