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Lavabit probably believes, correctly, that no company can provide secure-against-government email as a service. The only way for two people to communicate securely is with in-person key exchange and dedicated devices running open-source right down to the hardware. By continuing to exist, they create a false illusion of security which is worse than no security at all.
The Learn You Some Erlang tutorial[1] gives a good introduction. There's also Erlang and OTP in Action[2].

[1]: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/content

[2]: http://www.amzn.com/1933988789
Does that debate interests plain consumers ?

Edit: and wouldn't it make sense to fork a version of android, like amazon did, to achieve openness and privacy , than to start over ?
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We're planning on adding regulations and statutes, and the annotation platform should generally work for these texts as well. As you noted, there's a version control issue, and we're still thinking about the best way to deal with it. One possibility would be to have the text appear as a redline, which would make keeping all annotations alongside the text possible. Alternatively or in addition, we could have a revision history of the text (allowing you to view and compare older versions) -- then, the easiest way to manage annotations might be to keep annotations for paragraphs that haven't changed in the newer version, but to have annotations for changed paragraphs only appear in the older versions.
> clearly delineated use cases?

There is the problem.
"Because, if you'll recall, that's what we were talking about."

This thread is called 'The NSA Is Commandeering the Internet.' Throughout it you have been attempting to diminish or shift the subject to "US citizens on US soil."

Please stop.

edit: I just noticed you took the subject of CIA renditions and attempted to turn it into a "US citizens on US soil" subject as you have done to the others in this thread. While completely ignoring the subject you made the response to.

What the heck, guy.
The neutrality does not refer to technical limitations like bandwidth. It refers to the capabilities of an Internet-connected computer to communicate with other computers.

This seems obvious if you are used to the Internet, but there was no technical reason things had to be made this way. Look at a modern cable TV system: that is a computer network too, and if you have a digital cable receiver then you have a computer connected to such a network. You cannot run your own cable channel just because you have a connection. Your receiver is a different kind of node than what is at the head end; head end nodes are allowed to transmit video, receivers are only allowed to receive video and make on-demand requests (and a few other things, none of which include transmitting video).
There is an important distinction between paying for connectivity, and paying for bandwidth. You will find that the 2nd costs substantially more, from any provider.
This problem is already solved in C4 plants, which account for many crops (sugarcane, maize, sorghum, barley, etc.). C4 photosynthesis creates an anoxic environment in bundle sheath cells to stop RuBisCO wastefully fixing oxygen instead of CO2. So nitrogenase, suffering as it does from the same oxygen discrimination problem as RuBisCO, will operate efficiently in BS cells. C4 is being introduced to more crops, and that's what I'm working on. So, two birds with the same fistful of stones.
And the Supreme Court ruling to allow warrantless pen registers wasn't intended to give the government phone records and emails for every American, but that's what the language said so here we are.

If the "unlimited" connection really isn't unlimited, the contract should spell out reasonable use limits. It's as simple as that.

Google's contract actually goes much further than preventing servers. It says "You agree not to misuse the Services. This includes but is not limited to using the Services for purposes that are illegal, are improper, infringe the rights of others, or adversely impact others’ enjoyment of the Services." The definition of "misuse" is completely up to Google.
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Yes, but this shouldn't come as a shocker to anyone that uses Facebook and Android. You can arrange to have contacts synced in Android so that you can see updates / photos / phone numbers merged with your Google contacts. NSA access notwithstanding, Facebook is in the business of making it easier to interact and socialize with people.

Alternatively, you can use the app "Tinfoil" for Facebook, which is essentially a locked-down web browser that provides a watered down Facebook experience.
I'm not convinced that use cases determine Google's acceptance of how the service is used.

e.g. If someone uses the service to download & upload 100gb+ of data a day, and somehow it's actually for personal use, I suspect that Google would restrict them.

If so, the spirit of the terms isn't as much to delineate between types of use as much as it is to delineate between amounts of use.
A quote that made a difference for me, addressing the paralyzing issue of "what if I'm wrong? what if I make a mistake in front of all these people?":

though it cannot hope to be useful or informative on all matters, it does at least make the reassuring claim, that where it is inaccurate it is at least definitively inaccurate. - Douglas Adams

If I'm wrong when speaking to a group, then by gum I'll strive to be definitively wrong.
I'd have to agree, having it on by default doesn't seem like such a good idea, omakase or not. There are tons of situations where using turbolinks spells trouble.
I recently got introduced to a long time entrepreneur who sold his latest company recently by a friend. At the end of our coffee meeting when we were about to leave, he asked me if I know what is WIIFY to which I said no. He smiled at me and said that when you are running a business, its a most important thing that you have to think about(What's in it for you) and it actually applies to everything from getting users to sign up or getting some investors to speak to you.

