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This rant really confuses me....

* All sociologist jobs are government jobs? Citation needed.

* Dangerous low pay jobs are the result of public education system? This model lacks explanatory power. There have always been low-pay dangerous jobs. These occur in times and places where there is no public education system. They occur in times and places where there is a public education system. They occur in proportions (as related to other available jobs) that seem unrelated to the existence of teacher unions. Rather they seem to be a function of economic development level, with a healthy mix of labor law based restrictions.

Essentially, this rant seems to be off topic soap boxing. Given the "green" username - probably some form of sock-puppetry.
If they do succeed in "shutting the leaks down", I wonder if that would be enough for supporters to finally release all the docs publicly. Or for Assange to give out the key to one of his insurance files.

I wouldn't get my hopes up though, these so called leakers seem more stringently against full pubic disclosure than the people they are leaking against.
I love his coining of the term "state-loyal journalists." Greenwald, Snowden, et al deserve Nobel Peace Prizes...
It's based on household income, so is it reasonable to infer that Haskell programmers may be likely to be the sole income while ActionScript programmers have working spouses? That could make sense.
Before the recent leaks, the response was "OK, that's possible in theory buy surely they wouldn't." Now we know if they can, they do.
> There is no quantifiable definition of 'in shape' other than fat %.

This is not a way to determine someone's fitness or physical health. Body fat percentages are highly misleading.
I'm getting a serious Poe's law vibe from this comment and username.
Online tax software like TurboTax does this as well. It says crap like, "Loading your profile from last year..." or "Verifying your data is correct..." with a bar that takes 5 or 10 seconds to fill up before highlighting the Next Page button. But you can just click the Next button anyway and it'll go instantly.
Einstein was a patent office guy. Yet his notable weird tricks (like constant speed of light) aren't even in the same system.
They already were reading his gmail, if he still used it.
What they may have got were his PGP keys, which presumably he was using to talk to his boyfriend. I doubt however he had any real stuff on his laptop. That would be insane for a reporter who seems to have been as careful as Greenwald.

Nope, straight forward intimidation. I cannot imagine how they thought it would work, so either we assume the security services are incompetant, or there is some other cunning plan. Sadly the latter is very unlikely these days.
No, actually. Outside of Texas, the exception that proves the rule, you are not allowed to use lethal force to protect property.

As I understand Texas law (which I wouldn't surprise to find judicially nullified someday, like similar Oklahoma law), you are allowed to use lethal force on someone stealing your property after a verbal warning.

Which is in no way analogous to the point you're making. US law very much does not support "self-help" as its called to redress wrongs after the fact.
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Here is the thing, people use insecure password storage because secure password storage retrieval is seen as either "too slow" or it is seen as "not required". For example, how many people are still using md5 hashing for password storage?

It seems like all the govt issuing a secure online id will do is add another unused standard to the pile without changing the behavior that makes things less secure in the first place.

http://xkcd.com/927/ sums this problem up nicely.
> "libVim"

I think it would be better for developers to allow their programs to launch external editors. That way users can pick whichever editor they like. All the developer has to do is create a temporary file, run a command to open it, and watch for changes.

(Thanks to vimperator, I am using vim to write this.)
Yeah, and their pricing model isn't helping them either. It's a tough sell to get professional experts to hand over almost a quarter of their earnings before the taxman cometh.

Maybe if Google didn't fail pricing 101, they'd know something like 18.25% is more palatable to a consumer than a big round number like 20.
My point is TPM 2.0 appears to be a different beast. While it's optional today, it probably won't be tomorrow. Vendors are very keen to lock shit down and create walled app gardens in the name of increased security.
I'm learning C at the moment, but it isn't mentioned much in these comments. It seems to be niche expertise to me these days.
That means nothing - IBM made a 350 GHz silicon transistor that can go up to 500 GHz at very low temps: http://www.techspot.com/news/21961-ibm-produces-500ghz-silic...

On its own it's useless, though...
It doesn't work for IE9. The author built it with HTML5 stuff, so sadly the IE9 WP7 won't work.

