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Slovenia's official considering asylum for Snowden
العالم: مرسي رئيس صباحي مضطرب | التيار
He was taken into custody for, among other things: Failing to attend multiple bail hearings; Falsely claiming that a passport that had been legally seized by the police was lost, bearing in mind he'd previous missed bail hearings by traveling abroad; Refusing to comply with lawful requests for access to his computer, etc, etc.

There is no '5th Amendment' in the UK, no right of silence and no Miranda rights. There never have been. We do have our own limitations on the rights of police officers conducting an investigation though. If officers have the proper warrants, I think it's reasonable that they are entitled to access to computer records in much the same way they are entitled to access to any other part of someone's property, business and private records.

He was willfully obstructive and obtuse, and suffered the consequences for it, but no more than that. The sectioning is of course a matter for concern, but it requires proper medical oversight and bearing in mind his previous history of mental illness there's no particular reason to believe it was malicious.
Again, you make no sense. No one attacked the "mere existence" of alternative theories. I challenged you to explain why yours is any more credible than others, something which you apparently cannot do, hence your little tirade about what HN is all about.

And, I plainly I didn't "shoot the mesenger". I specifically questioned your message. In fact, you acknowledged this in your previous reply when you "found it remarkable how thouroughly I have tried to refute your simple statement of an alternative scenario". See that? You acknowledged that I was attacking the statement (i.e. message).

And again with the meta-talk. You have still said nothing in defense of your actual post (calling mine "noisy nonsense" doesn't qualify). Instead, you appear to just be saying things that you hope will get you upvotes.

Contrary to what you have declared HN to be in your quest for karma as its self-appointed keeper, I believe what makes it special is the many bright people here who speak a common language, and who sometimes disagree (even vehemently). But, they are able to construct logic-based, thoughtful arguments, which challenge their adversaries and make them think. I have learned much in this way, as I am sure have others.

Here, however, this is not the case. Sadly.
Amazed and Impressed that it worked in TenFourFox (17.0.7) on a G5 Mac.. and much less CPU intensive than I was expecting. Good work!
Sell high, buy low ;)
You don't even need to do that. You can just say that your music files/photos are really encrypted using stenography and you can't prove otherwise. They can't prove they are encrypted either,but I sure they wouldn't bother with such small details.
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While it is not technically impossible to discover backdoors in closed source software, I'd say it's essential for me to trust crypto-software that it is open source.

That being said, it is probably feasible to hide a backdoor even in open source software. But it is still easier in closed source software.
Would you call this racial profiling?
I'm not being a troll. I genuinely want to know what you'd think if this happened to you. I just want people to know that it happens.
We fought the law and we won
Much anger, sense I can.
> What's your source for the Spanish press, if I may ask?

In case you don't know Spanish press is completely partisan, some newspapers lie openly without any kind of remorse.

That said, I was reading El País (center-left) and it didn't look like they were blaming the Spanish government (conservatives) in this situation.

As I said, all this thing is confusing.

Source: http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2013/07/03/act...

EDIT: according to the foreign ministry, Evo Morales was granted permission for a refuel stop in the Canary Islands on Tuesday and if that had to be reviewed and delayed until Wednesday was because other EU countries didn't authorise the plane to enter their aerial space.

Source: http://www.20minutos.es/noticia/1861995/0/margallo/evo-moral...
> I've seen [the problems that occur when you're working
> with an immature ecosystem] before. I started with Rails
> in 2006. It was difficult in the earlier years. It has
> only really matured in the past 3 years. I think Rails
> 3.1 really embodies everything you need to make a
> certain class of web applications. Ember and its
> ecosystem are so far off.

Using rails as our yardstick:

Rails Releases Ember.js
--------------------- --------------------------
3.1.0 August 31, 2011 Now + 6.5 Years (End 2020)
3.0.0 August 29, 2010 Now + 5.5 Years (End 2019)
2.0.0 December 6, 2007 Now + 2 Years (Mid 2015)
1.0.0 December 13, 2005 Now (Mid 2013)

So starting an Ember.js project today is like starting a Rails app in 2005. Probably too much headache to take on for six month to a year long projects, but if you're looking at a 2-3 year timeframe and Ember.js gives you a technology advantage over other frameworks, then it might a good time to try it.
It's likely not really about Snowden anymore, it's about making an example of Snowden to dissuade any future whistle-blowers from doing what he did.

So we can expect massively disproportionate actions like this.

And you know what... that's great. Because you know what it does? It reinforces a sense that at the heart of the American government there's an intelligence community that's turned into a feral beast. A beast that seemingly can't be controlled by anyone we elect and it's wandering around the world pissing off people indiscriminately in its wild attempts to get Snowden back.

Snowden has revealed the nature of the beast and the beast itself can't help but make things worse for itself.