On a side note, he also told me that people like him also get interested in knowing the failures you had in running your business and how you recovered from it.

I guess at the end, it's a matter of persistence and may be some luck that your pitch will arouse interest in someone's mind and they will say yes to meet you. Until then keep building your product and learn as you go.

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This doesnt stop you from tinkering or anything of the like. Its meant to stop a business trying to piggy back on a residential service. Just feed their FAQ

https://fiber.google.com/help/ :
Can I run a server from my home?

Our Terms of Service prohibit running a server. However,
use of applications such as multi-player gaming,
video-conferencing, home security and others which may
include server capabilities but are being used for legal
and non-commercial purposes are acceptable and encouraged.
Wrong kind of alter. You're talking about practical changes, but in no way was anyone forced to change their behavior. In this instance, 'alter' would be something the NSA did which literally changed an outcome. As in, block access to Hacker News, or redirect gmail.com to gmail.nsa.gov. The NSA does not have this power, nor has the US government ever done this.

So again no, it is not historical fact.
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Google is nothing but garbage anymore. Reminding me of Microsoft
When did "serious" ever enter into it? I should be able to use or play with a server on the internet connection I pay for.
You are correct. Facebook was not the first social network and they will not be the last.

I guess I'm more concerned about the precedent they've set, in terms of (mis)handling user data, and how other companies seem to be falling over themselves to add 'social' features. Very few companies begin with a commitment to user privacy.

My fear is that FB has done some kind of irreversible damage, even if only as measured in terms of the attitudes other companies are adopting towards privacy.
You also have to consider a dramatic increase in what JS does in addition to there being 10^10 more JS in the first place. You didn't really see JS libraries being used on every site (especially staples like jquery and angular, which combined add a few megs to pageloads). The use cases of JS have shifted - many sites don't even render anything with JS turned off anymore.
No need to interpret ill will here. I clearly think you're wrong. The conditional there was to highlight the values I aim to protect that you likely share.
I think you answered your own question:

"Why [does] everyone thinks BB10 is crap?"
"[RIM] was big, sluggish, and full of idiots running it."

Everything you write about BB being a new nimble company may be 100% true... but public perception lags truth, especially when many people have already written them off.

The unfortunate thing is that brand/marketing has never been RIM's strong suit (a typical woe of Canadian tech giants), but it sounds like the "this-aint-your-grandfathers-RIM" story is crucial to their overall turnaround story.
This should be standard instead of a news worthy feature.
Interesting -- we haven't gotten other requests for this change, but we'll keep it on our radar. One possibility would be to add settings for text display that allow people to choose justification (along with font size and other such things).
This ignores the possibility that a person could saturate a 1Gb connection pretty much constantly, even without servers. Let's say you're a small business owner who owns a few shops with security cameras. You might want to stream that video to your home.

That said, I think it's reasonable to limit it to personal use - especially if that extends to your 2nd degree friends.
Comcast should not be maintaining a QOS stack. Period. That is a violation of net neutrality.
If they made the data available for free, it might be OK. But really you're just doing free work for a company who's going to lock up the data and sell it.
What? Not if they're CPU-bound they're not. Look at Dell/HP workstation/servers: Z600/800 | Z620/Z820 range - dual sockets, all of them. The cheaper configs might only come with one CPU, but they've got two sockets.

I'm talking highly-parallelisable code like in renders/raytracers, fluid simulations, image processing. All that stuff needs huge amounts of memory bandwidth. And it's generally parallisable in both threads and with SIMD with SSE/AVX, so you're literally up against the cache/memory throughput limits of the system.

Game engines aren't that parallel actually - even job queue based ones which are in theory very scalable have dependencies which means that generally there's a limit to the number of threads they can run at once. The above examples I gave can generally scale linearly, given memory bandwidth.
No offense intended, but it seems like you're pretty anti-feminist without knowing a whole lot about the feminist movement.

