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Making Tor standard is never going to happen. It requires
a lot of modifications to the browser

That may be true for Gecko, but I don't see it as unreasonable to start baking security into Servo, since it is a few years from being production ready and is being built from scratch.
The leak is not the story. The story is the substance behind the leak, you know, the spying program. There's so much there that hasn't been explored and properly reported on yet.
Everyone has a priority list, whether they acknowledge it or not. If everything is important, nothing is important.
Because it says 'attorney-client privilege' and not 'American attorney-American client privilege'.
Biden is one of the most dangerous men in politics. Very convincing when speaks (as in this video) and has a great sense for politics but not known for his intelligence (barely graduated lower tier law school) or honesty (caught cheating at law school and plagiarizing speeches, regularly called out for inaccurate statements). Everything is just a means to an end - in this video hurting his political opponents. I would be extremely surprised if he were to repeat these statements while Vice President or perhaps someday President. This makes me sad.

http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/bidens...
Oculus author here - Oculus detects other metrics that look similar, ie that have a simlar anomaly or shape in the same time span. It doesn't pick up metrics that have other, "dissimilar" anomalies - that part is left to Skyline

Oculus treats all metrics that it gets from Skyline equally at the moment, ie it doesn't know if what it's looking at is an aggregation, or a single set of data points. It just takes the data as it's presented. It would be totally possible, however, to add 10 and 20 minute averages (for example) for the same metric into Skyline so that Oculus would treat them separately.
Since it's all such a big secret then perhaps the existence of the material cannot be proven, therefore he leaked nothing.
I got theory. There is a limit what you can do with WYSIWYG editors. Once you reach the limit, the software starts getting in your way, hiding your errors and making you work harder.

It applies for many software. From HTML to 3D modeling.
>Yeah, when you've been here more than a year you can lecture me on "courteous discourse".

I've been around here for more than a year. More than a few years, actually. It looks like you're throwing a temper tantrum over these NSA-related posts on HN. Come back next week, I'm sure there will be something new over which you can complain.

Meanwhile, there are plenty of us for whom this is a very important topic. No, government spying isn't new, whether in the US or elsewhere (I'm in Canada). But there is a place to talk about how we ought to handle this, as the targets of that spying.
Doubtful.
Most of the time you have to file N copies of a brief, where N > 10.

(There is a lot of electronic case filing now, but ..)
For example, for the supreme court, you need 40 copies.

These poor bastards lose no matter what, because of how many times they have to empty the recycling bins.
That was my first thought too -- Windows has had timer coalescing since at least 2008, if not longer.
plus, they can refuse entry to any non-citizens for any reason or no reason
Yes, but you say that as if being killed by a nuclear weapon is somehow more traumatic than being burned alive in a city-sized Holocaust incited by incendiary weaponry. Or even that being blown to bits by conventional weaponry is somehow better.

Think about it: Germany never used nuclear weapons on the U.S.S.R., were they somehow more moble?
They are probably angry that European Union doesn't have such a program, too.
Beautiful, is this UK specific? I tried Chicago, IL to no avail ;}
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Kippt is generally great and I've been using it regularly since signing up, but the interface is just awful. I don't want to see my links as a weird Pinterest-inspired grid or a ridiculously low-density list. I want an actual list, with a reasonable amount of white space. I also want a way to go straight to the link and bypass the link's page within Kippt.

Basically, putting things in to Kippt is a pleasure. Using the information once it is in Kippt is a painful experience. I find myself dreading actually going into Kippt to get at a link I saved previously.
If faith in something greater than oneself gives people hope; I'd think that liberals would not have a problem with that.
One that lives in the year 2013?

Which communication channels are supposed to be under attorney client privileges, then? I didn't know there was a list.
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What a convincing retort.
I wonder if it's just that the folks who convince their bosses and boards to make bad moves just don't care. It's a subsidized party. Acquisitions mean travel, splashy events, big budgets, and no one remembers who did what or who's to blame for it as long as you stay a few pay-grades outside of the spotlight, and have a new job before the last one craters.

Picture generals and arms dealers seducing politicians into voting for a war, keeping themselves just outside of the consequence field-of-fire.
Isn't the US already (slowly) withdrawing/reducing the stationed troops?

Besides, germany wouldn't really have a chance. The few nuclear rockets we control would probably not be ready in time. The USA could just bomb germany down, like it was planned in case of a war with the UDSSR.
Yes, it's UK specific... for now!
Ok so zram creates a compressed block device in memory. Apparently it's sometimes used to hold a swap space for virtual memory. Compression rates are about 50%, ie you can roughly "double" your memory.

