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> And yet, the Mac OS X user experience is so much nicer than the one you get with a GNU-based system; you download an app, it is self contained, it works, end of story. I have been hearing the same old story for years about how dependency-tracking package managers are the right way, and yet that environment continues to have problems, as described in the article; while the supposedly inferior Mac OS X packaging system just works, and I never have to mess with anything.

Clearly we have differing requirements. I've found the Debian user experience so much nicer than the one you get on OS X or Windows: you install a package with apt, it pulls in all dependencies, and it Just Works. I consider "self-contained" a bug and a warning sign that makes me start looking for a ten-foot pole; "self-contained" is another way of saying "inconsistent" and "not well integrated".
As a user of an online backup solution that encrypts everything client side, I am reluctant to use it anymore. Would knowing that encryption makes you more vulnerable for illegal online search and seizure change your online behavior?
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Right, and the procurers write the contract to require features that are oddly specific to the preferred vendor's operation, to avoid undercuts by competitors.
If you want to see how it is currently in effect, look no further than Guantanamo Bay.
Non-citizens also under the label of terrorists (hint: not human) do not receive right from the US
Which means that the first two assumptions are wrong, leading us to conclude that there exist minimal perfect programs for every specification.
You see, when "slippery slope fallacy" mode is fully engaged, information like that has no relevance. "They used it in 1953, they can do it again!"
Jurisdiction is funny on universities. UCSB (one I have personal experience with) has a special campus police branch that overlaps somewhat with the Isla Vista branch but are nominally distinct; I don't think the county's sheriff's department has any jurisdiction there.
Defendants can waive the right to trial by jury and instead be subjected to a bench trial. Laws like this need to account for the possibility that the finder of fact may be the judge instead of a jury.
So.. what part of it specifically is anti-Tesla? That is one painful read. I need an abstract or some annotations.
Why such obsession about the law? Some laws are good, and that's good that they are enforced. Some laws are bad, and it is bad that they are enforced.

The whole concept of "legality" is (sadly) appropriated by governments. The government invents the rules for itself and other organizations and individuums. They ca invent whatever rules they like. Gulag was perfectly legal. Nazi concentration camps were perfectly legal.

It is stupid to assume that one's actions are bad just because they are against the law.
And loss of pension (he was 5 years away), is now working in an Apple retail store, etc. Given that he was about as morally upstanding and cautious a whistleblower as I can imagine, it was still a pretty harsh punishment.
I have some issues with your numbers. (I hope you still read this thread a day later.)

First where I live water is about 4-10 degree C, not 20. So that bumps your water heating energy (assuming your 1/4 liter volume is correct) to 43kJ. But washing dishes uses about 20 gallons per sinkful. Say a sink can hold 8 bottles, that means you need about 9 liters of water per bottle to wash it - not a 1/4 liter. (A dishwasher is much more efficient BTW.)

So 43kJ * 36 = 1548kJ.

At 150 degrees a 1 liter bottle needs 2.6 grams of steam to fill it. (Density from http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/saturated-steam-properties... at temperature of 150.) And using my number of 4 degrees for incoming water, your energy use is 2261 kj/kg * 2.6 grams = 5.88kJ.

So your total is 1548kJ + 5.8kJ + 22kJ = 1576kJ vs 200kJ. i.e. it's not even close.

A dishwasher uses 4 gallons per load, and you can fit about 20 bottles in there. Which is .75l per bottle - way better than by hand. Using those numbers your total is 157kJ per bottle compared to 200kJ.

So it's ever so slightly better - but of course we are ignoring transportation and sorting costs. Not to mention the factory for sterilizing bottles. (You anyway need one to make glass and bottles, to reuse them you must build a whole new factory.)

And the real kicker is the extra water. Currently the world has enough energy, but not enough water. (Maybe we should calculate desalination costs for the water and bundle it into the energy budget.)
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Soldiers are supposed to disobey their military superiors if told to commit crimes against humanity.

