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There are a bunch of those tools which run inside PS, but the point is that I really don't want to run PS. Ever. My designers do and now I have to pay / upgrade licenses too because there is no solution. I think PS is overused and abused for anything 'design' while for programmers it's an annoyance more often than not.
I'm not the reporter, but I'd be fine with that.
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How long has https been an option with Facebook and messages? I don't think it was always required, if ever.
Yeah and it looks like intelligence & skills doesn't always equate with having morals.
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."

Can someone run the SaaS startup for him while --and if-- he is in jail?
Very hard.

You could go to the USA, Canada, or EU country embassy and see if they can help you with asylum etc.

I would recommend Canada.
Noticed one of the screenshots have a URL. It's a little blurry, but I suppose it's an intranet URL since the TLD looks like .nsa

URL looks like:
https://gamut-wakefield.ein.nsa/utt/UTT/do/FRNewSelector#sel...
The distributed nature of the Linux kernel is exactly where imposing some structure on how patches are distributed would make sense to me. Linus resisted doing anything but deal with emailed patches for a really long time until he was called out on it. His reasoning was that he can keep up with it and keep everything straight, and the argument against him was that others couldn't.

I know that keeping a clean history is very important, but keeping all the patches straight IMHO is even more important and git is exactly the tool for that job. Email is the wrong tool for that job aside from some very occasional "check this out, am I being stupid here?" type things.

Then again, I am not a kernel developer and have no idea what I am talking about. All I can contribute is that on small-ish projects (up to 10 people on a team), using git differently makes everyone's lives easier at the cost of the history looking slightly worse.
Hidden services are still secure, presumably, because there is no exposed section of the network to inspect. All they can do is monitor and do statistical analysis, and maybe mess with the traffic to try to get more ideas of flow.
None: the website requires explicit opt-in permission to collect personal data in the first place, making opt-out DNT largely irrelevant.

e.g. from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/27/time_running_out_for...
[Peter Hustinx, the European Data Protection Supervisor] said that the DNT system "although valuable" seemed to "fall short of the" of the requirements for obtaining lawful consent set out in the EU's Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive.
Stallman never was a conspiracy crackpot, he always was a visionary. The only thing that changed is some people's judgment of him.
I bet this doesn't please AT&T one bit. I always thought Starbucks internet connection speed have been considerably faster. It always felt like I was surfing in the internet on DSL circa 2001.
Living in a college town, you'd be amazed how many people meet up at Coffee Shops to work. Personally, I'm like that as well. Something about getting out of the house and dropping $2 on coffee makes me force myself to work without distraction; it helps get you in the productive mindset.

Plus its a great way to retain customers; I'm more likely to go to my coffee shop of choice because of the hours I've sat there. Convincing me to 'move' shops needs a drastic measure (like putting Google in their store).

..now if my Starbucks would only have more outlets...
> Or is Google's level of involvement that they have paid for an ad in the SSID?

They're paying for the increased speeds in exchange for the ad, yes. It seems pretty clear to me that Google wants to brand itself with the word 'fast'. This goes as far back as the original Chrome commercials. I think it's rather smart.
Would you mind explaining why a non-Muslim should/would be offended by that?
That's a good point, but there's only about a 25% difference between the two.
My real issue with this isn't so much the fact that the NSA monitors everything I say and do. Its the fact that there is nothing preventing the NSA from obtaining insider information that can be exploited for personal financial gain.

I mean what stops an NSA analyst from being able to spy on an acquisition negotiation between corporation executives? What prevents that analyst from investing in the stock market using valuable info like this?

There really needs to be more accountability and transparency within the NSA.
The Guardian doesn't 'admit' anything (it wasn't hiding anything in the first place), and legality doesn't predict whether actions are being taken or not.

>I wonder if the leaked presentation touches on this point.

That seems unlikely to me, as this is a technical presentation.
My thought is to put together a very detailed set of instructions including a screencast. Then contact one of the many companies that offers virtual personal assistants. Tell them you need someone for a couple hours a week with whatever level of technical knowledge they'd need to be able to follow your instructions.

Then start using them right away (before being interred) so that you can see if you've gotten a person who understands the task and can do it well, or if you need to have them find someone else to do it.

It should be cheap and easy.

