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There is no single "Linux", nor there is a single "Thinkpad".

I have Ubuntu 12.04 on my Lenovo W500 and it works flawlessly. Everything worked out of the box — including graphics, wifi and ethernet, touchpad, ACPI keys and power saving options and sleep / hibernation. Conclusion : YMMV.
As you found out, changing a company from the inside can be very difficult. James Shore wrote about his experience when he tried to do this and it is a very interesting read.

http://www.jamesshore.com/Change-Diary/
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American toilet paper is the best !
The telegraph just as disruptive in it's time as the Internet was in the 1990s. Before the telegraph, messages took days, if not weeks to reach cross-country. Every telco since then, (Including the Internet) has been an extension or abstraction of it. Awesome article.
Being alive is the best way to do something about it.
The drones currently unofficially over china are not carrying weapons so couldn't "take him out" as the OP I was responding to was talking about. Of course their might be something else the US are doing that we don't know about...
Just another disorganised party that rather spends time arguing amongst itself than actually fight issues at hand.
Just another form of clicktivism.

I resigned for just this reason.
I probably should have said it is less bad than being spied on by foreigners. At least if you have a democratic country you can campaign and vote for candidates promising to stop the mass intrusion or even stand on that platform. I don't like the monitoring but at least in a democracy there is something that can be done about it (not that it is easy to persuade a sufficient number of people to join a cause but it can be done).

I would expect governments to try to protect their citizens from foreign spying[1] (and to try to spy on foreigners). I would expect them to regard other countries efforts as illegal and prosecute (or revoke diplomatic status and send home where applicable) those trying to spy on their citizens.

Internally there are several different issues with the recent NSA:

1) The high level of intrusion offensive and dangerous at the apparent levels that it is currently occurring.

2) The democratic process seems to have been poorly followed, NSA is far exceeding its stated brief (foreign inteligence).

3) Constitutionally the situation seems at best dubious.

Issue (1) applies internally and externally. The others are US internal issues.

[1] See Echelon etc. and other actions as cases where this expectation is wrong.
But that is not a feature of NAT, that is a feature of a firewall (for example, it is possible to route incoming packets via the WAN as well as masquerade outgoing ones from the LAN - most people wouldn't even know their pants are down). It is a coincidence that home routers sometimes provide both leading people to conflate their firewall with their NAT system - but if a firewall is what is wanted (and is arguably the only valuable component), NAT is not the thing to ask for. Conflating NAT with firewalls also promotes the idea that NAT has a place in any network with abundant addresses. IMHO, it does not.
Fuck it, lets do it.
Where can you use a legal OS X VM?
> Is it doable?

I guess there's no harm trying.

> Anything that I could do to supplement the course to make up for my disadvantage?

If you want to learn programming, I can recommend "How to design programmes" (Full text available online at htdp.org)
My sentiments run towards agreeing with the first comment in this thread. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for using their talent in any way they see fit, but the article on Medium seems to not only be written for approval of HN, but glosses over the fact that there are a lot of pointless startups. There are some amazing startups out there that are changing the world, working on problems that the world outside of the tech bubble needs solving - clean water, higher education, transportation that doesn't chew up fossil fuels - but for every one of those, there are indeed 50 startups that focus on trivial things (to-do apps, mail apps, photo apps, weather apps, really? Really?). I know everyone can't work on curing cancer or world peace, but if there is a backlash from within, it stems from founders who act as apologists for the more banal of startup ideas.
Sometimes, I'm afraid of what can be posted on kickstarter :).
Does PETA or the Animal Liberation Front care about cockroaches?

I ask this question half in jest, but I kind of have a sick feeling about a Kickstarter project for invasively implanting neurostimulators into an animal for people's entertainment[1]. I'm a religious supporter of animal testing for scientific progress and I've done much worse (mice instead of cockroaches) but always in an academic setting where everyone took the life of the animal seriously[2]. Is this just an irrational and emotional response to this being done outside of an academic setting? I know it's just cockroaches, but...

[1] I mean, how many people will see this and think "Oh I'll teach my kid neuroscience" instead of "OMG LOOK ITS A CYBORG ROACH"

Edit: [2] Clarification, everyone in the lab I was in respected the life of the test animals and went quite far sometimes to make sure they were "comfortable." Although there was usually a somber mood when we had to euthanize an animal.
The ethics of this is actually terrifying.

On the one hand, this is unbelievably cool, and a really interesting way of getting more people into this kind of technology.

On the other hand, we're controlling a living thing like it's a damned RC car.
He probably isn't. Morse code is really quite usable, provided that you understand it.
> This is the world's first commercially available cyborg!

No it's not, from the way it's presented, it's more like the world's first organism-enslavement-for-entertainment-kit. Not that I understand that much about cockroaches, but it's hard to deny the ethical issues in taking over control of an otherwise autonomous organism.

