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He does this for "moral" reasons yet recently vetoed the minimum alcohol price proposal:

> “We do not yet have enough concrete evidence that its introduction would be effective in reducing harms associated with problem drinking, without penalising people who drink responsibly.

Where's the "concrete evidence" for this new stuff?

Not something anyone can challenge either without putting their reputation on the line.
I'm not sure this is as simple as an opt in/out switch for the user. It will also require the construction of a way of rating sites as in or out, which will lead to the government being able to choose sites to fall one side of the filter or the other.

It begins with porn, of course, but it's essentially creating the apparatus to censor at will.
Wrong for too many reasons - especially linking child pornography with pornography - the former actually being child abuse, and later being consenting adults.
Four, laptop webcam, another webcam, an usb mic and my phone.
What you write has a side effect that you get much better high school biology teachers than those who teach other STEM subjects as there are fewer options for them. I can't remember a biology teacher who hadn't done serious research on something.
Yeah, that one's weak -- I wanted to say Debian, but they're not a commercial company.

As far as I'm concerned, the gold standard for developer relations, including high-dollar/enterprise customer support, (at least at a large company) is Microsoft. It would probably be politically infeasible for Apple to license MSDN though.

Which is weird, because back in the 1980s (and maybe early 1990s, still), Apple was pretty awesome for developer relations. I only faintly remember it (I had Macs from 1985 at school, and from 1990 at home, and only did the most basic of stuff with ResEdit and checked out the books from the library), but stuff like their UI/UX guidelines were way ahead of their time.
> "- Government debt is at 90 percent of GDP."

Describing debt as percentage of GDP is a subjective anti-debt framing of the issue. Here's why:

Units of debt: $ (here pounds). Units of GDP: $/year. So, units of debt/GDP: years, not percent.

Since "100%" sounds like a high number, this way of framing the numbers is useful for scaring people. Putting it mathematically correct "11 months" sounds much less scary.
Yep. Any time a politician talks about child porn or terrorism, you want to ask yourself, "what are they really trying to achieve here?"

My guess is that the film lobby is trying to get the government to push the cost of preventing piracy onto Internet firmshere. The end user will pay for it and have a more restricted Internet.
Seems fair enough to me. I believe there is also a link that countries have the lowest tax rates have the highest levels of philanthropy.
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I think the human being, as imperfect, is finally to blame.
I think another question that we should be asking -> "When will the US administration try this?"
Is asking people to contribute to society really comparable to the Bad Future? Having read your link, I would say it's more akin to rules 8 and 9 of the 4GC

There's nothing wrong with being a freelancer, or deliberately homeless, or simply taking a break from work in order to pursue your own projects or goals. However, if you choose to claim a benefit and do so for an extended period (i.e. >60% of the time for a year or more) then I think it's fair for the government to say "from now you work for NZ, or relinquish your benefit".

It's unreasonable to burden society just because you're lazy and unmotivated

The ridiculous utopia portrayed in Manna would be nicer, of course, but we aren't there yet. Right now everything has a cost, including lazy beneficiaries, corrupt politicians and jaw-droppingly stupid government projects. I can't see any way to fix those problems but I am allowed to hope for a world where one day we can
IMHO its a clear invasion of privacy.
It would be nice if they'd allow you to test whether your email was in the data. As-is I'm left wondering if I ever had an account.
Fun begins when someone signs up on Facebook using a gmail id 'firstlast@gmail.com' and your gmail is 'first.last@gmail.com'.

Facebook doesn't stop sending notifications, and Gmail is blind to the dot ... :-) It's like two beautiful girls talking to each other and not listening to any body who is around trying to interrupt their loud gossip.
Seriously. Miserable load times in iTunes, not being able to use the same Apple ID to access different teams in iTunes Connect, lack of an API to the dev portal, lack of OAuth support, laughable reporting in iTunes connect, cryptic sync errors with iCloud. The list goes on and on.
I wonder how much of the problem is due to him being foreign (Turkish?) and neither speaking English as a first language nor necessarily being immersed in the technical/legal culture of the US. There might be a use for some kind of legal/PR advisory organization for people who want to do "aggressive disclosure" or "full disclosure" instead of "responsible disclosure", while not being proper blackhats with anonymity and lulzery.
I don't even think that would be possible to enforce. What would you do, just block 1723/500? How about ssh -D? Going to block all TLS traffic?

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
As another brit, I want to echo this. I suspect the treatment by his peers would be different in the US then in the UK. Not so much the talent part, but definitely the wealth aspect - in my experience a kid who was ostensibly much more wealthy at school than the others would likely be a target for bullies and find it easy to become an outcast.

