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How will people learn if they don't try?

The problem is not creating and releasing such applications; the problem is overclaiming their security, or putting early confidence in them.

Crypto is hard, we get it. Beginners and non-experts are going to mess it up, we get it. Even experts almost always mess it up, we get it.

Still, a good programmer of crypto software (or even just, "wise user of battle-tested crypto libraries in the proper ways") will almost always start out as a bad programmer of crypto software... who got started, and learned by failing.

To borrow an aphorism from other project/product wisdom: if your first version's crypto isn't obviously and embarassingly broken, you waited too long to release.
Breaking news: Systems administrator took course to learn how to secure systems he was in charge of administrating.
this is in-time. Good luck!
There isn't a right answer here. A lot of the welfare state is bread and circuses. Many of the successful folks knocking the welfare state profit from it. One of our local "conservative" luminaries got his start as a body shop providing workers for the welfare department, and got rich on charter schools

It's always easy to knock someone down when type haven't walked a mile in their shoes. It's not a rich/poor thing either. Working folks in the projects HATE people on welfare, even though they receive food and housing benefits.
There are better alternatives to McDonald's. When I used to travel on business I found Subway veggie sandwichs to be OK, as an example. I have not spent much time on it recently, but I have a web app (http://cookingspace.com) were my goal was to show how recipes can be morphed, based on what ingredients you have in our kitchen. My wife and I can both make nutritious and tasty food fairly quickly with whatever we have in our kitchen. My goal was to teach people to eat better, but so few people use the app on a regular basis that I consider that a failed project.
> Amazon, which became the biggest force in bookselling by discounting so heavily it often lost money

IANAL, but this sounds like a potential anti-trust case to me. "Predatory pricing practices may result in antitrust claims of monopolization or attempts to monopolize. Businesses with dominant or substantial market shares are more vulnerable to antitrust claims. However, because the antitrust laws are ultimately intended to benefit consumers, and discounting results in at least short-term net benefit to consumers, the U.S. Supreme Court has set high hurdles to antitrust claims based on a predatory pricing theory. The Court requires plaintiffs to show a likelihood that the pricing practices will affect not only rivals but also competition in the market as a whole, in order to establish that there is a substantial probability of success of the attempt to monopolize." (http://bit.ly/12pG6gq)
Maybe I'm hopelessly naive, but why don't the publishers drop their prices by 5-10%? Since Amazon is selling books at a percentage of the cover price, dropping the cover price should theoretically offset the decreasing Amazon discount. I know that books have the price printed on them, but what a great marketing project it could be: "Look, we're dropping our prices across the board by 5%. Go buy a book!"
But from where does the Supreme Court get the authority to be the ultimate arbitrator on the meaning of the constitution? Surely words have meaning outside of SCOTUS interpretations.
Judging by your post, you seem to have a good grasp of the concept of hyperbole. Now apply that to the guy's posting.
Assuming the video belongs to the one using it, you could sell the videos to news channels and take a commission out of it. It would be morally right because you are facilitating people with tools and at the same time incentivizing them to catch a crime in action.
I see we had the same thought! If prices are too high, supply and demand says you should be able to increase demand by dropping the price. Books certainly fall into the elastic demand (or did I get that backwards?) category.
> There are very good reasons for everything in the constitution, but each is only as strong as those reasons. In the absence of good reasons for something, the fact that it's part of the constitution does not matter very much! If anything, it means the constitution should be changed--that's why we have a ready amendment mechanism.

We thought the reasons weren't holding up anymore, we could have changed it, but that takes so long so we just did it in secret, thats ok yea? Its "just the constitution".

Is this your standpoint?

> The constitution is great, but it's hardly the perfect authority on everything and shouldn't be revered as such.

It was supposed to be. And when things were found to no longer work it was supposed to be amended with all branches of government having their say.

If one thing can be disregarded "because its not perfect" then all things can be disregarded. Or at least, if you think they can't just all be disregarded, because some things would be crossing the line, who is the one that gets to draw the line? Previously we had this piece of paper which drew the line, but then this guy said online it wasn't perfect.
Sorry, I couldn't resist:

"a portion of the brain known to be involved in thinking"

You don't say? ;P
This is poor journalism. From the article:

"Now, with Borders dead, Barnes & Noble struggling and independent booksellers greatly diminished, for many consumers there is simply no other way to get many books than through Amazon. And for some books, Amazon is, in effect, beginning to raise prices."

Now what they are really saying is that Amazon is pricing books closer and closer to "list price" which is the price that brick and mortar book stores can sell books at and survive (generally). So if Amazon were to suddenly sell every book for list price, there would be a great cheer heard from all the book sellers as they now had a viable business.

