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Compared to what, USB3 DisplayLink docks? $200 is competitive with dual video DisplayLink docks and can out-perform them in video display (not to mention OS X support for DisplayLink sucks). It can also daisy chain other Thunderbolt devices that can out-perform the USB3 devices you could use on a DisplayLink dock.
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I don't have my tablet with me but I'm eager to try it.
Have you tested on Android?
What is Starbucks' incentive for making wifi faster? Do they really want to encourage the people who sit there all day on laptops?

Will the Google wifi require a login via web browser before given internet access? My phone is always auto-connecting to attwifi but it ends up paralyzing my phone because nothing works until I go to the browser and agree to their terms.
Kind of puts into perspective why they would coordinate such a massive raid on Megaupload. The target may not have even been the data - merely seizing the data puts anybody who has accessed the megaupload website as an easy target.
A lot of us are familiar with two factor authentication with Google Authenticator. Could you give us a run through of the differences between GA and Authy? What are the advantages of Authy over GA?

Edit: suggestions - do not ask for cellphone number twice. Sending SMS PIN as a link is a bit weird.
I can tell you: it's the library.
This is part of a bigger plan to turn Google into a mobile carrier. 18 months from now, you will be able to ditch your T-mobile, Verizon, Sprint subscription and connect to Google Wifi nationwide using their Starbucks mesh.
Has anyone verified the accuracy of the slides? How do we know they even came from the NSA?
I am going to be obliterated for this comment! Does the fact they've caught 300 terrorists in anyway justify what they're doing? I am not saying it does, I just wondered what people's thoughts were (although I can guess!). It's interesting that it was included in the article in an attempt to give it some 'balance'..
OK, why are they discriminating the rest of the maker, hacker, tinker, population by pricing it so high? They need to take a page of the play book from one of the ARM board folks.
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> your words nit[sic] mine

This was my first comment on this thread, and I'm not the one who submitted it. Read the usernames attached to the posts.

> if...you insulted that religion

As I said, it depends on my opinions and the definition of insulting - people might be insulted by what I say, I don't know until I've said it, do I.

In Liberal Theory (On Liberty, JS Mill) it is said that freedom of thought (believing something) and freedom of expression (expressing that belief, whether in a wordy article on political theory or a catchy, easy to understand cartoon) are so close as to be indistinguishable; since one cannot really claim to believe something if one cannot express it. You are trying to distinguish between the two; I don't think that's philosophically valid.

Additionally, you seem to be saying that you think it should be against the law to be rude. I will no doubt offend you if I say "how very English that sounds".
In order for that to work, I think you necessarily need the cooperation of the network owner, and an informed end user. Given that, it seems like the technical solution is basic public key cryptography. Give the access point a public key (possible the same key it uses for https), then all the user has to do is validate that the access point is using the appropriate certificate.
You could provide software that automatically validates networks when you connect, and/or provides a more user friendly way to do so.

The biggest problem I see is that their is no way to automatically distinguish between a MITM, and the vendor simply not participating.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has weighed in: "The insolent and impudent act by the young couple who insulted Islam showed that freedom of expression and irresponsible opinion can jeopardise the community"

Yet the Malaysian constitution includes "every citizen has the right to freedom of speech and expression".
I don't believe Zynga has any obligation to provide standardized royalty licensing to any particular person or entity.

Whether it's ok or not is entirely up to Zynga and their counsel.
You suffer from serious reading comprehension failure.
In perl5 :

- I can have a prototype running in a matter of minutes

- I have access to a vast library of modules doing everything I need (which helps the former)

- I write quick and efficient code

Do I really care about what other people think about the languages and tools I use? No.

However, I do care about efficiency and results

And, uh, working with a language that has been out for tens of years makes me believe my time investment is safer than with the fad-du-jour JS framework/library/whatever.

BTW, Maybe buying a home in Detroit (especially now that it's officially bankrupt and will hopefully be able to break out of the unions commitments) would be a good business move? That's a cheap place to bootstrap a business for sure.
> It's too late to do that. There's lots of websites relying on 3rd party CDNs for non-tracking purposes (CloudFront, Google-hosted jQuery, etc.)

Undoubtedly - hence the site-defined manifests for third parties.
> It's quite easy to lose the protections of a U.S. citizen indeed!

That, coupled with the fact that they only require 51% certainty in the foreignness factor makes me think this is intentionally designed to make every single person they come across a subject to surveillance.

I can see Weasel terms like "use of storage media seized outside of the U.s." be extended to mean pretty much anything.
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Only Zynga could make this headline believable
In related news, reading the "Feeling Good" book on CBT was shown to be as effective as professional theraphy. Get the book, you have nothing to lose.
My wife had to deal with many such cases when they were hiring contractors in their group. A few simple checks that could be useful:

1. Request to have some date of birth, graduation date etc on the CV. It's by no means fool proof, but it at least prevents a 23 year old passing a person with 10 years of work experience.

