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> people need to understand that Apple will not ship anything shitty when it comes time to release it to the general public

The apologists said this about Apple Maps as well
The Baroque cycle: Quicksilver, The Confusion and System of the World is awesome as well.
Who doesn't want to read fiction about The Royal Society, Isaac Newton and Liebniz mixed in with phrases in the line with "In memory of Englands greatest swordsman, beaten to death with a club by an Irishman". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
The real ____ guys of the...

You can fill in that blank with just about any superlative and it fits. My dream job would be to work for the secret army of northern virginia.
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If the CIA has an incentive to be known as ineffectual, then I can only conclude that I am most likely assuming that they are incapable of far less than they actually are. The idea that I am underestimating their vile capacity only serves to disturb me further.
Does it make any difference that at the time the communication was committed to, the gag order was not in effect?
I really hope that they tried to get the records through a court request to the right people rather then just calling the company and asking for it. I find it really unlikely that such records don't exist anymore. Phone call billing is the one thing that brings money to telcos and they're often processed and analysed. They may not be exposed to public, but not keeping a backup of them stored at least on some tapes somewhere for years is really surprising...
If only we had an elected body with oversight authority and subpoena powers that could make sure three letter agencies don't step out of bounds.

Nah, that's crazy.
The problem with pay walled journals is that they devalue old but good papers by making them harder to get ahold of. Anyways, the really good ones will find their way onto the open web somehow, the merely good ones maybe not.
You'd find some great suggestions in these past two discussions. [1] [2]

I also picked up a Grooveshark playlist from someone (but can't rememeber where I got it from) that works really well: http://grooveshark.com/#!/playlist/Ambient/54561881

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3547694

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3900711
On what basis? Personality?
As some one said(I forgot the reference ), it's not Flat design, it's flatter than previous version.

I agreed with "I think iOS 7, on the whole, looks worse than iOS 6." The icons look weird, and most of all, harder to be recognized than pre-version, that's why they lose their elegant.

I prefer to say, Flat design does not mean a flat element, flat appearance, flat interface. We should feel flat, the interactive should be flat, not just only our eyes see it is flat.
Life is way too short to be one-dimensional

Hi, if you don't mind, I am going to use this citation a lot.
If it all hushes down and we begin to get on with our daily lives, with the program still intact, perhaps you'll be able to make an information request. For a fee of course, oh hang on, isn't that how it already works?

You've got more faith in the freedom of information than sadly I! Perhaps information will randomly go missing. Just like the spurious claim that the CCTV network was down on the London underground on 7/7 (really??)

Or you'll get it rebuffed under something like:
‘likely to prejudice the defence of the British Island’

http://peacenews.info/node/6840/remote-killing

Hot air from the Tories in 2010:

http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2010/04/~/med...

1.
Never again be governed for years by a prime minister with no popular mandate. (Isn't that rather ironically exactly what we got!)

3.
They'll expand on the freedom of information act.

7.
They'll protect whistleblowers.

8.
The right to data act, the public will have the right to appeal if public bodies refuse requests for data collected by the government.
Thrash metal for me, no idea why it works for me but it does. Oddly enough I'm not really a fan of it while I'm not working.
He could be somewhat valuable for the Chinese in countering some PR claims against itself -- "China is monitoring dissidents", "China is hacking peaceful countries" etc etc. All that is true, but now that they have him in exchange of asylum he could become a talking head for them so they can now say "Aha, but US can't tell us anything concerting privacy, look at what they are doing!" And then invite him on a TV show to describe all the massive NSA surveillance apparatus.

What would he do? Would he cooperate with the traditional enemy? That might put his motives in question and he would become an easier target to slander. ("aha, he was a traitor all along, a Chinese spy etc etc.")
Ouch -- thanks for the correction.
Explosions in the Sky is my go to for this.
No, it's a series of tubes. You know, tubes.
"if somebody else is going to step up"

You're a freaking congressperson sworn to represent the people of the united states.

If something bad is being done, it's YOUR responsibility to "step up" not someone else's.

BTW what the hell is with the NSA calling it the "Black Star" - is that some sick joke about the death star destroying worlds? So the rebels took out the death star with the exhaust port - does that mean the Black Star can be taken offline by the A/C units?
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>No religious objection. The problem for me with GPLv3 is that it is not compatible with (privately) signed code. If it is possible to run unsigned code on my appliance then my proprietary code would not be secure, putting the entire business in jeopardy. If you can square this circle then I'd love to use it.

Your code is still under the full protection of the law. And no signing mechanism will prevent a competitor from simply dumping the flash and reading your code off there, if they really want to - if anything this is probably easier than running their own code on the system. So I don't see what using the GPLv3 changes.

