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Why don't business folks talk more about their technology failures?
As a web developer / consultant, I have to say the number of crippled businesses I have encountered over the years you would think some of these decision makers would've learned by now that if you're trying to do something complex with technology the last thing you should be doing is pinching pennies on the development of that technology.

Coming in as the "fixer" for failed startups has made a nice comfortable career for me so I'm not necessarily complaining, but from the standpoint of helping folks become successful, you would think I'd be getting more opportunities to consult with early stages of projects. And I'm not talking about the ones that come with 'equity, beer and high fives' as compensation either.
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"...it's rather frustrating to know that this guy doesn't actually give a shit about the matter like we do, he just wants to score points in this BS game."

Wait. How do you know that? Isn't it possible and actually likely that he gives a shit AND wants to score political points? After all, what good is supporting a cause if you don't use it to score political points?
Remember the good old days when SGI had awesome casings and rock-solid tech inside?
So prosecutorial/investigator overreach is ok, as long as it's not against hackers, got it.

The NSA looking at your phone logs is a huge illegal fishing expedition but fishing expeditions are ok when done to trump up charges to impeach the president. Got it.
Aren't you living dangerously by still using garbage collection on iOS at this point? Apple keep making dire statements about how everyone needs to stop using it, so I'd be worried that iOS8 will just remove it entirely, meaning apps that use GC just wouldn't work at all on that OS...
Why the distinction?

Security researchers are in high demand right now and with good reason - a competent security researcher can write an exploit given a limited amount of information, and I find it unlikely MS themselves necessarily has exploit code for all situations.

A competent security researcher should be able to go from this diff:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
to full exploit code in a day. An afternoon, even.

I bring this up because there's nothing particularly magical about writing exploits, even if it isn't a skill a ordinary programmer possess. If the vulnerability has already been found, so whether or not this is simply MAPP/CIPP or something more nefarious, your distinction seems a bit academic.
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It's been a few years. It wouldn't serve any purpose to air details as this is ancient history. Pivot and push forward.
Amdahl's law: yeah, this is pretty much it. Of course I was only discussing dev time.

Of note, many of the best Ruby / Rails folks I know moved on to much better roles, whether CTO at growing companies or started working on cash-generating projects. Once they optimized dev time, they got more time to work on things like design or copywriting, and optimized the hell out of that too.
I believe you have to provide a path that would go through the heart. Simply piercing the same finger with both electrodes shouldn't do much to the heart.
Would be a breach of EU law if they did - as he was extradited from the UK, he has to be returned to the UK. And if the UK was going to extradite him, why would he be so keen on staying here?
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I primarily used Safari on the Mac for development and browsing up until Safari 6. After they crippled the web inspector by removing key features and adding the confusing design and layout I switched completely over to Chrome for browsing and dev.

I'll certainly give it another shot, but it'll be hard to give up Chrome as the primary browser.
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You're naive if you think women don't have these conversations face-to-face, without men's knowledge or consent.

The differences here are the anonymity of the comments (making it harder to assess them for truth), and the wider distribution (in time, across different social groups).
We know it's electromagnetic waves, but as it says we tend to ignore the latter part.

Having just studied for (and passed! yay me!) my amateur radio license exam, I've been mulling over this common omission of consideration of propagating magnetics. Phase too: we're so focused on frequency that we overlook phase. Polarization is also underrated, with a study last year suggesting "infinite bandwidth" (so said news reports) when used creatively.

Revisiting basics can reveal wonderous things.
Potentially, yes. But now we're back to technology/software which doesn't yet exist. If you create it I would use it, though.
You'd have to prove that it was you talking on the phone. You'd need a recording of the conversation for the judge to be sure.
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I should clarify. iOS does not have garbage collection and has never had garbage collection. The root of this bug is in old legacy cruft from the garbage collected days of OSX. The code is dormant in a lot of old CoreFoundation classes, and still causes unexpected behavior from time to time.
I find it ironic that that the "quash" option on the site doesn't tell you the address that will be used for mailing your request to the FISA court.

It would be nice if the site published instructions on submitting these requests yourself.

On a related note, I'd love to know:
1. How does one typically file a motion with the FISA court, given that they don't have a website or any public contact information that I can find?
2. What's the probability of these "quash" requests even being considered, given that nobody other than the USG is technically party to the case?
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But don't you see that this "oh, it was some low level employee - how could he know" strategy is getting abused over and over again. Sure, it gives those who want to see innocence the ability to believe in some hypothetical "plausible deniability".

