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I sometimes wonder where would we be now if everybody was programming with the same efficiency as 90s demoscene coders. In times where there was no hardware acceleration, they were able to build mind-blowing things...
If Chinese products are being dumped, then the cheaper products become available to more people, resulting in reduced consumption of fossil fuels, which equals less pollution, which ends up being a net win for the planet...
While we're at it, did anyone review Salsa20 implementation or willing to review it?

https://github.com/cryptocat/cryptocat/blob/master/src/core/...
Even for RPG games, any given PRNG can often be too random for a game. You can make a lot more realistic and enjoyable behaviors by grabbing your random values from a distribution other than uniform 0.0-1.0. (Like a Gaussian distribution, which is everywhere in models of random things that are the sum of many other individual random processes.)
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Feedback is useful, but there are ways of maximising the usefulness. I get the impression that some of this 'attitude' found in Free/Open source projects could simply be crushing workload?

Edit: it appears the OA is a joke?
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What about obscuring rather than hiding? For instance, a script that emails hundreds of random addresses, tweets on hundreds of different accounts, visits thousands of different urls, texts and voice calls hundreds of numbers (for those with "unlimited" mobile plans), etc. every hour or every minute or what-have-you.

It seems that would be the digital equivalent of a paper shredder - imperfect but not necessarily easy to pick up and read. Just as well, all these collection operations that seem to be in place would fill up with mountains of useless data.
if you have accidentally read http://b.trollaxor.com/2011/09/dont-use-openbsd-if-you-dont-..., which is already unavailable, you know that trollaxor is probably sick.
Thank you David, I'm very happy indeed that many companies are using Redis to get work done, this is basically one of the biggest reasons why after 4 years I'm not giving up...

As you know I'm usually not the kind of guy focused to the task at hand for more than a limited timeframe, and then I've the temptation to switch to something else, but this time I'm finding the right motivations in the big user base.
Which seems to get missed, despite the name "Trollaxor" and the "hacked his router" comment in the article. Glad someone pointed this out.
The desktop computing revolution was largely a cost-driven fan-out of existing computing paradigms on a cheaper/smaller scale. Glass is not cheaper than mobile phones ... hence my suggestion that it's only really the display that's different from a functional perspective. The danger of omnipresent wearable video recorders vs. privacy are quite a lot more weighty than the as yet unproven use cases for such a display. Society should encourage a public discussion on the value of privacy and proceed in this direction only with extreme caution. Profit-driven alliances with totalitarian governments are a modern historical fact: https://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/8660186
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Also extremely likely - the NSA/GCHQ/Whoever siphon off all "metadata".

At the next Boston bombing, or whatever, they analyse that metadata for the perpetrator. And the next one. And the next one. And build a profile of what a "terrorist's" communication patterns look like.

And then they single out everyone matching that profile and stick watches on them, or bring them in.

It's Minority Report without the psychics. Google Now for Homeland Security.
The tree looks cool. If this catches on I might finally buy a 3d monitor just to browse the web ;)
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Sorry for the misleading information, chaps.

I asked the organisation, and found out that it's not an official programme in the UK. The only one they have here is Google Grants for AdWords - http://www.google.co.uk/grants/.

Basically, an enterprising IT volunteer had set them up with vanilla Google Apps back when it was still free for small business and had a 50 user limit, and they just got grandfathered in to the new Apps for Business. They've never had any problems with the user or space limit since they just use the setup for email, analytics and AdWords campaigns and only have about 4-6 people "working" there.

Apologies again.
To see the future, look to Nairobi's "Mat" system - These vehicles are a sort of hybrid between a large taxi and a small bus. Whilst officially they travel fixed routes, in reality routes and times can be quickly changed to adapt to shifting patterns of demand. I think the future of transport will look a lot like this.

We need vehicles that are big enough to carry a decent number of people, so that during rush hour the available road-space can be effectively utilised: After all, we want to reduce the overall cost and blight of roads for a given peak level of demand, which means maximising the number of passengers per square metre of tarmac. On the other hand, away from rush hour, we want vehicles that are small enough to flexibly be able to tailor their route to the demands and needs of their passengers - so that individuals can be picked up and dropped off at their front doorstep - and at a time that suits them, rather than according to an inflexible schedule.