At first, I thought this might be some kind of joke or campaign to raise awareness of these ethical issues, but it seems that they are actually serious and claim these serve some kind of educational higher purpose: http://wiki.backyardbrains.com/Ethical_Issues_Regarding_Usin...
> would generate it.

where is it stored though?
How do you ensure that Google is able to index it? Do you sniff the user-agent and serve it a pre-rendered view of the discussion thread?
I can't wait to wait in line at home depot while the sales register person explains in detail their various return policies, possible limits on liability due to you being an idiot with a snowblower, etc.
A visit of the roots of the Occupy movement in New York.
How does this comparing of certificate hashes work? If the connection is plain text in the middle, can't the hash also be forged?
Security Professionals: Read section 109(b). Pay attention to (1)(B,C,E,F,I,K). Talk to your lawyers and accountants. Your company "reputation" has a value. What is it worth (50-75% of stock market value)?

Read 109(b)(2). You want option (B).
In Croatia it's still customary to send condolence telegrams.
Yep, they want to retain the API's semantic as much as possible. BTW, OpenPdroid and similar are even more invasive and unfriendly to developers and revenue (randomize IMEI on each call,etc.). Regarding the pleas to merge this: That patch will definitely not make it into CM. That's also the reason why the original PDroid has been delivered as both a normal patch for the source and as .smali patch for use with apktool to enable easy integration the way autopatcher does.
Here's a link, for the lazy:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/html5/video?id=9135822&pid=913582...
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Hibernate is better than sleep because you have a better idea of what your battery capacity is going to be when you wake it up!
They should have a comment box for people to comment.
in the Keychain
Your use cases for Linux would seem to call for a steep learning curve with the exception of the Mint bootable USB.

$ConsumerDistro of your choice on recentish laptop (not Optimus) should require less knowledge.

$ConsumerDistro = [Mint|Ubuntu LTS|Lubuntu] != [Arch|Slackware]

CentOS, Stella, Debian stock and FedoraRecent almost make it to consumer level but not quite in my opinion.
Let us not forget that linux runs on other kinds of hardware. My Raspberry Pi runs Linux, wanna try OSX on it?
Apple needs to change it's website design.
Make it more better and not like iOS 7.

If anyone here is from Apple, please comment.
Honestly both the major parties here are such dud choices (so bad that a third party won a seat in the lower house last election), and with PRISM hopefully becoming a voting issue the pirate party are surely going to get some notice this election. Thank the FSM for preferential voting
No, using a firewall increases security. It just so happens that most routers which do NAT, also have a firewall. You are, in my opinion, confusing two functions provided by one device.

I'm willing to bet that any IPv6 capable router also has a firewall.
I was actually working on implementing a simple little VM library in C as a fun exercise, and deciding how to handle interrupts was where I got caught up.
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Showing this article on a board filled with hackers who value free speech and free will more than anything else is a bad idea. Doesn't matter if it is a cockroach, a rat, a rabbit or a human being.

I do not agree with giving 10 year-olds this "toy". That cockroach (no matter how disgusting it may be for some) is a living thing! The ethical aspects of this project should me taken more seriously and not just "OMG cool gadget buy it".
> Any government agency requesting customer content must get a court order

This doesn't count for much given that they use secret courts, though.
I don't know about your ideas, but your grammar, certainly.
Morse code was the standard for single-channel binary communication for centuries. It's still used in some applications. Obviously it's not particularly useful for communication with an untrained user, but it's a pretty proven method for single channel communication with a good balance of complexity and data transmission rates. I suppose its use in an application ultimately depends entirely on what you're trying to communicate and why you're constrained to 1 bit.
What about the different dates Google, Facebook etc came into prism. Why would there be different dates if the government were just collecting raw unencrypted data?
Confusingly the EU has supposedly strong laws about exporting private data outside the EU.

ECHELON report from EU parliament showed that 5 countries (UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand) were part of ECHELON and gave lists to each other as a way to avoid laws about spying on their own citizens.

That EU parliament report is very old now (pre 9/11) and there are a bunch of more recent laws that probably exempt GCHQ and others from these laws. But I could be wrong; I haven't kept up; and I welcome corrections. I have no idea what parts of RIPA (regulation of investigatory powers act, UK law) are enacted or not, and what exemptions it has for GCHQ.
Make it up as you go along
> why did you update firmware?

Read more carefully. I didn't update the firmware.

> things you say that did not matter to you.

Being able to buy and play all the games I wanted, over the lifetime of the console, mattered a great deal to me. Being able to use Linux on the console also mattered a great deal to me. Due to Sony's policy, I had to give one of these things up. I chose the former, because I was pissed at Sony for forcing me to make this choice, and that's the choice that would hurt Sony more.

