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Yes I am going to the nodeconf :) I am not staying on the island because I bought a dayticket, I will book a hotel room and will stay around 1 week in Dublin. Will be my first time there.
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Sorry, widespread assault and the experience described in the article are in no way the same as the everyday experiences of women in the western world. If you think they are you're delusional.
I trust Greenwald more than I trust the NSA and the government. Glenn doesn't spy on me, for one.
You realize paying taxes is mandatory in the US, right?
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Apologies for the throwaway, but I thought I'd share my letter to Nicky Wagner here. For the uninitiated, ICT is "Information and Communication Technology" - roughly the equivalent to IT in the states.

Hi Nicky,

I'm a Software Engineer in the United States. My wife and
I are presently in the process of migrating to New Zealand,
specifically Christchurch, under the Skilled Migrant
Category visa.

I'm sure I don't need to inform you that ICT is on
New Zealand's list of long term skills shortages. Further,
I'm sure that you're acutely aware of the significance that
ICT growth can play to the economic resurgence of Christchurch.
As someone who is hoping to aid in this effort, I feel
obligated to inform you that the GCSB is a huge deterrent for
me. Being that my peers in the ICT industry are also quite
sensitive to issues such as these, I can't imagine that this
will help the ICT skills shortage for Christchurch, or the rest
of New Zealand.

Please vote against the GCSB, and urge your colleagues to do
the same.

Edit: Now that I'm rereading this I realize that I wrote "the GCSB" when I meant "the GCSB bills." Whoops!

Edit 2: Sent the following clarification. And here's hoping I didn't just get added to some watch list and screw over my chances for visa approval!

Just for clarification, I'm referring to the GCSB bills
below, not the entire GCSB. I support the GCSB as a whole,
as well as its greater purpose, but I'd much rather be
moving to a country that didn't allow for warrantless
surveillance of its people.
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Speaking of up/down and Apple, I saw today that Apple's ethernet ports are upside-down. They're supposed to have the contacts at the top, to avoid collection of dust when the port is not in use.
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"Relevant": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Diy0RNe_c
I don't view that as a valid excuse not to follow the rules. Admittedly, I don't know any other language than English. But if I was setting out to participate in a bounty program run by a company that didn't have their website in my language... I would most certainly make sure I had someone to tell me what the rules are. Other people have condemned him for not knowing English. I don't fault him for that. But there is no excuse for not knowing the rules.
but in the us freedom of speech is not universally applied ie you employer can sack you for what you say for example

"oh maybe we should organize a union" or maybe "the NHS model is a good idea"

Any changes need to apply universally and not just to the government.
Presumably, avoiding electrocution of the passenger being extracted is also a goal.
He could have been gifted online stuff anyway. Get an account, send him the password.

Bitcoins for these services add nothing other than some extra % costs when using them, and still don't solve the problem of getting physical goods where he is.
Yes, that is exactly what the problem was, though it got lost in the drama.

The car has a protection mechanism to prevent the battery from freezing, and when left over night in the cold without a charger, it will actually run an auxiliary heater to keep the battery warm enough.

The reviewer expected the charge to be the same in the morning, so he called their technical support when it was so low. They didn't explain that the charge can substantially decrease overnight when parked in the cold, because it automatically runs a heater for the battery. Instead they suggested that it was an erroneous reading, and that it would correct once the battery heated up.

It wasn't really a design flaw so much as a mistake from technical support exacerbated by an overbearing response attacking a journalist for not being omniscient.
Not all acts of terror are blowback for American policies. Nobody ever claimed that they were. Just that all acts of terror were blowback for something.
"that's just one tiny example of many!"

One interesting observation is when it fails, out comes the moralists and ethicist explaining the game plan is wrong. When its a success, as in we put up a guy who doesn't turn out to be a raving lunatic, silence descends on the moralists and ethicist camp. Therefore by definition all criticism of foreign policy will 100% be backed up by a subcollection of truthful, highly public, epic fail. This makes it look like a universal fail for all time, although the actual ratio of success to fail is not only non-discussed, its probably not possibly to calculate legally with non-classified sources.

This is why an apparently 100% epic fail is none the less stable and constant for multiple generations.

Its reminiscent of TV news coverage of airline operations. The only coverage is of crashes. Therefore all airliners crash all the time. Not so... Doesn't mean the few crashes are good, or the system is inherently good, or perfect, but it doesn't mean its ineffective.
Perhaps they do, but I wouldn't restrict it to just being "better students" or not.