If you're really paranoid, how about running samba in a chroot/jail/etc. where it has access to the data files it needs to serve/store, but not your code? (Your code can operate on the same data from outside the chroot). As long as you make it possible for the user to upgrade samba (which should be fine - you don't care what code runs inside this chroot, because it only has access to the same files the user could access via samba anyway, so the samba that runs in the chroot doesn't have to be signed) you're compliant with the GPL but haven't exposed the rest of your system.
At least no one was actively joking and boasting about their computer illiteracy the way so many do. ("I have to ask my kids for help to turn the thing on").
I came here to comment on the listening part, so I'll comment to you since you mentioned it.

The article says that being a good listener is an innate trait of being introvert. I must disagree. Something that is often considered innate in introverts is being self absorbed and self centered.

Introverts can stay quiet, that does not mean they're listening or that they care about what you're saying.

A good exercise imo to become a better listener is to repeat key things the person is saying, to really focus on their words. What comes naturally as an introvert is rather waiting your turn before you speak. Which is also an important component.
'Can Programming Be Liberated from the von. Neumann Style?' by John Backus is another great work very worth studying:

'Conventional programming languages are growing ever more enormous, but not stronger. Inherent defects at the most basic level cause them to be both fat and weak: their primitive word-at-a-time style of programming inherited from their common ancestor—the von Neumann computer, their close coupling of semantics to state transitions, their division of programming into a world of expressions and a world of statements, their inability to effectively use powerful combining forms for building new programs from existing ones, and their lack of useful mathematical properties for reasoning about programs.'

Thankfully, 30+ years later these problems are widely fixed ;)

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/papers/backus_turingaward_l...
Why do you assume people who disagree with you are "deliberately ignorant"? Maybe they feel that way because they know know more than you.
WOW. my first real look of the new design.(since most of the experts here are pro iOS 7 I would think it would be a dismal failure - if huge user base didn't exist)
Don't get me wrong- i kindof like iOS7 better but if I saw both for 1st time i would guess os7 would have been 1st gen.
Reminds me of lo bandwidth dialup days when I couldnt stand when graphics got in way of pure text.
Apple must have consumer groups like ford, kellog,etc.. who give their 2 cents.
No comments on what steve jobs would handle this (would he actually like the aesthetics - I guess it's the jobless era commencing. MS must be happy.
Did you try "stop reading fucking monad tutorials and write some code"?
Actually the USA does have secret laws.

Ask for the law requiring ID to travel. Nobody will show it to you. A decade ago an activist sued to try to see it, the case went to the 9th circuit, and he lost. Without being allowed to see the law.

See http://papersplease.org/gilmore/ for verification.
There's plenty of software out there.

One example: use 7-zip to compress to an encrypted .zip or .7z archive. Uses AES-256 and is dead-simple to use.
I doubt this is true. When someone with that kind of clearance disappears the feds are going to put some effort into trying to figure out what's going on. That someone may have turned him is a possibility they have to consider, among others.
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Haha, yeah I bet the kind of data they collect dedupes and compresses pretty well. They probably sometimes collect the same packet many times on its journey.
Yes yes! I'm a fan of Metallica but I can only listen Kill'em'All while programming. Either that or repetitive ambient/instrumental/chill-out without vocals.
Great post Yoav!
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It's not that simple.

Suppose that Alice has two kilos of Cocaine in her refrigerator, and then she breaks into Best Buy and steals a 72" TV. She gets caught on camera, but they're not sure it's her, so the police get a warrant to search her house. One officer goes into the attic and finds a 72" TV... bingo, she's gonna get convicted.

But another officer was in the kitchen, and found the Cocaine. No conviction. It's a legal search since they have a warrant, but the police can't use the Cocaine in the fridge as evidence, because they have a warrant to find a 72" TV. The fridge is too small for a 72" TV, so the police can't look in the fridge, and they can't use anything they find in the fridge as evidence.

Alice gets busted for stealing a 72" TV, but the conviction for Cocaine gets thrown out.

So, back to the wiretaps. Just because a wiretap is legal doesn't mean that all the evidence you get from a wiretap will be admissible as evidence.

Second, calling the wiretaps legal does not make them so. The courts might declare that they're illegal without a warrant.

Third, it's the executive branch that calls the wiretaps legal. We should be at least this specific. The executive branch can claim PRISM is legal, but only the judicial branch has the power to actually decide on the legality.
I wouldn't be surprised if he left Hong Kong before we'd even heard of Edward Snowden. I imagine getting overland from China to Europe wouldn't be too difficult (we're talking high values of difficult here).

