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Tor. This whole thing is pointless because of Tor.

I don't think anyone is stupid enough to think this will work, not even that smug faced fop in downing street who somehow managed to luck his way into running my country.

So in reality, this is just a thinly veiled attempt to get people's names onto a list to be used against them at a later date.

I think we should brace ourselves for an avalanche of this Neo-Puritan fuckwittery.
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Also responsible for some of the best television of the year so far (related): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTSc2nTYUGI
> "We – children and adults alike – need to learn about the damaging psychological, social and physical effects of online porn."

Let me tell you where the real damage comes form... Parents and holier-than-though leaders traumatizing children by constantly telling them to be ashamed of their bodies and sexuality. Children aren't generally interested in porn.
They see it, say "eeewww" and move on. There are no "effects" until the adult in the room freaks out.
> Banning porn is like trying ban alcohol. Everyone knows that it's a vice,

Really? That's just an undisputed fact?
I think there's lots of 6 year olds that would think printing figurines and toys were a practical application for a 3D printer. Toy companies will be giving printers away so they can advertise downloadable plans for action figures after saturday morning cartoons so kids can re-enact todays episode with todays costume/pose/accessories.
4) Citation? I know quite a few people working in adult industries, and I've yet to hear a single conversation about how to "addict" people.

Now, people working in the games industry are a different story... (Note: I'm not anti-games. But the games industry does consider addiction.)
I was thinking exactly this lol
Fair enough, but not something personally agree with - why should people go to lengths hiding the money they and their companies earn from the government, so that they can choose where it goes. If you don't agree with the way the government works or spends, then it's time to help change that through voting and engaging in politics.

Otherwise only pet projects and passions get funded, while the daily bread and butter work of govt keeping the streets clean and cities functioning gets forgotten and sidelined.

Just my 2pence
How about using a font that looks at least a little like the original used? That's where, graphically-speaking anyway, the impact of the poster comes from..

http://www.k-type.com/?p=2199
or
http://www.dafont.com/forum/read/4200/keep-calm-and-carry-on...
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well, I can't change the title anymore.. you're right.
(1) I certainly kept it hidden from my parents.

Kids are remarkably good at self-censoring information that they are not ready for.

(2) I do not understand your point here.

(3) Beats me. I masturbated to porn, and still seemed to achieve reasonable expectations.
Frankly, if their expectations of women are unrealistic, they will either figure that out, or fail to breed. Just like every other generation of kids.

(4) People with weaknesses will find ways to fulfill it. I can think of better things to do with the government than attempt to prevent porn addicts from finding porn on the internet.

I really do not understand your final comment. Freedom is no guarantee of equality. Life is no guarantee of equality.
If your desire is to legislate away all differences between people, you are going to have a hard time.
Yes. This is the way that hackers should be thinking from now on.
... because the government is one person, unable of accomplishing multiple tasks at the same time?
They're also XKCD/806 compliant!

http://xkcd.com/806/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrews_%26_Arnold
LOL I call bs on that comment. I'm not too sure any 13 year old boys are going to say eeewww.
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2) Clean house
3) Be of service
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Geez, this is a little invasive. Must be an additional "marketing feature" to coerce you to upload a profile picture. Who'd have known a userpic is so highly valued in the social data market.
I remember an article posted here on HN a while back about how researchers tried to conduct such a study but could not find a control group of people who hadn't been exposed.
We signed an NDA so I can't say too much, but the first interview was basically an IQ screening - a full day of computer based tests for maths, physics, memory, spatial orientation etc. The second interview was much more in depth, hands on and focused more on team work. Both were physically and mentally exhausting.

The people I met, particularly at the second interview were pretty remarkable: smart, driven but also friendly and down-to-earth. It was quite intimidating to spend 5 minutes talking to someone and find out they have a PhD in bio-informatics, a masters in computer science and oh, by the way, they fly acrobatics in their spare time.

Still the whole thing was great fun and I came away pretty impressed with the process (and off course the few who got selected at the end).
So I'm guessing Twitter will be blocked. You won't believe the amount of porn on there.
Some people don't know that it's a vice, because they're in denial. Have fun guessing about the tone of this message.
Standard question: what about conflict resolution, locking, deadlocks, snapshots, transactions?

> The exposed DB has the exact same API as levelUp...

Is createKeyStream creating a snapshot internally? Is createWriteStream locking? levelup seems to support nodejs streams, does the API support flow control?
This totally looks like a way to justify government snooping and limit any protests in case they get discovered again.
I meant to correct myself since I could no longer edit.
The big question is does this require primary legislation. And how's he going to get that through?
Which is pretty sad given the answer is so simple:

1. Small number of products and product lines make it easier to explain where each one fits in your "digital lifestyle."

2. Mostly numerical differences within those product lines, amount of storage and overall computing power. Memory for desktops and laptops. Retina is an obvious exception to this, but most likely transitional.