Alternately, you could just sell the business and start a new one when you get out. I'm sure there are many folks here, myself included who would be willing to consider buying a self-sufficient SaaS business.
If Google, Facebook, et al provide direct access to users' data, I'm fairly certain such critical infrastructure as VPN is also under NSA control.
so let's say there's a law that says "any American company doing business with a company that does business with a known terrorist organization will have a bad day"

you don't need to use some kind of fancy data mining algorithm for this to work (generating false positives), you just need a ho-hum graph traversal algorithm and unbelievable amounts of graph data to generate "candidates for investigation".

US Company A -> intermediate 1 -> known terrorist group B

US Company A -> intermediate 2 -> known terrorist group B

US Company A -> intermediate 3 -> known terrorist group B

Each set of links is just one lead to investigate, but having a giant graph to work off of would make generating those leads simply. You might find out that intermediate 1 is a local falafel delivery place that "US Company A" uses for lunch catering. Can probably strike that one off the list. intermediate 2 is a utility (no choice but to use the local water monopoly), but intermediate 3 is a material supplier that employs several low level delivery guys from known terrorist group B, and the founder of the company is a cousin of the founder of known terrorist group B.

So I'd wager it's not as simple as just running an algorithm and automatically sending out Skynet drones to blow things up. There's some kind of more subtle assessment being made, with the systems just providing help to the analysts.
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Assuming you have the original, non-biometric passport, access to materials and suitable printers, plotters etc and a handful of other passports of the appropriate nationality people don't mind being "recycled", quite a while.
I find the "Show me all exploitable machines in country X" on page 24 pretty scary as well
Doesn't the infringement have to be in the same category as the trademark? A dating app seems quite far from games.
I disagree. I say run, leave that country. I once did the same. Why would he like to live in a country governed by religion to the point that a secular photo gets you to jail?

Run, start your life somewhere else. That is my advise.
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Thanks. I do sometimes. But I wonder how people manage to do multi-day fasts.
> I actually felt sharper

I do IF (Intermittent Fasting, 24 to 36 hours with water only once a week), and have found that too, but I have also found that as soon as I start eating again, I get quickly tired and warm (like I started a fire inside my body).
That's exactly how they get people to work on it in the first place. If you have no conscience there are lots of places where you can work on 'cool problems'.
I wouldn't for a second bet on it. A hidden service has exactly the same issue as traffic that exits the network. The topography looks like this.

httpd > tor node > tor node > tor node > rendezvous point < tor node < tor node < tor node < client

With enough monitoring, the location of the web server (or other hidden service) can just be found out by bombing the hidden service with traffic and seeing what end point lights up with traffic. With fine enough monitoring you wouldn't really need long to find out the real location of the server. It's just not something the network can effectively hide, even if it used chaff (padding) to hide the wheat.

There's practical attacks for enumerating hidden service public keys, and so I wager that there's somebody somewhere with a complete map of the real server locations as well.
In general citizens have no obligation to protect classified information if it falls into their hands. This (and freedom of the press in general) is what has allowed newspapers to print classified material if they get a hold of it.

However going out of your way to entice classified material into your possession is not similarly protected (we'd call them "spies" or "moles" on any other day), so if the government can show that Assange had any control whatsoever over what either Manning or Snowden leaked then I suppose it's theoretically possible the U.S. could charge Assange that way.
How does browsing the web via e-mails and cron jobs make for more privacy?
Copying garbage collectors benefit from virtual memory.

Copying GC needs two same sized memory pools. One is used and one is empty. If you have same amount of virtual memory as ram, the empty unused one can reside in the virtual memory. When GC happens live data is copied (and compacted) from live pool to empty pool and the roles switched. With virtual memory, you can use as much ram as there is without affecting performance significantly.

If you do manual memory management, long running programs cause memory fragmentation. If allocated memory sizes are very variable in size, available memory can be half of the actual memory in the long run.

In theory, moving and compacting GC with virtual memory can almost double the available ram compared to manual memory management.
Very nice way to avoid mediation.
Fooling around with a paint brush in your study is fine, but real artist ship.

A bunch of ideas that sound great in theory are just that, it is only by surviving the crucible of the real world that ideas are validated and truly tested. When Guy Steele and James Gosling were the only software developers in the world who could program in Java, every Java program was a masterpiece. It is only once the tool was placed in the hands of mere mortals that its flaws were truly known.
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TFA just explained why this is not a "surefire" way.

Not to mention that the last 40 years not much progress has been made in this direction (if any).

Also: the other proposition also helps putting a better government in place. The "technological" solution, even if it worked, it would only solve the very specific problem of privacy. Not the much more important problem of a government that betrayed the trust of the people.
> how are they getting all Facebook private messages and Gmail?