No question that Amazon has used its position to establish market dominance and its pricing has killed a lot of book stores. Amazon can't raise prices too far without allowing book stores to flourish. As the article points out, the publishers aren't changing their prices, Amazon is.
I read that as "made entirely of glass" and was imagining a rope bridge made out of glass strands. Could be pretty cool at night if the strands were light pipes and you lit up the ends...
I know you were trying to be sarcastic but being physically tired is not the same as being mentally tired. During different periods of my life, I've had difficulty sleeping before midnight regardless of the physical activities I engaged in during the day. I've run marathons, trained for ultras, swam mile+, kayaked for 8 hours and yet I've had problems sleeping the very same night. In fact, sometimes you can be too tired to sleep. Other times, I can be relaxed, barely walk a thousand feet during the day and still need to fall asleep within 12-14 hours of waking up.
My point was to call attention to the inanity of this argument we keep hearing over and over again from middle class people who want to have it easy while also feeling good about themselves that they're on the "poor people's side" trying to save them and make their lives better, while in actuality doing diddly-squat.

It's the oft-cried tripe of the modern middle-income West. See somebody having a harder time than you? It's okay! Just tell them how it's so wrong that they're suffering and rich people ought to just... give them stuff! There - feel like a good person now, don't you? Good deed for the day = done.

The fact is, there's somebody out there somewhere in the world who could be living a significantly enhanced life if our good writer were to put his money where his mouth is and donate a portion of his income to him/her - perhaps an impoverished individual in South America, or Africa, or Asia, who gets by on a meager $300 a year. Could our writer donate $3,000 to one of these individuals every year, and change her life? Perhaps another $3,000 to another individual still? Think of all the good he'd be doing... according to his very own argument.

But he's not doing that, is he? What's he doing instead?

The same thing every middle class Western person does: he talks. About how horrible it is that poor people are poor, and how evil it is that rich people are rich.

It's class preservation 101: put the spotlight on the bigger target, and keep it off of you. Nobody raises taxes on the middle class if everybody's upset at the upper class.
In context (an article in a design/advertising magazine) I think it would just be taken as a common term the audience would be assumed to know. Same way that a magazine aimed at programmers wouldn't typically define "functional programming" or "garbage collector".
By the way, there's an already-existing secure group chat software, SILC, that does something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILC_%28protocol%29 (see "security" section, and technical details in http://www.silcnet.org/support/faq/crypto/ )
Wander around most any part of Reddit for 5 minutes, and you'll see things that are far worse said in twisted jest. And that's a mainstream site.

By these standards, you'd have to arrest every teenager in America eventually. That isn't an exaggeration.
I think Incans lived in the mountains and lacked lots of flat ground with which to roll things around. So they did develop some wheel-like devices, but they never applied them in things like wheel barrows or carts because those are just not that useful going up and down mountains.
If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?
Global Wealth Inequality [video]
Seems fun that AT&T took this down
This reminded me to look into CloudFlare getting subpoenaed. I guess it's old news (4/5/13) --http://leaksource.wordpress.com/2013/04/05/doj-issues-subpoe... but better late than never.

The type of information requested in the subpoena; all subscriber information, type of service, payment and billing records, other domain names served by CF associated with the same customer, DNS configuration, and *account access history including any and all authentication, file transfer, web server logs or other transaction logs containing source Internet Protocol addresses related to the subscriber's use of the CloudFlare services.

Cryptome.org raised some good questions about what are CF's policies for retaining access logs to customer sites; http://cryptome.org/2013/04/cloudfare-logs.htm.

>> When Brown went to jail, work on ProjectPM ground to a halt. Even worse, the DoJ now took an interest in everyone else who had participated in ProjectPM. On April 2, the DOJ served the domain hosting service CloudFlare with a subpoena for all records on the ProjectPM website, and in particular asked for the IP addresses of everyone who had accessed and contributed to ProjectPM, claiming it was a criminal enterprise. The message was clear: Anyone else who looks into this matter does so at their grave peril. (https://whyweprotest.net/community/threads/barrett-brown-thr...)

The good news is CF claims they don't retain this data, and there is no legal requirement for them to do so; http://blog.cloudflare.com/what-cloudflare-logs
Also related, a "living bridge" in India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nongriat
On the off chance that anyone here is new to the story: He's been given concussions, black eyes, stripped and held in solitary confinement.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...
The media is writing for people of all ages. Many of which are middle aged and words like "hacker" still send some chills down their spine.

My propaganda filter is pretty accurate. After a quick skim I detected this as propaganda targeted at middle agers who are not quite up on internet culture.

Just like I saw on Fox today, they were alluding to the "next cyber 9/11" -- FFS.

