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You mean like the recent Boston marathon bombing that is still fresh in the minds of the people?

The American public may be a bit naive and brainwashed (kept deliberately that way by the media) but is not stupid.

The US government and media will soon find itself trying to cope with the facebook twitter effect of information distribution where sending half truths and obfuscation downstream is much harder.

The support for the current surveillance state correlates negatively with internet access.

The mass media wield less power now than in their peak - circa 2003-4 when they helped the government manufacture a cute little war in Iraq.
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Still mirrored in various web caches, such as Google's: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R5Q2LM3...
HP are lying. The article title is correct. You can use many well known kernel vulnerabilities to get root on the box after logging in as hpsupport. At that point you can do block reads off anything you want.
Yes, that is a prime directive for us as animals, as simple beings. Thomas Frey is looking for a prime directive for us as humans, a directive for our additional potential and capability. In the general context of us as beings, Thomas Frey's searched directive could be called "secondary".
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How about using recurring events in calendars, e.g. assign # of pages to read each week? If you fall behind, adjust the number for the following weeks and apply the change to all future events. Try Google Calendar, Teamup Calendar, etc.
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I'm glad you raise the question freeduck. I was actually going to post something like it once the more important discussion about opposing surveillance by social and political means has got going properly (technical solutions won't fix the deeper problem of authoritarian tendencies in society).
A few years ago I read about remote control by hardware in this article:
http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-opinion/39455-big-brother-po...

Be sure to check the video linked at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlj7u3tOQ9s

I don't know much about this myself but I'll be very interested to see the HN community's take on to what extent we can trust out hardware.
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Ah, the old security vs freedom debate.

I would know whom to blame if I had used a weak password that got cracked in order to delete my account. And I think you should expect the same from every reasonable adult.

But yeah, FB should add a stronger auth for that dialog - more than a password and a captcha field.
Well since they are former competitors that shouldnt really matter to you, should it?

In a business sense, open sourcing it can allow you to gain recognition, visibility and goodwill.

In a personal sense it could offer fulfilment, and in a moral sense, like you say, you are giving back to the community.

However, be prepared to spend some time in cleaning commenting and documenting if you really want it to be of use to others..
Thank you. I never use Google+ and I was so irritated by their youtube migration attempts recently that I didn't look back.
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Whati s a decent maps and geocoding solution to include in our (paywalled) webservices?

Important features are: JS or HTTP/REST API, geocoder, low-cost or free, licence allowing use behind a paywall (rules the free version of Google Maps).
Nokia's Here Maps look fine, but the price for geocoding ($1500/mo) is out of our range.

My company is a startup developing intranet services with MES/ERP/CMS functionality, for european and russian market.
I love these discussions about text vs. binary protocols. I especially love the part where people defend binary protocols because they are more "efficient" and don't eat as much bandwith or processing resources.

May I remind these nice people that most text-based protocols we rely on today were designed in a time when CPUs were orders of magnitude slower and modems ran at 2400 baud? Talk about processing and bandwidth resources...

The resources consumed by having to interpret a text-based protocol pale in comparison with the resources consumed by all the levels of abstraction that modern frameworks/language runtimes that we use today. But wait, these save developer time, so they are a good thing. So does having protocols that can be troubleshooted by a human with minimal tools.
> And I think you should expect the same from every reasonable adult.

FYI: Facebook is not primarily populated by reasonable adults.
This is definitely a pure conspiracy theory, but there have to be hundreds of readily usable side-channels for transmitting information out of a compromised box that wouldn't show up in Wireshark unless you knew exactly what to look for. Think biases in timings or not-so-random bits in client-generated TLS values.
The difference between framing the question as "Do you think fighting terrorism requires drastic measures?" and "Do you think we should give up constitutional rights for a very small increase in perceived domestic security?" would be more than enough to account for huge differences in the outcome, despite being the same question.

Polls being polls.
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Interesting. I know they use HDFS in bits of the infrastructure from which it's not particularly easy to delete stuff as it's append-only.
Wait, you're telling me they'll auto log you back in? I recently found out I have a facebook account. I had no idea I had one but after a password reset and visit to that page I figured in 14 days it was a settled matter. Wtf, facebook!? Seriously?
That's weird. I got asked _once_ if I wanted to migrate my YouTube account to G+, I said no, and never got asked again.
Oh man! Who would have known my undergraduate capstone project would be so relevant?

To improve accuracy of Nerf Blasters, we realized that barrel rifling had little effect. So we took a different approach.

Prototype: http://zpr.io/PphB.png

High-speed footage of added rotation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87Y0A6IMJM8&list=SP0FF1657C0B...