If you go down this line of argument with Obama you need to do it equally with Bush: than there was nothing wrong of invading Iraq, because some low level CIA employee foreign intelligence services/some nutty informants were confirming the WMDs.

If your intention is to let somebody at the top look good and they are smart enough to have others keep them out of the loop of controversial issues, you can always attach the wrongdoings to some low level figure.

But it is in the end like saying the Walmart CEO has absolutely no responsibility of having bad numbers this year, because well, he is not the guy is selling the milk bottles in all the stores.
I don't mind the flags thing, yes I sometimes roll my eyes when I have to hit the stars and stripes for "english", but I can spot it or a union jack out of a set of flag pictures faster than I can find the word "english".

You also have the case of foreign users on public computers who may be unable to fiddle with the language settings.
In case anyone is wondering, trezor translates to vault or safe (or even treasury).
See: Clipper.
Absolutely. I have nothing to go on other than gut feelings for this, but it almost seems like if Microsoft had been broken up, all of the individual companies that would have been created would not only have ended up shipping better products, but may have been collectively even more profitable than Microsoft is now.

Usually when a company offers a wide range of products that work especially well together, that's a good thing, but somehow Microsoft has ended up crippling themselves. Even from a purely nontechnical marketing perspective, it seems like every single thing that they've made that has had "Windows" in the product name that was not the OS itself (Windows Phone being a prime example), has suffered from the association.

I feel like Windows Phone could have been much more successful if they had just called it something else. It also seems like Xbox may have been much less successful if they were required to call it Windows Box or WindowsTV or whatever. It's just a dumb marketing thing that has nothing to do with technical details of the product, but it makes a huge different in how potential customers view that product.
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...which is another way of saying they shifted the problem without actually solving it.
Well, now you know better; unless explicitly told 'you can talk about this', don't talk about it.
Huh... live and learn
ObjC garbage collection never existed on iOS. The issue was related to framework code that was written by Apple for an ObjC-GC environment (probably Mac OS X) and ported to a non-GC environment (iOS).
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I think it's more of a push to full stack Apple-only solution than being tied to OS X.

I wish Apple cared for OS X that much.
anyway, if you're really so hung up on this, let's drop the viral intermediate and focus just on pseudogenes (instead of viral retropseudogenes), which are exactly the thing I described in my first comment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudogene#Processed

so, if you want to demonstrate your claim, you would need to write a script that showed that there was no pseudogene that ever inserted at a nonspecific site. You can't show that. ergo, my proposal is more likely than yours. Further, it's support by evidence- for example, the genome is studded with p53 pseudogenes that reintegrated from cDNA nonspecifically.
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There is no "they." There was no targeting as described. Fox news fantasy.

http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-republican-irs-staffer-ta...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/why-irs-abru...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/treasury-rep...
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/05/irs-tea-part...
Yikes! I literally have no clue what you are saying. Not sure how we connect alternative happy-birthday songs at restaurants with human rights.

Are you joking? Maybe this is just sarcasm bordering on being a little dark, but it would be funny. This is where seeing someone's face uttering the words would convey a lot more information.
I'm no scientist but anecdotal TDCS had me... concerned

induce phosphenes by accident -- blue white flashes in the entire visual field,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3525744
@chris_mahan - Not exactly. In a criminal trial, it's the government that needs to prove things, and all you need to do is cast doubt. A showing that your phone was, for example, being used to call your mom at the same time that someone was getting smashed with a sledge hammer might be sufficient to give a jury reasonable doubt. You can call your mom to testify to authenticate the records, too.
I don't think you would choose to use this particular sentence in a serious communication with anyone. The letter case would just not be enough of a distinguishing factor for you to risk the wrong meaning being conveyed. The letter case only has a very small meaning once you get used to using small caps.
Also, this isn't a hypothetical attack. Basically the same setup is used for client-side bitcoin wallets, and there have been reports of thefts (stolen keys).
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Not used pagodabox directly, but they had a techie give a overview of some of their tech to our PHP group last year (via Skype), and he went above and beyond what was called for in answering questions in detail.
Yeah, unfortunately, since the 1950s, the American version of 'libertarianism' has won out. Libertarian socialists have mostly just reverted to 'anarchist' these days.
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Range voting attempts to solve one problem while still creating side-effects and exploits available to both voters and candidates.