Imagine you buy a car. You really like the car's excellent sound system, particularly its built-in slot into which you can put any USB device containing your music.

One day you go to the garage and they tell you that, because some clever tinkerer somewhere used the USB port to hack the stereo system and might someday be able to download copyrighted songs from the radio, the manufacturer is not only omitting the feature from new models, but is requiring their dealerships' service departments to pour acid in the USB port of every car already on the road to permanently disable it!

You have the right to refuse, of course. But you'll never be able to install another stereo system because the wiring is all proprietary. Furthermore, you can't get repairs or oil changes anywhere but official dealerships, because only proprietary wrenches can remove the right mechanical parts. All official dealerships are required by the manufacturer to pour the acid before they can do anything else.

Apparently few people care about this policy; it seems that most people just use their car for driving, and listen to the radio if they want music. Only a few hardcore nerds even know what USB ports are, and nobody cares about them.

Would you understand a customer who refused to do business with that manufacturer again?

Would you understand a customer who refused all maintenance, because he didn't want any more of his dollars to go into the manufacturer's wallet as a matter of principle, even if he'd also be hurting himself because he wouldn't be able to use the car as he'd planned to?

> it's still hard to imagine somebody in need of both Linux and newest games simultaneously

Using Linux is nerdy. Playing the latest video games is nerdy. I'm a nerd. There are lots of us. Seriously, someone on a website called Hacker News says this?

> No company the size of Sony is ever going to carter to such a small group.

Why did they ever offer OtherOS in the first place, if not "cartering" to my small group?
Ask HN: Where is the fastest Internet connection in India?
I work with video and am struggling to find a fast enough connection to upload my videos to clients. Out of interest, i'm curious as to what the fastest connections are in India. Universities? Business parks? Anyone care to share?
I agree, Angular has the right implementation. It's just not clear that it needs quite so much stuff to solve one problem. And if it isn't solving one problem, why not?
Slurping raw data from one source gives them that raw data.

Slurping nicely formatted data from known sources gives them nicely formatted data that they can then cross-reference and use to help data-mine the raw data.
It is "very interesting" in the sense that Snowden may have realised that strategically talking to Chinese press and leaking information that would be likely to be looked upon favorably by the Chinese government at this time would be likely to be beneficial to his chances of avoiding extradition in the future.

I'm not sure what you are trying to imply - the choice and timing of that particular leak would seem to be a logical choice once he'd chosen somewhere to go.
For all your nonsense, I've had far less trouble getting devices to work with linux than any other OS over the last few years. Device support on Linux just works more often than it does for Windows or Mac OS these days. And I'm including laptops.
Pen and paper in a bag please
I think it's a lot more likely that these companies are compromised from the bottom rather than from the top: moles who have spent years deep undercover as network admins at relevant data centers, either quietly installing backdoors, or physically walking data out the door.
British spies at GCHQ 'spied on foreign politicians at 2009 G20 London summits'
Your neighbor is fed up with you leeching their internet connection.

http://www.ex-parrot.com/pete/upside-down-ternet.html

Get your own connection.
His talk at HOPE 9 was great:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqN59beaFMI
OpenPDroid style fine-grained app permission control has already been explicitly rejected by Steve Kondik. See
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-28

He expanded on his reasons in a Google+ post:
https://plus.google.com/100275307499530023476/posts/iLrvqH8t...

I'd love to see a privacy focused fork of CyanogenMod personally. Time to person-up† and do it myself perhaps :)

† Is there a non-gendered equivalent to man-up?
AOKP is not CyanogenMod. And Google would block CM devices from being able to access the Play market.
To be fair, by that argument it's even better to use Windows.
I worked with something similar to this when I was learning neuroscience in a university lab. It's extremely informative and along with a neuron culture can really help you understand what is happening. Other groups have actually done a lot of research into this, going so far as controlling a pigeon a few years ago and proving safety of long term 1+ year neural implants in monkeys and swine, although those were for prosthetic research and were not stimulators.

You're not actually taking over the cockroach, you're just sending it fake data in the form of electrical impulses. The cockroach can and does ignore you (habituation) and do its own thing (hence the cage). Other than the invasive surgery, there is little harm done to the cockroach. I agree it's an ethical issue but we need to do research like this and to use instruments like the RoboRoach to educate people. I just wish it was more accessible to students through teachers that could teach them the respect that animal life deserves, instead of out on Kickstarter for anyone to buy for a hoot and a holler.
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Self-explanatory.
So far, all of the comments are against it on ethical grounds.
I've been following the edTech space very closely for almost two years now. So I have a good idea on what free online courses are out there. I also went over all the comments below.

