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"The fabricated iPhones" simply means the iPhones which were made.

"The fabricated news came from this propaganda ministry" works perfectly, however
Is there any standard out there for trying to create some "future" mail?

Ideally it would handle--or emulate--old email clients until they had time to be upgraded but is this even under consideration now?

I think now more than ever we should evaluate SMTP and see what we can do to either secure it or replace it.

Looking at a barebones SMTP server in Node.js I could see some ways to very easily encrypt all data but that only goes so far.. you're still receiving the normal mail headers you would get with any other platform.. I think we need to get at this data but I am so far unaware of a solution to this beyond basic TLS.

Thoughts?
You know your shit. :) Instead of just upvoting every one of your comments in this thread, I'll just post here to let everyone know that everything you've said is both true and excellent advice. Thanks for contributing!
Persona isn't a panacea. If websites collude, and you use the same address on each site, then they'll be able to correlate their user tables.

That's identical to the status quo, and fixing it is not one of Persona's explicit goals.

We're very consciously trying to hit a pragmatic middle ground that moves the web closer to user empowerment, without being so different as to hinder adoption. Consider: if you're already collecting email addresses for your users, you can immediately start using Persona without changing any of your assumptions about your data model. It's portable and it dovetails into current practices.

However, it is technically possible to do what you want right now, so long as you have your own domain and write a small browser extension. Longer term, we're currently working with a partner on a possible extension to the provider protocol which would make it easier to implement that sort of "directed identity."
Or, you know, they could have and enforce data access rules to limit data access.
"If a company can reinvest their excess income in new ventures that will drive growth that will increase revenues and thus the stock price."

But why should you pay a high price for a stock with no expectation of profits, and, ultimately, dividends?

That's not an investment. It's a baseball card.

We went through all of this in the Dot Com bubble in the 90s. Most people believed it was OK to invest lots of money in companies without profits, because the stock prices kept going up.

Until they didn't.

Which gets back to the point of the article. Sure, it is good for a company to reinvest revenues in growth, in hope of larger future profits which will one day be paid out in dividends. With Amazon showing growing revenues but flat, small profits over the first 18 years of its existence, it's a legitimate question as to when Amazon might finally give a return to its investors.
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Good point about the dependencies. If it was something that someone's life depended on, especially mine, I'd do the encryption operations in a vetted C/C++ library due to possible dependency issue in GOLANG. I just don't know enough about GO or even encryption for that matter.
https://github.com/wearefractal/blink-polyfill is more comprehensive
Cutting sysadmins by 90% is a big indicator. There's also been a lot of talk from former NSA about security risks involved with contractors with top secret security clearances. The writing is on the on wall.
> Amazon and other online shopping venues decimated these brick and mortar shopping venues

Brick and mortar stores are still just fine (or better thanks to Yuppies). Malls are getting decimated by Amazon and cultural trends against malls. The 80s suburban world where malls are the place to hangout is fading fast.
Very well put, thank you.
I left the following comment in a reddit thread:

Hi Thorse! I'm one of the developers for Swarm. You comments are well taken, and deserve a response.
Our strategy for collecting and presenting data about collective action abstracts away from individual habits. We're interested in features of collective action (at the 'caste' and 'colony' level), not your personal daily routine. The data we collect will be groomed to remove individual data in such a way that, I hope, would allow people who are as concerned about privacy as you and I both are to confidently use the app.

The other thing to make clear is that not everyone needs to play Swarm in order to build useful models for everyone. Consider Yelp!: maybe you don't want people to know your eating habits, but some people love leaving reviews. That record potentially helps anyone looking for a restaurant, whether or not they contribute their own opinions to the record. Similarly, Swarm trails might be useful to you whether or not you contribute to the trails yourself.
I would also (humbly) object to the claim that Swarm! treats your life habits as a game mechanic. Your life is your life. Swarm doesn't intrude on that process to give you 100 points for buying chips at the store, or anything so cheap. The game aspects of Swarm interact with trails at an abstracted level, in order to reveal patterns about collective human behavior; but it won't be possible on a system like ours to watch, mess or interact with, or otherwise represent the activity of individual players directly.

Its not about you, this is about us. For instance, which are the most scenic trails in Inwood Park? A populated Swarm! map instantly tells me how the populations that have traversed these trails before have distributed their walking patterns along the park. From passive players I see their aggregated preferences, and from the active players I may have incentive (both in game and out) to respond to the attractions they’ve built in the course of their travels. From that information I might choose to trust the reliability of the crowd, or contribute to the inspection of a road less traveled, or blaze a new trail altogether.
In other words, you can live your life however you want; Swarm! just lets you do it with the ant superpower of instant access to collective memory. As long as enough people have that superpower, we'll all be a little smarter.

