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So because it worked before and we didn't have any problems we should do it again without considering the risks?
If you want to be taken seriously then keep it respectful. MPs regard themselves as representatives who use their own judgement, not delegates who have to do what their constituents tell them.

Do not rant. Outline your concerns clearly and directly, request that they take some form of action, and ask them to reply to you giving their views and what action they took. Remember that the MP will expect requests to be something actionable: ask them to consider writing to the Home Secretary and/or Prime Minister, speak if the matter comes up for debate, sign an early day motion, etc.

It's important to ask them to reply to you - and be prepared to follow-up if they don't. I've read that there is a lot of variation among MPs in how they deal with this kind of contact. My MP, a young-ish fairly enthusiastic Lib-Dem, is pretty good in this respect. More 'traditional' MPs may be not so good. Give them time, though. Despite the popular view, they are busy people.

Also remember that MPs as individuals have essentially no power in issues relating to day-to-day foreign relations and state security. Don't expect too much.

(Also, http://www.theyworkforyou.com/houserules)
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Javapocalypse now
You're assuming this is a democracy.
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I wonder how My feels right now?
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What advantage do connected lightbulbs have over connected lightbulb fittings? I can see that it's easier to deploy connected lightbulbs, but in every other respect (cost, configuration) I think connected lightbulb fittings would be better. Am I missing something?
I thought ".." was a hardlink to the parent directory created when a directory was created? Hence the kernel doesn't actually have to treat ".." as anything special, since, due to hardlinks, "it'll all work out"?
'Happy Birthday' lawsuit demands Warner Music pay back millions in royalties
"detrimental to the public good"? How about letting the public decide that?
The flipside of that is drugs that simply don't get made. The clinical trials and approval process are so expensive. If there's not enough potential for profits then no company even bothers to research it.

I do agree that big pharma goes too far with prices sometimes though.
There's something particularly vile about the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby being exploited to advance this legislation.
Do you really have to pay attention not to hold your breath while ascending?

I'd have thought you'd feel your lungs expanding and you'd have the reflex to let the air go away. Although on the other hand it's probably not a situation common enough for us to have evolved an inate reaction to it.
What percent of all copyrighted works generate majority of their revenue after the first 10 year - very small percentage - these are the outliners.

And most stuff with 200M production costs either flops and never makes it to black or makes the money back in the first month or so. Otherwise waterworld would be considered a great success.

Copyright should be incentive to create and not rent seeking.
Glad to see Nigeria is on Hacker news for positive news :)
Still more expensive than to pop down to game stop and buy a new one.
How about the situation when the documentation has to be prepared before any of implementation or coding starts (initial requirements, qc etc.) ?
Or just wait for 8.1 if all you want is boot straight to desktop.
If you're holding your breath, which a naive swimmer likely is, then it's perfectly possible to rupture parts of your throat when the pressure differential grows too large. I'm not sure if that'd be fatal or not, but it'd definitely be dangerous.

The pressure differential, in this case, was three times that between normal pressure and vacuum.
Excellent advice - particularly about making a request that is actionable and asking for a reply.
DC_water / DC_lungs * 70 m^2?
Yes! Finally some forward progress. Still needs work though.
Snowden banned from flying to UK
Even better - join their party, and vote in the primaries for candidates who share your views.
Actually the airports of Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Paris are all bigger, better and see more traffic than outdated Heathrow.
He'd be foolish to come to the UK anyway, we'd extradite him before he'd left the airport.
You could definitely argue that Heathrow isn't the best airport, but it's clearly the biggest by passenger numbers:

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

(CDG might be bigger for non-human traffic)
It'd be hard to provide any data to the NSA based on DuckDuckGo's privacy policy: http://donttrack.us/

(Unless, of course, you think they're blatantly lying about what they do and do not track, in which case I'm wasting my energy.)
Typical stuff from the Labour authoritarian-brigade (Straw, Johnson), joined as usual by their Tory clones. I'm surprised to see a Lib Dem signatory, but then you can find a LD somewhere who'll sign up to anything (much like academics).

The more disturbing thing is the political language in the letters, first accusing the Lib Dems of exploiting "coalition niceties," rather than standing up for person liberty and privacy, and secondly by trying to make it look like corporate interests:

"We find it odd that many critics of the Bill prefer to champion the rights of corporations over democratically accountable law enforcement agencies."

when in fact it's about individuals' privacy from state spying! Yes broadband companies said they didn't want to be responsible for logging all this data, but that's beside the point, really.

