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Google doesn't charge you to use Android and Mozilla doesn't charge you to use FF OS. So how will FF OS be able to deliver cheaper phones?

It seems if they are able to bring down prices by introducing this "no-contract cheap phone option" into the market (which may be a good thing), then nothing stops the same exact manufacturer from releasing the same exact hardware running Android for the same exact price sine the OS doesn't play into the cost in either case.
My son gets to do his tests on a yoga ball, and it works very well.
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Well that's interesting...
That theory makes no sense. This phone predates the Google purchase by over a year (and there were probably other phones with the same software even earlier). Also, Google has no plausible use at all for any of this data and misusing it would have huge PR and legal risks. Certainly most of Motoblur got trimmed out with the upgrade to 4.0, and from what I hear completely eliminated with 4.1. Just didn't matter for this phone, since it got stuck on 2.3.

It's pure engineering incompetence from Motorola, not a nefarious way to collect data.
Yes, except it would be self-exile.
Because it's attached to your face and incredibly easy to spot/very noticeable. People can easily text on phones by holding it by their lap out of sight of passing motorists/police.

I know it can be operated hands free but you still have a potentially distracting display.
Soon we'll have micro funding. You submit a one word proposal to investors and they can commit to invest either $10 or $0.
So it was changed, and not flagged as being changed. Interesting...
Oh, they edited it in the last 8 minutes. I was copy pasting from the wikileaks post in my comment and still have a tab open where they used "have" instead.
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See also: optical TEMPEST eavesdropping on a CRT using a high-speed photosensor and a telescope:

http://www.rootsecure.net/content/downloads/pdf/optical_temp...

I wonder how long it's going to take until we have some details from the reverse engineering of the bugs they find in those fax machines...
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I was with an old high-school friend this weekend and his son’s interest was piqued by the notion of learning programming, after I showed him a bit of code. The kid is 14 yo and suitably geeky, but has never coded.

I am happy to help teach (remotely) but I think that a) there are good resources out there and b) programming is largely solitary and c) I know more about programming than I do about education.

What is your most-recommended resource for learning programming, tabula rasa?
Big Data is just data before grep is applied.
I'm italian and I want to point out that we use gestures without realizing it: we can't reproduce them with the same naturalness as before, and often we don't even know which gesture we made just before.
Basically, I need to make all of my technological tools out of raw steel, silicon and wood and then I'll be OK, but otherwise, somebody's monitoring me. Right?

* sigh *

Well, if I must...
Your parents and grandparents are more likely to have read about this.
Well doesn't most IT-students qualify for a free MSDN subscription or at least Dreamspark (which has Windows Server, SQL, VS and so on for free for any student)? My experience with Microsoft is that they are very generous with their software in regards to students since they have a lot to gain and really nothing to lose by letting soon-to-be-professional-developers get comfortable with their stack.
Because they will be wearing it.
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I bet girls would do just fine, and a sane combination of approaches works best. The biggest issue with schools is that everybody thinks they know how to fix stuff, but the research is spotty at best. Standardized tests and core curriculums? Differentiated learning or academic tiers? We all have opinions, and there are many in this thread, but not all of these opinions can be simultaneously right.
diminoten seems to be talking specifically about legislation, not law in a broader sense.
>I'd really like to see Wikileaks devoting more of its time, energy,
>and fund-raising into breaking news about government-operated
>surveillance programs in the last two countries where Edward
>Snowden has been located, namely China and Russia.

I cannot speak for China, but majority of Russians lack a natural compass/taste for civil liberties and human rights: they haven't had the time to develop one. Their version of PRISM is called SORM-2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORM) - it was launched with a complete lack of secrecy and, predictably, was met with public apathy. There are no news to break. :(
Try not to think about the companies that are these days printing out QR codes for bitcoin secret keys to store in bank vaults that will eventually hold double-digit millions in the next few years.

So many orgs still have terrible opsec (and believe otherwise), and there's basically no excuse this far into the game. :(
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Do you have a comparable number for non-profit colleges? While I doubt it's 2.9, I'm sure it's still high.
Yes, he did break the law but it is absurd for you to use the word 'justice'.