Here is a great place to start, if you're still on the fence about whether or not you should care about feminist issues: http://www.amazon.com/Men-Feminism-Studies-Shira-Tarrant/dp/...
How do you assume someone will "learn as slow as the rest of the class"? I am currently in college and while the pace is that of the slowest person it does not mean that you cannot learn more than them. Actually, I like going slower. It gives me more time to focus on my skill development and at the same time I can help my peers with their issues (which is great if I already overcame the same issue!). College has taught me to become more patient, to find love of others through knowledge, and to work hard.

Maybe it was a waste of time to you, but I hardly think that giving someone advice to skip college because YOU think its a waste of time is a bad decision. Are you sure you didn't miss a few things while you were there? Might want to reconsider.
> From an acquisition perspective, the "price" is Market Cap + Debt - Cash

So the more debt company has, and the less cash it has, the more valuable it is? That makes no sense at all.
This has nothing to do with net neutrality or traffic patterns. Its a service agreement that says you are not allowed to run a commercial server on their residential service.
[Also reposting, from the thread of your other comment...]

This problem is already solved in C4 plants, which account for many crops (sugarcane, maize, sorghum, barley, etc.). C4 photosynthesis creates an anoxic environment in bundle sheath cells to stop RuBisCO wastefully fixing oxygen instead of CO2. So nitrogenase, suffering as it does from the same oxygen discrimination problem as RuBisCO, will operate efficiently in BS cells. C4 is being introduced to more crops, and that's what I'm working on. So, two birds with the same fistful of stones.
You didn't really buy 1 Gbit of unlimited-use bandwidth. You bought the right to use up to 1 Gbit of throughput so long as you abide by their T&C/AUP in your usage of that throughput.

This bandwidth is oversold. Of course it's oversold. 1000 Mbit of Internet connectivity costs a lot more than you're paying Google for it, never mind the last-mile cost of connecting your home. You can't seriously expect to run a business on a residential connection sold at residential prices, right? Like it or not, this has been the status-quo since the earliest days of broadband in the late 1990s.

Now, that said, Good Guy Google would give every Google Fiber customer a GAE instance on which to run their servers. By doing this, they move the servers to network infrastructure that's actually designed for running servers.
It's unlimited for personal use.
Running a server is not usually considered "personal use", unless it's a personal server, which I'd presume they would allow.
>All nodes have the same capabilities on the Internet, as far as sending and receiving packets to other nodes is concerned.

This is clearly untrue. Just look at DOCSIS (Cable Internet). If everyone on your block is streaming netflix at the same time you all suffer, which is why some people complain about speed during peak hours.

This is simply the case that the architecture being laid out to consumer is designed for specific use cases.
Do risks make something not worth doing? If it was the case, we wouldnt have airplanes because they can cause a fatal accidents. NASA wouldn't have attempted any shuttle launches because that can and has caused fatal accidents. Medicines can cause fatal accidents. DRIVING can cause fatal accidents. So would you rather sit at home in fear or attempt to do amazing things after doing everything you can to make them as safe as possible.
What makes you think the costs would be too high? What technical reason is there for that statement?
Like selling things on eBay?

Or are we talking about something a little more fine-tuned: Using the listening ports of a computer on the network to facilitate the selling of goods/services for commercial reasons.

Is a business license the limiting factor? We need clearer terms before any argument has merit here.
Well, let's yell at Google when they do that. As it is written it seems go out of the way to address use case. If they just wanted to just go after heavy users indiscriminately, they wouldn't take care to say that they won't ban typical home use that would fall under the vague definition of server.
"Our goal is to make search advertising easier for our customers, while providing the best consumer experience with the most relevant results for the tasks they are looking to accomplish."

I can imagine the conversation now:

Exec 1: It's for our customers.

Exec 2: Like the people who pay for the OS?

Exec 1: No, not those customers, the ones with money. You know, advertisers!

So frustrating.
>Rust is going to take a long time to mature, much longer than Go for example, because the project is maybe more ambitious and doesn't have a Rob Pike or a Brad Fitzgerald supporting it and a giant Google behind it.

Plus, unlike Go, they go for an iterative refinement and design, and don't settle for the first BS implementation that comes to their mind.
As soon as you get infected or bring a kid back from college and let them torrent like crazy, the bandwidth overage costs get high, fast. I tried this for years with our customers, we're going unlimited because we're tired of arguing with people who can't comprehend this model.
As you might think it is political, I think it otherwise. Investigative reporters have been shown to be investigated and their loss of the 1st and 4th amendments very credible.