"elite athletes...perform better than the rest of us in yet another way. These athletes excel...in how fast their brains take in and respond to new information -- cognitive abilities that are important on and off the court." [1]

[1]: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130318151634.ht...
Blimey, what did we do before email?
me too:

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Scienc...
"They" generally works, it's just not commonly used and so sounds a little odd. Try using "they" instead of instead of "he" and "her" for a few minutes to see. It works.
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> I love the idea of subverting a regime by supplying communication tools!

It's a theme in a book by Charles Stross, Singularity Sky.
Me too. But don't be fooled into thinking anything different would have happened elsewhere, this definitely would have happened in the US, and I doubt he would even have been allowed a lawyer and most likely held indefinitely. And we have already seen Europe close off their airspace to the Bolivian presidential plane due to suspicions Snowden was on board.
If one person does it, it's self-censorship. If a group of people do it's a non-violent collective action protest.
If no actual surveillance data was leaked, though, that's likely because Snowden is an idealist. It seems that he had access to that data. If the next leaker just wants some cash, things could change. (Or, hell, maybe the previous leaker--maybe spy is a better word here--who didn't get caught because s/he didn't go public, or was purely the victim of an ultra-sophisticated phishing attempt!)
I wonder if you will make it onto a(nother) watch list, in much the same way as anyone making a donation to Wikileaks?
Let me try and phrase this in terms that aren't loaded such as 'slippery slope' or rhetorical geometry.

I believe in the importance of a free press, and recent developments are troubling and lead to understandable concerns about the ability of ordinary people and journalists to discuss, report on, or investigate without undue duress, potential criminal activities by rogue agents exceeding their mandate as proscribed by their democratically elected governments.
This seems more intuitive. Better athletes being quick on their feet figuratively as well as literally. This (and confidence) may be a reason that athletes make good salespeople. And it could explain why so many are traders.

I've seen much less as research professors or computer programmers. This could also be because the time commitments required in school for these topics is inconsistent with what's required to do sports competitively.

I'm not saying that exercise is bad. I'm positive that it's good. It's just my perception that those who exercise more in their youth tended not to be the best students.
It's called representative democracy.
I do buy this. It would be interesting to see them quantify math * 2 versus math + running.
I do. I believe the person had the authorship stuff on their product pages. To me it looked like a blog post from the search result but by actually reading the headline you could see that it wasn't.

Here is the article you are referencing: http://www.jitbit.com/news/183-how-google-authorship-decreas...
"Liberal" as in this meme: http://www.quickmeme.com/College-Liberal
The two fights don't conflict. In fact, they complement each other.

When all email is getting stored in plaintext on NSA computers, it's going to be hard to get the government to give up all that juicy data. Reduce the value of the data they're getting, and it's easier to reach a point where the political heat just isn't worth it to them.

At the same time, the political effort helps prevent new laws that make the technical solutions more difficult. And it helps encourage people to actually use our fancy technical solutions. If ever there were a time when we can get people on board with using crypto, it's now.
If you really wanted a Tesla, couldn't you tow a small trailer?
It should be, unfortunately it's not always immediately obvious with all devices which side of the port is supposed to be "up".
The point I am confused about is why a legal analysis blog is worried about government surveillance, so I am wondering if my perception of what Groklaw actually does is incorrect.
i'll check.
"One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda" [note: using a clear abuse of a terrorism law] "was to send a message to recipients of Snowden's materials, including the Guardian, that the British government was serious about trying to shut down the leaks."

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/britain-forced-guardian-destroy-cop...

It should be obvious to all of us how futile it is to destroy those hard drives if the goal is merely to limit exposure. We may reasonably assume this is just as obvious to people making decisions in those intelligence agencies, which ought to give you a big clue about the real intent of actions like these.
I don't see the necessity to play exactly the same game our political establishment is playing (raising millions, spin-doctoring, bribery) in order to beat the system from within. It may be one way to do it, but it's costly and seems extremely inefficient. Hopefully there are other ways to achieve something.

Frankly, I am unsure about your intentions for writing the above post. You insinuate that organizations like the EFF are not suitable to fight the fight for privacy. You make this look like a gargantuan effort to even get started. Are you trying to discourage people or have you just given up?
Way back: if you're a programmer, you should know who Grace Hopper was:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper#UNIVAC
All the time reading this discussion I was thinking about Parkinson. What if overgrown beaurocracies created a system that protects their existence? Self organized megabeurocratic society?