Justice: The quality of being fair and reasonable.

He's not running away from something which is 'fair or reasonable', his human rights are in grave danger.

He is a fugitive from injustice.

I do not care whether he is a hero or not, but I do care about whether it was a right thing to do and whether he is treated as a human should be treated. These are principles worth upholding.
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You have heard more about leaks that affect United States because of the news you read.

Many (not all, but many) of my leads to breaking news on surveillance and data-collection programs come from Hacker News, which includes worldwide participation, so it is a bit surprising that there is so much news about the United States here. Other news aggregation services I rely on (including the wall posts of my literate, diverse, worldwide group of Facebook friends) indeed include more news about other countries than HN sometimes does.

What are the best sources we can readily link to today about surveillance and data-collection practices in China and in Russia?

AFTER EDIT TO RESPOND TO REPLY BELOW: I already know Chinese, as a review of quite recent comments of mine here on Hacker News would make abundantly clear. My Russian is rusty, as I haven't kept it up through daily use since the early 1980s, but I have read the Russian press (of the communist era) in the original Russian, and I still take care to be aware of the Russian official and Russian popular perspectives on world news.
While true, it's not like this wouldn't have happened eventually anyway. Were they going to keep this relationship secret from her parents forever? How well would that ultimately work out?
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He's accusing the USA of pressuring countries to deny asylum.
Russia tapping Runet isn't exactly going to qualify as news.
My understanding is that the imprisonment/death would be a penalty for breaking the terms of the exile, which is something quite different.
If you want to invest in bitcoins why not just buy some? An ETF makes no sense...
It was in fact the one comment I had been about to make. Snowden has chosen to avoid the U.S., explicitly to avoid the legal system. His own father feels he probably technically broke the law so it's hard to claim that the U.S. government has somehow managed to switch all 3 of its branches into a KILL SNOWDEN mode.

If the charges are without merit then one of the very same judges that Snowden feels should be involved in these types of surveillance programs will throw them out.

Snowden's exile may very well be extralegal, but both the exile and the extralegality of it are on Snowden himself.
I am not going to waste time deleting all of my content a third time.

I did that once, there's a Firefox extension (the name escapes me at the moment sorry) you can use to create macros. Sure it's useless in a way, but it's also fun in a way :D If it pops back, it's macro time again -- better than nothing, right?
>reactionary

In certain contexts, that word means 'counter-revolutionary', so be careful when using it to describe WikiLeaks. It's good that you had the presence of mind to include that i.e.! ;)
It depends if the punishment has been legally or extra-legal decided and would be extra-legally carried out. Such claims are always a matter of opinion and whose law, but not all opinions are equal.

1. Threats Made by the US Government:
Obama's statements such that Snowden is not worth the effort of an expensive extra-legal killing (“not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker”) by a president that has engaged in many extra-legal killings, at least one against a US citizen, is a threat of extra-legal action. For instance if someone sent a letter that said "I'd kill you but you aren't worth the bullets" would be interpreted by many courts as a threat. Furthermore direct threats of extra-legal killing have been made by other members of the US government.

2. Prior Actions Against Snowden:
The fact that Obama has attempted to use trade deals and threats to prevent Snowdens asylum appeals suggests that Obama and the US government is not willing to give Snowden a fair hearing since they are manipulating the international system of asylum to prevent him from getting a fair hearing internationally.

3.Prior Pattern of Action Against Other Whistle Blowers:
Obamas illegal treatment of Bradley Manning is part of a pattern going back before Obama of illegal mistreatment of whistle blowers by the US government.

Given this evidence I would argue that the threat of extra-legal punishment is very much real and has been publicly communicated to all involved parties. The reality and communication of this threat to Snowden makes a very strong case for the claim that he has been extra-legally exiled.
Did you even read the article? It has nothing to do with EAS or Microsoft; it's Motorola software siphoning pretty much all the user's credentials off to Motorola servers.
That one commenter is usually drowned out to the point that the desire for 'open' is believed to be satisfied by Android. Now that a real open alternative comes along, it's too late.
It's amusing that you think HN isn't overwhelmingly US-focused.

