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I agree with the sentiment that computer use crimes need to be reworked, and that weev shouldn't have been hoisted by the fact he is a colossal dick but the article seems to gloss over things for the sake of the argument.

- `The spoofing was irrelevant; Spitler would have gotten the same email addresses if he had manually inputted the URLs on an iPad rather than a spoofed desktop browser.`, the spoofing is incredibly relevant, it's an important technical detail. Sure he could have sat and put each string in in a long laborious process, but they circumvented that and went straight to the faster option. Once they'd established there was a hole they could have stopped rather than going for the motherlode.

- `if there’s no technical barrier...`, there was a technical barrier, it was just very, very small.

Don't misunderstand me, AT&T are massive idiots for letting a security violation on that scale leak out into the wild, and they should't have been surprised for it to be discovered, but if you're doing live security research and find a hole is taking 114k email addresses a particularly good way to report it?

He certainly didn't deserve the ridiculous amount of time that he got, but he's not an innocent in this example by any stretch of the imagination.
Please. Snowden was never going to be a tool for Russia. He is nothing but an inconvenient annoyance to them. They have all the leverage they need simply by having veto power on the UNSC.

It is more a case of Putin being in an untenable position. If he capitulates and hands him over to the US then he will be seen internally as weak. But he needs to maintain and strengthen relations with the US. So allowing him to stay but telling him to shut up is the best compromise they can come up with.
That makes a lot more sense!

I wonder what the numbers are between "tried not to take money" and "tried to take money" are. On the one hand trying to take money gives you a lot of focus and a short-term goal; getting enough traction to get investment. VC money probably makes a lot of companies succeed short-term that might not otherwise. Then on the other side of investment, VC money encourages a "go big" approach where you need to grow gangbusters which most people interpret as hire, spend, etc. Seems like that might actually kill some companies that might otherwise be viable as they get over-extended and don't pare back fast enough, then go broke.
That's the one! We used to have duels and kill people over points of etiquette here too, but that was a long time ago. We decided hats were a better option all round, nice tall black ones, but then we got rid of the hats as well. It's all been down hill ever since. Maybe we should go back to killing each other. Does it work?
Then offer him asylum.
i think it's hilarious that we tell other countries that we're a free market but clearly we're not if you have to ask law makers to allow you to do business.
I don't understand these kind of articles. Did the author just wake up one morning and say "Hmm what bullshit should I make today for some page views?" Then they come up with some random idea like Google buying Tesla with no evidence what so ever and slap on a title that's a question like "Google buying Tesla?" then proceed to including the following words "journalists are speculating" to make their shitty article seem just.
He could be testing waters to see how different countries react, just to see what their true colours or at least public ones are.
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If we're going to list groups that meet 1000 miles away from home, may as well list the Hacker Scouts org

http://hacker-scouts.org/

The weirdest part of the whole thing, is scouting originally started as "us boys wanna play pretend Army Special Forces, and whenever kids have fun, the adults descend on them with rules and regulations to eliminate as much fun as possible" much like little league, school, etc, and roughly a century of intense topic drift later, scouting has turned into boys programming arduinos and girl's parents selling cookies. Not that any of it is wrong, I'm just astounded at the scale of the topic drift.

I never fail to be amused at the whole "back to basics" people WRT scouting, they don't know enough history to realize they might "win" the sex and religion thing, but going "back to basics" means no more pinewood derby, no more blue and gold dinner, none of the modern stuff, just extreme hardcore camping and a bit of marksmanship, pretty much.
What? Why? Economically possible would mean that our society is not productive enough, that it doesn't have the capacity, to produce small little houses for everyone who wishes one. I doubt that is true in any modern economical system.
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That's a ridiculous comparison. The government has more power to do things than individuals. When people kill people its murder, no matter how guilty that person is. When the government does it pursuant to a legitimate sentencing, its no crime.
Sure. I'll buy that - and in that case, when the cops saw that she was not part of the bigger something, then the professional thing to do would have been to apologize for the inconvenience, explain what had happened, and send her on her way.

Instead, they applied maximum governmental force in order to show her her true place in society - to bow to armed thugs.

I hope your son has better training. But there is most definitely something to be seen here, and moving on is not the appropriate response of a civil society.
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Personally (and have seriously considered it), I'd fork Chromium to gain back the features versus using the crippled extension system. Some might think that's being inflammatory, but anyone that has used Opera's native features versus extensions that try to replicate the experience in other browsers, it's never the same either due to limitations or performance.
He clearly failed to differentiate their offering vs Sony.