So with this latest escapade, they've thoroughly pissed off the South Americans, who will likely be absolutely furious with America, but even more so europe. The european populace is going to be scratching its head wondering why the hell they're denying flights into their airspace at the behest of people who apparently spend all their time spying on them?

Seems like a complete and utter mess to me. The beast can't help itself, it's panicking, running around the world doing increasingly stupid and desperate things to get Snowden back.

The beast has lost its anonymity, it's showing itself up by taking actions obviously not in the best interests of the USA but rather out of pure panic.

It's making itself vulnerable.
By "closed-source", I meant "researchers don't have the source code". And yet they find vulnerabilities anyways. It's not 1995 anymore. Vulnerability researchers tend to have pretty good tools for reading assembly.
Pretty cool app to be creative with too:

http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwAEAAYBUAQAAT7/AAAAAwDiBA...
As a political satirist has said about argentinian politics:

"You can neither explain it or understand it, you just endure it." — Enrique Pinti, Pingo Argentino
In light of this, here's a fun paper/idea (+implementation) to consider:

"Neuroscience Meets Cryptography: Designing Crypto Primitives Secure Against Rubber Hose Attacks"

https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstracts/rubberhose.... (summary; full paper (PDF): http://bojinov.org/professional/usenixsec2012-rubberhose.pdf)

Abstract:

"Cryptographic systems often rely on the secrecy of cryptographic keys given to users. Many schemes, however, cannot resist coercion attacks where the user is forcibly asked by an attacker to reveal the key. These attacks, known as rubber hose cryptanalysis, are often the easiest way to defeat cryptography. We present a defense against coercion attacks using the concept of implicit learning from cognitive psychology. Implicit learning refers to learning of patterns without any conscious knowledge of the learned pattern. We use a carefully crafted computer game to plant a secret password in the participant's brain without the participant having any conscious knowledge of the trained password. While the planted secret can be used for authentication, the participant cannot be coerced into revealing it since he or she has no conscious knowledge of it. We performed a number of user studies using Amazon's Mechanical Turk to verify that participants can successfully re-authenticate over time and that they are unable to reconstruct or even recognize short fragments of the planted secret."

The scheme/system is bound to be imperfect; but it is a nice angle of approach, so to speak, and hopefully we'll have more stuff of this kind in the near future.

edit / P.S.: from the paper / intro section:

Readers who want to play with the system can check out the training game at brainauth.com/testdrive
no, but you can use a Windows VM.
Just FYI: Genesis 10:25 could be interpreted as a plate-tectonic level event.

http://www.biblica.com/bibles/chapter/?verse=Genesis+10&vers...
So this is a completely noob question, but anyway... how easy, I wonder, would it be to take the 'interface' to the backend there and export it in such a way that it could be 'imported' into a Monotouch or maybe Phone Gap type system?

I guess what I mean is, would it be easy to take this prebuilt interface on the client code side and build it then into a system that will build for different mobile OS'?

Either way, I'm loving the ideas that are starting to come out of Android Studio.
My guess is that the list of countries restricting airspace was said by an Austrian "official" to the Bolivian passengers, including the Bolivian president once they landed. At no point in time I have seen an article stating the "unnamed officials in Spain and France" have closed the airspace to the Bolivian president. What is official is that named French and Spanish officials have denied such statements.

Additionally, the plane has landed in Spain to refuel. No questions asked, no plane searched, no restrictions. This should clear many doubts.
BBC interview with the Birches, of Bebo Fame (2010)
Perhaps they didn't want the death to look like an accident but still have plausible deniability. By making it obvious they are warning other journalists.
chrome is not "open source and free software" it is distributed with a ton of proprietary code.
Something something John Scully not understanding computers are not soda pop.
The major feature, at least for me, that the replacement services still cannot provide was full text search. It's something you'd expect from Google without thinking, but it involves indexing every article of every feed any user is subscribed to, allowing searching of the text within articles. For anybody who isn't a search engine, that's a huge undertaking and was an awesome feature.
I'm trying to figure out what the Pebble does that makes it unavailable for phones that support the Bluetooth standard. My Windows Phone will pair with my car and even let me car read my incoming texts to me. It can do Bluetooth audio streaming (A2DP). It can do caller ID notifications over Bluetooth.