These conflicting requirements call for a mix of vehicle sizes - both small and large. If you take the cost of a driver away, then I think the minibus might well hit a sweet spot in terms of size and flexibility - although that is little more than a hunch at the moment.
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He did not mean overriding (methods in derived classes), but overloading (functions with the same name). You can resolve the latter at compile time, no indirection needed. For example you can have two overloaded functions println() and println(String).
> They know if they continue to produce, they'll flood the market and depress the price

When has this ever stopped anyone?
I am not sure what kind of education does it provide. If NSA has access to GMail, it does not matter what email client you use, open-source or proprietary. If your ISP logs all your activity, it does not really matter what browser do you use.
And in general it is simpler and more revarding to target services providers instead of client apps for those services.
Dutchman here (Germany's neighbor). 'Green' forces in my country set new rules so the government actually pays a part of the costs if you buy and install solar panels on your roof. The very same government who puts up an import-fine for those very same panels thus making them more expensive. Now that a lot of people have bought and installed solar panels and have become net suppliers of power (giving it back to the grid) they're working on new rules to administrate those net-suppliers. They now run the risk of having to document everything like regular power-providing companies do. (Lots of red tape). Thanks government...
The meaning of your metaphor certainly seems obvious; explicit even. Are you referring to a layer of more profound non-obviousness?
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Fond memories? Archie was truly horrible.
When they go bankrupt. Or a bit of price collusion, or a cartel (OPEC for an example).
Just added 20Mission.
You almost always need the byte count for protocols, buffers and stuff. For user-interfacing use-cases (e.g. editors) you probably want the glyph or grapheme count, not the rune count. Please remember, runes / code points, graphemes and glyphs are different things:

http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/forms_of_unicode/
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The common argument of "Google Glass is no different a surveillance device than a modern smart phone" really is not accurate, it is a deliberate ignorance and a misrepresentation.

There's nothing confounding about glass that makes it LESS of a surveillance device than a smart phone, certainly there's plenty that makes it more so. What do you find accurate about the argument?

How much time do you spend being recorded naked on a smart phone in your bedroom? None I bet. I can envisage google glass, or 'google contacts' resulting in everything being recorded if you extrapolate, with no expectation of privacy.

Already in technology companies, employees may be asked to leave their phones outside, will those companies be more keen or less keen to have 'google glass' left behind? More, I would bet.
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People were using a few different live streaming services during the occupy wall st events.
Mass adoption is a bulwark against legislation, not a promoter of it. Eg. alcohol is legal because it's popular, not because it's safer than drugs which are illegal.
Reshaped by driverless car bombs...

"Oh, yeah. Oooh, ahhh, that's how it always starts. Then later there's running and screaming."
It's really irresponsible to throw figures like that without the disclaimer that solar PV production constitutes only 1.1% of the total energy consumed in Germany for the last year.

[1] http://www.erneuerbare-energien.de/fileadmin/Daten_EE/Dokume...
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Archie was no doubt truly horrible compared to every search engine that came after it. However it was at it's time a god-send, as previously there was simply no way to find anything you weren't directly linked to.
Unless they frequency-modulate the packets they send home to transmit additional data and you'd probably never figure it out looking at Wireshark output that they are sending more than meets the eye. This is a simple trick; there are probably many other I can't even think of.
It is a joke but the context is actually very valid and is a criticism that is widely echoed everywhere regarding OpenBSD.

It deserves a strong defense whether or not it is a joke :)
Those are details that can be refined later. The overarching concept is great.
Has anybody used this, and can comment on how well the "type while holding the Alt (or capslock) key" works? I imagine it's a bit hard to type with both hands while holding down a key.
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Politics aside, this is a really interesting list of tools I haven't heard of before. Thanks!
I wonder if anyone tried frequency-modulating the data stream they send home, i.e. encode the sensitive data as changes in frequency of sending packets. Now try to Wireshark that one.
I still use DrawIt from BohemianCoding (the same company / people) and it's really good for smallish UI work. The CoreImage based text rendering sucks and it leaks memory like anything but it's a nice piece of software. I hope sketch has all of what they created in DrawIt and more. Good luck!
Cryptopunk's response to this is: write code, not law.

Law writers and enforces are corruptible, while code is not.
> If you live in the UK, write to your MP (http://www.writetothem.com/)

Does anyone have a suggested template letter for this?
> It's Minority Report without the psychics. Google Now for Homeland Security.