Another thought: the resistance to any corporate software that would considerably increase efficiency is explained by selfpreservation of the system.
Printing press: now digital files, copiers make copies, record metadata of files
Telephone: GPS, trackable, recordable, micropohone, imaging system. wirelines rarely used.
Snail Mail: every parcel is imaged digitally
Cafe, walks, parks: CCTV on every streetcorner, remote acees to all wireless devices
Driving: Licenseplate scans (passive) of interstate traffic

MOSAIC.
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Yep, for those of us who can read, the point of the comment was that not everyone has as many options as programmers.
Well building a secure system for a TLA isn't low skill labor It needs to be built to very high standards googles data centers have poor physical security for example.

For this sort of use case you need to trust the people who are building your DC's just as much as your sysadmin with root access.

Why do you think the FO in the UK has people whose job is to design and build secure sites and to oversee contractors - to avoid the unfortunate experience of finding bugs in your embassy as the USA has done in the past.
Viewing it that way can be a huge help when you're approaching job interviews too. When you see an interview as, "I'm a professional; they're professionals in my field; let's talk to see if there are projects that we'd like to work on together," it takes away a lot of the anxiety.
"lot of people were hoping Obama was the start of a new direction"

Anyone who thought that wasn't paying attention, of course, but it's not like that's a new thing.

And it makes sense: it's not like your vote is actually going to do anything, so why bother paying attention? Just go vote if you remember, and pick the guy with the letter by his name that you voted for last time. (Can look up Ilya Somin's writings regarding "rational political ignorance" for more on that.)
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I think it makes sense that Google +1s is used in high search rankings. It's the one social signal they can audit to see if people are cheating on it. They own the whole Google+ social graph and can easily detect if it's being gamed.

Or it can just be that the more +1's you get, the more links you get, which boosts the rankings. So it may just be an indirect correlation.
isn't that a great thing to have in itself?
> Miranda also claims that he didn't know what he was carrying, despite assisting his partner, visiting this film-maker, and knowing all the passwords!

Why is this impossible? Of course he knows his mobile phone and laptop password. It's entirely possible, though, and maybe even likely, that he doesn't have the decryption passphrases for the data he's couriering on them.

People hosting a Tor node do the same thing - they transport data without knowing what's in it.
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In my experience, there is time for gym workouts, sun bathing, crosswords and Mozart. What would be interesting would be studying how these four activities affect brain waves doing them in different sequences. For example, listen to Mozart, then workout, then crosswords, then sun bathe, reverse the order tomorrow and then continue to switch it up and see if you can optimize activities based on when you do them and what you were doing previous to the activity.
The UK isn't a monarchy...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitutional_monarchy
Basically the royal family has mostly ceremonial duties not political ones.
"I for one would sue the hell out of you..."

No, you wouldn't. It's incredibly expensive and without a really blatant reason like "We're firing you because you're black, old, and gay", no lawyer's going to do the work on contingency.

Anyway, the company is never going to say they fired you for running a knitting website, or whatever it is you do. They'd just say they're downsizing, sorry, and while they're grateful for your contributions, market conditions necessitate an occasional reorganization.
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Ah yes - the Festival delivering cell phones from orbit :-)
There is no "we", but I also disagree that it would "destabilize things". I think that after a brief initial upheaval, it would stabilize things to a great degree, and in a positive manner.
You obviously don't understand the relationship of the Queen and the UK government. She is a non-political 'figurehead' head of state. She represents the state. She has to be non-political and neutral, as she is unelected. If she started spouting off her own opinions on various things (even if you might agree with them), then it would undermine this relationship to such an extent that in all likelihood, the monarchy would be abolished.
I hope those who treated me with scorn for suggesting the politicians and business people are effectively blackmailed by the mere existence of NSA type spying can now see it for real.

No direct threat, not conversation, no deals. Just the fear of the knowledge that one is being comprehensively watched, and what "they" might have. This fear is enough to alter behavior, to conform.

Again, at what stage can we describe the US and UK, and their co-conspirators as fascist, police state, oppressive, and so on?

Or, do we have micro targeted oppression? Is that the modern way?
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You do aim it so it hits dead on. Then it emerges at some different angle which knocks itself off that dead-on path that you so carefully aimed. Now it's traveling an altered path that makes it emerge at that different angle.
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To why they didn't go to court:

@dansabbagh "Reason Gdn destroyed the computers was to avoid a lengthy legal UK battle that wld have prevented more reporting of Snowden files."

https://twitter.com/dansabbagh/status/369794535464767488
Seriously? You do know their hatred is basically for our attitude that we can go bomb them and occupy them without repercussions, right? Is that what you think we should stand for? Because the whole fucking world and everybody in it wants freedom and prosperity, and that's what we should stand for, but somehow can't manage to do.
These are in no way a "protest". Once a site shuts down, that's it, there is no message / discussion / fight, and it just blends into the background radiation a day later.