My point is that each system has both pros and cons. You cannot create a perfect electoral system. No matter what rules you make, some smart guy is going to figure out a while to exploit those rules to their advantage.

Of course, I will admit that some systems do have fewer downsides than others, or there are tradeoffs of eliminating one downside in exchange for a different downside that's arguably less bad.
Do you think that people who pay retail on Steam are upset that they can't resell their games?
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"[T]hough we may not want to be wireheaded now, our wireheaded selves would probably prefer to be wireheaded."

The Less Wrong community has been discussing questions related to wireheading for years now. To get a taste for their discussion on the subject check out the post at http://lesswrong.com/lw/1oc/you_cannot_be_mistaken_about_not... (where the above quote comes from) and everything it links to.
to add - the main meaning of upper case is to help separate sentences, because the dot alone is not enough, unless the reader is specifically used for the dot to be the only separator. this is an example.
I like that the "Music" icon has perfectly chosen colors... coincidentally, those are nearly the exact same ones used in the Zune branding and app: http://i.imgur.com/Mzw6bta.png

Really, though, I do not like almost any of the new icons. I love the flat thing, and I reskinned my Android phone with the minimal MIUI icon set (quite well done), but Apple just did it wrong.
Use a USB key with everything installed on it in a portable fashion. The Tor Browser Bundle is something like this.

Two issues with this method are that TOR is 80% funded by the us government, using a computer opens you to backdoors.

But at least that's a good start.
How can you build a legitimate party based on the concept of theft?
Over and above the privacy issues, you can never have the undivided attention of someone wearing Glass. That's deeply off-putting. Imagine trying to have a conversation with someone as they listened to headphones and stared at their phone the whole time.
Everyone is already carrying a remote tracking and recording device called a cell phone, optionally including video (which may or may not be useful). Admittedly Glass gives a much better vantage point for videos, but that's the only added aspect.
The companies implicated in PRISM already produce the software and/or hardware for the vast majority of computers and smartphones in the world. Seems like if you are convinced that PRISM is as far reaching and effective as being able to turn Glass in a remote recording device for the NSA, the magitude would hardly change much.
Typically, the answer is overhead wires, which stay much cleaner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
Maybe disingenuous was a better word. The "garbage" in the middle still protects against most (though not all) attacks.
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Love it when people think being CTO is better than coding :-)
so that is why prosecutors ramp up the charges and offer you a plea. By the time it rolls to trial those phone records won't be available to bolster you case.

Casting doubt is one thing, prosecutors seem intent they never get in front of a jury and if they do they will do their best to suppress any evidence in your favor.
I was amazed to see this on the front page, assuming it was a link to today's comic, which would possibly have been the first time I witnessed a non-xkcd submitted to HN. That would've been cool, it's a good one.

The fact that this is actually a link to the accompanying article from Tycho is great as his pieces are usually quite interesting but I miss out because they don't come up on the Penny Arcade website until a good few hours after the comic. It's infuriating actually, as the comic frequently makes me want to read what Tycho has to say but it's not there yet. I don't understand why they do that. Anyone?
That's good to hear. I've followed AppFog for quite a while now. I've seen a lot of passion and forward thinking stuff come from you folks, so I'm definitely hoping for the best.
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Isn't it possible and actually likely that he gives a shit AND wants to score political points?

Possible? Absolutely. Likely? That's impossible to know without knowing him and his motivations, and I would not call it a reasonable assumption given the generally self-serving state of US politicians (most others as well, but in this case they're the most relevant).
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No offense taken -- it's good to be skeptical! I've taken your suggestion and un-caps'd and changed some punctuation. :)
what? Most oncogene duplication comes from chromosomal abnormalities, or occasionally retrotransposon capture. Completely different mechanism from reverse transcriptase amplification. Occasionally retroviruses will incorporate themselves near or inside an oncogene and activate (and sometimes copy them) but again, that is not the same mechanism as nonspecific gene duplication, and will almost certainly not produce the same molecular product as a cDNA.

Remember, the patent is a MOLECULE patent, not a PROCESS patent.
Well, this list shows 293 ZIPs that cross state lines [0], this FAQ says there are ~43,000 ZIPs in use [1] so that puts it closer to 99.3%.