Eagle Eye (yet) without an AI.
I've done just that. My wife an I bought our house 4 years or so ago. House payments including all the interest and accompanying costs were lower if we wanted to rent a smaller crappier house in the same location at the time. Now we are moving countries and renting our place. Rent we are asking for is 50-60% higher than the costs we have and have so many people interested we may just up the rent a bit.

But I do have some experience renting places as my family has a few properties they rent and I used to manage a lot of the related work.
I can afford twice as powerful kit when I write in Java as it takes less time :)
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Tor should NOT be on here. It has little to do with "breaking" PRISM. PRISM is a voluntary program wherein a handful of endpoints have chosen to submit copies of their database to the NSA. Regardless of the mechanism or browser used to access Facebook, the reality is that all of that data gets uploaded to the NSA anyway, so who cares? People aren't interested in the real solution to PRISM, which is "Don't use services provided by PRISM participants".

Furthermore, Tor's outproxy network (i.e., accessing normal internet sites through Tor) is heavily compromised, rife with honeypots run by both non-governmental and governmental operatives, and nothing stops anyone from injecting more honeypots. New exit nodes are automatically registered and used by the network as soon as the client flips his/her bit. While ostensibly exit nodes are not supposed to be sniffing these packets, since it likely violates wiretapping laws in their jurisdiction (unless it's an NSA-owned exit node, of course), one would be very naive to presume such sniffing is not occurring. This means that any data that eventually hits the exit node should be considered, for all intents and purposes, public (correctly-implemented SSL may mitigate this risk where employed). This is fine if you're just trying to circumvent a firewall (remember, Tor was originally designed as a firewall-circumventer so that dissidents in China et al could convey their traffic to blocked sites; the goal was simply "get this public blog post out of China and to the rest of the world", not "hide all data from the NSA", hence the design of the exit node network) so you can use IRC, where your conversations are public anyway, but it's not fine for all kinds of browsing applications, so "try using Tor for everything" is actually horrendous advice.

The upshot of that is that like most other privacy software, you really need to understand the software well to a) actually obtain any meaningful privacy from its usage and b) not accidentally seriously harm yourself.

On top of all that, Tor traffic is easily distinguished and most likely automatically flags your NSA profile for additional attention.
> I think that we should try not to be meek about this issue, passively hiding ourselves and then getting on with our lives saying "Fuck you, got mine". Why should the tech community flee the very Internet that it has played such a crucial role in building?

Who is "the tech community"? I'm in the tech community, and I'm pretty sure I didn't create The Internet, or Facebook, or the NSA. I think the goal here is to provide people with resources so they can the internet more safely, and to normalize safety measures in order to guard against their demonization or prohibition.

Edit: However I absolutely agree that it's important to fight on social and political fronts as well as technological ones.
My understanding is that Facebook does it that way. I think for Twitter it creates two problems though:

- It's hard to make that realtime, because you'd need to some sort of broadcast every second or at least every few seconds.

- It's hard to follow a lot of people (you could be getting a large number of replies), so there would need be a follow limit.

Facebook has a follow limit and people don't really expect Facebook to be realtime - the central bit is not really.

Also, there is no one right way to do these things, in my view.
I'm surprised it too this long.
Clearly, there should be laws mandating that everyone who knows Java, has visited that Wikipedia page, or walks outside radio stations be surveilled at all times, to ensure people's safety.
>resulting in reduced consumption of fossil fuels, which equals less pollution //

This bit isn't necessarily the case. Certainly reduced fossil fuel usage and pollution in Germany though.
> On top of all that, Tor traffic is easily distinguished and most likely automatically flags your NSA profile for additional attention.

As a fairly boring non-dissident who's just trying to be a good citizen on the internet, I think I actually consider that to be a feature.
Off-topic: I always wondered why there is A-F instead of A-Z. In your order of ideas it is explainable - everyone gets a "G" by default (for "F" one should at least be present) therefore all the rest are left out.

On-topic: If you make "D" the default, when the reality sets in, the new valuable scale becomes A-C (nobody will care or consider one's graded studies if those were "completed" on D "pass" grades). The same is with free money - the amount of pension money will shortly become meaningless because of inflation.
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..can't help it due to something like Asperger syndrome. This fucko using words meaning of which he does not understand.

"Some researchers and people with Asperger's have advocated a shift in attitudes toward the view that it is a difference, rather than a disability that must be treated or cured".
-- Wikipedia.