This sort of rhetoric will chime dangerously well with the tabloid-reading public, on top of the arms race against criminals/terrorists/drug addicts/whoever the "bad guys" are today -- I'm worried it will be a politically effective tactic.
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This piece is by Allegra Stratton, somebody with well known ties to the Conservative party. She is giving this letter more weight than it is worth (none of those opposition MPs are part of the shadow cabinet, and their positions on this were already known as far as I remember) to try and put pressure on the Lib Dems to cave on this issue. Not that I believe Labour is going to fight this, just that this letter doesn't represent any change or "renewed pressure". John Reid, another Labour former Home Secretary, was already making a disgusting spectacle of himself all over the news in the days after Lee Rigby was murdered saying it showed the need for more government surveillance.

Additionally, when Jack Straw comes out in support of some new Home Office policy, you have to put that into context. He should be facing public trial over deporting people to be tortured and lying about it[1][2], and the current government aimed to prevent that with their expansion of secret courts (part of the Justice and Security Act)[3], so he owes them big time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Straw#Rendition_and_tortu...
[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/apr/02/abdel-hakim-b...
[3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2012/sep/25/secret-courts-the-...
Oh, I get it! Is it "MySQL" -> "my sequel" -> "my child" -> "Maria"? That's quite clever! :)
However, they do break into secure nuclear weapons facilities....
GeoJSON is an entirely different type of data. "columns" and "rows" aren't a useful way to think about it; you have to talk about points and closed polygons and their associated metadata instead.
yeah, I meant Sun

same thing ;p
Jason Fried has a good reason why you should ditch your free plan
“… The majority of the revenues for our products come from people who sign up
for the paid versions upfront. So we definitely have people upgrading from free
to paid, but the majority of people who are on pay started on pay... of course,
more people are going to pick the free version and stay on the free version, but if
you’re looking to get paying customers, ask for money upfront and you’ll have a
lot better shot of getting them.”

- Mixergy Interview @ 6 minutes
I don't think it's the cut of the $5 that the consumer gets that the publisher wants, it's the $30 that gamestop slaps onto that to resell. I don't know what way gamestop prices things everywhere else, but in Ireland it's a rip off to all parties.

You buy a AAA title for €60, don't like it, trade it back in again a few days later. You get €10 - €20 for it. This then goes back on the used shelf at the €50 - €55 price point, just enough to make it slightly more attractive than purchasing at the rrp.
This is common sense, not news..
Sadly this seems to happen a lot. Playing on the emotions of the voters is the quick and dirty way to pass something.
> To show solidarity with the US (presumably the NSA and GCHQ are as thick as thieves)

Yes, and it is also consistent with the proposition that the UK's decision to extradite Assange was made at the political level in order to suck up to the USA.
a) Tony, b) hasn't been in power for some time now.
Welp, I'd bet that the majority of people here on HN who care about stuff like this are on this list.
Even if you have nothing to hide people you depend on might have something to hide. If a politician cheats on his wife, and only a small branch of the government knows this, they could use this to bribe him.
Why “Just let it happen, it’ll be over soon” is a rape joke
Ask HN : Freeze that page 
Don't you hate it when something steals your focus ? Some websites have become nigh unreadable with all the singing and dancing flash, gifs, auto-play and what not in the margins, popping up left, right and center, vying for you attention and distracting you. Wouldn't be great to have a plug-in that 'freezes' a page so you can actually read its content without all that jazz ? Is there such a thing and if not, what would be a good approach to go about creating one ?
Big Brother is WWWatching you feat. George Orwell. RapNews (2012)
You can use a mobile connection to check in, so clearly speed isn't an issue, I'm pretty sure that the 1.5mb min is just for multiplayer gaming
Unfortunately if they follow up and read through various descriptions of their activities they will know what they did wrong and take steps to correct it making the next fraud all that harder to detect.
The treaty was signed in 2003. He was pretty much in office as a walking rubber stamp for any Bush request back then if I recall correctly.
I've met plenty of eager 'leet' computer geeks whom are perfectly willing and capable of installing Debian, blindly following howtos and copying and pasting text from forums until they have a working system, and still completely clueless when it comes to general computer security or any other big picture aspect of how Linux works.

Hell if I'm to be perfectly honest I think I just described myself the first time I sat down with a spare computer and a big pile of Slackware floppies.
Yes and no. If you relax your breathing apparatus, air will escape naturally. However, if you actively hold your breath, the mounting pressure can actually lead to a tighter block. Rapidly expanding lungs are not something that falls within the daily experience of most humans, so it's best to be aware of the complications. Especially when panic sets in (and the journey upward from 30m will be quite long) it can cost a lot of self control to force yourself to exhale.
Thank you! In regards to them not replying: My local MP seems to take issues very seriously when written to. We had an issue a few months ago regarding my sister not being able to get to school and getting fined and she was in constant contact and helped solve the situation.
New NYC bill would require 3D printed guns to be registered
There is something about the political opportune moment. These are to a certain degree even predictable. For example currently it looks like we are building up the infrastructure for pushing through gun legislation. All we are waiting for is another Caucasian kid to nuts with a gun.
They're also not allowed to use US-based spam/malware filtering could-style services, since that also means that the emails are sent to places where integrity can't be guaranteed.
I also suspect that the timing works against this bill. It takes brashness (and not much sense) to propose this bill at this time.