It seems that the market has very clearly differentiated Microsoft's offering from Sony's, but for all the wrong reasons from Microsoft's perspective.
Too much orange text, makes my eye jump all over the screen looking for the important text.
It's worth noting that the combination of Proton-M rocket and the DM-03 booster has previously failed in 2012. This is a relatively new technology compared to the mature Soyuz rocket for example.
I'm using TheMovieDatabase[1] to fetch movie data (I made a tiny little Angular service and I inject it into my controllers). It's a very nice API with a clean documentation.

I have only two vendors : Angular itself and Require.js. The later is not mandatory, but I like being able to split my code into multiple files[2].

Assets compilation is done by Grunt. The code is hinted and optimized with r.js, so it makes it easy for mobile to download the application, which is very lightweight (excluding Angular, 300 significant js loc).

[1] http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/

[2] http://moviewall.org/sources/application.js etc
That's interesting Joshua. Sounds very similar to a situation I was in previously that I am also trying to avoid again! We guessed our pricing on competitors and some (poor) customer research, and we heard both of those "you're too expensive/cheap" arguments as well!
Should I be allowed to brute force passwords then?
Any reason to think these wouldn't be insured?
Proton isn't the most reliable rocket. About 10% of all its launches are unsuccessful. However, it's one of the cheapest ways to deliver cargo to the space. It's even cheaper than current SpaceX offers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_heavy_lift_launch...) of course if a satellite isn't too expensive.
I just think it's laughable to assume that Google would shut down a product for no good reason. I don't think Google Reader's user base was nearly as large as the loud complaints would have you think.

That said, I gave Feedly a shot the other day and immediately deleted my Reddit account. I haven't been back on Reddit except to read silly football transfer rumors in a week and a half. I feel so much more sane. So there's that.
>If this book had used an original setting with renamed characters but was identical otherwise, it would be hailed as a modern genre classic.

If that were true, then wouldn't it have happened already? 50 Shades of Gray is a famous example of fanfiction that was well-received enough that it got rewritten into a standalone work. I wasn't impressed. I see no reason not to interpret "best fanfiction" as "least stinky poop".
I think what air was saying is that in the US, propaganda, of any sort, cannot be a crime, due to the 1st amendment to the US constitution. That is freedom of speech.
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I understand and agree with the reason behind the petition, but ultimately this is a state issue, not a federal one. So i wouldn't see this petition really doing anything meaningful. It's the whole basis of the 10 amendment.
Page looks very nice. Interested in what kind of courses will be coming here. It would be great if you could put some up coming courses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5970940
It isn't about the demand not being there, nor the supply lacking. The issue is the distribution of wealth and how much the poorest workers in America get paid and the insane cost of living associated with the "American Dream"
If any setting makes sense to keep a fixed exchange rate between gold and silver, wouldn't it be one where magic exists, including the actual philosopher's stone?
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Other people have discussed and refuted your various arguments. I want to tackle something else.

You are dismissing elements of the case as if they aren't important.

> Lets break it down logically.

Logic dictates that you look at the case at hand, not at all the possible permutations.

It's not as if you can say simply that killing someone is a crime and deserves X punishment, regardless of the details, and driving over the speed limit isn't an instant ticket if seen by a cop.

So, then you ask:

> why is chalk different than spraypaint in the eyes of the law?

First, because they are different. They aren't the same. Not all cases of vandalism are the same, and they shouldn't be treated the same.

We see what happens in cases like that when people use zero-tolerance as an excuse to come down hard on someone who was clearly not doing anything harmful.

> What if there is no hose access to the sidewalk in an area where there is no rain for weeks at a time?

And what if it was raining at the time? The person drawing while the rain immediately washed it away. One could argue then that the act of vandalism still occurred in both cases. One just happened to happen while it rained.
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>It is clever, in-jokes and obscure references to geek culture and the book successfully subverts many tropes

Thanks, that's enough to tell me that I wouldn't enjoy it.
FB has (disregarded|overridden|conveniently forgotten| changed) their own privacy settings so much at this point why bother. It's a complete sham, a lie, bullshit, etc.

There's really nothing you can do about this state of affairs except quit FB. They know you won't so they'll just keep fucking you. FB doesn't respect you like they don't respect their own ToS. Their job is to fuck you, over and over. That's their business plan and purpose of existence. Your job is to get fucked. Recognize your place in this relationship.