Here is a google doc with a collection of the best eight online courses available on platforms like Coursera, Udacity, Venture Lab, and iTunes. Together these courses form a kick-ass Internet Startup Major.

http://bit.ly/125Yidy

happy to edit if you have suggestions
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Thank you for those links. I have not yet been successful in booting any Linux in EFI mode on the MBP. EFI mode is required for using the integrated GPU. Currently, EFI mode on an MBP seems to require a custom-built kernel, which frankly is too much trouble in my book. I will try again in a few weeks.
I live in Germany where we have one of the most successful pirate parties with several seats in state parliaments. I had a alot of hope in them but they just fight with each other and are in no way ready and way to chaotic for national parliament. It's kinda sad.
I ran linux on a variety of thinkpads for several years. Never did have one of these weird hybrid ones though, so maybe that's it.

Never had a need to run adobe products either, but I am entertained how often and for how many years things like photoshop have been used as a prop to crow about how inadequate linux is.
Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psychological blockers/fears about putting yourself, your ideas, and your product "out there" for all people to judge.

Give me the specs for a $19.9 ebook on that, please :) I've been of the mind to write something like that for a while.
"From December 1, 2012 to May 31, 2013, Apple received between 4,000 and 5,000 requests from U.S. law enforcement for customer data. Between 9,000 and 10,000 accounts or devices were specified in those requests, which came from federal, state and local authorities and included both criminal investigations and national security matters."

This looks pretty good (assuming it is honest) with only one possibility for a big weasel worded escape which if they are using they might as well lie.

It doesn't say "information was requested" or "information was provided" for only 9,000-10,000 devices but that only that number were specified. If there were orders that didn't specify devices and accounts (e.g. all messages globally). It might be that this is to cover the fact that those communicating with the specified devices would have some information revealed or it might be that the "specifed devices" figure is misleading.

If anything these numbers are suspiciously small (once the local police department regular investigations are removed). Unless there is a significant breadth to the requests you have to wonder if the FBI (and NSA/CIA for non-citizens) are doing enough targeted requests to track real suspects. Following this line of reasoning you could conclude that they don't need to!
Yeah I was way over reaching. I've given up on following the exact details of the NSA revelations and now I'm just enjoying the ride. It's probably safe to just assume from now on that I'm always being spied on and that I should stop looking at nuclear space propulsion papers.
Born in Hong Kong. Personally don't think Hong Kong is that safe and has such freedom. But may be good for his case. As China like to see him exists...
We regularly have minor parties and independents in the lower house, this is just the first time that they have held the balance of power. The ironic thing is that despite being a minority government, the 'hung' or 'hamstrung' government, there has been more legislation passed this term than any previously.

But you wouldn't read it in the papers, which have performed the most amazing political smiling assassination.
I don't have any ethical concerns about this toy, but I have killed and eaten animals, used their hides for clothing, and even kept them trapped in bowls and cages purely for my own amusement.

It would seem pretty ridiculous to be upset over this if you do any of those things.
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You're right, I'm shooting my mouth off here, but this is the whole problem with these huge frameworks: they're so huge that, by the time you've spent the time to evaluate them properly, your objectivity is likely to be compromised. You'll never see an even handed comparison between the two.

This isn't unique to js frameworks. There's plenty of systems like this e.g. Hibernate. At least backbone was small enough that I could seriously evaluate it in a month long project. (For the record, I didn't like it, but at least I actually can have a considered opinion on it without being well past the point of no return.)
nevermind that the average viewer can't tell 720p from 1080p

I'm a professional film director.

I'm not sure that on an average-sized (say, 42" to be generous) home TV, I'd be able to tell 4k from 1080p.

If anyone thinks that's going to save the film industry, they aren't on a winner.

(And I also actively avoid anything with 3D where possible.)
You hint at it: There are certainly ways to spread the trust. Require a physical key to allow root logins, and keep it in a monitored safe in the data centre. Require logs of who pulls the key, and entrust access to that physical key only to a separate group of people from those with the root passwords.

Of course the problem is that methods like this takes a lot of effort, and so it is a tradeoff between safety and the cost and convenience, and in reality very little data.
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It's very, very hard to judge whether an idea actually sucks from the elevator pitch, especially if the person giving it isn't experienced and confident about pitching. If we went around saying other people's idea sucks we'd most likely be saying their pitch sucks - they didn't communicate it well enough. That's a problem, but it probably isn't the end of the world.

I think the key thing to remember is that you very rarely "get" something that might be a groundbreaking innovation the first time you hear about it, so holding back on criticism and judgement until you've heard a bit more isn't a bad strategy.
> I'm not going to change much of what I do online. I'm not a violent revolutionary

The problem with this whole scenario is not how you view yourself, but how the government views you. They define if we are a threat, not ourselves.