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At this point, yes it is. The west has surrendered any moral authority it might have had. I'm sorry but I'll particularly single out America, though as a Brit I'm fully aware it's happening here too. Chinese hacking American firms? Well, the NSA is spying on everybody who uses American web services, so there's no moral authority there. Persecuting activists? I'm no fan of Julian Assange, but Senators calling for his assassination are just handing over any moral high ground we might have had as a free gift. Peaceful Occupy movement demonstrations get violently assaulted by the police, so why shouldn't the Turkish cops brutalise peaceful protesters? That's what pluralistic democracies do.
How can I check my data's audit trail to ensure my it wasn't misused?
It's hard to tell exactly what the features are, even after reading the article and the github README :(
This is essential for Perl programming, along with perl -MO=Lint -c <file>. The downside is that it is slow and takes away the fast turnaround times you're used from scripting languages, checking every file after editing (as you should) takes longer than compiling a Go program ...
Yes I agree with you, and the Author but I'm still no clearer as to why the Author thinks the Labels have changed their behavior. I get a feeling he's suggesting Piracy and free-music services are to blame, as these tone of posts often do.
But there are many other factors that have probably influenced labels that he doesn't cover. Changing tastes for one.
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The US knowing what the EU wants or plans to do doesn't mean to "just do what the US wants". And if I was uninformed before, I'm no less uninformed after your reply. That there are areas of disagreement between the US and the EU isn't exactly news to me.
I use Intellij IDEA on Scala / Play project and mostly happy with code completion for Scala code, refactorings, navigation, routes, view, jump to the views from controllers. It's not always perfect, but perfect enough for everyday use.
linode has nice guides...e.g. https://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-debia... though for postfix, having something like postfixadmin makes it nicer.. or perhaps something instant like http://www.xeams.com/ will do..
"World Wide Web" != "Internet".
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PING 202.146.213.3 (202.146.213.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=1 ttl=56 time=497 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=2 ttl=56 time=548 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=3 ttl=56 time=572 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=4 ttl=56 time=590 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=5 ttl=56 time=674 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=6 ttl=56 time=401 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=7 ttl=56 time=409 ms
64 bytes from 202.146.213.3: icmp_req=8 ttl=56 time=446 ms

--- 202.146.213.3 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 401.078/517.690/674.353/89.851 ms

PING 106.187.98.41 (106.187.98.41) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=1 ttl=48 time=245 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=2 ttl=48 time=282 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=3 ttl=48 time=300 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=4 ttl=48 time=157 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=5 ttl=48 time=309 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=6 ttl=48 time=264 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=7 ttl=48 time=266 ms
64 bytes from 106.187.98.41: icmp_req=8 ttl=48 time=253 ms

--- 106.187.98.41 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 157.676/259.900/309.386/43.775 ms

PING 50.116.56.20 (50.116.56.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=1 ttl=50 time=477 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=2 ttl=50 time=321 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=3 ttl=50 time=253 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=4 ttl=50 time=390 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=5 ttl=50 time=328 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=6 ttl=50 time=254 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=7 ttl=50 time=277 ms
64 bytes from 50.116.56.20: icmp_req=8 ttl=50 time=277 ms

--- 50.116.56.20 ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 8 received, 0% packet loss, time 7006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 253.785/322.739/477.706/72.651 ms
Hey, GWB looked deep into his eyes. If he trusts him, I trust him.
Assume?
>fragmentation issues (majority still on Android 2.x)

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html and no, fragmentation's not an issue for anyone with the Play Store and the compatibility kit (and maybe sherlock).

I mean, are you not aware of Firefox OS which bootstrap(ed/s) itself on top of Android? Or that Ubuntu for Phones is coming out with phones to support it?

Or of the Nexus program? Or the pseudo-Nexus program with devices with unlocked bootloaders.

OH and webOS still exists, and is open source and runs on some Android devices.

What more do you want, sounds like your needs are being met. Take the android kernel and write a new UI. Then you can run it on one of the what, hundred different devices that CM supports?

>They could add C, C++, Golang, Java, C#, even ObjC to the mix this way.

lol, you think writing and supporting all of the Android APIs for all of those languages is feasible? Or you want some kind of bindings or what exactly?

>Carriers can add apps etc but there's no reason they have to adjust the base OS, and both should negotiate with Google for inclusion of new drivers

and you don't seem to actually know who controls the distribution of the drivers
+1. Expected a serious list, instead I saw stupid Ruby/JS/HTML garbage. And no, I do not need to know "100 Vim Commands" - because Visual Studio is "100" times better.

Here is the real list:

1) know one modern web tech;
2) know one OOP language;
3) know one functional language;
4) be familiar with one dynamic language;
5) remember where to look up theoretic bits like algorithms.
I never claimed wouldn't spy is no one else spied. Of course they would. Of course the US isn't concerned with invasion, it's concerned with having an influence, and having democratic or at lest US-friendly trading partners. Just like the USSR had their interests.