3. Mostly self descriptive naming, no Sony style model numbers, no overly cute but inconsistant naming. (Apple reserves this for features, mostly ones that only developers ever see.)

4. Visible price points, value emphasised over price. (Same reason I don't expect a plastic iPhone outside of possibly China.) Price points match up with point #1, more storage costs more in mostly even increments.
This makes a nice tagline, but the first amendment, like almost all of the other ones, has been eroded over time. For example, having to have a permit to protest in high traffic areas.
For the record, the above is a (real) letter sent by the PM's office to the UK's 4 largest ISPs: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-23312579
They are also hideously expensive. I looked at them when I moved house a while ago - but their pricing, for the transfer-capped service you get, is extortionate.

And if all ISPs are to be legally obliged to "provide" this filtering, A&A will not be an exception. So what are you paying the extra for - a few platitudes on a web page?
You don't even need tor - just a SOCKS tunnel to a random vps. There's no way they're getting industry ISPs to play along with this.
>1 Who will decide what counts as ‘pornography’, and how?
>Pornography is everything that gives a politician, cleric or judge a boner.

So, everything then. The ruling classes have the most profound and perverse paraphilias one can imagine. A friend who is a PPS (Parliamentary Private Secretary) to a Tory MP reports that he is a horse fancier, however prefers to be ridden than to ride.

BAN HORSES!
His view also fails to acknowledge the fact that press is not either cheap propaganda / sensationalism, versus well written and researched articles. There are also well written and researched manipulative articles that even a reader with good enough critical thinking skills might be mislead by.

It's easy to blame the reader when what you read is "too good to be true" or "so obvious that it's not", but when a fabrication makes its way into a rather respected journal, or when a more or less respected author gets something unusually wrong (which you're not clever enough to spot because it's not your expertise), then one can't be blamed to have believed it in the first place.
I'm actually using my real name on Youtube, but written like "JohnDoe" instead of "John Doe"... Youtube still buggers me about my "real name", and I always deny just because it's such a stupid idea and all the arguments for it suck, so I'd rather be annoyed than give in. Stay strong :P
I did this on LinkedIn, because they have a rating system for being able to set up a business account (and so they basically require an image). It works on Google+ as well.
Just ban industrial strength lubricants ... it will be much more funnier.
So ... linux is outlawed in UK then?
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I am a customer of this ISP, and I can recommend them.

They are much better set up for dealing with the technically-inclined customer than mainstream providers.
Rather weak response. You could also have said why you think Microsoft either hasn't changed, or that regardless of having changed hasn't earned their respect yet.

Now the thread is just worthless.
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There are some of us the would love an ability to opt-out of certain parts of the internet. I understand the problem with censorship. But I would love the option to opt-out. Especially when children are involved.

The internet is an amazing source of information. But currently it is not safe to leave a child alone on the internet. Is there a way to keep every one happy?
they're only expensive if you're at home 9-5 during weekdays.

I never am so it's £20/month for about 100GB (and effectively unlimited transfer in the early hours of the morning).

they now also offer a flat 50GB at anytime for £25/month.

you're paying extra for for native IPv6, beyond excellent service, an excellent control panel with options most ISPs don't have, as many IP addresses as you want (optionally PI), custom routing (want an AS for your house?), ability to dual bond across different providers, ability to add 3g as backup link, and much more...

they're truly excellent, here's an example of their customer service on IRC:

1417.59| [bootc] ok, really long shot, but any staff tech around who fancy allocating me some more IPs?
1418.27| [bootc] I already feel rather greedy but I'm using most of my IPs already :-/
1423.30| [@AA-Paul] bootc: What login, and what size block?
1424.14| [bootc] AA-Paul: abc1@a, and a /28 of legacy if possible?
1424.21| [bootc] for @a.1
1425.31| [bootc] I then need to re-number internally and expand my /27 sub-division of my /26 to the full /26 :-/
1426.31| [@AA-Paul] bootc: Done. 1.2.3.4/28 will be routed to you when your router next logs in
1426.57| [bootc] AA-Paul: many thanks, you're a star! have a great rest of your weekend
1427.10| [@AA-Paul] No problem. You too :)

(no I don't work for them, but am an extremely happy customer)
I still remember the Pax Romana party. And the rumors of the Mothership (designed by Giger?)
MITM attacks are only possible if you have a privileged location in the network: "the middle". Further, it is easily possible that neither the people operating Site A nor the people operating Site B have access to the SSL certificate for this domain name, as they might be behind a proxy or load balancer operated by the people holding the domain's SSL certificate. You can't just randomly MITM someone else's traffic: you need all the pieces together.