Breaking a law, especially when doing something obviously right, does not mean that you need to have charges brought against you. Say you see a dog about to drown in a creek on private property. If you ran in and saved it, the owner could charge you for trespassing. That doesn't mean they SHOULD.
If I could gamble on this topic, my bet would be that there isn't any more interesting information. That said, I am interested in learning what the rest of the information is, so I can make up my own mind about the issue.
That is a laudable and idealistic goal, but we don't live in that world. Furthermore Google itself knows more than we do about how easily governments can access the data it accumulates.

If it chose to, Google could protect users by developing services that do not rely on Google itself examining their personal data.

Google understands the risks better than its users but chooses to expose them because doing so is aligned with its business model and philosophy whereas protecting them is not.

It's a bit like recommending someone travel through a war zone on a bicycle when a tank is an available alternative, because the bike carries advertising you profit from and the tank does not.
the gmail network effect pulls in people who would rather not be grokked.
Are you sure that's possible in chrome? I don't see it on Chrome Version 27.0.1453.116 m.
You are unfortunately a rare, um, breed.
the title is very accurate

No, it's not. As the article notes up front, there is no serious doubt that the climate is warming. So not only is the climate not cooling, neither is the consensus.

Estimates of the long-term rate of warming have always varied, but the consensus remains that the rate is significant and even the lower estimates will result in environmental changes that will impact millions of people.
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In a way that is good indicator that they are beginning to worry their timing so as limit the political damage from the "huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
But FORTRAN had bounds checking, didn't it? Or is that just a modern thing?
So paywalls are a thing, if you're referring to news sites

Also Quora has been doing the "if you want to read please become a member" thing for a long time, and it's kind of their perogative, they're also looking to foster (or require) interaction with their site on a deeper level than say, yahoo answers.

Survey buttons really shouldn't

Modals/popups to beg for social media kudos are kinda distasteful... not many places I surf do that, then again, I surf a relatively small part of the internet...

Yeah, in the end I guess I say all this to say, you might be overreacting a little
I stumbled across this by chance when reading up on the Cold War. The worlds "best" democracy never ceases to amaze me. This ought to be common knowledge.
It's wrong either way.
Interestingly, this is the second useful empty program I have seen. The other is /bin/true, as discussed at http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/ATT_Copyright_true.html . That file is not quite empty, due to trying to comment and copyright an empty file!
Creating a massive behavioral profiling advertising system is hard, as is creating a self driving car. Protecting users from Government intrusion is simply a lower priority for Google.
Yeah, I love how the article is so myopic, they can't imagine a world in which they might be using a package that some other package is also using, therefore, it might need to be upgraded separately from their package. So the author has worked on two large projects that have dependencies, yet he thinks he has the experience to say that splitting a package up (say, into docs, libs and executables) is a bad thing? How many embedded devices has he administered? Or clusters? Or simple networks where things are setup to have NFS mounts across machines, and it's obvious that while you can install the docs on the NFS-doc-server once, you may need to have separate binary and library installs for each architecture/OS on the NFS-binary-servers. There's a reason sysadmins love well packaged software.
I'm not obsessed about the law. And honestly, I agree personally with everything Snowden did.

I'm just disagreeing with the premise that even having a trial is itself unjust.
For a system as complex as Earth's climate, it should come as no surprise that computer models are inaccurate. I think scientists do themselves a disservice when they point to these models as the best evidence for global warming. The really important datapoints are temperature and ice core measurements, as well as the melting of the ice caps, all of which show that the earth is warming at an alarming rate.
anecdotal, but I witnessed many of my BYU classmates working for three-letter agencies post-graduation.
"The Cold War period saw few prosecutions for treason. On October 11, 2006, a federal grand jury issued the first indictment for treason against the United States since Kawakita v. United States in 1952, charging Adam Yahiye Gadahn for videos in which he appeared as a spokesman for al-Qaeda and threatened attacks on American soil." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason#United_States).
motherboards are all standard nowadays.