I was going to say that this is crazy: why waste RAM to hold swap space, when you could use that RAM to avoid swapping in the first place. I still think it'd be odd to reserve a significant chunk of your memory for it. But I can see how it'd be pretty cool if you can manage it dynamically, ie. only start compressing memory as you run out of it to avoid hitting the disk.

Of course the usual rule still applies: if your PC swaps often, get more RAM; or if the RAM is not upgradable, go back in time and buy a machine with more RAM, then smack yourself on the head for not doing so in the first place. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Not only that but nfsv4 has its own issues in regards to userid/gid mapping.

Setting that up with kerberos is... not fun (speaking from the solaris/linux/aix side of things).

Not that smb would be better for most unixes mind you, just that nfsv4 is its own version of hell in some ways.
I disagree, It's already well documented how the US government follows social networks and decline people entry over comments made[1].

Where this case differs is that the comments were over private messages - which means that the intel would have been collated covertly. So the real question is whether this is another piece of the PRISM jigsaw or just a sensationalist article cashing in on the hysteria that the NSA leaks have generated.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/30/leigh-van-bryan-a... (though in that case - I actually blame the visitors for posting dumb comments rather than the US government)
All electronic devices are subject to search at the U.S. border.

http://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/crcl-bor...
Many of the comments here debate whether the news media should be reporting about his lack of degree or other facts about him.

Consider the corollary, though. Should the media be omitting parts of his life or credentials? We have a man who took a significant unilateral action and as we debate that action and the proper response to it, issues like his motivations and qualifications need to be reported, not hidden.

Given the magnitude of the revelations, Snowden himself shouldn't be the media's primary focus, but information on cell phone data grabs and PRISM for everyone except his leakees is very hard to come by.

We're at the early stages of this debate and we're just scratching the surface.
I'll try to type slower this time.

Manning. Said. So.
Enough people can stomach them in their districts to elect them.

Progressives would turn a lot of stomachs off the blue coastal areas. This site has an overrepresentation from California and Europe, which skews our perception.
At 15:15 Pacific time, no regular seats seem to be remaining -- no quantity other than zero can be selected, though not marked as Sold Out.

EDIT: A coworker is suggesting that Eventbee's payment system is down and not letting him accept a newly-available ticket.
The same kind that run third party provided spyware on their personal computers in order to take exams in law school.

Do you have a specific case in mind?

schools often direct students to behave irresponsibly with respect to data security

Why would they do that? Reference?
Consider that he may have whistled heroically or maybe leaked for $million$; i.e. by derailing the U.S. attempt to circumvent tax evaders using Swiss banks which was signed as a deal last Friday; and will now be unlikely to survive parliament.
This is a filtered noPRISM-version of HN: http://hnapp.com/filter/bb4abe7a00d09a35b95c6763f09c0cfb

I found it in a comment from a few days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5846416 ). It's a bit outdated, you should add "Snowden" to the filtered words.

(hint: To read the HN comments, click on the points/comments numbers.)
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Because we expect our government to act ethically, not merely within the confines of the law?
Quick question; do you remember when Aaron Swartz died? Pretty much every article on the homepage was about that. Would you have requested the same ruling then?

I think this is more to do with a persons engagement on the topic in question. Hacker News works by following the consensus of what the majority want to see. So I think it is working correctly.
I think it had more to do with the fact that Yahoo needed to start making money with Geocities... and couldn't.

The sequence seems to always looks the same:

1. Big social network needs to change privacy settings and TOS in order to make money: users start to leave.

2. Big social network is under increased pressured to make money and introduces paid accounts (or more advertising): most of the users leave.

3. Big social network is no longer cool (because everyone's left and it's full of ads) and can no longer innovate (because there is no more money).

4. Big social network dies

We've seen this play out before: Digg, MySpace, Geocities.

I'm willing to bet this will play out with the current crop of consumer networks: Facebook, Twitter, Reddit.
Germany itself isn't the only reason I doubt the US would attack Germany. If the US attacked Germany, I'm sure most of Europe would side with Germany at this point. So it would be akin to attacking all of Europe. Not something that's worth a single NSA leak, I'm sure.
We are in the Stasi 2.0 era now in US.

Everything you do, buy, places you visit, people you socialize, your interests, opinions, everything you say, etc. is under surveillance. Funny how East Germans would risk their lives just to escape their Stasi-controlled world.
Of course, that company is clearly not worth that amount of money even closely. It was a startup running exlusively on investors' money with no model of generating revenue whatsoever. Without the acquisition their perspective would be to run out of money and fade away. Yes, they have an impressive userbase, but even that userbase is hardly worth $1B.

The price paid obviously has nothing to do with the real value of the company. I guess Google managers have their motives. On the Google's scale usual business rationales do not work.

Obviously, the giants pay billions mainly because they can.