Your assumptions about what is possible in certain hypothetical situations should not cause all security opportunities to be eroded. I mean, seriously: the logical conclusion to your argument is that all non-SSL websites should just share a global pool of insecure cookies, because it isn't like any of it can be considered secure anyway. The people you are protecting yourself from matters: these attacks are different threat models, and are secured separately.
Given this I fail to understand why being a professor remains such an attractive career path.

I wouldn't say that many people see it as attractive relative to high-degree-of-freedom research positions in industry, but there just aren't that many such positions in industry. And, you often have to build up a reputation in academia first (as you did) before you can jump to an industry position that is senior enough to give you research & publication freedom. Even then there are only a handful of options; MSR and parts of Google are two of them in CS, and the numbers dwindle considerably if you look outside of CS. If MSR hired many more people straight out of grad school, and in a broader range of fields, I'm sure many grad students would consider that option rather than pursuing a tenure-track faculty position. Back in the Bell Labs days, it was a popular top choice out of grad school, with faculty job being a second choice.

If you relax the requirement that the job has to let you regularly talk about and publish the results of your research, there are more industry positions available, like R&D positions at petrochemical and aerospace firms. They have large R&D arms, but the average employee in them will publish little to none, except whatever ends up being published via patent filings. That can be a good choice (I have some acquaintances who work in R&D at BP and like their job), but a research career where you can't publish is a quite different choice of career.

As a more minor working-conditions point, I personally like the flexibility. I typically spend 3 days a week in my office and 2 days working off-campus, which most companies won't let you do. And if I want to take a 3-day weekend trip somewhere, I can just do it, as long as it doesn't interfere with a day on which I have classes; no need to ask for permission in advance or worry about how many vacation days I have.
It's only uncommon to paint exclusively from photographs.
Ummm... he possibly has his own definition of "legal". Apple did not gave him permission.

So the summary is: 1) He broke into Apple systems without authorization 2) He caused mayhem and chaos for Apple and its customers 3) He disclosed private information about individuals. In effect, this kid has a deathwish, because that's the only reasonable explanation - if I want to make any sense of his actions.

For a "security researcher", he didn't do much research on what's the usual outcome in these cases.
> the war on online porn

Is there a version of Godwin's law that applies to declaring war on things? Something like "by declaring war on something that is not a country or other similar political enemy, the delcaree and his/her organization automatically loses said war?"
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I haven't checked this, but I believe that:

over location.x (+ 10) $ player1

Would be read as:

(over location) . (x (+ 10)) $ player1

It looks like what you want is:

over (location . x) (+ 10) $ player1
One of the biggest abuses of children is the use of them to enforce a judgmental sense of morality on adults.
You need to learn Vagrant and chef or puppet. It will solve all but 90% of your headaches. The domains/A records issue is still a problem, though. I've been looking for something for that too.
If they weren't so pricey I'd get their service for this alone
By playing the "children" card. And on opposing will be said to support child abuse.
As I understand this, virtually every machine gets exposed to the garden-variety malware; whether it's vulnerable to the given exploit is a different matter (look at the obsolete Java and Flash plugins eeeverywhere). Moreover, it is also important whether the exploit has an appropriate payload for the given system (I have yet to see e.g. a browser-vector transmitted payload which would run on Linux - which says something about its marketshare, not necessarily about its security).

And of course "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence," so either the scans suck hard, or you're clean; but barring a more specific (and probably not fully-automated) inspection, there's no way to tell.
The phrase "tick off" is legitimate and means to put a mark next to, such as with a checklist. It isn't even esoteric AFAIK, it is just that "tick" for "check" is more of a British usage. (To be clear: not saying he isn't confused.)
I wonder whether this will please hardcode Debian people. A quick look reveals that the packaging structure does not conform to the FHS. I personally don't care but I've seen quite some resistance in the Debian community (and in general, the Linux distro community) against packages that do not conform 100% to their standards.
> Pornography is everything that gives a politician, cleric or judge a boner.

So that would be animals (politician), children (cleric), and rape (judge)?
OK, so I guess it's a vice then. Good that some random person on the Internet was able to set that straight for me by just asserting it with nothing to back it up.
Off topic; it's nice to see Discourse is running in production.

I tried it once before, it's just not stable enough at the time.
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I don't remember any non-consensual sex either but like I said, it's been a while.
The link should just read "FUCK TABLOIDS!"
I often wonder who loves the Royal Family more, the British or the Americans.
+1 for this. Another customer here.

Every time I call, the person on the other end knows their shit straight away.

They managed to un-screw-up my LLU phone service and broadband as well (screw you Telefonica and OpenReach!!!)

They're really cheap for what you get. I pay £45/month for Home::1 which is for me 150Gb + line rental.