(all videos: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0FF1657C0B08FAB8)

PPT report: http://mikeknoop.com/upload/MAE4980CapstonePresentation.pptx

Major problem is fishtailing. Adding too much rotation and the darts just aren't rigid enough to hold a solid spiral.

In the end, adding 4 degrees per flywheel off the horizontal gave the best rotation vs. consistency (the darts held about 1500-1800RPM). There are already Nerf Blasters in production that use flywheels, so it's not hard to imagine introducing a small tilt.

We didn't do hardly the statistical analysis from OP but our numbers:

Distance
+4.6 ft. (14%)

Accuracy Standard Deviation
-2.3 ft. (40%)
I've just started tinkering with nitrous.io - I have to say it's very impressive and it makes the chromebook an actual usable device for development out of the box without any tinkering
That's exactly what I used Linkedin for. Don't use the service, but it's a handy way to keep up with my extended business network.
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If they are going to ban the feds from attending the conference, are they going to ban the contractors who are working with the feds also? I imagine that the majority of the "security and hacking" type work is not done directly by the feds but by their contractor (e.g. in Snowden's case he was not working for the NSA but for Booz Allen Hamilton).

If they are just banning the feds then I think this is just a press stunt since it won't change a single thing.
In the UK there are laws requiring businesses to retain certain data for several years, so that the authorities can get at it if they need it for evidence in the future. Yeah, I know...

So, is facebook bound by the same sort of laws? If not in the US, what about the UK and other counties? Are there different policies per country, or does FB only do what US law says, if it says anything at all.

If they are bound by such laws, then we cant really blame FB for keeping the data. They may have no choice. Also, by then, the likes of the NSA/GCHQ could already have a copy of such data.

I went through this delete procedure a while ago. I don't know how I try to find out if my data was deleted or not. No way do I want to try to login as I am worried it will reactivate my account and data. So, I'm just left with some one's say so.

I wonder if in the UK a freedom of information act application would reveal it?

Added:
How do you even contact facebook? Looked at their site and I see nothing. Of course in order to ask on a FB forum you need to sign up. Is there a simple email address?
Relevant talk: Meredith Patterson on Turing-complete protocols and weird machines - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY
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Even that's not guaranteed. You could just have the mouse wait 1 hr before doing nasty-keyboard-mode. Or only go into nasty-keyboard-mode after certain amount of button presses etc. It's an arms race.
> Not true at all. It entirely depends on what you're building.

No it doesn't. He's making the same argument terrorists sometimes use to justify their actions. We're not innocent -- that by paying taxes, voting, and otherwise being a member of our society, we're culpable for what that society chooses to do.

You don't get to pick and choose what your taxes fund; in large part, that's the whole point of taxation.
Very true, however would we want to watch Star Wars with no human element? Why are there pilots at all, should just be a bunch of R2D2s built into drone ships :P

I feel the same about playing a game, I want to have some influence besides my stat column being bigger.

Obviously the game must be fun to get the kind of following it has, I guess I was just expecting something else.
Actually it's not the CPU you need to be worried about.

Earlier this year at 44Café in London I did a talk in which I dropped about 16 bugs in SuperMicro's IPMI BMC implementation (through the medium of a drinking game), some of which were picked up by Farmer and Moore's recent research into IPMI, some not[1]. The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) is a completely separate computer, often running unmaintained Linux firmware that has full South-Bridge and i2c access to your computer's memory. Basically it has Direct Memory Access (DMA) but your computer doesn't appear to going the other way around (although I haven't investigated this yet).

The board I looked at ran an ARM chipset and a custom Linux distro built by an OEM called ATEN[1] and customised by SuperMicro. It's not that the system appears to be phoning home, it's more that there are a lot of bugs and defaults in the implementation, and compromising this allows you to compromise the underlying server.

For desktop and laptop systems you don't usually have IPMI, so no BMC. Instead you have intel's iAMT which is very similar in some respects. There's some really fantastic research done in this space by Patrick Stewin and Iurii Bystrov[3] who have implemented a hardware keylogger. I've been in contact with them and they've updated their work since publishing the paper and intend to present the results at the 44CON[4] security conference in London this September.

Again it's not a case of these chips phoning home per se but a non-well documented nor well-publicised attack surface with real-world implications for espionage and malware.

Disclaimer: I'm one of the co-founders and co-organisers of 44Con.