Equally he could have previously acquired an alternateidentity during his planning, and might even be in South America by now.
My favorite ambient artist these days is Lucette Bourdin: http://relaxedmachinery.com/earthmantra/artist-detail.php?id...

Also of interest is StilllStream, an ambient radio station: http://stillstream.com/
It really sounds a lot like the run-up to World War I. Kings and militaries running around gearing up and thumping their chests, polarizing their populations, with only the dimmest understanding of the utter hell which they were about to unleash upon themselves.

Thankfully, we people are awake now and can put a limit on the foolishness before it gets too late. But this is why a free and open internet is so important.
I'm deeply in love with Zoe Keating's work. She's a cellist who composes and records her own music, building compositions using a looper. It's beautiful stuff, and I find it perfect for coding.
Snowden's comments are only in contradiction with Google and Obama's if you assume the NSA is using FISA requests to obtain all of its data, and that FISA requests are actually being handled as they were in the late 1990s.

Since it is unlikely that either of these are true, I'm not sure why you want to leap to the conclusion that the NSA (not Snowden) is lying about its own capabilities.
I regularly the Fez soundtrack by Disasterpeace, and musicforprogramming();[0] has quite a few ones (esp. 06 and 08) that "just work" with my brain and make me zoom right into the zone in seconds. Also, This Binary Universe by BT.

[0]: http://musicforprogramming.net/?c=manifesto
I use 25-min "pomodoro" mixes from there http://tech.no.com/
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After reading and digesting rayiner's (and others') points elsewhere on this thread I realize the most likely approach the prosecution would take is to assert (c):

c) "You have signaled that you received an NSL and are therefore in violation. It's your own damn fault you were forced to choose between lying and breaking the law"
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I have always heard about it and never thought it would happen to me. However, I recently spent a few days in the hospital before they were able to realize the link between a tick bite and my illness. Any thoughts on how to aggressively tackle this nasty bacteria?
I'm a bit surprised not to see any papers by Simon Peyton-Jones (of Haskell fame) on the list. I guess most of the papers on this list were old classics and many of the authors have already passed away or retired.

SPJ is one of the most relevant programming language researchers of the past 20 years, but maybe his work is "too new" for this list. Reading his books and papers taught sparked the interest in programming languages in me.
And a brilliant one! I gave you a point
The difference is that the tortured guy was suing the government, while this bank robber is being sued by the government. As it's a criminal case, the standard of proof is on his side. So, it's not necessary for there to be proof that he's innocent, all he needs to do is to create a little bit of doubt.

He's probably hoping that the government doesn't release records, as this could possibly be enough to free him.
Dubstep and trance music usually do the job for me
> Programming is mostly reading code. I don't feel like looking it up right now, but Clean Code references the study. Reading code is coding.

Well said - certainly the most valuable skill I've picked up post education and working for $BIGCORP is the ability to quickly read and understand other people's code.
http://vimeo.com/68207051

To paraphrase Vaclav Havel, when we occupy:

“We are stepping out of living within the lie. We reject the ritual and break the rules of the game. We discover once more our suppressed identity and dignity. This gives our freedom a concrete significance. Our disobedience is an attempt to live within the truth”.

I found this video of lawyers being dragged from court disturbing:

http://erkansaka.net/archives/23464
I think it will eventually evolve into a system where everyone has access to everything, but it might take a generation or two. Intersting times.
But you never 'cancel' a canary unless you foolishly set up an automated one: you update it or you don't. Someone telling me to 'not communicate' by actively lying (by updating the canary) is at least getting creative at language. Maybe that will be the outcome, I don't know. All kinds of crazy things are the law.
I think that music just tricks my brain into thinking that what I'm doing is cool though it almost never is.
Yes. Something is clearly amiss, which is why the focus on Snowden is -- as Juan Cole pointed out -- an irrelevant distraction seized on by those who wish to pull attention from the real issue at hand.

I also wonder at the technical naivity of those who believe that the NSA document must be wrong because Google and Obama have issued narrow statements in support of the FISA process. Because if we had to place bets, my guess is that (1) the NSA is either archiving all of the underlying data flowing across US backbone pipes and using this to reconstruct databases such as Google email archives, or (2) it has access to private SSL keys that let it decrypt content transmitted across SSL, or (3) it has automated the process of issuing FISA requests to the point where the process offers no sensible check on the abuse of power or protection of individual privacy.
Why do you need NFC when you stick a credit card tag onto the back of your phone? This solution doesn't need a battery to work, whereas using your phone to pay does.
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His lawyer is a genius and a hero. A genius because when he doesn't get the records (and be wont), it will appear the prosecution has something to hide. He wins either way.

