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I think you are more right here than you realize. A porn is whatever a person gets his boner with.

By his descriptions of pornography seem a lot of the internet stuff arouses Mr. Cameron ... the really edgy stuff.
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Thanks for your post. Sometimes HN can be such a boring and depressing place with all of its startup lottery.
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What about all the non-tenured professors who teach? Are you honestly accusing those who are not chasing tenure of not caring about teaching?
I hope it leads to more use of VPN and like. The added advantage would be that your ISP and GCHQ can not easily tap into your online activities, and you'll always have plausible cover of using VPN to hide your pornographic habit.
no, it's not easy to reverse. though if the password was a common one or occurs in a dictionary, it is easier to reverse. and no, they cannot be cracked in 'no time'.
That's fucking censorship and I THOUGHT WE ALL AGREED THAT IS A SIGN OF FASCISM

In America, all this type of stuff was completely illegal until relatively recent decades (yes I know that the internet did not exist yet but what difference does that make?). Showing "pink shots" in a magazine was completely illegal until 1978 (See Larry Flynt).

Wow, what a bunch of Fascists we had running the country for the first couple of centuries. This country had no freedom at all man...

He is committing widespread censorship of an entire nation.

Is optional censorship really censorship? I know what you will say in response though - it is only optional for now right?
Probably took it down to check and patch.
This makes no predictions, but there is a more general creative principle to be had, and in other creative spaces too, music ensembles such as choirs and orchestras being one example of another arena. Actors don't get to give great performances if the words and myths in their stories are not supple enough for them to play with. Writers who are tied to one structure and following simple rules are never going to get as much out of actors as would someone like Ken Loach or Robert Altman, famous for improvisation and throwing away script.

incidentally, I think there's even an analogy to sports management in this, too. Although many here don't like sports, if you look at the most successful football (soccer to you lot) managers you see how a looser structure but more tailored to the context (cf story setting, themes) can help with results. Manager as script. They have a set of principles and strategies, but they work to the strengths of the individual players (characters) to allow them to play the best game they can. A mediocre manager, OTOH, will prescribe and overorganise the players in rigid rule which leads to more consistent, but less creative and watchable play.
There are even websites dedicated to testing against multiple engines at once for you, automatically.

Of course, those are collection sites as well...
I think "terrorism" remains too nondescript a term, and the fact that more Americans die each year from lawn mower-related accidents than from acts of domestic terrorism is indicative that other reasons for the surveillance exist.
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To be honest... just upload any image and move on. If you need help I can provide detailed instructions about using a "file upload" system.
The Computer Fraud and Abuses Act is incredibly broad, it's basically impossible to prove a vulnerability like this exists without violating it.
That's why I started the original post with "Imagine..." :)

(Plus, a single PR release about one incident doesn't exclude the possibility of other (known or unknown) incidents taking place)
Wow, won't it be awesome if there's also background sound??
I'm annoyed that all the attention is now directed at Cameron as if this whole thing was his idea. It isn't!

The Daily Mail have been running a very vocal anti-porn campaign for the last 2 years (at least). Forget child-porn, the Daily Mail have taken it upon themselves to rid the country of every sort of porn imaginable and have proceeded to flood the public concious with their weekly anti-porn propaganda.

The funny thing is, when they first started doing this, nobody took a blind bit of notice, the tone of comments on their earlier articles met the subject with bemusement. What's even more surprising however, is that still nobody cares! Read the comments on the most recent DM anti-porn articles and it's clear they're not fooling anybody. So why are they pushing ahead with this agenda?

The blocking of porn (opt-in or opt-out) is not the issue here. It's that we're letting our laws and policies be dictated to us by the gutter press! And that it's working!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/search.html?searchPhrase=por...
Ask HN: Anyone have an older Macbook that you're willing to sell cheaply?
My hard drive crashed and my optical drive stopped working. I lost some unbacked-up data, and I cracked something on the motherboard while trying to diagnose the problem with the optical drive, resulting in the display not working.

I don't have the funds for a new computer so, as a long-shot, I'm wondering if anyone here has a Macbook that's not in use and lying around that you're willing to sell for a cheap price?

