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The U.S. was in a hot war as well.

The shootdown of Iran Air 655 occurred during Operation Earnest Will, which involved the convoying of Kuwaiti (not Iraqi) oil tankers through the Persian Gulf to protect them from Iranian interdiction contrary to the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea regarding international waters and navigation rights.

Throughout this operation, Iran conducted mining efforts within the Persian Gulf. On the very first convoy an oil tanker was hit by an Iranian mine (luckily causing no injuries or loss of life). Later in the convoy operation U.S. special operating forces managed to capture an Iranian minelayer in the act of laying mines.

Later during this same operation, USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-58) was struck by an Iranian mine (proven based on serial numbers matching mines noted from the aforementioned spec-ops mission).

The mine caused damage which is normally fatal to warships of that size (the keel cracked and both engines were knocked from their mounts). She had to limp out of the minefield on auxiliary thrusters while the crew fought to contain damage and save the ship. 10 sailors were injured badly enough to require evacuation. 4 of those were badly burned and had to be sent all the way back to the U.S. to recuperate.

As a result of that, the U.S. Navy launched a short surface operation against Iranian platforms (Operation Praying Mantis) on April 18, 1988.

Meanwhile, about a year before Iran Air 655, on May 17, 1987, an Iraqi (U.S. ally??) Air Force jet had attacked the frigate USS Stark (FFG-31) with two Exocet missile in the Persian Gulf. Though the damage to the ship itself was not as severe, 37 sailors died and 21 more were injured.

In the context of all of that, on July 3, 1988, USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air 655. To be clear the ship captain was clearly in the wrong. Even with the 'fog of war' and the problems of having to use instruments to fight instead of one's own eyes he had enough indications to know he wasn't under attack.

But the shootdown itself didn't come out of thin air, and the U.S. was brought into a tense situation in the lead-up to the events of that day (though admittedly, they didn't do much to de-escalate either once it started happening).
Thanks Alex, agreed, I think it was great of Ethan to share his lessons learned
Why is the woman behind the man in the Facebook friend request icon?
And? Actually one definition, 'recursion' reloads the page and the other 'laziness' has no definition... yet.
Business hotels are not "cubicles" in most cases, they're perfectly adequate for 95% of travelers, and there's a wide range of size/quality/budget tradeoffs. Sure if you're a traveling circus and need room to set up your trapeze, then maybe you need more room—but so what? In that case, you pay a bit more and get a somewhat larger room. Options exist, even for odd cases like yours.

The cool thing in places like Japan is that you actually have a choice whereas in places like NYC, you have far less. For that reason I dread visiting the states anytime I don't have a friend I can stay with or something.

The U.S., especially, could really do with a big shakeup of its dysfunctional hotel culture. And its dysfunctional transportation culture. And ... well you get the idea...
> If you want protection from injury on your bicycle, you are better off with a motorcycle helmet than a bicycle helmet, end of story.

Remember that protection is a balancing act. You are reducing the already low chance of catastrophic injury. However, in exchange for that, you are increasing your weight, drag, reducing your ventilation, giving yourself helmet hair, increasing the sweat your head is bathed in at the end of the ride, etc. Tossing a motorcycle helmet in may reduce your risk of injury even further, but remember, catastrophic crashes are relatively rare, they can kill you in many other ways than simple head injury, and a motorcycle helmet is way too heavy, hot, and unventilated for riding a bike, as well as restricting your vision and hearing and thus probably making it more likely for you to be involved in a crash. I would be very surprised if motorcycle helmets actually made you safer once you took all of this, as well as the effect of suppressing your desire to ride due to the discomfort and inconvenience (thus losing the benefits of the exercise it provides), into account.
Elon Musk will find every single excuse we use to not go electric and squash it. And then he'll lower the price. And then he'll lower it again. Exciting times!
To a degree, yes. But that's because CL is roughly speaking the set union of all Lisps available in the '80s. Scheme was off doing its own thing, and knew it.

Even today, languages make it clear where they're coming from. The claim to fame of Clojure is that it's a) a Lisp that b) uses FP to make many things easier, notably but not exclusively concurrency (and, as a result of the FP focus, a big difference between Clojure and other Lisps is that by default it uses immutable data structures) and c) runs on the JVM.

Note that the emphasis on FP is something Clojurians use to draw in Lispers from other dialects. Similar arguments could be made for Shen, Qi, etc.