70% of the devices out there are using intel's reference designs. they just route somethings differently. But after you fine one with the routing you want, i bet you can order them from acer or whoever and just add the better components and be done with.

the only thing you'd really have to customize is the power circuitry. but that's easy and cheap. And then the case, of course. but that's also easy.
Yes. Never used homebrew. Not sure I'm missing anything.
Thanks for your reply.

The situation is very common on the Web now.
My 17" monitor is from NEC years ago, is razor
sharp and rock solid, and I see no great reason
to take time out to change from it. Besides,
as another comment in this thread noted, laptops
also have relatively small screens! So do tablets
and phones!

I know nothing about using Google's blogspot.

For the Web site I'm building, all screens are
just 800 pixels wide, and all my fonts are nice
and large. So, on a big screen, could have
a 'pile' of dozens of such windows each offset
a little, and on a small screen could still see
the full width easily without using horizontal
scroll bars.

How'd I do that? I'm a beginner at HTML but
just stuffed in 800 px some places, and got
800 pixels. If in a browser I shrink a window to less than
800 pixels, then I get horizontal scroll bars.

Broadly it's easy to assume that there it's reasonable
to use lots of space vertically and let the user do
a vertical scroll but try to minimize space
used horizontally so that a user doesn't have to
do a horizontal scroll just to read the text.

In some cases, I just highlight the text, copy
it to the clipboard, pull it into my favorite
editor, and flow the text to, say, 60 characters
a line.

My view is, in reading, 40 characters per
line has some advantages in eye movement
in reading,
60 characters per line
is plenty, 72 is almost too many, 80
is about the upper limit, and over 100 is
too often a problem and, really, for
easy eye movement in reading,
too much.

Heck, even when newspapers had sheet
sizes big enough to cover a table top,
they still kept way down the number
of characters per line.

But I can't tell the world how to design
Web pages. If some people want, say, 300
characters per line and 20 characters per
inch on the screen horizontally, then so be it.
It's quite possible a statute or those rules permit otherwise...
They also keep sort of "reverse lookup" information on everyone - basically, what other people have you in their address books.

They keep this information on you even if you are not a Facebook user.
"(a TSR; if the reader knows what such a thing is!)"

Oh dear, I can't imagine not knowing what a TSR is. Feel old.

The wikipedia page is pretty good http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_and_Stay_Resident
Hi Patrick, what book or reference you would recommend to understand the whole payment business, by this i mean for example the steps involved in a credit card authorization, what is the flow of information between acquirers and issuers, that sort of thing.
(cheap) nature will find a way

:)
My pet peeve is when people are bleeding to death onscreen as their friends just watch. What a great opportunity to give just a bit of lifesaving information by showing them apply pressure to stop the bleeding.
My understanding is that he took laptops belonging to the government.
Nobody on the east coast cares about what people in San Francisco happen to be protesting about on any given day. If you want to march somewhere, come down to D.C. where someone relevant might actually see you.
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There's StartupNorth which posts a majority of the startup jobs in Toronto. http://startupnorth.ca
A number of people hold that this is illegal under the 4th amendment and founding principles of our country.
Thanks. That helped me figure out what the bill was about.

So basically the status quo is that manufacturers are legally forced to go through franchised car dealers to sell their cars. And this is because Ford used independent car dealers to sell their cars initially; but as time went on and manufacturers wanted to sell directly, these laws were passed to protect existing franchised car dealerships.
Can someone explain how he can be charged with espionage? Is there some meaning of that which covers leakers of information, like leaking the Pentagon Papers, when it's to the press (and not to another government or company)?
I finally comprehend how David Simon continues to argue that domestic surveilance is not a problem.

He thinks that the "Left" (his term) don't care enough about bad government actors when it affects poor black people, and so now, when bad government actors threaten members of the Left, they have no right to complain about bad government actors ruining a theoretically sound program.