But think about it, if you're taking an address to ship something, getting the ZIP right is what matters. If your package has 45201 on it, it doesn't matter if it says Cincinnati, OH or Cincinnati, KY.

[0] http://web.archive.org/web/20110112211559/http://maps.huge.i...

[1] http://www.carrierroutes.com/ZIPCodes.html
I'm guessing when it becomes commonplace it will be far easier to whip out my phone and IM people across the table.
"Where I'm going with this: is it reasonable to assume that "future technology" 20 years from now could crack AES-256 or PGP?"

There are a few related issues here, and so the answer is a bit complicated.

The only evidence for the security of AES is heuristic, based on testing the output of the cipher to check for properties that secure block ciphers should have. Some new attack strategy could completely undermine AES. Similarly, PGP relies on block ciphers and hash functions that are based on such evidence.

On the other hand, public key cryptography has proofs of security under certain assumptions about the complexity of certain problems. A proof that P != NP is necessary to prove that PKE is secure, but it is not sufficient on its own and we do not even have that much.

Now, assuming that (a) the heuristic evidence for AES and various hash functions is a reliable indicator of security and (b) that the assumptions are computation complexity are correct, then both AES and PGP can be used essentially indefinitely. The reason is that your key size can continue to increase -- for AES, you can iterate the cipher (e.g. "triple AES"), and for PGP you can keep making your keys larger (16384-bit ElGamal?), and you will always be able to stay ahead of your opponent. There are issues with this approach, of course -- it would take a lot of computing power to actually use 16384-bit ElGamal, and eventually it would become impractical, which is why there is so much interest in elliptic curve crypto (which allows shorter keys to be used for the same level of security).

So the answer is, "Yes, from one perspective, No from the other."
Being a 'free' download looks like a good compromise for Microsoft and bad for users. Apple wasn't going to make a pricing exception for Microsoft (30% to Apple). So Microsoft just shifts the 'purchase' to the web.
The Google Play Store app on Android is also affected by this. It'll just show a generic "unable to connect" message if your clock is too far off, which I assume is related to the same SSL problem.
While it's true that the stars are very distant, the only atmosphere that the light passes through is same atmosphere the satellites have to peer through (resulting in the same amount of distortion)
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I think its a good thing to bring light on this. I hope this will get both sides to draw up some boundaries for cyber war - at least we might get a relatively peaceful standoff so we can trade with each other.

A standoff is better than all out escalation with increasingly dramatic incursions and dialog where each side loses face, raising political tensions.

We should realize the beneficiaries of cyberwar escalation are the contractor companies coupled tightly to the NSA. I don't think that many hackers are getting rich, comfortable maybe, but not the big bucks.
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That's not how flexible containers work. In the presence of increased pressure, the guts press against the diaphragm, which compresses the lungs.

I don't have to imagine what removing air from my lungs feels like: that is part of breathing! Anyway, this guy seems to do OK compressing his lungs even more:

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I think that's going a little too far. Already we've embedded ourselves in a world where many people break open their phone in the middle of a conversation. Yes, it's rude. But it's still a change that's happening in the world. However, Glass isn't always on, at least not right now. You have to manually turn it on, which means it'll be akin to taking out your phone.
How does one go about decelerating the other ship before it smashes into yours?
Cellphones are in people's pockets or purses most of the time, and even when they are being used the camera is mostly pointing at the ground or the person's lap.

Google Glass will show The Watchers exactly what the person is looking at. Even when the person takes it off and puts it on, say, a table surface, it will be showing something, as opposed to a phone which either points downward or up towards the ceiling.

I could go on. The point is that "everyone is already carrying a remote tracking and recording device" is hugely different in terms of both the scope and depth of surveillance that said offers when compared to Google Glass.
I would say a subpoena from the Congress of the United States should be more difficult to brush off than one from a regular court case. But why should the information not be available to the courts, really? Why should people not have access to information that can be used to defend themselves? Doesn't this open up a big legal loophole for defendants to argue that NSA data proves their innocence, but since the government won't make it available, their charges must be dismissed?

That's the brilliance of this request -- it highlights how the government's asymmetric access to information can be used against it: "Since you know everything, you must be able to prove my case for me... Oh, you won't? Then you're obviously persecuting me."

With absolute knowledge comes absolute power, but with absolute power for some comes absolute victimhood and therefore sympathy for the rest.
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