I think it stems from jealousy, but also a relic of old class divides. Wealthy people, especially in less well off areas, are not usually admired for their hard work, but sneered at for their (assumed) inheritance or abuse of the system.
It's baffling how many times the "think of the children" excuse gets used to, actually, treat everyone as children. Won't somebody please think of the adults?
I do infrequent but very long trips, so that shouldn't be a problem.
I'm not a designer either, but I don't think there was anything wrong with the choice of fonts. I'm on a HTPC and I've found the body to be quite readable. The header's font seems kind of Comic Sans-y, but I for one have absolutely no problem with it.
My beef is with the space between paragraphs, which I think is too short. And I'd probably move the separating lines to before the subheaders rather than below them.
They honestly have trouble understanding how or why someone could in good conscience disagree.

That should instantly disqualify them from a career in politics!
I think the universe, as quantistic thus probabilistic, is lastly to blame.
Worst != Worse
I've used the same idea behind lenses and bijective functions to fairly good effect as a basis for declarative data binding in a UI framework (actually, combined AJAX and web server framework).

When your data mappings can be expressed this way, it's easy to get a lot done with very little work; things like RoR+JS-du-jour look primitive in comparison.

A potential downside is that you have to warp your thinking a little bit in order to make them fit the paradigm, and some instinctive imperative approaches don't work as well.
> Why are people so afraid of pornography? A healthy society is one that promotes sex

I think it's because there's still a generational divide between people who grew up with easy access to Internet (and to porn, obviously) and people who didn't (those at 40+, including our politicians).
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Typically, noreply addresses are used as a blackhole for mail that probably won't be replied to, and any replies are either auto-generated (e.g. mail delivery failure notices), spam, or other undesirable mail.

I have seen a good compromise for this, though: a piece of software I use sets the sending address to "noreply.support@mydomain.com"; if you want to reply to the message (and you aren't a spammer or mailer-daemon), you simply delete the "noreply." from the beginning.
He gave an interview on Woman's Hour where he sounded functionally illiterate. He sounded really confused about the idea of "where the filtering actually occurs", saying that all new computers (by the end of the year) would have to have this filter on, "ticked off by default" (meaning, I think, 'on' by default).

It's just bafflingly bad. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03757cr)
I use somename+sitename@example.com, since I don't use catch all and don't want to create a new e-mail for each registration. Most e-mail providers will ignore the +sitename part and send it to your inbox.
"what objects/things don't exist today that _could_ with widespread and affordable 3D printing"

"Get this batman figure based on todays episode printed at home RIGHT NOW. Just ask your parent to go to acme-cartoon-figures.com/batman05"
Is probably just an attempt to get back some of his core voters that he managed to annoy with the whole gay marriage thing.

If/when it fails he can then point fingers at the ISPs and say that it is their fault it didn't happen, which is probably why he is claiming that he is fighting them from the outset as it fits the later narrative better and means he can scapegoat them when the time comes to minimise the splashback.
Not sure if im understanding you correctly but the site does show the content of all capture groups: http://regex101.com/r/nB1bR1
Well Eastenders gets away with it by putting a helpline number at the end of the program with the text "If you've been affected by the issues in this program, contact 0845...".

Perhaps they could do that with blue movies :)

"If you've been fucked in the eyesocket"...
It's a whole lot safer doing attacks on a device you own (or downloaded software you run on your own infrastructure) -- live pentests on someone else's network infrastructure and hosted applications is pretty similar to a "real" attack.
If the MPAA wants software to protect its outdated business model, it ought to pay for it itself, not lobby the gov to threaten tech firms.

This is about developing filters to prevent piracy. You'll see.
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> The result was a long-term economic and military decline of areas like the Middle East. The extent of which was not realized by the West until Napoleon conquered Egypt.

Can you expand on that (or recommend further reading/links/videos/books?). Especially the "the extend of which was not realized by the west"? Were people in western europe suprised when napolean conquered egypt?
A comment today on Nicky Cambell's bbc phone in:

> I'm a social worker, and once this goes into force, I will know that any household where the kids have access to porn has come from a parent making a conscious choice to let it happen.
Even 3 years back, competent programmers, fresh out of college, capable of doing half as good as work required to develop exploits and attacks, get paid atleast 5-8 times as much. While I understand the point you are trying to make, your exaggeration makes me doubt the validity of your other points.
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Nice writeup.

Although I really like the fact that lenses (from the `lens` package) can be composed using regular function composition, instead of the more generalized category composition like `fclabels` uses, I still think it's weird that the direction of composition is flipped.