O2 for the same was £37.50 dynamic IP and their support staff were fucking muppets.
Can't agree enough. As someone who currently tries to take his first steps in serious web frameworks like rails, but has much more experience in Max/MSP/Jitter and FileMaker, I keep wondering why there isn't a more visual approach to traditional programming.

I realize this isn't an easy problem to deal with but certainly there has to be a way to take the advantages of creative development environments like Max to traditional programming - e.g. a GUI for ruby.

Focusing on the big picture and larger concepts of programming instead of getting lost in syntax would be very welcome for beginners like me.
Glad that you totally got the tone of my message totally right. Maybe I didn't need to include the hint!
Remember that a lot of small to medium sized websites are maintained by part time freelancers and don't have anything resembling an ops team, there's nobody being paid to do the day to day running of the servers.

In such a situation it's probably safer to at least have automatic scheduled patching against deadly vulnerabilities and accept that occasionally that might break something.

Of course that wouldn't apply in apple's case.
Maybe you were so harmed by the content of the book, that you got amnesia. Luckily Cameron will save others from that same sorry fate.
This is nothing more than a combination of fear mongering and pouting over the loss of the secrecy that their little fiefdom once enjoyed. These are government servants at their worst.
Binding to localhost by default is good security hygene, a "closed by default" strategy, which doesn't necessarily mean you never intend to expose that server ever.

Tools like PageKite and localtunnel are completely in line with that philosophy, nothing is exposed to the outside world until you explicitly request it and then only the named service you chose (as opposed to whatever is on the port or god forbid everything listening on a particular IP). I personally feel more secure temporarily exposing a server using PageKite than I would if my router had been reconfigured to always allow traffic through on particular ports - it's a lot easier to turn PageKite off than it is to go reconfigure my router every time I am done testing.

Convenient security is good security, because it is more likely to be used correctly.

IPv6... well, good luck with that. :-) Aside from how few western ISPs offer IPv6 service, consider the fact that the majority of our devices are mobile these days. My laptop changes networks and IPs many times a day and I still like being able to run a visible server on it. Configuring plain IPv4 or IPv6 to do that elegantly is decidedly nontrivial.
What are they going to do when an ISP says no?
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What is this supposed to link to? What I see is "As civil war rages on in Syria, humanitarian suffering is reaching new catastrophic levels."
thanks man! I will definitely write more..
Indeed. Back in the day we had paper rounds. The best ones were were some "old perv" got a monthly porn mag with his paper. On that day, lads would be last for school, due to exhaustion...
Their content pages don't (they are entirely static) but their order form stuff does, obviously.

HTTPS end to end isn't really worth it for some things.
Then, uh, don't leave a child alone on the internet...?

Or install your own filtering software / proxy / whatnot.

(At which point someone normally says "but those don't work" and the sane people go "and you expect a nationwide one to work instead?")
I read a story like that and it seems to be the usual British approach of actual convictions coming down heavily on judges and juries' sense of what's wrong and right rather than what the law says or suggests. (A good thing IMHO!) :-)

That it even made it to court meant there was a case to answer but the actual outcomes seem to be more sane and based on the context than the law itself.
check out my social network, pplrep.com, and unlike other networks, it's not egocentric. Email verification not required and we never email users, unless they request their password if they've forgotten it. Also not in bed with the NSA.
Umm...no.

In [17]: '38b2cf16f7be6a1b33097084bed6a4b0' == hashlib.md5('lsdjfldsjlfds' + 'asdfasdf').hexdigest()
Out[17]: False
Nice one. I posted a link to my current project called "SideProjectors" - a market place for side projects. http://sideprojectors.com
It's a good resource, so some simple advice..

Give each section some space.. as with code, indentation will make your content more readable.

Reduce the unnecessary typography.. the titles, body text and code blocks all compete and are inconsistent. There are some great mono-spaced fonts that are part of wider family of type, pick a good font-family and stick to it.

The contrast between the dark-themed code blocks and the body text is just too jarring, you might want to try using a lighter code block or experiment with a darker themed body. A well designed color-scheme like solarized can handle the change of contrast while maintaining harmony. Have a good look at a range of color-schemes and see how you might be able to use one of those colors consitently throughout the site.

Where's the index? I might want to jump to a certain section, or just see what's below without having to skim the whole page.. it's a basic usability feature, but pretty important.

Keep at it, sucking is all part of getting good.
Is he merely telling us the least untruthful statement? I mean how can anyone trust a word he says?
Larry Summers really didn't play his cards right. If he had just used this reasoning and concluded that it was because men are stupid, he at least wouldn't have been fired.
Oh man. Never thought about that before. I think you might have a point. Like a TV licence for a MAC address. What a revenue earner. Evil, but logical, and possible.

FFS, keep this idea quiet.
The harmful effects of TV and computer on the child’s brain and body
A recent study confirmed that kids who watch TV more than 2 hours per day will form unusual habits.