Perhaps you missed the news about PRISM? :)
I've been running FreeBSD zfs backed jails for quite some time too (I still think FreeBSD is superior to Linux in many ways). What docker does that ezjails + zfs doesn't do is make it transportable. Sure you could write a script to bundle up your jail but Docker is making it possible to distribute an application orthogonally. Docker is also replete with tools for sharing containers, providing a container server (privately!), and many others...

On performance: containerization > virtualization. Containerization is also not just about performance (people are running it in virtualized environments) it's also about contained configurations.

Your tone is unnecessarily belligerent (I could be reading into what you wrote though).

Also - I know people who know people and are pushing for the Docker team to support containerizing FreeBSD jails too. Since the primary work horse right now for Docker is lxc, it should be possible to generalize it enough to include support for FreeBSD jails.

Docker does more than just "jail"; it does for jails what package managers did for programs.
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It might be this one:
http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1251401/thumbs/o-ALVIN-AND-VIVIAN-...
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This is an easy argument to reject. It is a false dichotomy.

The answer involves more encryption. We need it, anyway, to secure us against crooks.

But we also need to control governments. We need to do both.
They still feel very marketing-y to me. I can imagine the email that was sent from the CMO that had these put in. How does an ad for the Delta Sky Club have anything to do with trips I'm taking.

My biggest problem, though, is with the button design. The two red buttons on the marketing modules create the strongest CTA. The strong CTA should instead be on the "Create Account" button.
2 years ago I would have been excited at this news. Today I see it with a sense of trepidation. Times have changed.
Ok, that's sort-of what I was thinking.
Real people are not reading the RFC.
I appreciate plenty of cultures, indeed I've tried to learn languages to better understand them, but I'm sure that doesn't mean I have to agree with them.

Assuming I have some criticisms of the application of Islamic laws, why must I ask your permission to express them, and to hold political opinions in general? I'm sure that some of my opinions would be held offensive by someone, does that mean I have "offended a religion/culture"?
idealised feminism, maybe. but irl, it's about swapping places, and men being on the bottom.
I couldn't find the schematics or design files for the board.
Maybe the basis is an iPhone 4 instead of an iPhone 5? I agree that an iPhone 5 would be more appropriate, as everyone designing for an iPhone has visuals for that.
Likewise. Anyone figured out a nice way to import the CSV export from Catch into Keep ?
Holy shit.. they did really write a GUI in Visual Basic to track the killer's IP
There is no 'waterproof' S4 http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1j8xsk/a_warning_to...
I just noticed that the presentation is from 2008. Imagine what capabilities they've added in the last five years.
In keeping with that line of thought would it not be better to redact the information you are presenting? I don't see why you need to write it out in full.

You could say 153xxxxxxx and "Arxxx Goxxxxxxx" just to be sure and if you need to post links you could use a URL shortener.
Can't tell if srs. My grandpa got about 5K refugees into the country over his lifetime. Minnesotans are into that sort of thing. Try contacting http://www.iimn.org if you're really into this idea. They could at least say if asylum/refugee status is likely.

The downside is asylum/refugee can be somewhat political. Not sure what the USA's relationship is with Malaysia, and it may offend Singapore. It's better to be from a country nobody ever thinks about, or assumes is horrible like Somalia or Eritrea.
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I agree entirely. IF I send a request, I expect that request to be stored. If I don't want to make the request, I won't make the request (noscript, ghostery, and AdBlock+ go a long way to that).

DNT is a pointless 8 bytes that has no real, enforceable meaning.
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Calling to schedule a meeting with a school counselor, or book a haircut, is a freaking pain. It's rude businesses waste my time with that, and theirs, when there are literally hundreds of ways to handle this online.

A while back I made Acuity Scheduling to solve this -- what do you think? What can be made better?
"Show me all the VPN startups in country X, and give me the data so I can decrypt and discover the users"

Can anyone speculate on this? Is VPN traffic being decrypted?
Here's an interesting legal question:

If a non-US resident or NSA target posts a thread on HN, and a US person replies to the thread, is the US person now open to unlimited data collection?

Alternately, if you Facebook-like the same thing an NSA target has, are you then subject to unlimited data collection?
is this tweets count random? i see 18 on my mobile and 27 from the office PC
this is not about religion. this is about the idiots who think the religion is untouchable. how come a religion is getting offended by a picture. can a picture make you think that your religion is less valuable after you see it?
imagine that i'm worshiping to cream cheese and you laugh on that. so now i have enough reason to jail you, even better, kill you. because cream cheese said so.
Huh? Bret's talks short on specifics?