The unique selling proposition of Lisp as a whole is that it's homoiconicity lets you treat code as data and exploit that using macros and such. Racket illustrates this beautifully--from what I've seen it's common for a library to introduce new syntax and such. The unique selling proposition of Lisp is not that it's darn good at functional programming--that's just a very fortunate side-effect.
<strong> is emphasis/semantic and <b> is visual/style.
Doesn't the blkio cgroup not know anything about buffered writes? Or do the shares work differently and that limitation is only for accounting?
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They're not the only consideration, but they are a major consideration. The public's tolerance of any privacy infraction will depend strongly on whether that infraction prevents 1 death a year or 1,000,000.
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Am I insensitive in wondering "Why not just limit it to lowercase, ASCII chars"?
Thanks for the answer - I fully appreciate what you say. I'm just a bitter iPad1 owner whose £400 toy became obsolete barely a year after purchase. It's a shame there isn't a native equivalent of progressive enhancement.
The word "Terrorism" was coined based on the express philosophy behind the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France.
We have that system of "he who pays the taxes makes the rules", except instead of taxes, it's campaign contributions. (Which, incidentally, often results in the donors paying far less taxes.)
This is what I thought at first. If it's the exact same check (which it should be), why is there any possibility of the answer being different? But the real "bug" here is that they were treating the canonicalized username as if it were just as good as the original username, which is only true if the adjustment function is idempotent as they say.

Another possible solution would be to assume the username given to the password reset form is already canonicalized (which would be necessarily true, as far as I understand).

EDIT: However this wouldn't solve the other bug that's been discovered here, which is that "ᴮᴵᴳᴮᴵᴿᴰ" is canonicalized differently than "BIGBIRD", thus defeating the purpose of canonicalization (for that particular case) in the first place.
ASCII: the American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
In the USA people tend to ride bikes with frame designs inspired by either road or mountain racing bikes. This type of bike geometry makes it easy to get thrown over the handlebars and land on your head should you have an accident.

However, in countries like China, the Netherlands and Denmark, the most popular bikes are typically upright designs that haven't changed much in 100 years. These bikes are pretty much impossible to get thrown over the handlebars, and as such you will never land on your head. The same goes for beach cruisers, bromptons, citi bikes / velib, kids bikes and anything described as a "leisure" bike.

For cyclists who use this sort of bike it doesn't matter that bike helmets haven't changed much, because they are unnecessary for safety, anyway.
Well that's an interesting hypothesis, and certainly study authors are well-advised to standardize their measurement procedure. Furthermore, in any specific incident you might very well be subject to a bruise if wearing a helmet and a contusion otherwise. But these studies are not about specific incidents: they reflect the totality of many cyclists spending many hours cycling. There is no reason to suspect that there would be some consistent factor that would exaggerate reporting of helmeted injuries while minimizing reporting of unhelmeted ones.

Besides who would cause a bruise an injury? I get bruises every day. Bicycling is one of the safest things I do.
Anecdotal people aren’t necessarily strawfolk.
From a development standpoint, it's good to have Django administration be a separate app, because a modular codebase is easy to develop. If you're a Django user, modular is good, because you can get performance and security benefits by turning off parts of the framework you don't use.

From a distribution or marketing standpoint, however, one of the best features for Django beginners -- and one of the project's original motivations -- is the ability to quickly get a basic CRUD app running, so basic usage and data entry can start to happen while advanced features are still under development.

If Django doesn't have the admin functionality out of the box, and instead the user has to confront a bewildering array of third-party add-ons, it makes the framework less attractive to new users.

If Django is trying to morph into a minimalist framework like Flask, where only the most basic functionality is included, it might lose too much of what makes it strong.
Fact is that Oracle bought Sun to have control of Java. As many know, all the middleware and development tools that Oracle sells for its database are written in Java. They even tried to replace with some success Pro*C with some sort of Java from hell in the late 90's.
The "second saddest part" makes me realize why all of the government agencies get C's or less in the NIST tests for securing systems. When the NSA can't even employ their own in-house sysadmins, there is no real hope for defense against political espionage.

If Snowden was the first to leak information, who was the first to sell it? The way Snowden describes the access seems like a joke.
The only thing that scares me more than terrorism is U.S. policymakers' reaction to terrorism.

I'm not sure which civil liberty they'll strike down next in the name of preventing future attacks. Their means-to-an-end attitude exposes not only hysteric, irrational thinking, but a fundamental misunderstanding of the Constitution.
That may solve the whistle-blower problem, but it doesn't solve the spy problem. There are actual spies, paid in cash, who traffic government secrets, who need to be stopped regardless of your opinion on whistleblowers.
Hey, Google. Reporting what the government is requesting en-masse is nice, but how about you actually give us end-to-end encryption for as many of your services as possible, so we don't have to second-guess our thoughts and chats anymore simply because we know the government is watching and will be getting that data no matter what? It might help with the whole trust issue you're having now.
A privacy infraction that prevents a million deaths a year still has to be weighed against other ways to prevent those deaths without violating people's rights.