Yes, in the middle of a major international scandal, let's imitate the bad guys. That's a great idea....
My objection is what's in this for me? How is this better than writing a CV? Try something like "Stand out from the hundreds of people applying for your next dream job by telling an authentic story with aufond.me"
Ellsberg on the High Costs of Executive Branch Secrecy
What does the raft of evidence, that was once conspiracy theory, coming true tell you/us? No wonder the internet being throttled is top of the agenda - information spreads exponentially until critical mass occurs and those that suppress freedom are removed from power - unfortunately, the powers that be use force and not so good things happen to some. Fear as a control mechanism works well for most people.

History and psychology prove power in the hands of the few corrupts. The only difference this time is the technology being used - the goal is the same as it was in every other case, control of dissenters of the imposed status quo.
Why is it bizarre ?

The UK government simply doesn't want a repeat of the diplomatic mess that was Julian Assange's asylum claim.
He'd be an idiot to come here, the UK government thinks the sun shines out of the USA's ass.
Noam Chomsky calls it class warfare.
Yeah, this project was apparently reported to Kickstarter weeks ago by multiple people and they didn't give a fuck until it blew up into a huge PR shitstorm after the makers of Kickstarted found out about it. I mean, the company doesn't exist, their photos are stolen, their tastings provably didn't happen, the product probably isn't even possible let alone feasable at that price...
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This seems to be a trend! Lets just hope there's not a kid walking around called 'Couch'
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I think I see what you mean, that the benefits should be more clear and more reward-oriented, that it should state what it does for you, instead of just what it does. (period)

Thanks for the insight, trying to make a product or app appealing is something I'm just learning
The government does something bad, you see the evidence and speak out. Those who support the government have no defence so they trash you. One way to to that is to use another one of those weasel words "conspiracy".

One of the usual arguments against "conspiracy" theories is that apparently it over estimates how clever and organised a government can be.

"Oh, don't be so silly, a government could never keep all that quiet, you silly little conspiracy theorist." Then as an aside, often talking tot the interviewer or audience, in a getting you on side tone, " Such poor weak people need to know that governments control everything. There is comfort in that for them".

Heard that kind of patronising put down before, used against people trying to be heard? Note how with the statements from both US and UK governments, they also avoid the direct answers? Same as google, FB, etc? "Trust us, we are only after the bad guys, and if you have nothing to fear..."

Hmmm, well, until a whistle blower spoke out, all that surveillance was conspiracy theory. Any one who spoke out or claimed it was happening was put down, patronised or accused of being a foil hatted nutter.

Except, it turned out to be true.

Or think back to how the illegal extraordinary rendition story broke. Rumours of secret night flights carrying kidnapped people and delivering them to off limits secret torture prisons in places out of jurisdiction. A very evil setup, denied left right and centre by the US government. Accusers were openly mocked. All until some UK plane spotters started taking down plane numbers and looking them up, connecting the dots.

So, yes, if you criticise the government or the power that be you are almost programmed to feel like a "wing nut", etc, etc. Just like you are made to feel "unpatriotic" or worse still, "traitorous".

Trust us, the are nukes in Iraq, we must invade......
Kind of sad when the original author has to fork his own project But pretty awesome that Free Software gives him (or her) the right to do so. It used to be you abandoned your code when acquired.
You're over thinking things. :) He literally has a daughter named "My" and another daughter called "Maria".
HN makes it easy for the NSA to collect names. Recycle your HN profile regularly. Green is the color of privacy.
Are you calling Noam Chomsky a conspiracy theorists?
I find it bizarre that they feel the need to make the statement - it's not like there is any chance he would be considering coming here.
PRISM fears give DuckDuckGo its best week ever
Also, have a look at this to better explain my problems in using UML for practical purposes: https://files.ifi.uzh.ch/rerg/amadeus/publications/papers/IW...
In case these help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_gas_pressures

> Following is a list of average partial pressures for a human at rest:
> Lung Capillaries	20-40 pO2 (mmHg)
> Alveolar air 35 pCO2 (Torr)

http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/oxygen-solubility-water-d_...
Solubility of oxygen in equilibration with air in fresh and sea (salt) water - pressures ranging 1 - 4 bar abs

http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=kt167nb...
In studies of the distribution of dissolved gases in the sea it is generally assumed that, whatever the location of a water particle, at some time it has been at the surface and in equilibrium with the air. In their studies of the dissolved nitrogen content Rakestraw and Emmel (1938a) have found that the water is virtually saturated (referred to a normal atmosphere), regardless of depth; therefore this assumption appears valid and also indicates that biological activity involving either fixation or production of nitrogen cannot be sufficient to affect significantly the concentration of this gas in the water. As the waters of the oceans appear to have been saturated with oxygen and carbon dioxide at some stage in their history when they were at the surface, the differences between the saturation values (computed from the temperatures and salinities) and the observed contents are measures of the changes which have been effected by biological agencies. The factors influencing the distribution of carbon dioxide are discussed in the following sections, and the distribution of dissolved oxygen will be considered in many places in the ensuing chapters.
Percona are part of the MariaDB foundation, though so far they still seem to be based off of Oracle's MySQL sources.