Continuing the site would benefit the "protest" infinitely more. And the operators probably know this on some level.

And that's the real story here -

These sites are shutting down because 1) it was unprofitable, 2) it was a time-sink, and 3) now there is an excuse to get out and move on with their lives and businesses.

*I'm not blaming them - and I'm not saying it's anything above the subconscious level. I'd probably do the same.
So I am not nuts!

I always wondered if something was wrong with my charging cables and USB phone cables always failing to work after only some months...

So indeed, the mini and micro both have issues (thankfully the micro is "less worse" or I would be buying cables like there is no tomorrow)
It's been done, and math + running wins. Check out Tony Schwartz the Power of Full Engagement. In it he talks about how you can't just go go go at the thing you want to get good at, you have to take breaks and do completely unrelated things, like running. If you don't, you'll burn out.
Basically, the British monarchy continues to exist because it does nothing. The prime minister is elected by the people if he does something the people don't like, they can elect someone else. If the Queen does something the people don't like, their only recourse is to abolish the monarchy.
I posted this in response to the American being groped on travel to India, got -3 karma points:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6240211

Now I'm reading this story, in which pj explains her story which was exactly my point from the comment linked above. What's the deal?

Anyhow, yes, when the sum of human communication is read by the US government (and other governments and private intel corporations) then it's incredibly destructive to the human condition and society.

We're fucked. Time to start fixing this for real. Open up your IDE's and/or text editors and get to work. Make sure to open source (GPL or Affero GPL) everything. Work on decentralized P2P encrypted networking. Good projects: cjdns ... see you on the flip side. Hack the Planet!
I think you're missing the point that the actual important policies are not up for debate and are agreed to by both sides before the two winners are picked for us to vote on. All the electorate gets to decide on is meaningless stuff. Both candidates will always want the elimination of privacy, destruction of the middle class, complete subservience to wall street, etc. The electorate gets to decide on unimportant stuff like the skin color of the winner... it doesn't really matter because either winner will implement the same policies, although perhaps with slightly different PR campaigns.

A fundamental impedance mismatch is the public wants/needs policies. However they're only allowed to vote on two hand picked two sides of the same coin "leaders", not the actual policies. The "winner" is the candidate who tells the best lies about policies, which will of course be forgotten after inauguration, and both are going to do the same thing anyway so it doesn't matter very much which wins.
I googled him after writing the comment but didn't feel the need to edit it - my point was they're all obscure to the general population.
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This is kind of exciting. I know that mongrel2, for instance, hit the REQ/XREQ nonsense he fixed.
student=/=intelligence

Fallacy right there.
3 - They don't care. 4 - they think it's a good idea because they would never stray from the boundaries set by their benevolent tribal leaders, so this only affects other people
. And when it starts to affect them they'll find out that everyone just assumes they're 'other' and does not care about their fate because they think the same way.
The problem with these doors is the complexity and the fact that a simple tree branch stuck in it would completely fuck it up. The complexity means that it will break much more often than a regular door - it has motors and multiple pieces.

Also imagine a child sticking a finger in it while it's closing, turning it into a meat grinder.
But the Home Office has defended the detention, saying police must act if they think someone has "stolen information that would help terrorism".

Can obviously be extended to:

But the Home Office has defended the detention, saying police must act if they think someone has "stolen property that would help terrorism".

And therefore anti-terrorism laws can be used in any scenario involving anything that could possibly be useful to terrorists (cars, boats, wheelbarrows...).
People dance in the streets for everything in the Arab world. I can assure you that there is lots of hootin' and hollerin' in Indiana about similar atrocities visited upon our enemies - we just don't dance, is all.
> Sadly, as an American, I have to point out that the main impetus seems to be coming from this side of the Atlantic this time and both places' governing bodies seem to be complicit and stepping on the gas.

Yeah, we pushed on Yemen too:

http://www.thenation.com/article/166757/why-president-obama-...
The 20+ gallon tank in my old Jeep Grand Cherokee would add over 300lb to the "wet weight". It also took (IIRC) an insane 7L of oil. So that stuff adds up.
They can, and do, force you to divulge your key.
Flashing ones wealth? The car is cheap compared to most BMW's and Audi's on the market...
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I don't really see why it would be any different from taxing a cash currency?