Yes, the easiest way to do something might be to violate the Constitution, but that doesn't mean it's the only way.
Your position seems to presume that you cannot receive a head injury in a bicycle accident without being thrown over the handlebars, which is rather emphatically not the case.
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On the other hand, taking things like MySQL and PHP off your resume will lead to working with the kind of people who don't like to use MySQL or PHP. Not a bad thing. Avoiding working for a company where an HR department screens your resume instead of a hiring manager is another plus.
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How many people would have died in 50 years under a totalitarian surveillance state if this information didn't leak?
Out society has enough free resources to produce a "list of chairs"
They don't. They don't need to. This idea of a 'patriotic American' is propaganda. A complete and utter fabrication. It's a tool used to divide the American populace into opposing factions: those are patriotic, and those who are enemies of the stats.

It's a remarkably similar tactic to what the Nazi's used [1]. The Nazis attempted (and succeeded) in demonizing anyone who didn't agree with their ideals. That's basically what our politicians are doing: demonizing anyone who is 'not a patriot', 'against national security', 'disagrees with American Exceptionalism'.

Also, to those who will inevitably think 'Godwin's Law': thank you for derailing a legitimate comparison.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_propaganda#Themes
Maybe I misread what people were saying about older games being padded with difficulty to account for their short length / to add to their replayability.

I definitely think Super Metroid is pretty close to perfect.
Heroku is good because they take sysadmin/DBA headaches away from you, but I wouldn't call them cheap.

My take on this is that if you want or need to run your own database with a large amount of storage, there are three solutions:

- run it in house, which means you now need a redundant link to the internet, server class machines (redundant power supply), etc, etc, etc... Unlikely unless you already have your own data centre

- use a VM to which you can add storage (EC2, google, etc...). That is expensive (0.1$/GiB) but typically very reliable (they use redundant physical storage), and flexible (you can move your storage around, rebuild VMs etc...).

- use a colo site, or a rent a cheap physical. You get a lot of space for a very reasonable price, but have all the headaches of a physical (storage is only as redundant as you make it, no hardware mirroring/raid'ing, if the storage fails, you've lost your OS as well, and now have to restore from backup, changing OS means renting a second physical, install, transfer data, etc...).
Not being able to relicense under a more restrictive license is actually the main element of copyleft.

With an MIT or BSD licensed work, you can add more restrictive conditions, e.g. make a derived work proprietary, or add a "noncommercial use only" clause to your derived work, or whatever else you want. But with a GPL-licensed work, you cannot add additional conditions to the derived work, i.e. you must give all downstream reusers the same permissions you received. That's what's sometimes referred to as the "viral" property.

Unless, as here, you are the owner of the copyrights, in which case you can apply any license you want to the work.
Yes. There is Sublime-TypeScript

https://github.com/raph-amiard/sublime-typescript
Yep I don't see any way of beating that bot. You whipped that up just today?
Oh. Well then, it didn't work for me. Better luck next time.
It's not that ASCII is a disaster. It the refusal to default to larger encodings for so long after it became obviously useful (that is as soon as computers stopped being one offs).
> The public's tolerance of any privacy infraction will depend strongly on whether that infraction prevents 1 death a year or 1,000,000.

The public's tolerance of any privacy infraction probably depends a lot more on how scary the stories of potential harms used to defend it are than the actual harms that it has prevented or would be likely to prevent in the future.
Because they are two very different things.

When driving a car you are the operator and need to show you can do so safely without harming others on the public road. You are not required to have a license to be a passenger in a car on a public road.

When flying in an aircraft you are a passenger and therefore no license is required. But be assured that guy up front flying the airplane has his pilot's license that shows they are capable of doing so safely.

When you are restricted from driving on a public road due to lack of a license that is society actively accusing you of being a danger to everyone else. The issue you are trying to compare this to are people being on a no-fly list that don't know why they are on this list and no one will tell them.

That's the main difference, the accusation. If the police were confiscating driver's licenses from people and forcing them to walk instead of driving without explanation, then that would be the same thing.

Now, if you have a history of attempting to bring down airplanes while in flight while you were on board, then they could rightfully restrict you from entering any other planes. At least in that case there's the accusation.

But I don't understand your thought of being restricted without trial as a strange concept. It's done all the time. Try to enter a restricted government building or a military base without permission and see how far you get. Even better, enter a stranger's house and see what happens. There are numerous restrictions in a free society that in essence helps maintain that freedom. Assuming that these restrictions are placed equally on everyone then that person next to you is restricted from doing things to you that you won't like just as much as you are restricted from doing them to him.

Of course, these restrictions can get oppressive and abusive if allowed to get out of hand.
So I have run into this same issue. We run summer research programs where users collect data with iPad's using Verizon service. When I went reactivate this year I had the same problems.