What do you think would be a good alternative to nation states? For instance, I think using the US electoral system is a bad example of how people can particilate in their government, so I think it's a bad example if you try to discredit the idea of nations.
...if they want to be considered "cool" in F-cisco.
Long hours, crazy ideas, challenging standards, asking tough questions, receiving doubt from everyone on the outside, sleepless nights, cheap food, tired and bleeding eyes... but the passion to keep going forward, the desire to keep doing what you believe is great work, keeps you going harder and harder. Relentless pursuit of product, perfection, idea, change.

True entrepreneurship is about building great things, great companies, starting movements, changing things, so that long after you are gone, your legacy remains. And the products you build continue to grow. True entrepreneurs experience great sacrifice, for only they know that in order to achieve greatness, a part of them must go into their products. And it is this personal sacrifice for perfection that differentiates the titans from all the rest.
With the contribution from samsung, one can also write Rust programs for android.

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-androi...
+1 to watching TV with subtitles, and even better repeating out loud the sentences you find more interesting. That way y
* It will be easier to remember and
* You will improve your pronunciation
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Thanks for the link to up to date stats, so 'majority' is no longer correct according to those graphs, that was misleading. However the fragmentation picture still isn't pretty, even if improving - more than 30% are still on Android 2.x. This compares really badly with iOS where > 90% are on the latest and < 1% on 2 versions behind, so that's one area I really feel Android is lagging Apple on - mostly because of their more open nature, customisation, and the upgrades not going through google exclusively.

Ubuntu OS looks interesting but has no traction right now, I'll be keeping an eye on that though. I'm afraid WebOS is dead at the moment - choice of which platforms to target is more political than technical unfortunately, which is why it'd be great to see Google pushing a more open system which lets people use any language they want for development. They have enough clout to make that happen and not many do. I'm aware it's very unlikely as I said in the post above - There's no chance they'll do this for their current API, so they'd need to have a radical rethink of just what a mobile OS should provide.

Please don't take this as some sort of attack on Google or Android.

What more do you want, sounds like your needs are being met. Take the android kernel and write a new UI. Then you can run it on one of the what, hundred different devices that CM supports?

That is of course a huge amount of work for one person and likely doomed to failure. To be clear that I'm not blaming Google or demanding that they change, just agreeing with the OP that I'd like to see more options, but pointing out that that requires a fundamental rethink of the entanglement between UI and API. I've written a few iOS apps which use HTML views extensively and make little use of the UI toolkits using urls etc to pass actions and move screen, so I'm well aware this is possible using the current system, but it's currently a pain to try to use another language as your core language for an app.
You don't get to decide what the first responsibility of a nation is.

For my part, I'd vote against any party that put security as it's top priority, because the abuses likely to come out of that would be horrifying. Including being the aggressor in unjustified wars.
As a former employee of OVH, I can guarantee that law enforcement compliance does happen, I don't know to what extent, but having been there for the better part of two years I have seen requests from local government be held up and data handed over to authorities. Though in those cases it was child pornography accusations.
as for antispam..http://www.mxhero.com/ is auto and easy, and i think http://spamcheck.sourceforge.net/ is very nice. u don't get as many controls but it sends quarantine digests, and runs much lighter than mxhero. http://www.scrolloutf1.com/ looks nice too. at work we sell spamtitan, which i admit is really nice..tons of config with nice gui, good defaults, easy setup..but its non free...
- Ship earlier, measure impact, validate, iterate.
- Delay = death.
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Did you read the article? They replaced their CEO and are strategizing about their 'second act' after being displaced as the 'darling of the developer community'. The article quotes the current CEO as saying he is considering cutting off all existing small devs and focusing on the enterprise market.

If that's business as usual, I'm really curious what a crisis looks like.

As for why RapGenius should be mentioned - they were the catalyst for all of the above. Without them, this article never gets written in the first place.
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Yeah, but what's it matter? Those people buy cheap Android phones. There are several options for up to date Android phones that are either Nexus, I mean, many of them if you're a GSM user. And many more if you want to use AOSP or CyanogenMod.

And devs get backporting of most apis via the Play Store so it's not like fragmentation is an issue very often at all.

The hardware is out there. The software is out there. You could port Firefox OS to the SGS4, you would have basically /everything/ on your checklist, and you can buy a 100% unlocked GSM SGS4 from Google and put Firefox OS, or port webOS, or whatever OS you want.