So why can it not work with a Pebble? Just because it can't run their app?
I got the Chrome sad face.
It also helped that Obama's opponents didn't have a snow flake's chance in hell to convince the voters they would change these issues...
I'm not being a troll. I genuinely want to know what you'd think if this happened to you, and also let people know that it happens.
Another Ansible convert here. Our entire team uses it, we love it. We have a semi-unique situation where we have to do a lot of finagling to access some machines, don't always have control over what sits in front of them, and frequently have to comply with outside regulations. I won't go into too much detail, but Ansible is flexible enough and expandable enough to fit our needs. We were able to have Ansible reading from our custom inventory system in under a day, have expanded it to tie in with tons of internals, and all with very minimal effort. What would've taken weeks setting up with Puppet or Chef just falls into place. It's a beautiful thing. Highly recommend giving it a try, even if just to have a quick way of setting up your own dev machines.
http://stackoverflow.com/a/12536109
Being cheeky, while you're there it would be nice to have single spaced columns rather than double spaced :)
I've been able to "predict" incoming calls for years, seconds before the phone rings, just by leaving my phone on top of my stereo. In college I won a few bets using GSM interference.
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Zero Hedge is the HN of finance, from high level macro to Nanex graphs of HFT, also see the Zero Hedge Reads on the left hand side for other sites -

http://www.zerohedge.com/

Market Ticker, Karl also has a show on Blog Talk Radio -

http://market-ticker.denninger.net/

Sadly RTs excellent Capital Account is no more but they have a different, though not quite as good show called Prime Interest-

https://www.youtube.com/user/theprimeinterest
To clarify, I mean that Apple does not consider it their job to require proof that a given developer owns the IP during the initial review process. They don't want to be policing contracts and stuff that they aren't a party to.
How exactly does that work? Are you just not allowed to earn money as self-employed for X time after leaving?
Study reveals messy and inconsistent orphan works copyright law
The final killer feature for this would be screen sharing, especially with a group. Anyone know of any plans for this?
A non-open-source OS X app called AppTamer can be very handy for managing battery life. You can set process priority and automatically pause non-foreground GUI apps. So when you switch away from your CPU chewing IDE, it'll get SIGSTOP'd.
Which part, the first sentence or the sarcastic second?
I've taken their algorithm and ported it over to JavaScript a while ago: https://github.com/lukashed/itunes-colors
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>Additionally, the plane has landed in Spain to refuel. No questions asked, no plane searched, no restrictions. This should clear many doubts.

After the plane was already searched in Austria. Doesn't seem to be much risk of letting them land at that point.
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For those of us without good knowledge of US foreign acts, what was that last time?
I'm kind of hoping that when they get the plane "home", it turns out he actually was in there, and they show him popping out of a cupboard on live TV.
paying money doesn't mean you aren't the product.
I use both dropbox and git for my home projects. I sometimes develop on my desktop, sometimes on my wifes laptop, and sometimes remotely on another server through ssh, and I don't want to commit/add stuff to the git index just because I move from one computer to another. I could do this with branches, but it's too much hassle when I just want to shut down computer.

So I work on a directory that is in dropbox, and in git, and I can instantly shutdown my PC and start writing code on the laptop. Commiting changes is a separate step. It's quite convenient. Also I can test the code by accessing dropbox public link (it's mostly javascript and static websites), and there's no separate "deploy" step - when I save a file on any computer the change is ready to be tested, always at the same place. With git I would need to remember to commit, and update before I test, or I would need to set up a test server on every computer, and depending on where I work I would need to access different address. The difference between 15 seconds and 0 seconds to test small change is VERY significant.
I don't know, but:

What everybody can do is program any plugin they like, for this platform. So only the sky's the limit.
Why did his plane have to land? What's Austria going to do, shoot it down?
I wonder what would have happened had the plane just kept flying. No one is going to shoot down a presidential plane.
If I understand both you and the parent correctly, you are describing the same process. When you melt two fibers together, the cores aren't really becoming one. Really, they melt together such that light from one core partially evanescently couples into the core of the adjacent fiber.

http://www.goochandhousego.com/products/passive-fiber-optic-...
Powertop has been available on Linux for a looooong time.
In a documentary about Africa I saw zebras trying to cross a river. It was full of crocodiles awaiting them, and the zebras all gathered around the edge nervously... sooner or later, a few zebras would step (or get pushed) into the river, and then the rest scrambled to follow them, as if on cue. A few got surrounded by crocodiles and eaten ("without ever having felt / sorry for itself" .. !), but the vast majority made it across fine.

Imagine if the zebras instead had watched in horror as the first few "pioneers" got mauled... prodding each other saying "your turn", until all of them were too weak to be able to cross, even as a herd, and the crocodiles simply came out of the river and dragged them into it (which is exactly what would have happened, because the reason they cross rivers is that there is nothing left to eat on their side of it).