2. Replace phone interviews with Skype interviews. She says many times they can actually see the candidates googling for answers and reading the top most result. Of course, they never hire such a candidate.

3. Maintain a company-wide data-base of who is hired/interviewed from which consultancy and if the there were any red flags. This will help other groups in a big company. Since there is a written record, people also tend not to interview from the same bad company again and again and wasting everyone's time.
I am a Hindu Indian Singaporean, and i believe he is being made a scapegoat not for his actual prank, but as a deterrent to others to not do these type of things.
Another ex-Muslim here. Not all of Indonesia is off limits. I just came back from Bali and it's awesome.

Muslims as a minority are tolerable. But no way will I trust them as a majority, much less a ruling population. Creepy, overreaching and domineering people with no respect for individual rights.
Ah Citadel, I saw that pop up. I might fire it up in a VM and have a play,cheers!
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HackRF, an open source SDR platform
According to tor metrics only 17% of tor endpoints [1] and a similar percentage of relays [2] are in the USA. The kind of monitoring you propose would require a much higher portion of them to be under NSA control.

[1] https://metrics.torproject.org/users.html
[2] https://metrics.torproject.org/network.html?graph=relaycount...
If you look at the top right, squinting, there is a "CONTINUE TO SITE" link. It is grey on grey.
Note regarding the amount of items, that the presentation is from 2008, and they claim to only be able to store 3 days worth of full data capture.

Regarding ability to query the full text of emails, this program does not seem to indicate that it would collect the data directly from the services servers in anyway. But consider that they do indicate the ability to monitor web traffic at the protocol level. Capturing e-mail is no harder, so it'd be surprising if they're not.
This is by far the best guide I've found to do exactly that:

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24722
> Once you make fat cells, they never ever go away.

Well, that's pretty depressing. Maybe the next big thing in combating obesity would be finding some mechanism to get rid of extra fat cells?
Facebook shares rise above their $38 launch price for the first time
The slide talks about VPN startups. Some corporate VPN connections could be also compromised for a number of reasons. There are possibly undisclosed weaknesses in the "gold standard" VPN solutions, such as OpenVPN, as well as the protocols they use.

Security's dirty secret is that security is an unobtainable goal. The goal of designing secure systems isn't to create something impenetrable (i.e. secure), but something that's almost impossible to penetrate. 100% secure systems are about as common as rooster eggs.
> Do they really want to encourage the people who sit there all day on laptops?

Presumably they do. Sure there are arguments against it, but on the pro side: if people are going to spend a day on their laptop, do you want them buying your drinks every X minutes/hours, or do you want them elsewhere?
> On the one hand: really fucking cool.

I just don't see how this could be considered "cool". There are plenty of other marvels of modern computing that aren't so sinister.

I think a better word for this is "scary", due to the level of cooperation from corporations and the level of secrecy it was running under for so long.
This isn't new - I was invited to the UK beta in early April.
true. I might wait for iPad mini 2.
Older Atoms had about 10W TDP.
Why would they do that, your state taxes pay for the libraries.
I tested it on my 2010 android phone and it just barely works on that. More recent android tablets should be able to run it quite smoothly.
Without wishing to be the bearer of potentially bad news, I would suggest that you may run in to potential issues due to the below links, showing a UK registered trade mark for 'Wigwam' and an active website for an estate agent going by that name. Due to the similarity of services and name, they would have a good case for trade mark infringement.

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/tmcase/Results/1/UK00002311778

http://www.wigwamonline.com/

Apologies if this has already been addressed of course.
Out of curiosity, why specifically did you change your advice of escaping Malaysia?
> edit: Gmail messages must only be captured when they leave the Google network.

It seems easier for the NSA to tap datacenter <-> datacenter fiber links inside Google's network.

Why worry about decryption when you can have Google's frontend servers do it for you?
Um... surely this has to be a spoof. "Select foreignness factor"?? really?

The user interface and way this is done just seems to amateur hour to believe this is actually true
Yeah, why buy an x86 board with an undocumented GPU when there are plenty of ARM boards with undocumented GPUs available.
Invisalign braces and Vivera retainers are already 3D printed (using UV photopolymer and a laser). They just do it at a factory, because the 3D printer that can produce that level of detail/strength is terribly expensive.
Actually he described it quite well. Appetite is psychological, whereas hunger is a physical sensation of pain.