And a hero, because this makes clear the exact problem with these databases. Once they exist, there are endless uses for that each -seem- reasonable. This request illustrates that slippery slope in a way that makes even the NSA nervous.
It seems like you get no joy from bending the rules. Maybe it just makes me feel young.
I did not get how they handle intellectual property.
I don't suppose Dan can keep the dope..
Sadly, last.fm radio isn't available on most parts of the world anymore.
I need something that my brain isn't going to try to follow along with, like late 60's/early 70's jazz.
I think a lot people who are for surveillance assume those records may help them one day. Yea they have nothing to hide, but they have nothing to protect them in return.
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I really don't see why I need to bump phones (or come within a few cms) to share data, when I can share data with someone 6000 miles away using the internet/wireless. BTW, does anyone know what the bit rate of NFC is? Also, how about sharing data with MULTIPLE people at the same time? Does one need to bump phones with all of them? With wireless you can simply multicast to all of them and save a lot of time and battery.

As for non-sharing applications, like tagsfordroid or similar, why not use wireless technology? Instead of tapping your phone against a table or something, just press a button on your phone. If WiFi is too energy-inefficient, then maybe something like ZigBee is a better solution. Maybe the ZigBee radio can be started on-demand when the user wants to use it. Wireless has a non-zero radio range as compared to NFC which makes it much more useful.
I have boycotted everything from that 'shitty little country'*

* Daniel Bernard reference.
I use all songs available on Spotify by In Flames. It's mostly melodic and rhythmic, usually upbeat, and the vocals and the higher spectrum percussion drown out ambient discussions without being very thought-provoking in themselves.
Plenty of reasons. Firstly, look at how society interacts. "What do you do?" is a frequent conversation starter with new people, and already pigeon holes us by our employment. That starts to build a sense of identity with our work.

Then there's the vicious reward cycle. Do something right with work and you're rewarded with praise, with positive feedback, with kudos. Do something wrong and... well you see where it's going. It's more subtle than how I train my dog, but not much.

And then the tech world is in awe to entrepreneurs and startups, where long hours and being defined by passion for what you do and it being the sole calling in life are the norm. You or I, older now I suspect (I certainly am) may look at it and shake our heads and think of the failed relationships we've seen (the same in any high-powered area of work), but for people without that view it's not easy. I had the same way of thinking as the OP, and even now I still get jealous of those who achieve much by having their work as their identity and aim in life.

And finally society again. There seems to be a growing expectation this is the norm and the right way, like the acceptance that single parent families are normal and a good way for children to be brought up (don't argue with the subject, think about how long that's been an accepted view). For ambitious, maybe insecure graduates starting out in work, that's a huge sense of competing to 'get to the top'. Why they're not sure, but it sure gives one an identity... or does it?
I drive an MRI scanner or 2 that are built on windows 2000. It's so very painful that modern scanners use such old OSs. The OS is masked from the user, but as soon as you try to do something complex (real complex, like getting images onto a memory stick) you have to use a series of crude hacks to get an explorer window up, then work around the disabled functions to get data off the scanner without using the network port.
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Your comment amuses. On the one hand, its possible that the CIA folks in the article are offering bad advice, either knowingly or unknowingly. For example, I imagine that the CIA has a guy in the basement making fake ids, rather than having field agents make their own. On the other hand, I doubt you know more about it than they do. Of course, you'd never show off your collection of fake ids to win a internet argument...
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Lyme Disease and a bad spider bite took my grandfather's life before I was born. From what I understand, nowadays they treat the disease by basically nuking it with antibiotics. Its probably best to talk with a doctor and see if you can get some more advice from them, or perhaps seek out a dedicated support group online. They'll probably have more tips and tricks.

That, and do some research on how to prevent the tick bite in the first place. When I was young my mom always made sure to point out that we needed to be careful during the times when lyme disease was most prevalent. If you're in an area with a lot of brush and you see deer around, you'll want to be careful. Deer ticks are the primary carriers of the disease. We'd always make sure to keep an eye out for the telltale bullseye shaped rash - luckily we never saw it outside of pictures online.
Loving the Up Tempo channel this morning. Nice work.
This article is rather short on details. Here are a few more articles for the interested.

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_7230967?source=comment...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-ns...

http://www.denverpost.com/nacchio/ci_11786798
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I presume you are blocking Flash.
BS. just go to http://www.linlap.com/

and be informed about every distro. not just ubuntu deals that probably require binary blobs to make the hardware work.
I can recommend Top 2:
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