Yeah, Buddha and Einstein, very probably, were our folks.

About guys like Theo or Linus, well, leaders with NPDs and devotion are usually better than leaders with just devotion.)
> the name "Trollaxor"

Given the kinds of names people take when they expect to be taken seriously, how much of a clue can this one really be?
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>You don't solve economic problems by failing to analyze them and their causes

Sure, but you also don't analyse economic problems by stating the obvious (a country after a revolution and an army involvement, in social turmoil is off-putting investors).

>The people who just ejected yet another government because they don't have jobs.

That was not their reason, neither was "lack of investors". They rebelled for political and social demands, not for jobs. If anything the job situation was better under Mubarak.
It really does look cool. I could really imagine that this would catch on. It's gimmickry, but unlike almost any other 3D effect on a webpage, it's not annoying.
check this out : https://prism-break.org/
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Yes, it was. It's dishonest to claim that your system has never been tried when it has been tried and failed.

You can go down the list of things the Communist Manifesto proposed and see that the USSR did all of them: http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Essays/Marxism.html
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I am well aware of these attacks as I am actively involved in discussions at CloudFlare about how we best protect our customers. Clearly browser support for things like AES GCM and TLS 1.2 is the limiting factor.

However, TLS is not only used between browser and web server. We can use better ciphers in situations where both ends can be controlled.
I wonder whether the Chinese manufacturer are really dumping them, or whether the German companies only had high prices from the beginning. Companies like Siemens and Bosch aren't exactly known for low prices or efficiency. Massive government subsidies certainly did not help making them more efficient. It rather seems like this made the companies focus on maximizing subsidies instead of producing something of market value, simply because the subsidies were more profitable. And now, with fewer subsidies and more market pressure, their business model ceases to exist. Can you blame the Chinese companies for that?
What if i run tor on my computer and apply a system wide proxy through that port (9050 by default), is that any different from your setup ?
This reminds me of the time a major epilepsy forum was hacked, and they reformatted the CSS to have a bunch of things flash, blink and strobe.
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Wrong and out of context.

See my complete question, not the butchered part you quote.
looks like thomas jennings is hard at work.

*oh and any idiot that chooses to resurrect a 3 year old post obviously has other alternatives then just discrediting someone
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Trollaxor is hardly enough to let someone know this is satire, nor is hacked the router since all he did was remap the keyboard (of the router??) which seems like a prank.

i.e. there isn't in the slightest enough info in this for someone to know it's satire.
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> you also don't analyse economic problems by stating the obvious

Most fields of study involve a great deal of stating the obvious, as does much of human conversation.

> If anything the job situation was better under Mubarak.

Since you're actually agreeing with me, I believe you misread my comment as referring to the original revolution.
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Well, I concede formal education isn't much compared to hands-on experience, but public education is dirt cheap where I live, even free if you have a scholarship like I do (I'm French just so you know).
So IMO, having a degree at such a price isn't useless nor a time/money sink - at least when comparing to US/UK, but I don't want to think it exempt me from working on my own on side projects.

I'll most likely need certifications, but my scholarship cannot cover that for now. I'll save up for those once I'm in a taskforce.
Relax and hang around. Those complaining are most likely poseur male-feminists. They might as well protest in 'chick-lit' sections of bookstores.
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Roughly the same as the difference between "William" and "Jacob".
The main page eats all my GPU to the point it's almost impossible to scroll (macbook air 2013). Shouldn't take so much resources for such a simple page.
I am exactly like that but I am a teenager
Their setup is very similar to what we use at Fashiolista. (though of course we only have millions and not hundreds of millions of users). We've open sourced our approach and you can see an early example here:
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I don't trust you with my emails. Can I run it locally or something like that?
$0.15 is completely ridiculous - also, can you tell us how you're doing this globally? Zip is required and some countries don't have ZIPs.
One thing that comes to mind is that the costs for informed comments with supporting arguments are often higher - much higher - than the costs for uninformed rants.

It's easy to say any old thing off the cuff, but takes more effort to refute it. Also, truly expert people have less time, than, say, someone fresh out of college.
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Ah, you are quite right, I should have emphasized that point! (I guess I simply wanted to get to the drogulus part, but ended up expanding a bit.)

Indeed, the main paper introducing Kademlia is basically called, "P2P network based on the XOR metric." That is its distinguishing feature, but it is indeed enough to make all the difference.