But you should be used to that for mobile websites, people kinda just build for WebKit on mobile.
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The actionscript programmers may be getting paid higher (Mostly because the Flex enterprise hangover is still lingering), but in my experience the actual number of actionscript jobs available is sharply falling. I have been doing Flash/Flex dev for about 8 years now, and while my evidence is certainly anecdotal,i have gone from having tons of contract offers swamping my inbox to once every few months.Make no mistake, Flash and Flex IS dying. Javascript meanwhile is maturing remarkably, and it will soon be in a position where enterprise will seriously start considering it as a viable platform.
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Except that the government can require this standard's use to file taxes, access certain important government accounts, etc. They have the ability to create a standard and make it stick.
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So we are in an era of Mutally Assured Spying where every power spys on as much as they can just because that's what every other power might be doing?

At least in 1984 you only had to suffer the attentions of one of Oceania, East Asia or Eurasia!
Almost anything can be crowdsourced nowadays. 237 years ago, the founders of the US tried to crowdsource power. I don't see why we can't reboot that whole idea.

Political candidates, lobbying initiatives and legislation can all be directly impacted, in the current framework they exist under, by crowdsourcing. While Kickstarter and Indiegogo have shown us it's possible with art and industrial design and dozens of other media, there's not a go-to place to do it for politics.

So if this community really wants to change our dystopian future, then that's the answer. We could have the NSA completely defunded in a year if we wanted.
This would look really interesting if it weren't Google. Why do I want to invest my time, energy, and effort into creating their content. Even if I get paid for my time, I get no "warm fuzzy" feeling of goodwill, because Google is the middle man.
So, even in trying to be positive you mention and remind us all of the NSA...

And that now for me is the problem. I see "google", and think, Im being spied on by the US government. No, not exclusively google by any means, but for some reason google is top offender in my mind. Then add to that all the criticisms they got got years before hand, and, well, yes, I now see google as default "evil".

The sad part is, I dont believe for one second the creators of google ever, ever had this in mind. I do wonder if in quiet moments the google founders wonder what the hell happened.

On the other hand, google and all the other mega corps could of course fund their own political party and candidates who could stand for the freedoms they claim to desire and support. So, my charity runs out, given that by doing nothing they are making a choice.

By the way, that pizza bloke? What if he turns out to be a terrorist, and there is now meta data linking him and you? What if its only his friend who hates America's idea of "freedom", you're still linked by meta data. So, I say yes, it may well matter. I know, what have you got to hide?
you... bastard. Did you really have to mention ribs? I'm starving now :(
And reverting to reductio ad absurdum in an attempt to prove a logically weak position is better? Your closing works both ways. Your logic as far as I can see has basically been, to paraphrase; 'it annoys me'.

All recent (less than 3 years) Apple devices are sold either as touch devices or with touch enabled peripherals. Gestural interaction is the default paradigm of interaction on iOS/OS X (this is also true of Android devices). These users are largely used to this behavior, which can be changed if there is a desire to do so. This behavior does not affect users of other systems that don't support gestural interaction. There is no need therefore to cater specifically for Apple (or other) users as they, through daily interaction with their device, will intuit what to do. It puzzles me why the scrollbar still exists as an interaction device elsewhere. I really had to think about where and how they appear because I am so used to them simply not being there.

Perhaps you are looking at them in the wrong way. Where once the scrollbar was used for scrolling, it is now used to indicate the position the reader has reached on a page.
Teleportation just got easier—but not for you, unfortunately
I'm checking the mobile version right now. The "4chan-feeling" is conserved and the site is simple and readable without the need to zoom or scroll r/l
We need more "leaks", especially of the kind that shows the politicians who repeat the "nothing to hide" line, that they themselves have plenty of things to hide ... So perhaps it's time to start digging through the private lives of some politicians.
There is a app called "MiniHack" that is actually extremely nice. It has commenting, replying, login, voting, readability, etc. And it looks beautiful.
They don't care about their image. They care if they get locked up if they don't comply.
Firing you for free speech is a serious chilling effect NO? did you not read the "Without Interference" part of article 19

Another example is the Chinese allowed protestors against the Olympics in special zones - they of course arrested them after - that is not free speech.

Possibly you ought to update the constitution in line with the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights like most of the first world countrys have.
Exactly what I was thinking, I can't believe the populace is not choking on this concept!
Proof. Overwhelming proof. And all of the media reacting on this at once. There have been a few stories about spying before but at best each site ran one story about it and that was it. The next day everyone moved on.