First, you'll want to try learning Chinese or Russian.
Yeah, much like those Jewish people should have turned themselves to the Roman Inquisition.
Even though this looks like a troll attempt, lets try this.

The problem is
1. No clarity on what constitutes a problem.
2. No way to officially contact to clear up a problem

resulting in possible irreparable loss of business.

So, if you insist on interesting and orthogonal "analogies".. please carry on.
Well, it's not really going to help me get any clients, I'm working on a consumer-based startup right now, and those consumers don't give a damn about the projects that I did in the past. But I do, I want to keep track of the things that I've done :)
If "being a hero" requires risk (which I disagree with), then whenever it is possible to take the actions of a hero without the associated risk then it in fact becomes preferred that people not be heroes. Nobody has an obligation to become a martyr; there is no obligation to seek out risk, or to not evade it.

To your edit: See Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
We probably couldn't, but I don't think there is any way to be 100% sure of the authorship of something, unless you are physically sitting next to the author.

So, trusting the authenticity of a document is a probability game. If he had signed it with a public key, then the probability of a fake would be less.
How did this make the Front page of Hacker News?!
It really depends. Google Glass does very well in dark places AND even under bright sunlight since the photochromic lens turns black.

However, the photochromic glass doesn't turn black when you happen to be standing under shade when outdoors. So that's the one situation where it's a bit difficult to see.

In a car, I found that just putting down the visor helps. I don't need to move my head up.
But wearing it does not necessarily mean you're using it.
Not that interesting. It's probably because they proofread and edit statements in a manner typical of any writing fitting of a professional appearance, and didn't want tinfoil hats with an anti-wikileaks agenda to take cheapshots based on the benign edits, when the substance was not materially affected.
So, it's probably fake [statement from Snowden].

EDIT: Why the downvotes? Do you have proof this is real? It seems awfully suspicious to change that when someone notices it and not mention anything.

EDIT2: Clarified what I think is (fully or partially) fake.
Fair enough, but at this point it's pretty close to exile without being a perfect example...

Still: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5974040

I think effectively it is a bad situation which has been created for him by the United States government. They are definitely manipulating his citizenship for their purposes whether you like the wording or not.
With unencrypted communication, any insecure Wifi network is enough to "leak" your information, it's much worse then "only" Google/NSA/etc having access to it.
If he was tried, couldn't he (at least theoretically) be acquitted by the jury? Honest question; I don't know that much about the U.S. judicial system, but I'm aware of the concept of jury nullification.

(Not that I'm too keen on the possibility that the U.S. government would grant him the chance of a fair trial...)
Damn, we live in a shitty world. And the comments in here are not much better. I wish him the best. It's sad that Ecuador is wavering. What a joke their leader is. First, they're posturing and puffing out their chests, now they look like fools.
Yeah, puppet isn't the easiest thing to get started with, but the primary thing I wanted to use puppet for was to make developing my puppet manifests faster/easier. It has helped a bunch, since before I had to deploy to a fresh EC2 instance every time I wanted to test out a fresh build.
wearing != using.
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I am 110% convinced that if Snowden had made his leaks about PRISM, and wiretapping of domestic data, and nothing else, and had not run to Russia/Ecuador/CHINA/WikiLeaks that the American people would consider him different.

The media has little choice about the distinction the people draw though. He fled to Hong Kong, away from a nation where at least 1/3rd of the population still has a jingoistic antagonism to China. He allied with WikiLeaks, who the American people know are at least somewhat more anti-American than anti-secrecy. He tried to get asylum from Ecuador (who is already allied with WikiLeaks), and Venezuela has been chomping at the bit to grant him asylum (I'll let you guess what Americans think about either country at this point).

To put the cherry right on top he delivered his TS-containing brain and his TS-containing gear to effing Russia.