3 Verizon calls, 2 Apple Care calls, and 1 Verizon store visit later, I finally went to the Apple store where they happily gave me several unactivated SIM's. Unfortunately they gave me nano SIM's and I had to go back to get the micro SIM's.

The Apple in store employees seemed more than happy to help me out, yet the Verizon employees would only give me SIM cards if I activated a plan with them.
Surely EBCDIC is what you're referring to?
> ...argue this issue in front of a jury of their peers, and then be acquitted, establishing a precedent?

This is conceptually confused.
Juries aren't judges or lawyers. They don't get to rule on questions of law, and their verdicts don't set precedent.

If Google does what you suggest and then a judge rules that, as a matter of law, the FISC order was unconstitutional, that means that what Google would have been accused of doing was not illegal -- which means no jury ever gets involved.

If on the other hand a judge holds that what Google would be accused of was illegal, then you get a jury to decide whether, as a matter of fact, they did what they're accused of. But in that case, an acquittal by the jury wouldn't set a precedent that their actions were legal, any more than a jury finding someone not guilty of murder sets a precedent that murder is legal.

All of which means there's no reason for them not to seek a declaration of the order's unconstitutionality before breaching it.
It looks to me as if the prevention of this caused more problems than it solved.
There are also so many more things that kill more Americans each year than terrorism which receive barely any attention. The disproportionate amount of focus on terrorism seems less like actual protection (neglected elsewhere) and more like the power grabs they appear to be.
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"I will never apologize for the United States; I don't care what the facts are."

- George H.W. Bush
This isn't a case of absolute loss of privacy vs. absolute security. Details do in fact matter.
Yeah, it's not really for an "API key" though, that oversimplifies things. You are paying for support in setting up your account. For something like printing it takes a few iterations to make sure things are set up properly and you are producing the proper assets for them to print (colors, margins, etc.) This isn't a turnkey thing like Stripe or other APIs, there are a number of practical issues that you need to address when designing something for automated printing. When I set up my account with them they caught a number of issues with my template before I started printing, and then verified physical prints looked acceptable before mailing me some test prints. This support is what you are paying for.

A self-service REST interface like this, for non-trivial jobs, is going to either require the same level of setup/support, which is a cost they are swallowing somehow but won't be sustainable in the long run, or will require you to do a large number of test-runs to get things right before going live, with each test-run taking about a week before you have the physical result in your hands. And even then, there may be issues that you are unaware of, such as cropping, clipping, or color bleeding, that may occur only a small percentage of the time based upon their specific process if you did not design things properly. There's no free lunch.
On the flip side: Some people have the personal opinion that they eat gourmet meals, surrounded by loving friends, 3 times a day, 7 days a week. They appear to get heaps and heaps of personal pleasure out of every single meal they eat. They apparently never eat for the simple fact that they are hungry and need to eat. I'm trying to get my head around that.
This is nothing special. Just a few animations and sketched graphics.

Edit: curious why the downvotes? Usually we hold ourselves to high standards on this board. We bash all the little guys, but Dropbox doesn't have to be held accountable to inspiring design?
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Windows 8 comes with Hyper-V.
If you fall to the side at low speeds, you're more likely to land on your shoulder or arm. (knee and hip are likely involved in such a fall, too)
One could argue that the nation was already long gone by the time that happened. Corruption is just accelerating the inevitable.
I could see why you'd think that, but I'm pretty sure it's not.

Nothing is purely negative, and I think it's important to keep that in mind. Especially when one's attitude and reactions can amplify or diminish the good parts.

If you want to look for coping mechanisms in this discussion, consider all the denial around the inevitability of death.
I feel your pain, I too have an iPad 1 that I'd like to use more things on, like dashboards. :-P

I guess this is just what we get when we buy Apple products. They are damn good at making last year's awesome product look obsolete the next year.
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If it only cared about control then why wouldn't it just be doing what North Korea is doing? Why would it be working so hard to improve things?

It's not a strawman it's very pertinent.

I think you need to read Capital (Marx), before judging whether they are communist/socialist, either way they call themselves that.
Amazingmail has been awesome. Their actual API isn't really the most elegant thing in the world (XML), but on the list of things that matter when you are dealing with printing and mailing physical products this comes in low on the list of what's important. Their API is reliable and feature complete and my customers have been thrilled with their prints, which is all I care about. Not to mention, their customer support is superb.

I think it's great to see more competition here but people pointing to a REST API and nice website and ignoring the fact that there are no actual examples of their work or any reason to believe they can deliver on their service, nevermind that their pricing is insane, show these people have not done their homework or are focused on the wrong things.
Not to mention a list of lists of lists.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists).
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