I think both the brilliance of Greenwald/Guardian to launch a new story every few days and the stupidity of the US government when abusing its power to stop the press or Snowden, is what kept this for so long, and hopefully will continue to happen.
It's quite easy to test your hypothesis: Let's see if there are any "low-paying dangerous occupations" in countries without "corrupt teaching unions". Guess what? There are! Time to wipe the chalkboard again I'm afraid...
"Spiked" used to be "Living Marxism", which was the magazine of the Revolutionary Communist Party. The RCP members I used to know (only a handful) would revel in their own inconsistency - so since the demise of the RCP I can fully understand Spiked carrying on that particular tradition.
I hope you never accidentally advise a criminal and get metadata linked to a crime.
It was during the time when a bunch of people claimed they were "hacked" a bit after Diablo 3 came out.

It's on the bnet forums somewhere.
It's my understanding that warrants can be issued not just for individuals but "classes" of people—and those warrants are issued not by the judiciary ,but by the PM himself, or his appointed commissioner.

"A "warrant" to further investigate the content of this communication can be issued, not by the Judiciary but by the PM or the Commissioner, and such a warrant can be issued not only for individuals, but for a "class" of people within New Zealand." [1]

[1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/privacy/news/article.cfm?c_id=546&...
The one good thing I see is that cross-party-lines anger by some politicians is actually happening. The party leaderships are fighting it but for once they might be powerless to stop it.
I really hate when libraries blindly assume that you are going to be using jQuery and make zero mention of that as a dependency.
I don't use `git add -p` much, since i commit exclusively with `git gui`. The reason being that `git gui` allows me to stage single lines, or hunks AND allows me to change the granularity of hunks on the fly. Even if that isn't an option for you, i'm sure that `git add -p` has a command to modify hunk granilarity.
There are people who've been planning these things all along, just to give you a hint:

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society.

Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.

Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen.

These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

Author:
Zbigniew Brzezinski, United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981.

You can find this at:
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/162691-the-technotronic-era-...
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4:9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the
journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD
shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and
went with Barak to Kedesh.

4:10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up
with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him.

4:11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the
father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and
pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

4:12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up
to mount Tabor.

4:13 And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred
chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from
Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.

4:14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the
LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out
before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men
after him.

4:15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all
his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera
lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
How long until Gov ID is required to log into Facebook and Google ? Then the government doesn't need to even ask these annoying companies to access your data.
This is a wonderful idea!

Think of all the money the US taxpayers will save by not needing all that NSA gadgetry anymore! They'll just log in as you when they want to know what you're up to
Castle laws pertain to "Your home is your castle", and maybe business. I'm not aware of any that touch on property, they just make it clear you have no duty to retreat from your home (ADDED: true in 46 states according to Wikipedia), and the better ones allow you assume a home invader is a lethal threat, as you can reasonably assume about anyone invading an occupied dwelling. Otherwise proving that could be lethal to you, e.g. challenging the intruder gets a bullet in reply.

Note as usual all this is subject to judicial nullification, in my home state of Missouri as of 2010 the latter part of our crystal clear Castle Doctrine has been nullified through middle level appeals court required jury instructions. Our higher level judicial appointments are not surprisingly done according to the Missouri Plan (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Plan), so the usual suspects control the process, not the people through their elected representatives.
Use YubiKeys (something you have).

Use TrueCrypt volumes on USB sticks (encrypted data). Put puppet scripts on there to bootstrap your system.

Ship both separately and confirm receipt of YubiKey before shipping the USB stick.

Travel with unencrypted, freshly imaged hardware with no sensitive data (perhaps run an OS from a read-only file system).

Arrive, insert USB stick and YubiKey... now enter password (something you know)... and bootstrap your system to use it.

This is all a big pain in the arse, but leaves you travelling with nothing likely to get you into trouble.
"Designers" should never be put in a position of designing a UI. Claiming the mantle of "designer" usually seems to reveal a preference for static aesthetics over functional utility.

Nearly every time I see someone talking about "design" in the realm of user interfaces, or about making software "beautiful", they're invariably attempting to use concepts applicable to media intended for the presentation of information to a viewer in the context of an interface intended to facilitate dynamic interaction between a functional tool and the user, and it always seems to make the software more limited, less productive, and more frustrating to use.

A user interface is about exposing software functionality and enabling users to maximize their efficient use of their tools. Optimizing a UI to look good in a screenshot means not optimizing the UI to provide efficient access to the functionality of the application, and not optimizing the flexibility of the application for users to adapt it to their own priorities and work styles.