My email is in my profile if anyone can help out.
A bit of extreme nahstiness, yes?
It's almost definitely a violation of the CFAA.
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As I said when I previously commented. I find it pretty ironic that these kind of breaches could have been avoided by simply creating a whitelist for their admin panel. This isn't rocket science. The majority of breaches of these size that keep occurring are password reuse, or open admin panels (bruteforce attacks). Who needs a vulnerability when an attacker can simply look up the Administrators on databases they already have?
I had no idea that SIM cards executed code. I naively assumed they just contained hard-coded information, similar to a credit card. The fast that they execute Java applets blows my mind.
Regarding my comment above, my troll filter obviously had serious issues yesterday. : )
beefproject / msf is all about escaping the little sandbox, not doing things in it.
It's a great read despite its "evil" reputation. You'll be impressed by how meticulous Murray is. His style is 80% evidence and 20% conjecture, and he is always careful to separate the two.

"Coming Apart" is also essential reading to understand modern society.
OP is being polite. Obviously the point is that Maureen O'Connor's problems have very little to do with Facebook's usability and very much to do with Xing with 36 guys, where "X" rises to Maureen's internal threshold for considering them "exes". Who wants to be #37? Or #43, to put a ring on it?

That's the source of the "user's" current and future unhappiness. Not Facebook's usability problems.
It's not encryption, it's hashing. Also, I don't see how MD5 is easy to crack.
There was no need to take all that data at all. If he was interested in security he could just set up a test account, test the vuln with that account only, and send Apple the results. Job done. I doubt Apple would bother to prosecute for that, they might even thank him. Do they pay bounties for reports on security vulnerabilities? If not they should.

Taking all the data and publishing it, and then bragging about it on youtube (!) just leaves him open to prosecution, and I imagine Apple will go after him now for publishing the data of their developers.

I'm not sure I understand the logic of publishing this, but there seems to be a mentality of braggadocio among wannabe security researchers -

1. Hack high profile website and publicise it

2. ?????

3. Profit!

I'm not sure what step 2 is.
Perhaps 4chan will come to the rescue! I'm sure "Cameroning" will take on a new meaning soon :)
Ngrok will pass the same hostname that it received from the public request, so something like example.ngrok.com. If you use the -subdomain flag, then it will always be the same hostname. I'm not entirely sure I answered your question, so if that didn't help, feel free to email me and we'll get it sorted out: alan at ngrok dot com
So you're saying I will be infected with a virus through an ad? How is that possible?
Even gaps and errors may not be a problem for a service like this, as long as the site provides the best info available, the info is not deceptively skewed (the errors don't serve some calculated agenda), and the info improves over time.

In particular, the spreadsheet has become much more filled with plausibly-true details in the few hours since this was first posted. Sometimes publishing half-wrong material is the best way to flush out corrections, even if such a process seems a little distasteful.
I commend David Cameron and his party for doing more than anyone else this week in promoting privacy-preserving technologies such as Tor, VPNs, HTTPS, etc.
It's probably because the Daily Mail is a newspaper. David Cameron is a prime minister. Those are two completely different things. A newspaper can sit and rant all it wants and be ignored[1] but if an MP/PM says they want to block porn, far more people take notice, likely because it can actually be enacted.

[1] Especially if it's the Daily Mail, a crazy, backwards newspaper nobody takes seriously.
Closely related is the situation in Bulgaria.
I don't have the largest sample set to be candid. I should have specified that I am speaking specifically about relationships that end on good terms and both people make a sort of unspoken pledge to live their lives as if the other never existed. If the relationship ended in an ugly manner, all bets are off.

I'm going to digress a bit and talk about your friends specific example. First and foremost, if someone is sleeping with your girlfriend when they know you are dating, that person isn't a friend, let alone a close one.

In your example I would argue your friend clearly still cares about his ex if it hurts him to be around her. So maybe learning to forgive and having her back in his life as a friend wouldn't be the worst thing.

Obviously there are a million fish in the sea but there isn't a limit on friends. I personally had a bad breakup where I wrote the ex out of my life but I have now forgiven her and wish we could be friendly. But I certainly don't blame anyone for breaking off contact with an ex who cheated on them.
As one of the comments notes, ORDER BY in subqueries is sometimes used for implementing pagination. I only have a limited amount of experience with SQL Server, but you ought to be able to accomplish the same using window functions:

SELECT blah FROM
(SELECT blah , ROW_NUMBER OVER(ORDER BY blah) num from mytable) as subq
WHERE num < 10

Of course, it's anyone's guess how efficiently SQL Server will optimise that :-).
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Dr. Cox from Scrubs:" I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called Bring back the porn!”
Y?our point helped me identify my problem with this article: the hustler he sets up at the beginning of the article is not the same type of hustler from the one he's annoyed at at the end. At the beginning it's about "people who talk, or work, and at the end it's "people who can't talk well".