Are you simply lamenting that you can't walk into a store and buy that combo? I guess I don't care when I can follow the steps to do it myself (of course, now I'm starting to download stuff to play around with porting Firefox OS to my SGS4)

>requires a fundamental rethink of the entanglement between UI and API

Heh, I actually know of a platform that allows you to write web apps and from them invoke native code that conforms to their spec. And their vision is to have that platform spread across all device sizes. Do you know who it is? :)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/The...

Sadly, non-free. But yes, you can write projections for your own language. I've thought it would be cool to try to write one for Go.
Trust me, plenty of us are pissed while still being from the United States - not that the media will ever tell you that.
That's a bit silly. As much as I think this move is a bad idea, it's important to keep perspective. In China all citizens are under a broad umbrella of censorship. Here only members of the US Army, who have entered into a voluntary contract, are having some of their access while on base restricted. This is little different from restrictive corporate firewalls, which are commonplace.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secrecy_of_correspondence

Polish constitution (in Polish, but I'll translate):

http://www.msw.gov.pl/portal/pl/193/24/Konstytucyjne_wolnosc...

Article 49:

"Zapewnia się wolność i ochronę tajemnicy komunikowania się. Ich ograniczenie może nastąpić jedynie w przypadkach określonych w ustawie i w sposób w niej określony." = "[The state] ensure everybody has freedom of ommunication and secrecy of communication, this can only be limited in cases specified in the law, and in a way specified in law".

Article 37:

"Kto znajduje się pod władzą Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, korzysta z wolności i praw zapewnionych w Konstytucji.
Wyjątki od tej zasady, odnoszące się do cudzoziemców, określa ustawa.
" = "Who is on the Polish territory - has the same rights and freedoms as Polish citizen. Only exceptions are specified in the law".

The exceptions are mostly about the right to be elected to government etc.

Poland isn't particulary civilized country, this is really common sense.
That was before the Opera acquisition and the subsequent changes to their infrastructure. I wonder if their servers are still encrypted?
But member states do, although not funded to nearly the same level. E.g. GCHQ in the UK. It'd be surprising if someone revealed to be as trigger happy and willing to spy on allies as GCHQ does not also spy on US interests.
Personally, I have a whole lot of search engines I use with the Chrom(e|ium) omnibar: tra\t for google translate, !m\t for linux.die.net/man/ !g for google, !w\t for wikipedia and !d for duckduckgo. If I do not use any 'bangs', the search is dispatched to DDG. (\t for tab)

Even though I do not consider google harmful or hostile, centralizing all my access to info in one search provider sounds like a bad idea.
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I've been looking at Kolab. They have a nice page listing their dependencies:

http://www.kolab.org/community/upstream-communities

All of these look fine - I already deploy all the server items - except Round Cube: does anyone know anything about them?
Probably not because our Pirate Party is only known for drama and the media portrays them as an disorganized bunch of kids who fight over internal power.

Not that the media would be particularly wrong with this. When the party was founded I had some hopes ... now I have given up on them.
It's more that I'm lamenting that as a mobile app developer for commercial clients I am forced to use the platforms which have traction, which leaves me with the unenviable choice of iOS or Android, both of which have significant warts, and neither of which leave much choice for experimentation in languages for writing apps or UIs.
The Ecuadorian embassy in London, maybe. Certainly not the UK government, which is intent on remaining the lapdog of the US no matter how much spanking it gets.
Coauthor of the Spiegel article is Laura Poitras. If I remember the story correctly she was the first person contacted by Snowden regarding the leaked documents (even before Greenwald).

She is probably the link between Snowden and Spiegel.
The whole ruby ecosystem is a nightmare for system administrators.
Ubuntu/Debian still ships with ruby 1.8.7 and 1.9.1p0 (which is evil I heard). In order to install a new ruby version one has to most likely compile it from scratch:
- Since there are no deb packages and there is no sane way to build deb packages
- Overriding system ruby has to be avoided since we manage the whole infrastructure with puppet (yes you can run it with 1.9x). Since we want to keep the ruby environment sane.

It get's really interesting once you use puppet to install an RVM ruby version. Which you then use to install $GENERIC_RUBY package (ie Gitlab) via Puppet.

I don't want to talk about the mess called "Puppet"...
Yeah, answer is geopolitics. Germany is main country that wants united EU. UK+US don't want that, because united EU is big threat. Think what could happen if EU start connecting more on euroasia (Russia, China, India). From American point of view it would be fatal (one big territory they can't control), but for the rest of the world it would be, well, good. So, Americans are playing double game: be good with allies and keep them weak (remember Greece?).
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Don't peddle this bullshit.

There is a more than strong enough case of government abuse of power and wrongdoing, there's no need to make allusions to shadowy conspiracies that kill people without leaving any evidence. It weakens the argument rather than strengthening it. Stand on the facts, the facts are more than good enough.
Spy agencies were supposed to spy on the "bad guys", not on every single citizen of all the other countries - and then send back the data to those local governments.
The TV "spot" in my living room is occupied by a nice computer monitor. When I want to watch a film I usually get it off iTunes (for subtitles, of course).