If you're uncomfortable about this relationship then leave. Otherwise STFU. Stop telling me that FB did something terrible with your precious personal information again. It's like someone complaining that their car got stolen after they left the keys sitting on top of it in a bad neighborhood. WTF did you expect?
And full of people who say its not the same since "Jeff" died - I had a pint in the coach and horses in Soho and the barman actually "apologised" for me having to wait while he changed the barrel - I felt short changed :-)
Snowden asks Germany for asylum.
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Regardless of his motives, he's done the world and America a service, by forcing us all to be aware of it. It's up to us to shrug or complain.
> in principle no reason it couldn't be done.

I'm not suggesting otherwise. I am pointing out that a genuine, fast mechanism for shorting needs to be available in order for the ETF price to track the underlying. That mechanism will take quite a while before there is enough confidence for market participants to have faith in the ability to short.
According to your legal system, apparently so. If the law says that 20 year olds are not mature enough to buy alcohol, then by definition at least at some level they are legally considered to be immature and not able to make rational decisions for themselves.
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How to obtain a second passport
If there were ever a case for a second passport, the Snowden situation is one. If you have the means and will to obtain a second passport, now is the time.

You can get purchase one for $135,000. This is what Derek Sivers did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944339

https://sivers.org/comfort

Or, it's likely you are entitled one via ancestry,

http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/how-to-obtain-a-second-passport-10112/

And there's always the old-fashion way through immigration.
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If not useful, it's fun anyway.

URN:RLLT could be of some real use: «(...) a fully qualified URI of type urn:rllt (including a "geo-location" part and a precise timestamp) represents a 4D locator in both human and machine readable form.»
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Why do we keep talking about the legality of what is being done? Instead, our standards should be what should and should not be done. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea.
I didn't even know that they were dirty.

*Time to come clean, Motorola
I don't think my position is any closer to trolling than the also cliche comments of 'Google have so much money, running reader must be next-to-nothing for them', 'if Google gave me the option, I'd gladly pay for it', 'yeah sure, the (maybe) one full time staff required to look after Reader is really taking energy away from other projects' which is basically all of the comments on these threads.

That was what my post was meant to refute, and the weird sense of entitlement that Google is somehow in the wrong by killing a product which is a waste of resources for them. There are plenty of alternatives (and I suspect we'll see a whole bunch more over the coming months), complaining like we deserve reader to still be available (when consumer-pays products are clearly outside Google's business model) isn't helping.
I use it in every app I build.

It's buggy though, crashes on occasion, and is a bit of a black hole; but for what it does, it's pretty awesome.
Consider this: the whole point of his huge sacrifice was to get people to talk about the information he revealed. If we expend too much of our energy talking about him and the way he got the information to us, rather than the information itself, then doesn't that just make his sacrifice kind of a waste? People don't have infinite attention and energy for these discussions.
> "you know it's all broken up and it burst into flames right there. crazy right?"

I just cannot understand how they choose these anchors. If I wanted to listen to my 13yo cousin's inane commentary on videos, then .. well I have no idea actually, because I would never want to. And I never want to listen to this idiot. Who hires them? Why!?

This is serious news, a hundred million dollar crash, and the best he can do is "crazy right?". I just don't know what to say.

Imagine if this dipshit was commenting on 9/11. "and those there planes just up and flown into them buildings right there! Crazy right?" Yeah bro! Totes crazy LOL! ROFL
It's hard to think US would not intercept the plane at some point over the ocean. Could be the case even with a commercial flight.
Agree with the article; Linda is great, both the name and the project. It was one of the more interesting topics of a Distributed Systems course that I followed, but I never ended up using it (or its concepts) in practice due to the performance overhead.

As a nitpick: Perl is originally not an acronym, the language used to be called "Pearl". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl#Name
If there were ever a case for a second passport, the Snowden situation is one. If you have the means to obtain one, now is the time. Doing this is a prudent move - a lifeline if you will. Not only could it possibly prevent you from becoming a stateless person and save your life if your government goes rouge, it opens you up to more opportunity around the world.

You can purchase one for $135,000. This is what Derek Sivers did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944339

https://sivers.org/comfort

Or, it's likely you are entitled one via ancestry,

http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/how-to-obtain-a...

And there's always the old-fashion way through immigration.
In light of the second article, I find it ridiculous that people are asserting they have an expectation of privacy in google communications when apparently random creepy engineers have access to that data! I'd at the very least expect strong internal lockouts on customer information, with keys limited to "need to know" people...
TFA:

> "He deserves the world's protection. He has not asked us for it yet. When he does we will give our answer," Maduro told Reuters during a visit to Moscow.
Yeah, but preferably from a democracy.
Its a federal issue, actually. There is a law on the books that tries to "regulate" the car industry by forcing them to have "independant local businesses" as "frnachised dealers".