I'm afraid therefore that I'd have to conclude it's a poorly-thought out article.
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The latter. A SIM chip is a microprocessor with it's own OS. Many SIMs today run a version of the JVM that has been stripped down and retooled for the more constrained environment on the smart card (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card).

However, I would be very surprised if a phone bought in the last 5 years was susceptible to this attack. I used to work for one of the leading providers of SIM chips and almost all of our product was using 3DES or AES, and that was several years ago.
C++11 supports mutable lambdas. The only thing blocks seem to be able to do that C++11 lambdas do not is that multiple blocks are able to share mutable data (which at least makes the decision to make __block a storage class not stupid).

As for the type erasure, a block is pragmatically an instance of NSBlock, which is represented as "?" in the type signature and is morally equivalent to an object id. There is therefore an implicit conversion from blocks of all types to id.

Meanwhile, even in C++, there is an implicit conversion from id to blocks of any type signature. As blocks are objects and objects often need to be smuggled around, this leads to messy and non-obvious type conversions in programs that use them.

From a language design perspective, this fails to take into consideration the history of Objective-C; while object type casting in Objective-C is sloppy, selectors are supposed to fairly uniquely map to a specific type signature.

The reason this is important is that if you have a random object, you want to be able to send it an arbitrary message and not be concerned you got the type signature wrong; the worst that can happen is that the object doesn't understand.

However, blocks mix together the concept of invocation with selectors both physically (you can even send it an invoke message) and conceptually (as you can think of the call as a special selection syntax) and yet break this type guarantee.

Even worse, blocks didn't even have their type encoded at all when they were first designed, so in addition to this being awkward at compile time, it was even fundamentally impossible to catch this kind of type error at runtime.

Thankfully, they fixed that (although now blocks compiled with older compilers, which I believe Apple simply counts gcc in its entirety as these days, won't have this information), but they did not also solve any of the other type issues.
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2 succeed in obtaining (something), especially with difficulty
> I’m completely behind David Cameron being vehement about keeping children and rape out of pornography, by the way. I don’t think anyone on earth is arguing “pro” for that one.

I'm "pro" both of those. I believe that people that have a liking for these things will seek to satisfy their desires, and I think it's preferable they do it through porn to them doing that in real life. In other words, I would prefer that perverts jerk off using images of kids, not actual kids.

I also see no reason why that kind of porn would not be digitally generated (except for the fact that it's illegal).

Also, due to the online surveillance and the general political atmosphere, I feel uncomfortable posting this using my real account.
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Now see, that's why everybody should use Tor now and then! :) That way this unique characteristic will become common enough for a generic filter on Tor users to become ineffective (by their measures). If you don't want to be seen connecting to Tor directory authorities and to relays directly, use a Tor bridge. Better yet, run one yourself! If you are using obfuscated bridges, you can (as of now) fool even pretty sophisticated DPI boxes which won't be able to fingerprint your traffic. (cf. continued Tor developers' battles with China's intense DPI infrastructure)

https://cloud.torproject.org/

https://www.torproject.org/docs/bridges#RunningABridge

Honestly though, "Tor user" will probably remain an interesting / valuable (by their standards) enough heuristic for a long time to come.
Yes, this is explicitly a tool that uses PCRE via PHP. So I'd expect the behaviour to exactly reflect that of the `preg` suite in PHP... which does not use `u` by default.
I can't wait until David Cameron learns that you can anonymously buy drugs on the Internet and have them shipped directly to your house.
I wonder if this will actually be able filter SSL sites. Even if it can, it's not going protect from people using Tor or VPNs.
Yeah, porn should be at the fingertips of every man woman and child. Porn leads to healthy lifestyles and healthy sex lives, cultures and communities.

Just look at life before porn existed. Never any healthy societies or sexual relationships then - they did not even exist. What harm could porn possibly cause anyone? Putting into someones mind a fantasy of how sex really can and should be? How could that ever cause any future sexual relationship to suffer in any way?

How could putting sexual assault video or images into any 10 year old's mind - images that they will never come out, how could that ever cause any potential problems with their natural sexual development? Inconceivable.

People in a truly free country should be able to get their free porn on YouTube whilst buying their methamphetamine (legally) outside (or even inside) of the local welfare office. Now that it the country that I want to live in...
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Usually it is the password itself that is attacked, not the hashing algorithm. Many people use weak passwords and it is not that hard to use dictionary attacks against them.
Product people will think "once every 2 weeks is fine, since we really want to get profile pictures for everyone". Dev guy implements it. Customer complaints. Product people review it, and exponential backoff emailing is implemented.
Good luck with that. Not even Pakistan was able to get away with blocking VPNs, and VPN protocols make absolutely no attempt at being difficult to block.
The solution to this problem is DRM! The article says it will be illegal to own such scenes. With DRM, you don't own anything. </sarcasm>
Better to launch and see if people wants the product than being wasting effort for nothing. As it is stated on the Lean Startup book, any non-validated fact is a waster of time.