I'm replying to your post because I get hungry even quicker. I had lunch (rump steak, potatoes) at 1pm and now at 4:30, I'm hungry again. My BMI Is 21, with rather low body fat.
Thanks for the advice. GAnalytics shows 3% IE7 users on a couple of my sites, and nearly 3% for IE6 on one of them =\ I'd rather support IE7 than not, so I'll go with BS2.
"I could tell you more stories from the Golden Age: Spreadsheets, HyperCard, Delphi, Visual Basic. These were all enormous successes, allowing normal people to get shit done. They are despised by all true hackers. Because normal people can use them to get shit done. That is our greatest fear."

I'm actually a lot more frightened to be called for the cleanup...
I'm sure they can/will monetize it once it impacts their bottomline. Like charging on time spent in shop or seat reservation charges.
Brian Krebs is a great guy and a great reporter. However, he's not a hacker.
"Google has long invested in helping the Internet grow stronger, including projects to make Internet access speedier, more affordable, and more widely available."

Speeding up the wifi at Starbucks seems like it's about a 20% fit with this mission statement. Ie - if this mission statement was really your goal there'd be a LOT more options that Starbucks. Why try and paint this as anything more than a mutually beneficial commercial agreement between two parties?
I usually use an analogy to explain this. Tracking via first party cookies is like walking into a store that uses security cameras. I have even seen boards that inform the visitors that the store is under surveillance. Generally, the security camera is only monitored/used by the folks running the store.

Third party cookies are like as if the security camera is monitored and used by a random third party company who you are not even aware of. This is why it is bad.

Perhaps we should have a standard badge/button to indicate first party and third party tracking - something like https://www.safetysignsupplies.co.uk/images/product_imgs/ful... for first party cookies and a more "evil" version for third party cookies.
Latest iOS 7 beta reveals possible fingerprint sensor for iDevices
Assuming an attacker has complete control over your computer, and your phone is within bluetooth range, can he make the phone generate a token without user interaction?

I was assuming the user would have to click a button on the phone or something, but I couldn't see it in the video.
It really depends on how long you might be away. My goal if I were you would be to resolve this ASAP to focus on my court case and enjoying freedom for the next months.

What I'd probably do is find someone I trust to have power of attorney to manage the site at a high level for my benefit; give him a percentage of profit, or someone who owes you a favor. Then that person will handle finding someone to operate the site -- that way the first person can continue to provide oversight and replace the second if needed. If it is for a short time, you might be able to get away with just one person, but two is much more durable.

I'd plan on giving up a fair bit of the revenue while away -- up to you if you want the operators to try for growth or just maintenance. Someone just passively maintaining it will cost less but the site might eventually die.
The section right under this is great, sums up the basics. The only part I'm getting at is that you have to scroll to see it.
It doesn't show reading full emails in the screenshots, but the sentence right underneath reads: "The analyst then selects which of those returned emails they want to read by opening them in NSA reading software."
It seems that the only reason he got the drop on the conspirators was that they posted about it publicly. What happens when the conspirators don't leave a huge paper trail to give to the police beforehand?
>>lack of compatibility with PC

Huh? There is nothing about the iPhone that is incompatible with PCs. iTunes runs a little slow on Windows but that's pretty much it.
Sorry about that, DC have been a bit slow in organizing, but there is a Meetup page set up where you can sign up. I just added it to the site, and it's also here: http://www.meetup.com/Prince-William-Libertarians/events/132...
Another benefit could be realised in the future if historians and linguists manage to get access to all this data. I imagine that researchers of the social sciences would end up enjoying the same sort of large-scale collaborative projects that particle physicists or genomic bioinformaticians currently have with their huge datasets.
It seems this was meant to be declassified in 2032.. I guess by then they were hoping this would be so institutionalized and pervasive as to be the norm.

Also I wonder to what extent this is really used to hunt terrorists down and how much of it is used to gain political or economic advantages over other countries.
Of course they didn't challenge it, they had no motivation to do so. The whole thing was secret, handing over data was no big deal because no one was to know they did it in the first place. If it wasn't for various whistle-blowers over the years they would probably still be handing over data without comment.

To me, the judge's statement just reinforces the notion that everyone involved had little or no concerns over anyone's rights that were caught up in this huge net.

But now that it's becoming common knowledge that people's data get handed over, I wouldn't be surprised if challenges start happening. Especially when overseas contracts start drying up because no one in their right mind would store their data with a US firm.
Possibly silly question, but how do you intend to make money from this?
The mobile app is free, the desktop app is free, and once I have them installed, I don't have any more communication with you or your servers, right?
Report: TSA employee misconduct up 26% in 3 years
I really don't think that the OP made any mistakes. And you're wrong about people not being cruel. They can be very cruel. Very recently in my country, four bloggers were jailed because they wrote sarcastic blogs about Islam and one was killed for running a website that mocked religion. And the vast majority of the people were happy. And I'm not talking about the old generation, I'm talking about generation Y and Z.