The smaller size (23") is offset by a sharper picture and colors compared to most TVs. I also love the lack of the bs "features" that TVs seem to be loaded with these days.
Didn't see any references for us Classicists so I'll add my two cents:

I'm still struggling with classical Latin after 8 years. The problem being that it's a "dead" language and immersion/conversation is difficult to achieve on a modern era time schedule.

Over this time I've come to the conclusion that you need to start "speaking" in any language as soon as possible. The approach of learning grammar for a year and translating sentences on pen-and-paper is not effective enough.

My current toolbox for learning Latin is:

1. Supermemo (Anki is a free equivalent) for vocabulary and anything that needs to be committed to memory permanently. This takes away the burden of worrying about anything that needs to be remembered.

2. Follow Evan der Millner's "Comenius" Latin project, which attempts to teach you Latin the way school children were taught back when they were expected to speak, read and write it fluently. This is a reconstruction of the way Comenius would have taught children. [1] project overview, [2] reading of the texts. [3] Oral lessons, so you can start Skyping other Latin speakers and talking as soon as possible. (this is not "church" or Italian pronunciation, but the received Classical reconstructed pronunciation). Everything you need is available for free off the either Google books, Evan's YouTube videos and archive.org.

3. Know and use Diogenes (http://www.dur.ac.uk/p.j.heslin/Software/Diogenes/) for Windows or Linux.

4. Install the "Language Immersion for Chrome" extension and set it to Latin so you're forced to read the Internet in Latin as you browse ;)

[1] http://latinum.weebly.com/comenius-project.html
[2] http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMH5SfME31ZKYChsIWSp_D...
[3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0NIMm2eM8c&list=SPC6E7F1C5D4...

I'm attempting Attic Greek this way (Evans has started an Oral ancient Greek course on YouTube too) and can't wait to enjoy reading Plato, the Iliad and the Odyssey aloud in the reconstructed native tongue in my old age some day :)
>> Palantir stores an audit trail that shows exactly where each piece of data comes from and who has accessed it. This allows citizens, courts, regulators, etc. to see precisely how data is being used.

What are you blabbering about? What you suggest is impossible.

Are you talking about this "immutable audit log" technology? (http://www.palantir.com/wp-content/static/pg-analysis-blog/2...) That's nothing more than marketing speak powered by research papers that have proven to be insufficient. See: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~accorsi/papers/imf09....

Also, see slide 11 and 12 here: http://www.slideshare.net/Nbukhari/audit-trail-protection-av..., and then read this: http://www.std.com/~cme/non-repudiation.htm

Immutable audit trails and non-repudiation without specialized devices (blackboxes) are a lie. It is impossible to create a bulletproof auditing system for access to sensitive data, especially when you're talking about the kind of surveillance that the NSA is doing with PRISM.

I suspect that when government officials cite the "transparency" and "auditability" of NSA PRISM, this is what it all boils down to -- marketing talk from Palantir etc.
Hi Xiaoma, thanks for your feedback. I think that Duolingo and Anki are great trampolines to learn the basics of a language. Duolingo worked great for various people I know and it helped me learning the basics of German in a funny way.
https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
well that's just great.
"Germany is similarly strong monitored such as China, Iraq or Saudi Arabia"
You are still reinventing the wheel :-) : http://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormat.html
I don't know where you got "allusions to shadowy conspiracies that kill people" from. I posted (a) a story about a reporter being very publicly persecuted for investigative reporting unfriendly to the government status quo and (b) referred to the quite well established fact that money tends to make people forget their ideals.
Exactly. It's hardly a solution. Viewing in-body images and attachments turns into a nightmare.
Vimium is quite useful in that regard. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba...
You can disable storing passwords. If you don’t want to have to enter a ‘master password’ when Pidgin starts up, there is no way they can store the passwords more securely than plaintext.

Get full disk encryption and be happy.
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"Acquisition requires meaningful interaction in the target language - natural communication - in which speakers are concerned not with the form of their utterances but with the messages they are conveying and understanding." Stephen Krashen
word.
i made several failed attempts at learning a second language before up and moving abroad. after a year, i'm still pretty bad at it, but i don't know if i'd /ever/ have made it this far if i didn't have to speak on a daily basis... although part of that assessment is based on me being lazy and bad with natural languages.

anki and similar are really useful, though, if you're studying a non-phonetic writing system.
Isn't it more Ubuntu/Debian's fault for shipping outdated versions of ruby than it is the ruby ecosystem's fault for simply having older versions?
Hummm... no

Even breakable it's still a pain

And "break encryption" is a too broad term. What encryption? Which cases?