Not that I consider humans herd animals, or that I want to other humans who prey on humans so much that I would cast them as a different species. But I still think there is a lesson for us in there, too. Cowardice, as rational as it may seem, simply doesn't pay in the long run. Until we learn that, we're stuck.
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You are right, that doesn't. But history won't remember that. History will consider the powerful and the victorious as right. There's no Karma checker.
People never care until they are hungry. Empty stomaches spark revolutions. Vast majority of Americans still have jobs.
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Probably referring to iraq

(spelling edit)
One big difference with Hushmail is that they are a web app, so they can be (and have been) compelled by law enforcement to serve malicious code to certain users. Parley is a standalone desktop/mobile app, so it would be difficult for that scenario to occur. The passphrase is also PBKDF2'd on the client, so the server never sees it.
Soon US allies will be detaining ships from the Bolivian Navy just to check if Snowden is aboard.
>If there were a clock that ticked every time high US government officials lied over matters of state, you could use it as a fan.

I just want to say how brilliant I thought this expression was. I can't believe people don't use it more often
"there can be no doubt that the right to remain silent under police questioning and the privilege against self-incrimination are generally recognised international standards which lie at the heart of the notion of a fair procedure"

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_and... (and cite-note 15)
anyone with both ansible and saltstack experience to compare ?
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Remember the open-source qwiki clone, fqwiki? It was on HN the same time qwiki raised their first $8M. The demo[1] used wikipedia's page on "snake oil", very funny.

1. http://banksytheluckystiff.github.io/fqwiki/
Modern safety features are really good at helping you save a car from crashing if you realize what's happening and react in time.

OTOH, they do absolutely nothing if you are inattentive for a moment at high speed, run off the road, and there is a tree in the way.
That's a pre-WWII view, a hobbesian view of Leviathans wrestling for power and resources across the globe.

Funnily enough, the US government itself pushed to overcome that view after WWII, by instituting the Nuremberg tribunal: they flat-out invented "international law" as we know it today, introducing the concept of a "law of humanity" that didn't know borders. This was done against the will of European rulers, who knew it would have come back to haunt them one day (which it did, when they were forced to dismantle their colonial empires).

Today, power is just one of the various factors of international relations. The fact that subsequent US governments have been hell-bent into ignoring this, will count against them whenever the inevitable redde rationem comes, be it at the hands of crazy Middle-Easterners or fed-up Europeans. History is a harsh judge.
Wait a second - do you have a trustworthy reference? Are you (or the media) suggesting that the US managed to infiltrate European air traffic control and hoaxed the bolivian plane to land?

I would not trust those official announcements, more likely that we'll have to dissect them carefully to see what they are not saying, e.g.: "We did not officially refuse them access to our airspace." (But the airspace was so crowded that due to security reasons no further planes could be allowed).
India has rejected NSA leaker Edward Snowden's request for political asylum, the External Affairs Ministry said Tuesday.
http://www.wral.com/india-turns-down-nsa-leaker-s-asylum-req...
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this is awesome. thank you!
There is the good part of US government staffed by great people. One example is the State Department. I imagine they are furious over this. Then there is the shadow, rogue part which is the intelligence community, full of people with paranoid delusions who will skirt the law at-will because it's for "national security."
I highly doubt it. The NSA has been tapping undersea cables for decades, there's no reason they'd have suddenly become so sloppy as to cut two cables in the same region. Especially as a cable will be inspected if cut and any surveillance equipment will be discovered.

I think it's more likely that those outages really were caused by ship anchors.
Similar to Scott Hanselman's "Your Words Are Wasted", a more impactfully written (IMO) piece about the same problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4403558
> I haven't seen anyone elsewhere point out that maybe he is onboard.

I've seen speculation along those lines, especially since it emerged they didn't allow a proper search. A "walk-through" indeed - I would be willing to bet there's at least 10 places he could have been hiding.

It will be absolutely hilarious if he turns out to have been on board all along. Apparently, however, the plane left from a different airport, so I don't know how he could have gotten from one to the other without having to officially enter Russia.
Why this Redditor is in love with Digg again.
And whappens when those who used to write the articles for anything start censoring themselves too.
The Middle Eastern wars fought over the past 11 years.
On Windows? I can't find one.
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Sorry, I forgot to mention that those students weren't coming from poverty or lack of opportunity. They were middle to upper-middle class professionals in their home country with good corporate jobs. Not saddled with debt like their American counterparts. In fact they were mocking the plight of their US counterparts a bit.
I agree. What you are saying is really important, and using RetroShare does not seem to be the correct solution to mark_integerdsv's problem.

> a few friends talking freely behind closed doors? Even dictatorships have that.

But I feel that I do not have this across the Internet! It is good to be able to talk freely behind closed doors, too. This is why RetroShare seems to solve an important problem for me :)
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It is policy. Large swaths of the active US electorate hold their military as a sacred institution since the late '80s. The intelligence apparatus is an offshoot of that same military and enjoys the same privileges. Until the role of the US military as a whole is put into question, nothing will change. That's a political and a cultural problem, the sort of problem that political organizations are supposed to bring up and try to fix.
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