This trend of attempting to exercise top-down control over user experience needs to end, and software developers need to start paying attention to what users are actually trying to do with the products they build, instead of deferring to inappropriately-applied theoretical models offered by visual designers.
Ouch, is that a full-time job? Is that 14K euros or dollars?

I barely manage on 24K for me and my girlfriend (made some bad decisions though).

I've heard rent and cost of living is cheaper in Poland than in Uruguay - we're still in a housing bubble here, and it's close to the most expensive country on earth for some stuff (example: cars).
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Wow, that's pretty rude.

The sociologist in the article - getting paid over 120k. Read the article before jumping with rage.

Basic economics - the low pay is a result of oversupply of people willing to do the work. The oversupply is because many uneducated men being churned out from k12. k12 is run by teachers.

I'm quite sure you're a teacher or your parents were teacher, that explains the rage (By the way, one of my parents was a teacher, but I'm not going to use that to excuse the system).
Founder of JotForm here.

To celebrate our new API we are running a competition for developers. The grand prize is $5000. We also have category prices and all complete app submissions will receive t-shirts.

The dates are from August 24th to September 24th. Anybody can join the competition.

The apps will be featured on a new JotForm Apps section. Non-free apps are welcome. JotForm has over 1 million users, and we'd be happy promote apps created by the community.

If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them here.
If they don't audit what people have access to, who knows what those people are doing with it. That's even scarier than the NSA recording everything, that their employees and contractors can do whatever they want with the info.
Gene Sharp is excellent, I am reading From Dictatorship to Democracy.

On the subject, I think the biggest problem is how to make people understand how serious this is, make them see that the similarities between what is happening and totalitarianism and even fascism is to disturbing.

Today I was speaking with a friend about faceCrap and he just doesn't care about it, he doesn't even try to get properly informed and said that no one would do anything against him because the information he shares is not relevant. I tried to explain the problems with the greed ones controlling the information (hence truth) of the planet, the political and economical advantages it brings to people that doesn't care about society and how his data could say a lot about him but at the end he told me I am paranoid :).

So the political problem we are facing, in my opinion, is a consequence of lack of interest and even selfishness.
I own a small factory - 15,000 sq ft, and ten employees. We are currently doing mostly 'build on demand' which is another way to say 'Just-in-time'(0). About 50% of the daily shipments are products built _that day_. We are offering custom colors, personalized engraving, and will even change some of the dimensions for a single piece order. The parts that we sell that are not build on demand have usually been created within two weeks. There is nothing dusty in the warehouse, it just doesn't stay around.

This is all possible because of flexible tooling and processes. We get our raw material from all over the country, and a small portion of the parts are sourced internationally. I would bet/hope the future looks somewhat like the path we are on. Many consumers seem to want similar things as everyone else, just a little different and custom.

As for depreciation, on a small scale the Section 179 provision works quite well for us. The IRS will let you deduct $500,000 per year in the same year the equipment was put into service(1). As long as I don't spend more than $500,000 that year on equipment, then no depreciation schedule needed, just take it all that year. An operation the size of mine can't spend that much anyway!

I own a few 3D printers, and after using them I am not worried about my future. I think the most likely outcome of better machines in the 'push button, make stuff' area will just be more and more complex items that are built on shorter runs. Infrastructure is good enough to get products shipped around easily. So I think in the future will be small operations like mine making semi-custom stuff more complex than you can make yourself. It will be like printing, the desktop printer brought the ability to make nice printouts home but it didn't kill high speed offset printing. Now we get high speed offset printing with each copy able to have each print with a different picture and wording. As domestic tools get better, so do industrial tools. Someone using a tool everyday can afford much better tools than a hobbyist.

Also consider time - A 3D printer might take 8 hours to print that Yoda figurine, and Amazon is trying to get you the molded one in a couple of hours. As long as you live in an urban area, you would still be faster with Amazon.

0. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_in_time_(business)
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_179_depreciation_deduct...
Joel Spolsky's help company did quite well. Not sure Google is technically capable of pulling this off, though. Was trying to use Hangouts all last weekend and half the people in the hangout couldn't get messages no matter what. The half we did get working involved bizarre dances of everyone going to each other's page to say hi before messages magically started coming through. All were shown as in the hangout, though.

They threw out a good working system in Google Talk that even had people contacting me from other chat clients and platforms, like iPhone. Now they can't even get chatting inside their own platform working. I'm sure any effort by engineers to get this working would just immediately by quashed by the useless biz guys who control Google now.