Sad.
The danger of a surveillance state is not the obscure chance of a truly evil person abusing the system; rather, the actual threat, the real danger, is a person with good intentions who believes that their draconian actions are morally justified and prudent. It is such a leader, perhaps with the best of intentions, who can make the most heinous of mistakes with eyes wide open and belief that the ends justify the means. Those ends never justify eviscerating the Fourth Amendment.

If the American people do not understand this, then they will abandon their freedoms and liberty voluntarily, without any outside foreign invasion or attack.

They will fall because of apathy, just like the Romans did.
Marbury v Madison is the case where judicial review was formalized, but Article III offers an implied power. WIkipedia has a fairly solid article on the history of judicial review in the US.
Amazon is intensely interested in finding the right price for everything. If you pay attention you can see small adjustments in the prices of a lot of products; they're most likely doing the equivalent of A/B testing to discover their most profitable point for every product. A product without competition will be less price sensitive, so they'll end up pricing it higher. An interesting question is whether Amazon could end up in legal trouble for what their pricing algorithm does.

A major theme of the small publishers and authors quoted in the article is that Amazon's price is higher than the publisher would want. If Amazon pays a fixed price for every book, then there's a fundamental conflict between the parties. Amazon wants to make margin, the publisher wants to make volume. If the publisher wants Amazon to keep their best interests at heart, they'll have to change the nature of their deal with Amazon so that their interests align.
Creativity is often spurred by ignorance
Don't startup advisors like Tim Ferris do basically the same thing? Advice/market/time for a small amount of equity? The only difference here seems to be that it's developer skills instead.
Why You Should Talk About Your Problems
> the beauty of the American system is that we have checks and balances in place to prevent these tools from being abused in a tyrannical manner.

Are you sure about this assumption? That no brute force, human rights violation, wrong doings have been committed both inside and outside of US?

Would you please explain your reasoning more? I hope we understand that the American system has worked even without PRISM for as long as I have known and read about American history. And quite efficiently at that. So why is Dragnet needed so much now?

> Furthermore, the US Government has LOTS of tools at it's disposal that _could_ be used to implement a tyrannical state.

Let's say such a tyrannical state is inevitably implemented one day.

1. I am curious to understand how you would logically conclude and arrive (I mean agree to agree) at evaluating a _tyrannical_presence_ = true;

2. What checks and balances you indicate are going to be mechanisms at disposal with people to get rid of such a tyranny?

From what it seems none of your arguments are true at the moment.
We need the onion to get working on a retort article with that exact title asap.
Being a few thousand years behind in technological development is nothing on a geological and evolutionary timescale. That such drift would occur without convenient paths for diffusion of ideas and technology is probably unavoidable.

Give uncontacted peoples (say the Sentinalese) a few thousand years and they would eventually die out or develop. What is a bit sad is that the world is converging into one basic level of development that limits diversity; e.g. beyond just fibre, the Incans had stone building technology that we have no idea how to replicate.
Future of Flight - Planes That Never Need To Land
That's been the case since forever. This is not an example of out-dated advertising, but bad advertising.
I actually felt the tesco ad was marginally better than the apple ad. It's still very vague but at least attempts to convince the reader they are doing something about the horse meat scandal, albeit, not particularly convincingly.
I recall that the research I've seen on this in the past showed reduced bone density etc. only in serious endurance runners (e.g. multiple marathons, ultra-marathon) and indicated improvements in your "average" runner.

Bone density is definitely an issue, especially for women.
Hikikomori: Why are so many Japanese men refusing to leave their rooms?
Another "hackers are witches" article that sounds like it's out of the 80s. This journalist should be fired, or at least not allowed to write about this topic.

He took a security certification course, and not even an especially good one. Not a story.
Humans seem to know how to run naturally. Run down the hallway in your house with no shoes on and your technique is likely very good. Strap on a pair of nice, thick, impact absorbing running shows and your technique often goes out the window.

The problem with most running shoes is that they permit you to run terribly without (immediate) pain. They allow you to land with significant pressure on your heel or back half of your foot without really noticing. The flex in your foot and elasticity of your calf muscle help significantly in absorbing the energy of your foot striking the ground (and ideally returns some of it).

Try this test: Without shoes, bounce up and down on your toes. Now try again on your heels. Ouch! And yet this is how many people run without noticing. Of course significant knee/ankle pain comes at some point.