His father has been the smartest Snowden in this whole sorry affair; there's a reason he's worried about the perceived association to WikiLeaks, and that's because it's not favorable to Snowden in the USA.
Can someone offer a non-securities person a description of what an ETF is? What is the impact on Bitcoin?
This could have been 1/10th the content

https://puphpet.com/
Why not? I found it particularly interesting, a new step toward making Bitcoin more official of sorts.
No. None of these. Please stop. The system is entirely broken. No amount of tweaking is going to fix it.
My interpretation is that he's criticizing the US for interfering with the sovereignty of other nations. e.g., The US is influencing them to deny asylum.
A "web of plagiarism" in tech company job postings
>> "AFTER EDIT: Good catch by the readers who noticed the non-American English in the Wikileaks press release here (mentioned in other comments in this thread). The press release kindly submitted here is plainly not Edward Snowden's verbatim words, but more self-publicizing from Wikileaks."

Is it not possible he dictated it and WikiLeaks typed it and published it? Or someone at WikiLeaks checked for typos using a British-English spell checker and corrected a few US-English spellings?
The same reasons there are other ETFs for commodities like gold, etc.
Definitely no where near the reported millions of income. Data hosting is probably the lowest expense a website has.
They revoked his passport because he's wanted for questioning about a crime. How is that different from any other criminal who flees abroad?
As someone outside, I have the impression that buying bitcoins is a bit of a pain, plus once I have them I have to keep track of them.

Buying into the market through my already existing brokerage account is much more user friendly especially for non tech people. Bitcoin value is highly speculative at this point, and that means a lot of people will be wanting to get a piece of the action without really understanding how it works. Asking why they don't just buy some directly is kind of like asking why you'd buy a gold ETF instead of buying gold.
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Looks pretty cool :) I don't like the resume thing because I'm already tracking that on LinkedIn and I don't want to duplicate this, but the project part might be interesting.
Small retail investors that see Bitcoin in WSJ, FT, etc. sit around and say "Hey! I want some of that," and their neighborhood financial planners don't know enough about it (and are not incentivized) to get them to directly buy Bitcoins. An ETF would give exposure to Bitcoin to these Baby Boomer retirement types, of which there are many.
I work with coders and developers from the U.K. They know what en_US is, and they know what en_GB is, and it's very obvious which is which.

So to claim that WikiLeaks would fixup all of Snowden's writings to conform to en_GB and then switch it right back to en_US after HN notices is rather surreal.

At best you could claim that Harrison herself simply transcribed Snowden's speech and that no one caught it until it was posted. But that still wouldn't explain what happened to some of the missing words that Snowden would have said. And that still wouldn't explain why WikiLeaks revised a statement so important without so much as a mention of proofreading corrections post-facto.
I would argue that instead of "lend[ing] his revelations more credence" what he has done is made himself the story instead of the NSA activity that he was opposed to.

>>What's more it's made the US appear internationally weak

If that is the case then surely there must be lots of countries willing to offer him asylum and the traveling documents he needs.
Good spot: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351981/Is-Ed-Snowde...
I think all this really says is he's working with a European editor. Which you'd kind of expect since Snowden is an IT guy, not a writer.
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> When Google announced XMPP federation, it felt like it could be the start of something better. It wasn't. Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo didn't play along and even big third parties that used XMPP wanted to keep a walled-garden. But when Google kiled federation, it was a blow (at least to me). It meant that it wasn't going to happen.

Nobody's built the killer realtime messaging app yet. Skype is the closest we have, and it sucks on the iPhone and has no web interface so it doesn't run on ChromeOS.

WhatsApp doesn't work on tablets and requires a phone number as your primary identity.

Facebook and Twitter DM have become large, but aren't there yet because they don't do video/voice and don't federate (and at least in Twitter's case, don't sync read/unread between devices). iMessage and FaceTime would be it, bar none, if it worked on non-Apple hardware - if only from the bootstrap momentum of every single iOS user.

There is opportunity here. If I wanted to be in the software development business, I would solve this problem and eat WhatApp's lunch.

Ideally it'd be federated, but that's not a hard requirement. It just needs to work perfectly on every device that every person sends and receives messages from. That's not that hard these days, which is why it's baffling that nobody's built it yet.

I have an inkling that Hangouts is attempting to become that thing. If indeed that's their plan, they will easily crush Skype.
Same argument can be made for the gold and silver ETF's but they are wildly popular.