[1] - http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/ipmi/

[2] - http://www.aten.com/IPMI.htm

[3] - http://stewin.org/papers/dimvap15-stewin.pdf

[4] - http://www.44con.com/
the irony of posting that on Medium... :D
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Perhaps this is why this bothers me: the Feds don't need any help from Defcon. If anything, it's the other way around.
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So, you weren't born in USA, but still think it would to cool to access Google Play Movies? It can be possible, read this guide.
When is discrimination against an individual based on his or her employer detrimental to the good of humanity?

Employers are kinda made up of the people that work for them. Any attempts to disassociate the two shall fail.

So yes, humanity is better when people actually have experience consequences for their actions -- instead of hiding behind other people, or symbols even, like "employer".

We're not talking about being mean to people because of their skin color, or not selling them ice cream because they're working for the Mafia. We're talking not selling them weapons, and not letting them buy you drinks and whatnot, because they're working for the Mafia. That's exactly appropriate.

What's next, not "discriminating" against people because they are running marathons for the Rapists Association, even though they're not rapists themselves? Boo-hoo, really.

You're making a mockery out of the word "discrimination" here. You're equating withdrawing support from those who do harm with being mean to handicapped people and whatnot: Fuck that, utterly and completely.
You're incorrect. I'd argue it depends on what you're prejudiced against, as to whether it's noble. I happen to be very prejudiced against police states, and government tyranny in general, and the people that actively help to make it possible. In this case, my use of Feds is meant to represent the federal authority figures that are leading the charge in erasing my civil liberties, and I think that was obvious given the rampant discussions here for weeks on the NSA and its leading proponents.

A proper synonym for prejudice is bias. I like that word even better than prejudice in this case. It can be said that I'm absolutely biased about this subject.
Can minors legally accept a contract like the Facebook TOS in the US? (Real question, I'm not an US citizen and not a lawyer).
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They can — they just do not want to. There are huge chances (anecdotal experience) of people reactivating their accounts and FB wants to keep its social graph enriched.
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As someone who has been having to work with various SOAP APIs over the last month - amen.
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If a user deletes their account using one of these forms, can a new account be created with the same username ?
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I don't think they perform an explicit auto log in to cancel your delete request but mis-clicking a like button (or clicking on a harmless LOOK AT THAT FUNNY CAT PICTURE-URL in an IM chat, etc) might trigger a log in.

They certainly track you even if you're not logged in so who knows what javascript trickery they're up to to make logging in 'easier'.
Why in the hell have you spent "hundreds, if not thousands" of dollars on games you have never played?
I gather this link points to facebook.com. Funny, I deleted my facebook account years ago, but Im sure as heck not going to click on a facebook.com link and find out if I really did!

(subtitle, I react to facebook.com links as if they were phishing links and what would be the difference? scraping my contacts, selling my personal data, rewriting my TOS at every opportunity. I view the home page of facebook even without logging in as a phishing site. Sorry Mark. :()
Attitude. One of the big advantages that seems to be touted for text protocols is easy to use manually by humans, and with that can come a desire to make it forgiving of human error.

You can have simple text protocols and complex binary protocols, but it's more tempting to make text protocols more complex.

(In this comment, simple/complex is in terms of syntax only)
This is a good point, but remember also that those packets have to go somewhere specific - the information may not be encoded in the bits, but in the timing instead. This being said, the information still has to arrive at its destination.
I'm not just talking about using the iOS launch image for branding. I'm talking about delaying the user after the app is loaded and ready to go. People ask for it to display their logo a little bit longer than it actually takes to load the app, sometimes 3 seconds or so.

If you do this, as an iOS developer, you should have your developer program revoked...
I've played dota, dota 2, and... well far ganes more than I Care to admit.
I have played War 3 competitively, at my best was ranked second nationally in my country when it was a thing, and I went and managed/founded a team as well.

From personal experience, I disagree with the implication that the dunning-krueger effect gets in the way of it.

I have a hard time explaining how precisely atm, but you can often get the weaker players to work with you, and at the same time create a team even in the middle of a pub game.

TO give an example of some of the core tricks: in WoW battlegrounds the simple act of constantly YELLING the enemies incoming to a node, and keeping up the communication banter (even alone in local chat) will result in a spate of wins.

If I were to simplify it, it would be know what to communicate, and communicate simply. Your greatest enemy is discord, and poor communication.

Further: in pub games its probably easier because a modicum of co-ordination will get you quick battle wins over the opponents and so solidify camaraderie. Strong opponents who know what they are doing better than you can assist will leave you with few opportunities on the field to capitalize on.

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For weak players in DoTA 1 and 2.

No one likes being cursed, and become more receptive to someone who steps in, while also providing some space to enjoy themselves and win. I've found myself saying

> "Chill out. All of us were noobs once. Player X, you did screw up, but it happens. Next time, call out, or let us know." Or

> "mate, we're bugged because we NEED your skill to land, thats why they are pissed, they depend on you."