His talks constantly feature working demos of the ideas he is pushing, subtly demonstrating a lot of well-thought-out interaction design details. If you watch his "Media for Thinking the Unthinkable" (http://vimeo.com/67076984) it's a gold mine of specifics. I've watched it several times and always pick some new ideas for my UI design work.

The difference to a run-of-the-mill talk is that he is showing the details, not telling the details.
Fitting/sinister that the top of their stored data pyramid is titled "TrafficThief"
The point of ubiquitous encryption isn't to make all communications unbreakable. That would be nice, but it's not a practical goal.

But it doesn't have to be unbreakable, either. It only has to be more of a hassle than getting a warrant.
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The main thing that this new release reveals is not the scope of the data collection, but confirmation that analysts are given free reign to perform queries. Until this, there was an outside chance that the system required all database queries to be signed by a Judge prior to execution. This is not the case though; all queries are processed immediately, with essentially nothing more than a repo commit message as justification, and basically any analyst can do it.
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Also, even if one were to accept copying as stealing, it wouldn't work in this context since Aaron Swartz had legitimate access to JSTOR through Harvard.
In general, people need about 5-15 mins of break for every 60 mins of work. The problem with the above situation is that everyone was taking those 5-15 mins at different times and distracting others. It's pretty clear that with enough people, there will always be someone taking a break and distracting others almost constantly.

The other option is to force people to never take a break, which leads to an immense number of other issues and lower productivity.
I like his overall message, but I wonder about the details. E.g. he attacks the existence of HTML and CSS, but there needs to be some universal format to store the markup and design in. So I guess he's attacking the idea of hand-coding them instead of using a WYSIWYG editor. But you can use something like Dreamweaver, Expression Web, or even more recent web apps like Divshot. I guess the problem in that they're not good enough yet, but that's not because people aren't trying to do it, it's because it is hard to do.
The minimum cores you can license on MSSQL, whether on bare metal, or a VM, is 4. Wherever you run it, you must license all cores available to the OS. Had I chosen to run on bare metal, I would be forced to license 12 cores (6-core Xeon CPU x 2). This app requires SQL Server 2008 R2, so the 4GB limit applies. But I can't buy 2008 R2 anymore directly. I have to license 2012, and use my downgrade rights.

You are wrong on the Windows Authentication requirement. This has nothing to do with anything.

For MSSQL, you must license the database per core if you are using it in a public web application, because you have an arbitrary number of users. And you must license all cores in the machine. The VM is the only way to license only some cores, namely, as many cores as are in your VM.

If you are using MSSQL in a private web application, you may choose CALs. However, if you do so, it doesn't matter how users authenticate. Each user or device needs a license. Microsoft is very clear about this. User count is just that: the number of users using the database, either directly, or through a web application which does everything through a single set of credentials. It's not system accounts. It's users or devices.

The same applies for Windows Server licenses. It doesn't matter how the user authenticates. If they are using a web-app hosted on a Windows Server, and that web-app is not publicly accessible (a login page does not count), then you need a CAL for each user or device.
Very. And the consequences from getting caught are bad.
I thought Google, Facebook etc. only had to provide access as they are compelled to under US law? If the VPN provider was non-US (and did not/claimed they did not keep logs of user activity), would this help? Or do you reckon the NSA has the ability to get at the data without the cooperation of the VPN provider? It would be great to have a couple of slides revealed on this area.
But this was written in 2008. Storage capacity could/must have increased massively since then.
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Not random, set up a custom share buttons/counts and having problems with the cloudfront caching sitting in front of it...
> I think we may be talking at cross-purposes. The post I replied to says that they have a right to run tracking scripts and I don't have the right to reject them. This is what I disagree with.

Yep, I saw that. Maybe it's just my interpretation. I thought of that as saying "I have the right to have scripts that track you." Not "I have the right to require that you run those scripts." So, they can provide the scripts, you can just choose to not have them run.

That's where I am coming from, and I don't get that anyone is trying to take that part away from you. That's all =)
Nice. Obviously I didn't look too hard hence "doesn't seem to exist". My main point was against reimplementing something already extant just because you have a swathe of code in a given language.
Possible? Yes. With multi-core CPUs and improvements in touchsceens such as haptic feedback and dynamic tactile buttons it will be very possible.

Practical? Probably not, especially with stuff like this becoming widely available: http://www.oculusvr.com/. If we have the same definition of 'hardcore gaming', that is.
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