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1jysa5/our_first_loo...
One, assumes that people can accurately judge -anything- appropriately about what is safe in their surroundings.

I didn't assume that; I only assumed that the people actually on the spot can judge what is safe better than legislators and bureaucrats who aren't even there, and who have plenty of incentives to distort the judgment anyway.

you say that with limits, people game the system

When I talked about gaming, I wasn't talking about people trying to avoid being caught speeding. I was talking about legislators and bureaucrats distorting the data about risk to justify lower speed limits and higher fines, when the real reason for them is just that they need a revenue source.

As far as drivers themselves taking more risk in the absence of speeding laws, evidently you missed the part of my post where I said that people should suffer appropriate punishment if they cause actual harm. That gives people a strong incentive to avoid causing actual harm, i.e., to get better at assessing the risks of the things they do, including driving.

To the extent that we actually allow this incentive to operate in our society, I think it works reasonably well, certainly better than trusting governments to get things like this right. shpxnvz provided some evidence for that. Another piece of evidence is the fact that states with no-fault auto insurance have higher accident rates, indicating that uncoupling people's decisions from unpleasant consequences, even partially, causes them to make worse decisions.
This is just plain wrong. Instead of admitting that what they did was immoral and attempting to repair faith with the tech community and the country, they're now trying to automate IT so that they don't have to worry about SysAdmins with a conscience.

So their big plan is, "if our agents can use a UI to get all the info they need, we won't need to worry about those pesky left-leaning IT types."

The amount of stupid here is unbearable!! Good luck to them when they need another feature developed.
I don't think Marxism was Popper's side act, particularly later in life (The Open Society And Its Enemies, The Poverty Of Historicism). Marxism and Freudianism were targets of Popper's because they appropriate the language of science for what he argued were in fact non-sciences.

It's important to remember that in the '20s, Marxism was presented as a scientific theory, that it described a logical, teleological process by which human society could be perfected. This was the Popper's later great white whale. Ask George Soros!
Epileptics don't need to use the Web anyway. /s
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Seriously. At this point the only thing really keeping the gov't in check is their own ineptitude.
> To require the Attorney General to disclose each decision ... of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ... __unless such disclosure is not in the national security interest of the United States and for other purposes__.

So, the AG simply decides that all such disclosures are "not in the national security interest" and everything stays secret anyway, irrespective of this bill should it become law. This smells of "pretend to do something, without actually doing anything."
Terminator (ATM laptop hack scene)

And I assume by "hacker" you mean coder/maker.
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When physical objects are fabricated, it means they're created. "Fabricated" never means "of fraudulent provenance", like your iPhone example.

When statements-which-purport-to-be-facts are fabricated, it means they're falsified. So "his claim (that these phones are iPhones) was fabricated" does mean that the phones are not truly iPhones.

As I consider it, this makes some sense; you cannot create a fact, but you can create a physical object, and you can create a lie. Things like an analysis are on the border. And indeed, my intuition as a native speaker accepts "fabricate an analysis" in either sense.
Sure, the American citizens overseas that are purposefully being killed by drones. They didn't get a jury trial.

Also, you don't know about any of the criminal proceedings going on in the FISA court, that's the whole point.
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For long-range through traffic, 101 is better, but routes through Atherton are ideal ways to access to parts of town with businesses which may be relevant to minority residents, such as Chavez Supermarket (great taqueria). It's also possible to transfer from 101 to 280 on routes which take you through Atherton. I've done it many evenings myself.
Looks like there are going to be 900 disenfranchised sysadmins out in the wild.... I wonder what information they'll have...
Then you're probably not going to succeed as a salesperson (unless you literally have a product that sells itself). Most stakeholders spend a significant amount of their time dealing with potential vendors and it becomes obvious within minutes of initiating a new relationship whether the sales rep is good or not. Unfortunately for people like you, "good" really does usually mean both affable and extroverted in addition to knowledgeable about both their products/services and your business. There's nothing wrong with cold calling to make contact, but by all means spend five minutes researching the target first. One of the best relationships I have with a vendor is a rep at a company I have been talking to for a few years now but the stars have never aligned to do a deal with them. Perhaps this will be the year; perhaps not, but I consider him a friend now just from the random smalltalk we make when we correspond via email/Hangouts every couple months.