Those lines sound cheesy when I write them down, but context, delivery and crafting of the appropriate sentence matters a lot more.

Side note: In DoTA I've found you can control your team better playing a support role.
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Nice idea.

However, the link I created for HN does not show any preview: http://fu.gg/kE1Lov? :-(

Also it would be good to see the real URL somewhere on the peek preview page before clicking the visit button. That alone would often be enough to decide whether I want to visit the site or not.
There's still a difference.

When I am in a room, I contribute to the humidity of that room. Now imagine me turning on the faucet or boiling some water.... and then saying "I can't turn them off, it would make no sense, I would contribute to the humidity either way!".

I'll just go ahead and say if people can't think at all, so that they only know the difference between "nothing exists" and "everything is the same", then whatever they're building can't be that good, and chances are great we'd be better of without it.
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This reminds me of ChucK http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/
> Major problem is fishtailing. Adding too much rotation and the darts just aren't rigid enough to hold a solid spiral.

Would adding a cocktail stick to the dart help? Or is modifying darts not acceptable?
Don't know why you were downvoted, it's a valid concern. It won't be "phoning home", though -- you only can phone the so called "global adversary" this way (because you can't send packets to arbitrary addresses).

Also, messing with TLS probably won't work at all. Messing with e.g. MTU sizes, IP sequence numbers and perhaps TCP options, on the other hand, could probably work.
A lot of threat models that the USA defends against are perfectly legitimate, because the USA has used them against opponents in the past! e.g. US military and embassies always fly in new equipment from the USA, rather than buying local. Why? Because in the cold war, the Soviets got a local photocopier and local repairmen. The USA had a camera in it and the repairman was a spy. These aren't theoretical attacks to the USA.
Thank you!
About the HN link, they don't allow showing their site in iframes, so that's why. i've considered making screenshots to show for those that has the X-Frame-Options (deny/same-origin) header.
Showing the real url is a good idea, i'll add that right now - thanks :)
I've seen stories both from people who continually got pestered (like myself) and from people who didn't (such as yourself). I dunno why though.
Nope, still not noble. If it's truly prejudice, then just because you're prejudiced against a bad thing doesn't mean the prejudice itself is good.

But what I think is that you're trying to describe a rational, sensible dislike for tyranny and police states as prejudice, which is disingenuous at best.
By "okay" do you mean "legal" or "ethical" or "moral"? In this case it looks to be completely legal.

Regarding federal law, discrimination on the basis of race, sex, national origin, and a few other protected classes is illegal. Discrimination on the basis of other factors is generally acceptable, except where they collide with membership in the protected classes. (For example, a hacker conference cannot require that all participants have an uncovered head and demand observant Jews, Sikhs, etc. to take off their religious headgear, since there is no safety need for it.) Employment in a specific company is in general not a protected class.

Some states have additional restrictions on which discriminatory practices are not okay. In California, the Unruh Civil Rights Act says: “All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, marital status, or sexual orientation are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.”

Most civil rights protections limit the prohibition to a list of discriminatory classes. The Unruh act is different because, quoting from the courts: “The Act expresses a state and national policy against discrimination on arbitrary grounds. Its provisions were intended as an active measure measure that would create and preserve a nondiscriminatory environment in California business establishments by ‘banishing’ or ‘eradicating’ arbitrary, invidious discrimination by such establishments.”

For example an ACLU lawyer was found to be in violation of the Unruh Act because in a 1980 California public meeting on police surveillance practices, where the police chief was invited but declined to come, one of the police officers attended in civilian clothes, and never announced that he was an officer. The ACLU believed he was an undercover agent, and kicked him out. The officer sued, and the courts found that that was arbitrary discrimination.

In any case, DefCon is in Nevada, which does not have a similar law. I don't know enough about California law to be able to say if this prohibition against Fed participation is arbitrary or not, were it to take place in California.
Of course it's a stunt. That's the whole point, to make a symbolic statement. There is no imaginable practical consequence from this besides expressing unhappiness. That doesn't mean the gesture is meaningless.
Why are you worrying about competitors? If you're at a point where you have stopped working on it and are considering open sourcing it, it should make you happy that your competitors are using your code haha.
Yet they presumably chose to join the military, right? Is it really excessive and abhorrent to suggest that those who decide to join the military would tend towards militarized philosophies? They're not saints.
Leave the Past Behind.
Ask HN: Should Richard Dawkins Open Source his software?
He seems to be thinking about it: https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/355251334049562627