I myself, received threats because my FaceBook said I was an 'atheist' and I was engaged with social media movement against religious oppression.
>> I think OP meant that once you make a request to his server, his server is free to do what it wants with that request.

I don't think they did mean that -

"But you've politely requested that I don't track you. For starters this should only ever be a polite request, not a forced rejection of any tracking scripts. I have a right to track how people use my site."

"People get way too offended by analytics tracking when it's there for their benefit."

It looks to me like they're saying that if you go to their site you have to run their scripts regardless of your own wishes, and that you're 'under his roof' and will therefore do what he says.

>> You can't possibly believe that his storing access logs is wrong.

No, I don't, that would indeed be silly!
I believe that it's rude to try to demand people run your code, and if you do demand it then we need to find a way for me to tell him up front that I'm not going to, so he can decide if he still wants to send me the page data.
It's also not effective if h) TLS was never used in the first place. Facebook hasn't always been all that secure to eavesdropping.
You crossed the tinfoil line. Copyright infringement was sufficient motivation for the actions taken. The megaupload raid was not okay, but I am pretty sure Hollywood was behind it, not the NSA.
This is HN. It is a community based around tech startups and the culture of Silicon Valley. This means it is not a deeply Muslim community, and what might be unacceptable in any deeply religious community is normal here. I hope you don't go because you have been very civil and I think a healthy community has diverse members, but if anyone is an outcast here it is you.
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I am curious: Suppose this is true and NSA analysts have the technical capability to access enormous amount of information with no authorization. But if they do do that, agains the law and the rules and their actions are recorded in the system, they could face penalties no? I mean I could kill someone with a hammer technically, that doesn't make hammer bad per se, does it ?
If you believe that politicians control the bureaucracy rather than the other way around, then I respectfully disagree.

Bureaucrats have expertize, inertia, the ability to sabotage many things, long term stable positions, and care about how things actually are, rather than how they look to the average voter. In many cases, including this one IMO, politicians have the appearance of control, but very little actual latitude in practice.

If you want a cruel but funny illustration of this, may I suggest that you read [http://www.amazon.com/The-Complete-Yes-Minister-ebook/dp/B00...] or watch [http://www.amazon.com/Open-Government/dp/B0015KOTY2] Yes Minister? It compellingly illustrate how an administration can manipulate a politician, what they call the "house training" of a minister.
> Net Neutrality was a reaction to a plan by ISPs to double-dip, charging both their subscribers and the businesses who use them.

That was the last straw that led to the effort to get net neutrality regulations, but it wasn't the one and only ISP restriction on that net neutrality was aimed at.

> In other words, you could very well fit it under "reasonable network management."

I don't see how Google's practices (the combination of the ToS's blanket no-servers policy and the apparent -- and Google employee confirmed -- practice that this is not applied to all servers, but means something more limited that is not specifically publicly disclosed) can fit anywhere within the neutrality and transparency provisions of the FCC's Open Internet Report and Order [1], and "reasonable network management" doesn't seem to save it. The relevant neutrality provisions for which reasonable network management is an exception are the non-blocking provision:

A person engaged in the provision of fixed broadband
Internet access service, insofar as such person is so
engaged, shall not block lawful content, applications,
services, or nonharmful devices, subject to reasonable
network management.

And the no-unreasonable-discrimination provision:

A person engaged in the provision of fixed broadband
Internet access service, insofar as such person is so
engaged, shall not unreasonably discriminate in
transmitting lawful network traffic over a consumer’s
broadband Internet access service. Reasonable network
management shall not constitute unreasonable
discrimination.

And the relevant transparency provision:

A person engaged in the provision of broadband Internet
access service shall publicly disclose accurate
information regarding the network management practices,
performance, and commercial terms of its broadband
Internet access services sufficient for consumers to make
informed choices regarding use of such services and for
content, application, service, and device providers to
develop, market, and maintain Internet
offerings.

There is considerable discussion (at paragraphs 80 through 92) of the considerations that go into determining reasonable network management; but the particularly key one may be paragraph 87, which summarizes the applicable principles thusly:

The principles guiding case-by-case evaluations of network
management practices are much the same as those that guide
assessments of “no unreasonable discrimination,” and
include transparency, end-user control, and use- (or
application-) agnostic treatment.

The Google practice here is consistent with none of those three principles.

[1] http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-10-201...
Stronger argument against this is they'll lose customers due to lack of seating space.
The numbers seem way off and too keystone cop to be true. 20 terabytes is not large for the NSA.

It can search BCC?? Only the sender has them. so everything would have to be collected at each ISP (which isn't impossible).. but I think the guardian has been trolled.