He's essentially trolling the Left, refusing to join them in accusing the government of having bad actors, holding his support hostage until they join him in taking down the bad actors everywhere else in government.
Umm, are you sure you replied to the right comment an story. I've read what you posted twice now and I can't see how it has any bearing on what I wrote;)
I don't think you really learned to swim at 6 months. At that age you are learning to be comfortable with the water, but you have a ways to go before you can actually swim. Your parents probably told you that you were able to swim because you were successful in whatever they were trying to do at that age.

source: My children are in infant swim classes.
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Here are the ones I can recall off the top of my head:

* CISPA veto threat/defeat [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/cybersecurity-legi...]

* New open-access rules [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/response/increasing-public-...]

* Halting use of animals in military training [https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/immediately-halt-c...]
Perhaps, but that still wouldn't address the problem of the sixth amendment.
Classic Greenwald on twitter:

"Anyone have interest in a criminal investigation to discover which "officials" leaked news of the sealed indictment? http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-cha... "
If you're interested, Machiavelli's "Discourses on Livy" is a good place to start.

He explores the institutions within different societies that allowed them to grow and develop trust. It's one the first book in history that I'm aware of that explored the idea of societal checks and balances, and how the non-enlightened self interest of a group of people can be healthy when its functions are tempered by the self interest of different groups with different agendas.

I think that idea is still fresh, and people don't play around with it enough.
Note that this was published in the Economist, which has a reputation for overusing puns. This edition also has articles titled "T Time" and [amyloid] "Beta testing" .
This has nothing to do with privacy and free services. Yes, that is a problem, but it has no connection at all to this case. It's about emails and private chats being given to the government without any limitations. It's about non-US citizens having zero protection or due process when they use US-based cloud services. That's a couple of degrees more severe than "Google is storing personal details about you and may give them to the government". It basically means that foreigners upload their data de-facto directly to NSA servers when they use US cloud services.
They want to force Tesla to go through them, instead of selling direct to consumer. Tesla not going through the dealerships is bad for the dealerships business.
To see how working within the system went the last time an NSA employee tried to blow the whistle, go and watch these videos: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...
There are provisions built into the law for circumstances when you did "something obviously right" but are charged with a crime which was technically committed in the process of doing the right thing.

"the defendant must affirmatively show (i.e., introduce some evidence) that (a) the harm he sought to avoid outweighs the danger of the prohibited conduct he is charged with; (b) he had no reasonable alternative; (c) he ceased to engage in the prohibited conduct as soon as the danger passed; and (d) he did not himself create the danger he sought to avoid."

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity , which is a specific case of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_defense
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It's a bit of stretch to say that highly intelligent 22-25 year olds were brainwashed by their law schools. They had their lives' formative years before they showed up at law school.

Sotomayor has commented quite a bit in that regard.
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I wonder how much Facebook will reward for this bug?
But those are no more private than the unpaid ones. And they can still extract value by profiling you from your email and then displaying ads on search and other properties based on what they learn about you.
Yay, finally a declarative table approach :-)

This is why angular directives rock!
He had also made an offer to foreign governments to sell the information, and judging by the fact that he was carrying classified documents with him when he was arrested, I'd say that he planned on acting on those offers. By contrast, AFAIK Snowden has made no such offer and has not talked with the Chinese government.
I work at Mailgun and this may explain why when our customers use Facebook as a customer acquisition tool they inevitably end up with a large amount of bad email addresses, leading to a poor email sending reputation or worse.

While I'm not familiar with the information Facebook shares through Facebook Connect, this seems to be a big short coming. You may not be getting the customer's real, current email addresses.

We have to tell people that Facebook is not a reliable way to obtain valid email addresses. The only way to properly do this is to have customers submit their email addresses directly to your own signup form and then validate them with a confirmation link sent to that address (double opt-in).