I think this article and these news stories should be as far reaching and as far spread as they can be to let EVERYONE know they are losing these freedoms unless they take a stand.
So now MS is playing catch-up with Canonical? http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/ubuntu-bakes-amazon-...
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I'm not impressed, this is 'residential' service we are talking about here.

If you want to host services, get static IP blocks, run BGP, pay more for a business-grade service.
I've talked to hundreds, if not thousands of developers at this point, and I think that although mobile test automation isn't as common as it should be, it's definitely growing in popularity (Think of the rise in popularity around web automation via frameworks like Selenium over the past 10 years). One of the major reasons is competition is ridiculously fierce and customers are very unforgiving, so quality is increasingly important.

Regarding tools, on both of the major platforms there are a number of popular, open source frameworks for writing tests. Robotium, UI Automator, Calabash, UI Automation, KIF, and on and on. Which one is best depends on the people creating the automation and the type of app under test.

Lastly, regarding the education piece, you're absolutely right. Automation is a software engineering project, yet all too often it's not treated like one. You can look for a magical solution (Test recorders, "crawlers," etc), but in the end it takes time to build sustainable tests, and those magical solutions end up being hindrances in the long run.

Disclaimer: I'm a founder at AppThwack...and even though we have a built-in compatibility suite with an automatic app explorer and stress test, I still push everyone I talk to to invest in engineering good, reliable test automation. We come from the enterprise world of test automation and have seen the massive time and money sinks a poor automation strategy creates.

P.S. Congrats Kevin! Best of luck at Appurify!
Let me guess. You have chosen wreak.me ;)
...how is that not a net neutrality issue?
This American Life corroborates that: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/479/t...
That's certainly true. Although I'm not an expert on the really advanced type system features, this is an example of convenience without culture, IMO. C# having painless lambdas allows this particular example to exist, but it's not required (or idiomatic, in some code bases) - one can still use plain 'ol null. That said, I'd much rather use C# than Java for exactly this reason.
Web Security Relies on SSL; Which Relies on Email; Which is Broken
Well, right, which to me points out that we have to learn to cope with the difference between "private" and "public" being fuzzy.
That's terrible! I'd have thought that Austin would have had far more options than that considering how many tech companies and startups there are. I guess we're all sorely lacking real competition and it seems Google isn't there either.
Better in that sense I agree but not 'good'.
Lavabit also flipped the bit and destroyed everyone's emails (without much complaint, at least that I have read). The goal was security, not availability. If security is the goal it's better to fail hard than fail [possibly] insecurely. POP/IMAP email also backs up itself--you retain a copy on your own machine.
Based on the information from the article, 40% of the time, this illegally obtained evidence isn't any help. The data you say they are 'taking guidance from' is illegally acquired and used (at least 40% of the time, but maybe as high 100%). That's indefensible.

"Current and former federal agents said SOD tips aren't always helpful - one estimated their accuracy at 60 percent. But current and former agents said tips have enabled them to catch drug smugglers who might have gotten away."

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE...

Your quotation marks are out of order, because I took pains not to say "basically they use evidence obtained illegally to prosecute someone". It's more subtle than that.

In cases where the parallel construction was successful, it was probably illegal, and the convicted can appeal.

In refutation of your general thrust that all investigations are like this and it doesn't matter[2]:
"Not all evidence gathered by a private investigator is legal, however. For instance if the PI breaks into a private residence, taps a phone, or uses a planted microphone or listening device in a private place, then in these cases such evidence is not generally admissible. That is because any conversations or activities done in private places, behind closed doors have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

[2] http://www.claydugas.com/legal-process/is-evidence-gathered-...

one last edit, just in case you had any doubt about the chance of successful appeal, this is legal terminology so it has a strange name but it is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_of_the_poisoned_tree

Better article on the IRS link:

[3] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/07/us-dea-irs-idUSBRE...
I didn't realize that there is a website for this: http://learnxinyminutes.com

Also didn't realize that the site had been posted before. :S
I see your point, but I disagree. There will always be those that just don't give a shit, but I get the feeling that people generally are better educated about privacy and the consequences of freely giving up information online.

People not respecting their own privacy is a marketing problem. Teach people it's cool to respect their privacy and people will be more careful. It used to be cool to smoke too, after all.