Anecdotally, I receive 4-5 LinkedIn requests from sales & bizdev folks every week. I never accept them unless I already know and/or really do want to get in contact with them. :-/
If you reinvest your profits into your own business that money usually gets charged as a expense on the income statement so your reported gross profit reduces by that amount and thus, you don't pay taxes on that amount.

For example, lets say Company XYZ anticipates making $100M in gross profits but decides to invest $100M in R&D for a new product. Their reported gross profit would be $0M for the year due to the $100M charge.
None of that helps for someone like Snowden, who prepared to get caught.
I think to some extent yes.

Some of the stuff we sell via Amazons marketplace is the cheapest on the marketplace but by no means the cheapest online. This stuff doesn't come with the same kind of shipping service that Amazon provides either, people feel safe buying through Amazon though in that the very worse outcome they can come out with is their money back.

So other sites need to not only be cheaper but also build up the same level of service and trust to get a large amount of people away from Amazon.
A couple questions (I have no knowledge on this):

1. Wouldn't your hunch have been equally applicable to Oasis? Yet we now know that IV was behind them.

2. If your hunch were correct, wouldn't it be in both Lodsys' and IV's interests to unequivocally establish the facts?
For employee numbers, not contracts.

If anything it stands there will be a higher concentration of work and monies given to the immune likes of Booz Allen Hamilton.
Seriously, why are they doing this?

It would be one thing if Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and other big firms were selling out their customers' privacy for money. They do it all of the time for advertising. I wouldn't like that, but it would be somewhat understandable that a big uncaring firm would look at their bottom line as the only determining factor. But are they making more money by being the government's snitch?

The really weird thing here is that what's going on isn't even in these companies' self-interest because they're going to make people and businesses not trust online storage of their data in any way. So all of these cloud services, all of these online storage services, anything that impacts peoples' privacy in any way is going to be put at risk of customers choosing other options for managing their data.
How does partners help anything? Snowden knew he was going to get caught, so increasing the chances of him getting caught would have done very little.
> What other air-based telecommunications infrastructure is there?

Radio.
Have you forgotten how annoying the web used to be?
Less motivation for it, IMO.

I think government malaise and/or regulation vs privatisation is a real balancing act. Companies motivated by profit and using some of that to lobby for less regulation or whatever can lead to real trouble.

A privatised prison system lobbying for harsher sentences, or against legalisation of marijuana can get ugly fast. In the case of speeding cameras, deterrence as an ideal works very much against the profit motives of privatised providers.
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Hi HN,

I recently put up a coming soon page raavel.com in the hopes up generating leads. I have launched an adwords campaign and a blog and am generating approx. 40-50 unique visitors a day, but have zero people submit their email. Don't really know what to do. What has been experience in email conversions and coming soon pages in general. Thanks.
"I helped grow was big enough to support product managers who could do just the most rewarding parts of my job but not actually code or anything"

That's the worst.
Asshole idea people who can't code their bullshit design or implementation.
Perhaps ShipBuilder is right up your alley.

ShipBuilder is an open-source Heroku-esque PaaS which uses Go, Git, LXC, and HAProxy, with Docker support coming soon!

The Shipbuilder codebase is super easy to understand, and aims to make it fast and easy to deploy arbitrary web-applications.

Get total control over all aspects of your staging and production environments.

More info:

http://shipbuilder.io/

https://github.com/sendhub/shipbuilder
The other thing, too, is that it's pretty common for contacts with large companies to include a software escrow clause (in relation to force majeur or other eventuality leading to the vendor becoming unable to continue servicing the customer). Whether the customer can keep the thing alive without the vendor's help is another matter entirely.
After reading the thread the conclusion seemed to be that courts can not order you to lie, but may try to hold you in contempt of court for failing to update your canary.

If all actions but the one the government wants are ment with punishment then it is functionally equivalent to ordering/mandating/requiring a specific action.

If there is precedence for punishing all but the course of action desired by the government I would be interested. If there is legal precedence for ordering/mandating/requiring an action being different form punishing all but the desired action I would also be interested in knowing.
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Blink was never a standard. Lou Montulli thought up the idea while drunk and then someone else implemented it for a joke.

"When we released Netscape Navigator 1.0 we did not document the blink functionality in any way, and for a while all was quiet. Then somewhere, somehow the arcane knowledge of blinking leaked into the real world and suddenly everything was blinking. "Look here", "buy this", "check this out", all blinking. Large advertisements blinking in all their glory. It was a lot like Las Vegas, except it was on my screen, with no way of turning it off.