Speaking of the motivation, this deal looks pretty much like shutting down a competitor, though I do not know what Google will actually do.
Actually, the Constitution does apply to people that are not US citizens. However, it's the "law of the land" and the border (and other countries) is not part of that land.
The Yahoo Weather app is quite well done and I think one of the best weather apps on the iPhone. Apple couldn't have chosen a better weather app to "steal" from.
We have a Parliamentary system with six parties with at least one seat. For the most part, I'd say it barely has any effect, except maybe on some important social issues (same-sex marriage and drug use decriminalization), but which could have passed without them.

The problem is that the two major parties coalesce the broad ideology-less voters, and while the others have a solid core of supporters, they can never really get a meaningful number to really force change.

I mean, even during one of our worst economical crisis, with unemployment and poverty hitting record highs, the polls barely show any increase for the other parties.
This was a great talk, but remember that the hardware changes required to make this a reality may be hard to convince vendors to implement for a long time.
Microsoft joins Google calling for increased transparency of gov data requests
Exactly! And Digg. And Friendster.

Advertising can be a good business, but it still needs to follow the same formula: Revenue - Expenses = Profit

In my mind, Google is the only real B2C internet company that's proven itself.
Except for the tiny fact that you attack Germany, you attack EU. And that's pretty much a world war right there. Nobody wants another world war, don't be silly.

M.A.D. still exists by the way. It's still why all major nations are at peace and why the EU gave so much flak to the US a few years ago when Bush wanted to install a nuclear shield. He later had to back down or serious stuff would've happened. (afaik)

Also, according to wikipedia, Europe has 150 to 240 nuclear warheads. Plenty enough to destroy all US major cities.
16% of web vulnerabilities found by a scanner are still XSS.
That's not the part that I find unlikely.
The Linux procfs is nothing like Plan 9's /proc or Inferno's /prog, in fact it's nothing like any other operating system's procfs. All procfs are different, only the name, and perhaps the mountpoints are similar. I'm not even talking about implementation details, I'm talking about the abstraction itself; what does it do and what it allows you to do.

The clone(2) system call is somewhat superficially similar to Plan 9's rfork(2). Linux came to the same conclusion as Plan 9; threads vs. processes is a false dichotomy. The fundamental schedulable kernel entity is a thread and threads may or may not not share resources, like address space. The similarities end quickly, however. Linux clone(2) is crippled by the fact that flags that allow novel abstractions, like universal network transparency, such as the flags that set up per process namespace are restricted to the superuser. This is of course a consequence of the Unix security model and because Linux has suid binaries.
You're confusing WWII germany and post WWII germany. Stasi was the ministry for homeland security of East-Germany in the post-WWII era untill the fall of the wall (1950- 1989). It has nothing to do with the Nazis (1930ish to 1945) The Stasi was a way to take hold of the country and get it stable again after the nazi regime fell. Though they did that by turning _EAST_ (not west) germany into a police state.
Of course not worth it. Think i just minded the "powerful".
Israel regularly makes people log into email and social media accounts.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/04/israel-airport-emai...
It was an email thread. In part of it we had given her our address and directions to our house and phone numbers on how to reach us when she got here. She had printed it out and was carrying it with her in her carry on. She allegedly fit the 'profile' and every woman travelling alone on her flight had their bags searched apparently.
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Are you serious? You don't think fumbling around trying to tell people where hazards, traffic, police, bla blah is an attention getting process? What about the whole reward nonsense like giving people the thumbs up. Or, what about when you're warned of a hazard and then asked to verify if it's still there or not. I honestly can't see how a driver can do all that and not have their attention to the road/driving impeded.
Projecting, mainly. Just like you.

No, I think we should have more robust privacy protections and that this would require a constitutional amendment, but I'm also aware that my view has little traction at present. I'm sanguine about monitoring of things like CDRs because it seems an inevitable result of technology, and it's unrealistic to expect the government to put itself at a legal disadvantage compared to individuals and businesses. On the other hand, this fact of modern technological life is why I choose not to put my life on services like Facebook, despite the significant social disadvantages that entails.
Once I was looking for the number of the person I was going to stay with in the USA and they asked to have my phone. I said it's okay, I'll find it for you.
These arguments always strike me as coming from people who only spend time with Apple's designs. The folks who think that only Apple designers are leaps and bounds better, are the only thoughtful producers, and are the sole visionaries beyond just the UI.

Let's face it; look to the Samsung vs. Apple case to see how it is the laymen making billion dollar calls. Not designers. It's not designers that Apple has a majority rule over.
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While I principally agree with you, I must add that _the_ data protection related historical event that impressed me most is how the Nazis used the excellent Dutch census data that fell into their hands to round up the Jews of the Netherlands. I don't know how widespread knowledge of this is (I was taught it in school), but I've heard it brought up a few times in discussions about personal data.
Those aren't the nukes that Germany would have to worry about.