I'd recommend to anyone who experiences knee/ankle pain from running to try running without shoes for a very short distance, take note of your technique, and then replicate that with shoes on (or buy some very thin soled running shoes like those five-fingered variety). Your calf muscles will likely hurt like hell for the first few runs (because you weren't using them before), but they will soon adjust.
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Adblock doesn't really do much for pre-roll video ads, or pop-up ads within a video.
No. I personally do enjoy engineering tasks. As an ops guy though I find I look at things a bit differently and often end up as a resource for the programmers to help them understand how to fit their apps into our existing infrastructure. I personally, as a hobby do application development, I wrote and manage unscatter.com. It's not a case of I am superior to our programmers, it's a case of the expectations of me are different. It's not my job to make great programs, it's my job to make sure all the great programs run correctly. I'm expected to keep Exchange working, apache working, manage dns and a few other systems to to date today and tomorrow a whole other set of services to be managed. I rely on our programmers to have the time to focus on one thing so I can spread my time managing everything else.
Just seems like typical retailing to me. Non mass-market books don't get discounts. If someone is really searching to purchase "Jim Harrison: A Comprehensive Bibliography, 1964-2008", they're probably going to buy it with or without the discount attached.

Btw, Kindle price of "Born to Lose" is $9.34 at the moment. Seems like a good discount to me.
The problem is that those pigs and chimps that try to interbreed and fail would be wasting time and resources and end up falling behind in fecundity to their "breed true" cousins. Evolution would disfavor such behaviors as they would represent a vanishingly small percentage of the their respective gene pools.
Isn't it obvious to everyone by now? We have to wake up, basically every developed country has a program like PRISM that varies but the whole premise of capturing information isn't anything new. This is something that the US and other countries have been doing since World War 2 in some shape or form.

I could easily write a script in Python through some crafty Google searches, the Facebook API, Twitter API, LinkedIn and simple scraping could compile a report of a person and or persons activity on the Internet throw in some natural language processing and I could paint a vague but nonetheless somewhat accurate representation of a person. Capturing phone meta data and tracking locations via cell phone towers would obviously only be only something those supplied with such information would be able to store and have access to.

The difference between a surveillance scraping network that infringes upon your privacy and one that walks the grey line very closely is what information it is given. The technology behind PRISM like programs is largely the same, perhaps fluctuations in how fast information can be retrieved, sorted, tagged and stored are the only difference.
The issue with lettuce is that it needs to be harvested, washed, transported and eaten within a certain time period. It can't be frozen or preserved.

Cattle can be transported alive, then when slaughtered, the meat can be frozen and transported.

Growing veggies IS a more efficient use of resources, but presents more challenges for a franchise such as McDonald's. This is why you see more veggies and salads on menus of independent food businesses.
On well worn paths on moderate to even heavy inclines, a cart is still highly effective at reducing manpower necessary to move heavy objects (like the giant stones the Incans moved).

The Incans didn't not have the wheel because they wouldn't have found it useful. The Incans didn't have the wheel and axle because it wasn't an obvious invention.

All evidence points to the wheel in the "old world" (ugh, I hate that term) being invented in one place at one time. It wasn't obvious. It wasn't simultaneously invented by hundreds of people across Europe, Asia and Africa. It was simply copied everywhere and Europe, Asia and Africa were fortunate enough to be connected.
> As for that woman who turned him in to the police and effectively ruined his life, I'd say she deserves a nice, fat civil suit.

Or at least to be doxed and harassed for a few weeks. Let's hope 4chan picks that ball up and runs with it. People need to stop being so fucking hair-trigger paranoid.
What alternatives are there for group chatting?
http://www.wtfpl.net/ is pretty cool too, if only because any court transcripts involving disputes would be pretty hilarious.
The only difference between this guy and Tim Ferris is developer skills?
I don't know about the US, but where I live in Canada, there is a definite decline in the amount of McDonald's restaurants and other fast food chains. I know of at least half a dozen Chinese and Indian restaurants that used to be McDonald's restaurants, and many ex-Pizza Huts too. Ethnic fast food is just so much better (and healthier!).
App store discovery problem. a different take? this looks interesting...
It's definitely an anti-trust issue, but there is not a good record of proving predatory pricing in the courts (even when it's pretty obvious that's what's going on).
Wtf, why would anyone care who someone is or how "mentally stable" he is. If I care about what someone has to say, I can put it in context by myself by looking up his work (github, available resumes etc.). If I were to invest in his company or something, I'll do a proper background check on him myself. Some people like/need a degree of anonymity and the ability to reinvent themselves periodically until they find a "sweet spot" in life. You're way too aggressive about him, which could only suggest a past encounter that resulted in bad business or maybe some personal grudge.

If you think the guy is talking about things he doesn't know enough just say "take care people, he is pretending to be an expert on X but he isn't!" or something equivalent, professionally, don't go ad hominem on someone just because he may be weird and wacky or even stupid...

I've met guys way smarter than me that were way beyond "mentally unstable" (in a bad way!) and I don't respect their work or their ideas less because of this. And I don't know this guy, he may just be a crackpot, but it's just annoying to find this kind of attack as a top comment.
forrst.com

It's a little poor in content, but the spirit is there.