In the end, much was said, most of it in the form of flaming posts to various discussion boards, and the <blink> tag will probably be remembered as the most hated of all HTML tags. I would like to publicly state that at no time did I actually write code or even seriously advocate for the <blink> tag. It is true that I put forth the initial inspiration, but it really was merely a thought experiment. I am not going to name any names of the people who coded the dastardly deed, if they wish to step forward, they will need to do it themselves."

http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag

Also, firefox used to have an option in about:config to allow the blink tag to be turned off.
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So long as the power to spy on people exists it will be abused. It already has been and it will only get worse.

The only recourse is better cryptography.
Said to be most ergonomic. The warm color has since been found to be more pleasing in the evening.

After I gave up on compiz (negative plugin) due to bugs, I made a night-time stylesheet that converts white pages to orange on almost black, on a hotkey. Using it now to save my eyes from blinding light.
It's true.. I think Americans might sleep through the whole thing. It seems TV news doesn't even try to ask questions and whenever they do it's about where Edward Snowden might be and what Obama's favourite vegetable is.
This is exactly how Hushmail worked too.
Which I would argue is correct. It seems to be intrinsically difficult (to say the very least) to have a communications system that is open to anyone to send messages to a given address (even if the sender is not known), and supports queueing messages for eventual delivery so that both ends don't have to be online at the same time.

The 'Pond' system mentioned elsewhere in this thread looks promising, for example, but that system doesn't allow for unknown people to send messages. This is perfect for many communications needs but can't supplant email entirely.

But I'll note if I'm reading the user guide [1] correctly that it's going to be very difficult to setup contacts, exchange messages, etc. in something like Pond, which would make its usage inherently suspicious (and liable for increased attention thereby, if we assume general domestic surveillance).

[1] https://pond.imperialviolet.org/user.html
This is absolutely wrong.

Encryption is now a means of making yourself a suspect. Referencing or communicating with suspects is means to make yourself a suspect.

There is no technical solution away from this.

edit: What, no rebuttal? No eloquent summary on how crypto can lead people out of this? My assertion of no technical solution has no more or no less merit than the one above. But in addition I provided reason on how crypto makes one a suspect, how associating with suspects makes one a suspect as well, a refutation of the above comment.

Let's further discussion.
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Most LCD's today produce extreme amounts of light. I usually run mine at ~50% brightness during the day and 0% at night.
As callahad pointed out, it's already in use for some Mozilla sites, and I at least haven't seen any problems with it. In fact, I just logged into one (with my Mozilla LDAP credentials) earlier today :)
It may be that the person did not, in fact, know anyone who runs TOR nodes.
Just curious, what would you do if Airbnb offered you a job at this point?
"No one has willfully or knowingly disobeyed the law or tried to invade your civil liberties or privacies," he said. "There were no mistakes like that at all."

LOL!!! In their eyes, we are total morons.
"We went through all of this in the Dot Com bubble in the 90s. Most people believed it was OK to invest lots of money in companies without profits"

This is silly. Amazon has real revenue that is growing at a fantastic rate. Pets.com and it's ilk did not.

"when Amazon might finally give a return to its investors."

It has given a return to it's investors. Up 655% in the last 10 years and 17,000% since inception.
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Unfortunately for people like you, "good" really does usually mean both affable and extroverted in addition to knowledgeable about both their products/services and your business.

Oh sure, and I have no problem with that. I'm not a pure extrovert by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm affable enough most of the time. All I'm saying is that I've never felt the need to get overly personal with business connections / co-workers in the past. Or maybe it would be better to say, I only get personal with those people when there's a genuine connection between us... I never try to force that kind of relationship, probably at least in part because I associate it with sleazy salespeople. :-)

But yeah, building real, genuine relationships is another thing. I'm just intrigued to see how that will dovetail with the sales process, as I perceive that it takes a lot of time to reach that level of friendship with new people. And it doesn't seem that you could possibly invest the time to become truly close friends with every potential customer?
Yeah, that's what I mean.
I tried out SB today and so far I am impressed...it ran my Django app with zero issues. Definitely planning on pushing my company to start using this for their deployments instead of Heroku.
Well, or it could be that the people that don't get responses are louder so we think they are lax and you are lucky. Xcode still sucks, despite all our bug reports, though, so I am inclined to believe they ignore most requests. (Were your bugs security-related?)
I think this is spot on. Many of the brick and mortar stores are scrambling, but finding ways to be just fine They have a certain customer base and actually are being forced to provide better service and value. I shop at Macys now more than I ever did because I can buy items online and deal with a live person at the store if I have any issues. I can't say that I ever shopped there often before getting on there mailing list.
Best Buy is being forced to step-up their price matching policies because of the "show-rooming" trend, supposedly leading to better deals for buyers.
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