The best hackers i've meet there were, "doers".
It'd also be really nice if, every time I logged in, I wasn't prompted to tell them if there is "someone special in my life." Really? Is relationship status that critical?
"Jaimee Drakewood hurried in from the rain" What? This is supposed to be a scientific report? A lay science report? A newspaper? Why does the very first sentence read like a badly written paperback?
Why do you think Google has bad so much trouble delivering a product that is enjoyable to use in Google+? I understand the market saturation from Facebook, but something about Google+ is off. It should be a much better user experience.
Post an md5 hash of your password and you'll see ;)
Weasel generates easy headlines without doing anything useful. FTFY.
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get a dictionary.
It's of course NOT legal … I've just reported the video to Google.
I guess the interesting question is, why aren't similar things popular today? I'm guessing the apps you mentioned didn't really become popular in their day either.
It is not possible for anyone to block access to https://www.google.com/?q=specific+thing over a long period of time without either custom modifications to every affected client or help from Google itself.

Google's long rocky experience with China proves exactly that.
If you think that this policy is not from Whitehall, but was drawn up by a newspaper with a circulation equivalent to ~3% of the UK population and then forced upon an unwilling Prime Minister, then surely that actually paints Cameron in an even worse light.
I got a feeling that the most outraged never used Apple developer portal in their life.
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It's not just any military background, though. Most of them are former pilots. Astronaut Candidates must have 1,000 hours of "pilot-in-command" time in a jet aircraft, or 3 years of professional related experience. The former is usually obtained through the military.

A civilian would have to complete training equivalent to that of a military pilot before actually being cleared for a mission. One-third of military pilots don't, though it's entirely possible the civilian could. However, it probably makes more sense to train those individuals who have already shown they can perform under similar conditions.
Could you expand on this please, especially detailing the liability that the child is likely to face under UK laws?
That wasn't my experience. I got through the first 3 rounds in ESA's most recent astronaut selection, and near the end about half of the candidates were from a military or commercial flight background. The rest typically had significant research experience but almost all them had some kind of flight experience too (private license, parachuting, stunt flying, gliding, etc).
You can turn off the mobile filtering. IIRC you have to give them some form of ID that demonstrates that you're over 18. My memory says driving license number, but it could be wrong.

Yes, the mobile filtering in the UK is completely useless and blocks many, many sites that having nothing whatsoever to do with porn in any form, and probably fails to block the majority of the porn on the internet but that's where we are.
But Cameron is just doing this because the Daily Mail have whipped up such a storm. He even credits them with being responsible for this issue...

‘The Daily Mail has campaigned hard to make internet search engine filters “default on”. Today they can declare that campaign a success,’ Mr Cameron said.

Source taken from a bizarrely self-congratualtory DM article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372833/Net-porn-blo...
>Hilarious. In which fantasy land is every outcome of a law predictable before it gets issued.

Probably in the same fantasy land where the parent described "every outcome" of the law, instead of just a few. If you wanna employ "hilarious" and "snark" better first get what the other guy said right.

I'm not even sure what your snark is supposed to be based on.

For one, nobody above claimed they can predict "every outcome" of a law.

Second, of course we can we can predict SOME outcomes of a law before it gets issued. Often times, we can even tell that a law is good or bad before it gets issued.

Predicting the outcome of laws is what the legislation process itself is based on: in the idea that the legislators draft laws in the way that they _predict_ will bring upon a possitive outcome. They don't draft random statements and see what sticks.

Now, because a lot of stuff can hamper the legislators (e.g private interests, appeal to get votes, ideology and partisan politics, fad moral opinions etc), a lot of times the public can tell a law is crap even before it gets issued.
This printing press at work, was it a commercial 3D printer? That would have been quite ironic. (under some definition of "ironic")
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Relatedly: Philip Greenspun, on why it's difficult to convince women and other sane people to enter an academic career in the sciences.

http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
That's how I think we should combat things like PRISM. If there was a mass protest every week, by millions of individuals, all searching/texting/emailing "kill president" "home made bomb" "chemical explosion", that data would become really really heavy. They might have to cut back on drag-netting everything and focus on specific targets.
Sweet, list of people interested in pornography. And that information will be stored inside government infrastructure. Leaks are coming, public shaming is coming.
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