Red Hat's announcement wasn't much of a surprise (Fedora had adopted MariaDB some time ago, as has most of the rest of the known universe). A lot of enterprises rely on Percona for support and consulting, however, and should they make a switch, that's likely lights-out for MySQL. Though there's a low probability Oracle would consider transferring the name to a community foundation outside its control (the codebase really doesn't matter as it's GPLd) and the name could continue forward.

It's a pretty powerful message of how branding isn't the end-all in Free Software.
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I also live in Scotland and I've had this happen to me in the past.

It almost never happens by accident - the person keeping the line open is paying for it, after all. (Or, traditionally, was, with bundles and free evening/weekend calls, I've no idea if people actually pay for landline calls any more.)
Lol they see the outrage of the American population over the snooping programs and they think... "I want a program like that too".
Talk about selfish and not working in the peoples interest.
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> "Firebird" is non-trivial outside of english

What? I can imagine it is in a few languages, but not in any where "Oracle" is trivial.

And it does have a meaning, even if it isn't related to databases. "Oracle" is a bit clever that way.
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Eh, I'm just writing this incident as incontrovertible proof that hackers are just as mindless and irrational as any other group of people. I expect to be referring back to it in a few years.

Greenwald is our version of Richard Land. Not even interesting sociologically.
Heh. I suppose we all had to start learning somewhere. There were no such things as repos when I started playing with debian...

The key thing would still protect you though. If you don't have the right keys installed, apt will complain at you constantly. And if someone takes over a domain (like has happened here) and runs a malicious repo (no indication of that) you'll see the warnings again.

Trusting the debian team and a community trusted repo, backed up by signing, is a lot different than downloading unsigned packages from a variety of sites all over the net. IMHO.
Oracle didn't buy the product. They bought the name and the product was a nice extra. Likewise Oracle didn't really buy Java; they bought Sun and Java just happened to be a nice extra.

I've heard people say this was like what Cisco tried to do with Linksys by trying to get into consumer and SMB. Plus we know from Cisco what happens when you buy a brand and let it stagnate.

Buying MySQL for Oracle, I think, wasn't really a matter of creating a new foothold in the hobby/SMB market or the like. Bringing it under their name was about adding value to their own brand. "Look, we cater to the 'small' guys too!" (And that's however arbitrarily people define 'small' since Adwords clearly doesn't fit the label.) If it was somehow about gaining a foothold, I think that was secondary. And maybe it was their way of somehow muscling in on Postgres in that aspect.

Of course people will only continue to use a product if you show it some love. Freshly harvested fruit has a limited shelf life after all.
Especially since if you're doing an emergency ascent, it's quite likely that it's due to having problems with getting air from your cylinder (if your air supply was fine, you'd probably be doing a controlled ascent instead). It's very difficult to avoid holding your breath when you know you won't be able to breathe in again until you reach the top.
"^L g<tab> search" and you're searching Google.

I've had DDG as my default search engine. It's been a bit rocky. I've left it in place out of privacy preferences, and used it occasionally, but had actually started getting used to the google search method above.

I'm consciously reverting to using DDG more (it's getting better). Why? Because my privacy and rights do matter to me. I've still got Google literally a keystroke away (or !g from any DDG search, or !sp for StartPage's private proxied Google search).

And DDG's TTY mode is pretty awesome: https://duckduckgo.com/tty/
Or more worrying, they're buoyed by the relative lack of concern for increased surveillance.
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What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is its enormity.

Please don't tell me it's evil.

I believe you meant "scope", "scale", or "size".
So, we have people claiming that FEMA(?) have all these dormant prison camps all over the US waiting to lock millions of Americans up in the even of..... well, who knows?

Well, if Main Core is correct, these people have to go somewhere. If the prison camps are only in the imagination of loon conspiracy theorists, where would these 8 million go?

Strikes me the US, probably my lot in the UK too, needs a truth and reconciliation commission.
article on the topic: http://www.zdnet.com/amazon-launches-online-store-for-3d-pri...
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If he's just the CEO then he's an employee :)
> "my sequel" -> "my child"

Ha! Never thought of that. But it is simpler than that. His daughters are named My and Maria.
Probably a tool that clears the page to make it readable, for example: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clearly/iooicodkii...