The U.S. attacking Germany is even more paranoid than chem-trail mind control agents, I'm just throwing that in to go along with the hypothetical.
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Blackmail is a classic tool intelligence agencies use to "turn" people into "assets" who will participate in their operations, precisely because it covers itself up.

Imagine someone comes to your door and produces materials that could destroy your life. Even if you want to call their bluff, are you really going to run to the local TV news and tell them the story? You'd be destroying your life just as thoroughly as the blackmailer threatened to. It takes a lot of courage to own up to something that could wreck you; more courage than most people have.
> It is more that it seems unlikely the NSA or other groups who may be able to get access to private messages care about German teenagers attempting to work in America.

Playing devils advocate here; there maybe more to this teenager than we're aware of. She might be an active protester or have left vocal remarks on other locations online that triggered closer inspection.

I'm not trying to say that your explanations are wrong or less plausible though, just that assumptions are being made on both sides of the argument.
Why was this voted down? No one other than US citizens has a right to enter the US.
`clone` is on the way :) https://github.com/jingweno/gh#roadmap
There are 7 seats currently reserved but unpaid. I think they'll clear out in something like 15 minutes if they aren't paid within that window. Otherwise, it's all sold out at this point.

Edit: Several tickets have opened up -- they're gonna go quick.
On the other hand, the latest revelations may be an "inspiration" for making up[0] such stories. As the demand for ominous surveillance themed news seems to be rather high right now, I guess it's one of the easiest way to gain wider attention by small publishers. After all most of the tabloids work this way, don't they?

[0] I mean, they might not be totally made up, just written in a way that suggests more than is really going on.
> dinosaur DNA is way, way too old to recover.

With today's technology. Assuming a cache of DNA isn't found in conditions where it's unusually -- perhaps uniquely -- well-preserved. Without stitching together multiple samples or splicing in DNA from other species to make up gaps or degradations.

Saying it's fundamentally impossible is equivalent to saying you know something about your unknown unknowns. Impossible is a very strong claim -- not always insurmountable, e.g. thermodynamics says that certain high-efficiency engines can't exist. But I'm skeptical that we can be super-confident that we'll never be able to clone dinosaurs.

Of course there are gaps between what happens in the book/movie and what's possible today. That's why it's called science fiction -- if they limited themselves to what's currently feasible, it would be a documentary.

(Actually, that would be a fun way to troll someone who's never seen the movie -- tell them it's a documentary before you show it to them.)
The original PC versions can be downloaded legally from the ScummVM web site, along with Lure of the Temptress.

You can also download Flight of the Amazon Queen, Dreamweb, Drascula and Slotys (from other editors).

At least one Revolution programmer is also a ScummVM contributor, BTW.

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/#extras
You see the thing is that it's nothing like windows phone. Having had it all day, I can definately not see any such 'copying.' The style of the design is not the design itself. To copy is the act of replicating something.
You can deter people from pointing guns at people by promising to punish those who do that..
Many users would find a USB3 array to be fast enough. I would likely go that route instead of a TB array just based on the cost difference between the two.

I expect that a 4k display will totally consume a TB port each. The 2x 2560x1600 displays should be chainable off a single TB port (you can do that currently). That leaves to more TB ports. Also, I expect that each TB port has its own bandwidth separate from the others, so if your TB array is the only device on the 5th or 6th port, I expect there would be no issue.

There is certainly no getting around that your tower would require a separate disk box and DVD or blu-ray reader. That is unfortunate.

The video card upgrade situation deeply concerns me though. The FirePros aren't entry level like the GT120s are, but they won't be top of the line 6 years from now. Further, what if I need to be running CUDA applications?
Observation by police officers? I already see plenty of people texting while driving. The first hint is that they're driving like they're not paying attention. When you pull up alongside them you see them glancing down repetitively.

Also, the penalty fines are a joke. I think in CA at least they were very low, especially considering IMO distracted driving is way more dangerous than other simpler measures like speeding.
Put on my 5, no show stopping issues but I definitely agree on the awful battery life. Started at 90% and was at 60% 2.5 hours later with pretty light use. Doesn't seem much slower to me outside of the music app, which is really slow currently.

Have had a few issues with apps, most notably the Apple podcast app which is completely broken. Had one incident where the lock screen was totally blank other than the top bar but was fixed by a restart.
I'm fairly confident his point wasn't that cell phones were the most dangerous possible toy while driving. I think he was trying to convey that driving was the most dangerous possible task people regularly undertake, and any distraction during its performance is recklessly dangerous. The phone-based wording was probably just contextual, given the original post.