I reads more like OO, but a lot less like idiomatic Haskell.
Indeed it's not. You often find that the people that have their sex life suppressed and made to feel disgusting are the ones with the weirdest bedroom habits.
glad that i use a password manager and disable no-paste from firebug in order to login.
I did some work in Max4live two years ago and while I've been into dataflow programming (visual and textual) for a number of years previous, this really changed my perspective of what I want from a language. Max/MSP-style languages (I've played with Synthmaker and a few others too) have a few major advantages over traditional text-based languages, especially for exploratory programming or prototyping (and the main problem I see cited for these languages is that code quickly devolves into a mess of lines - literal spaghetti code - but I found that with proper software engineering principles this hasn't been a problem for me, just most users are not trained software engineers). One thing that really jumped out at me is that how not having to name things until you're good and ready (because you can simply connect stuff visually without naming or labeling) means you can focus on designing the code and experimenting rather than trying to come up with names for things as you are forced to do in most text-based languages. Visual debugging in Max/MSP was also quite pleasant.
UI is not flexible
for your 3rd paragraph: I'm not sure I'm following you - are you saying that virtually every machine is infected? How come?

btw I have been running without AVG for ages on all kinds of systems. Once in a while I'm checking if my habits are still ok and run a bunch of standalone scans. They never find a single thing. Does that mean they all suck hard and that my machines are infected by newer and more invisble things than they can find? (note this is an honest question. I have no clue.)
Oh definitely. Thankfully I've stuck to friends of friends instead :)
> 10 Do you really think these plans will stop the ‘corrosion’ of childhood?

question 10 is indeed the most important one, IMHO blocking porn on the internet is not going to stop kids to have access to adult content so it's really pointless unless you want to have a start point for something bigger (censorship)
>the statement about making it a criminal offence to possess images depicting rape sounds a good idea on the face of it
How does making images of consenting adults doing something completely legal sound like a good idea in any way?
>> If there are technical obstacles to acting on [search engines], don't just stand by and say nothing can be done; use your great brains to help overcome them.

>> "You're the people who have worked out how to map almost every inch of the Earth from space; who have developed algorithms that make sense of vast quantities of information. Set your greatest brains to work on this. You are not separate from our society, you are part of our society, and you must play a responsible role in it."

Do I read this right? So they don't care how expensive or hard the problem is to solve they just demand it to be solved. And even if the solution is bad or expensive, both customers and taxpayers must still pay to have it implemented. Got it.
>However, if you choose to claim a benefit and do so for an extended period (i.e. >60% of the time for a year or more) then I think it's fair for the government to say "from now you work for NZ, or relinquish your benefit".

That's a little different, and more reasonable.

And yes, I mainly linked that story for the Dystopia part.
thanks for the suggestions Zecc. I've updated the site to include more spacing. Hope this looks better.
That sounds like a good idea. In general I think for companies who are fairly substantial in size and have people who would otherwise respond to e-mails sent to the relevant department, having a form of "e-mail switchboard" seems like a vast improvement in customer service.

Of course there is always the problem of spamming but there are plenty of third party filtering services which I'm sure could help with that.

It's unfortunate that auto-generated spam and so on has become such a problem because the flexibility and freedom of the e-mail protocol is why it's stood the test of time as a communication platform between companies.
>I really don't understand this argument. The quality of the code powering something is completely orthogonal to the amount of money said thing can generate. As long as the transaction goes through, money can be made. That doesn't mean that behind the scenes it's not a complete disaster.

Completely orthogonal my ass.

Where does any idea about the quality of code comes from? From an operational point of view, not only it WORKS, but it works in a CRAZY scale.

Hundrends of millions of customers with hundrends of millions of credit cards, serves multi-TB of stuff every day, handles music, video, apps, updates, etc. (Oh, and it's not even that which is down -- it's their developer portal).

So where does the ideas about the "quality of code" come from? Have you SEEN the code?

If not, we just have the "works, serves more than half-a-billion, at a Facebook like scale, with more credit cards than even Amazon" to go by.
Did you read that part about the First Amendment Lobby? They're backed up by The Second Amendment Lobby.
Because four of of the six fucked someone else while dating me, and felt not once ounce of remorse.

Thankfully I'm a bit better at picking someone to commit to these days.
What about making it sod off for good. If I wanted to use my real name to watch cat videos and subscribe to gaming feeds it's likely I would have bloody well done so in the first place.

In part I assume at some point google wants to start putting this on my google profile automatically. Olive watched "Kitty Corliss, grinding the crack" for the 87th time today. See what has them so hooked[linku]
Lower salaries is a benefit for business (and startup), not a disadvantage.
I strongly prefer the regular composition order. But I also use fclabels (FTW!)