The franchised dealership model is a failure, the dealerships cant do anything on their own initiative else they may lose the frnachise, and all they do is make it harder for the consumer to make an informed choice on a car purchase, and drives the cost up as well.

States COULD try to override the dealership laws (many states have laws that strengthen the Federal one), but thats like trying to herd cats.
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Down might be too strong a word, but GitHub is definitely dodgy this morning.
Most of my friends are on FB as well whereas I'm not. They almost always tell me when something is going on. Sometimes they forget, but then they apologize.

Try to focus on getting a core group of friends that you maintain regular contact with. Call them, email them, sms them. Use communication forms other than FB to get at them and eventually you'll train them to include you. If not then get some new friends.

Join a table top gaming club. There seems to be a resurgence of table op gaming going on that's really exciting. And it's a great way to meet people.
I wonder what they mean by "former request" for asylum. Isn't asylum the case where "former request" is hard to get and should not be a priority while life seems at stake?
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Do you have to have read (or like) Harry Potter to appreciate this? I read several chapters (8 or so) and I actually found the story very distracting from the rationality message.
Believe it or not, Proton (UR-500) was originally developed as a large ICBM. Hypergolic fuels are a much more attractive choice for ICBMs than kerolox because it's possible to leave the rocket fueled for extended periods of time (potentially years).

Same logic for the US Titan 2 (which also lead to a long-lived family of space launchers -- the last Titan IV flew in 2005), and many other smaller missiles, although recent missile designed have now mostly switched to solid propulsion.
There's a thousand miles of empty desert to the next settlement, never mind city. Kazakhstan is big (and unlike the US, its southernmost parts are not the nicest ones).
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I am equally confused by this. Reminded me very much of:

> we had a business that DHH would be proud of. Bootstrapped, lean and already providing (in a small way at least) for the needs of my family and that of my co-founder. Over the next 3 months, our initial desire to not raise a seed round was dismissed and we were thoroughly convinced that we had to continue on the VC rocket-ship in order to matter to anyone. [...] This is where we made the first in a series of many mistakes

from http://mystartuphas30daystolive.tumblr.com/post/53839497912/...

But we'll see. I wish Pixate good luck anyway! More innovation is needed in this space...
Yes, I didn't want to complicate the issue. In order to keep the admin costs low, the ETF demands that blocks of shares be redeemed at once. (for example: The gold ETF GLD requires 50K shares be created/redeemed at once, iirc.)
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Why is this a text-only post without a link? Because this looks like a news item, without a source.
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Oh well.. Time to take that coffee break
>you'll still waste your time and effort taking useless supplements and using dumb products

Can't put enough emphasis on NOT doing this. It's expensive, and when you're not receiving the advertised effects of these "super-sups," they will completely demotivate you. I do use protein in powdered form, and will sometimes use a pre-workout, but I don't depend on either.

TL;DR - Eat right. Exercise. See results.
Perhaps there could be some continuous rollover with all data older than five years being made available through the Internet Archive. I'm no longer affiliated with Twingly but of course know them very well. I can make a proposal! It would be a great idea and I guess for Twingly it could mean increased brand recognition.
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No but maybe it could fly over the arctic to iceland, refuel then to somewhere in northwest africa for a quick refuel, then across the atlantic.

Bit of a trek but possible?
No mention of TCL, pronounced "tickle"? This was the scripting language used in the ArsDigita Community System, one of the first commercially available platforms for database-backed websites.
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$14k per month in revenue is surprising
Well, it could be so de jure in USA. But de facto we see opposite. Snowden mentioned unconstitutional violation of human rights of US citizen. And now he is hunted by US government, seriously hunted.

Russia is way more open in this perspective.
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Ultimate dick move for them to link to Google Reader alternatives.
I've always been partial to "Lua". It's as fun say as it is to work with.
And? Of course he's advising him. It seems parts of the media wants to turn everything Snowden is doing into something nefarious and untrustworthy.

Let's not take our eyes off the ball - what he exposed.
Not directly but UK ship yards built blockade runners for the south.
What would happen if whole world had same minimum wage?
if everyone had same minimum wage would that make world a better place?
> Just because you can do something, doesn't mean it's a good idea

Just because you can do something _legally_, doesn't mean it's a good idea.

Just because you can do something _illegally_, doesn't mean it's a bad idea.

FTFY
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