Changing the direction of composition makes no sense.
It will be interesting to observe if this gets into law without being challenged.

UK public did not really care about "Tempora" etc. as far as i could see it. (i hope i am wrong) And systems like these are just the front door approval to cover the other systems.

They tried to implement a system like this in Germany and failed miserable but every society acts differently we are still up in arms against the spying programs. But in most countries this topic already vanished from mainstream media.
What if you upload a blank image? Will they recognize it's not a person and keep bugging you anyway? :)
If I ever had a bunch of spare advertising inventory, pro jury nullification would be the PSA I'd run. I wish someone would do a really catchy viral video about it. It wouldn't even need to run nationally; assuming jurors in many cases are drawn from the local county, you could blanket high-drug-prosecution counties with the message, information about how drug convictions don't actually solve the problems of the ghetto or drug abuse, etc., and probably be fairly effective.
I understand your position, and felt that way when I was first dating. My first girlfriend slept with a friend of mine and I tried to be amicable about it. She then resented me for being the bigger person.

As someone else said, there are 7 billion people on earth. I'd rather make new friends than try to hold on to something or someone that has fucked me over.

Please excuse the language
Do you have a link, this sounds extremely interesting.

I've just started reading Adowey's category theory book, it's amazing when you start to notice the same basic fundamental structures everywhere!
Wouldn't it be simpler to ban children from the internet?
everybody knows that this is just a first step toward filtering and censoring the net, blocking whatever benefits someone powerful ...
This law only shows the kind of filthy, dirty, sleazebags our politicians have become.
The whole idea is to create a database of people who are happy to view porn on their internet connections. The concept is so outrageous that it simple boggles the mind.
What kind grubby vote seeking laws are politicians going to come up with next?
The architecture is fine. A better explanation would be: if an incompetent operator use obsolete technology then its SIM card can be hacked. But any half-decent should be immune to this (there are billions of SIMs, and here it's "millions" only vulnerable).

First, in a proper network the mobile device and the network mutually authenticate themselves. So the cell can't be faked. Then it's very easy for the network to filter such management SMS and only allow them from their trusted server. It's a very basic security precaution. If done, you don't depend on the SIM crypto scheme for secure SMS, but here too using DES is a joke and 3DES / AES have been available for ages.

So I guess it's another sensationalistic report made to draw readers for most.

As for intelligence services, they already have access for domestic operators. This could only be for foreign and loosy operators maybe.
He's not the only politician to have spouted off loudly about this stuff lately.

Each one of them seems to think that Google is the internet, and that if they don/t index something it doesn't exist. Each one of them also (intentionally?) conflates images of child abuse with images of consenting adults.

They come across as extremely ignorant. Unfortunately this isn't confined to a single party.
For Brits: click Republican? on the Guardian front page to hide royal news
I had a similar problem. My screen is too tall to be able to get the bottom picture to fade in properly.
SSL interactions and localStorage - which one looks closer to what cookies do? Ok we can reconsider problem without SSL part. There are two http apps under different ports. If second is hacked it can get httponly cookies of first. Very simple threat.

SSL design is more high level, of course they can not use origins. But it doesn't prove that cookies are ok
How does Harvard CS even work in the shadow of MIT and its own very strong liberal arts program? I mean, it is a good department, definitely a top 20.
Something that might be worth pointing out to folks newer to haskell is this syntax

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

Here, `over` is not a string. This is not stringly typed programming. It translates to

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

It's used to take a function that would normally be

function_name argument1 argument2

and allow you to call it like so

argument1 `function_name` argument2

so

plus 1 2 = 1 `plus` 2

There's nothing special you need to do, and it's purely a style thing. Sometimes it's easier to read.

Edit - fix from DanWaterworth, the . in location.x is (if I understand the problem correctly) function composition and therefore location.x is location . x, so my re-ordering possibly changed things more than I thought. The principle is the same, but I've wrapped location.x in parentheses, just to be sure. I'm sure someone more well versed in haskell can correct me on this :)
With regards to "corrosion of childhood", I believe "access to adult content" is a bit of a red herring. More worryingly, kids are spending more time indoors, isolated (often on the Internet/games consoles, though that's missing the point).

As little as ten years ago, you'd generally see kids playing outdoors, in the parks and in the streets, often unsupervised. Now, thanks (I can only assume) to paedo-paranoia, parents are unwilling to allow their children to play outdoors at all, let alone unsupervised. I'd consider this to contribute more to the corrosion of childhood than "access to adult content" - especially since they'd likely have less of the latter if they spent more time being kids.
Thanks! This is what I'm talking about
Ubuntu Forums hacked, all usernames and passwords stolen
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There is another option - don't sell the paintings.