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You've completely missed my point and feel that reiterating the same point over and over will somehow change my mind. If you can't be bothered to read or address the points I proposed, then why did you even bother submitting a response?
I'm guessing he shorted it at $40 like all the other smart people did.
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Can anyone explain for the uninformed how anything like surveillance affects Groklaw?

I was under the (probably wrong) impression that most of what Groklaw did was explain the law and court cases in simple terms.
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If your laws are being ignored by institutions in power, you have bigger problems, and you can't code your way out of each one fast enough.
"99) I can change the world with my technology. No you can't.

99A) Corollary: Don't smoke crack."
> best way to control a population is to analyze and manipulate the information they consume

That brought back a quote from a past: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."

I had to look it up to get the exact wording right. Was only half surprised that it comes from Orwell's 1984.
Microsoft's DNS server was forked from BIND 4, Merchant Server was an acqusition that run on Python in it's first incarnation and as dalke mentions various networking infrastructure came from the BSDs.
Seems a bit on the expensive side compared to Gandi or FastMail.
I'm personally very ignorant on this subject (and really appreciate the detail in this thread). I just wanted to add that I recently watched a documentary by Keanu Reeves called Side by Side about the move from analog to digital in cinema, for better or worse, which included quite a bit about the RED cameras and beyond. I thought it was a phenomenal documentary and well worth the watch for anyone interested.

http://sidebysidethemovie.com/
Groklaw has been a jewel in the crown of the free internet. We are all unbelievably impoverished by its passing. This is truly awful.
The problem with the block list business model is that false positives have a much lower negative cost to the black list provider than false negatives. Users who find that some spammer doesn't get blocked, will get really annoyed, and make their displeasure known to the blacklist provider (or just switch to some other blacklist). As long as it's not a very high visibility site which is getting blocked (i.e., it's just some startup or a relatively low-profile blog that gets blocked), it's no skin off the blocklist provider's back. So the problem with blacklists like SURBL is going to be a very hard one to fix; the dead hand of economics doesn't really care about irrelevant things like fairness or justice.
>While elsewhere in the comments, there is the sentiment that "you can't code yourself out of this", my hopes of voting myself out of it (or otherwise "fixing" a system, as if it was just accidentally "broken") are much lower.

So you intent of fixing just a small point of the whole mess (the surveillance thing) and not the overall mess (bad governments, something that affects 100% of our life and countries)?

Not to mention there is nothing to fix this way. Everything can be outlawed, including mere use of unlocked general purpose computers as a non authorized professional in, say, 20 years time.
"Some projects flourish sure but the same forces that profit off the court-less killings of others are collating your data, your pet projects. Harvesting your stolen info out of botnets."

> That is alarmist hyperbole.

Those were two direct references, the first being SAIC with their military drone[1] and domestic 'domain awareness center[2]' operations. The second being Endgame Systems and their monetization of botnet data/malware[3].

> Let's keep the spotlight where it is needed -- on the secrest out-of-control governmental surveillance organs of various nation states.

On it with laser-like focus, sir.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2011/dec/29/world/la-fg-drones-c...

[2] http://oaklandwiki.org/Domain_Awareness_Center

[3] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems
What is even more scary is that we have been in freefall in this regard mostly since at least Nixon signed the Banking Secrecy Act.

This was followed by Carter signing FISA....

Regan followed, signing among other things legislation to allow the military to enforce drug laws domestically as an exemption to Posse Comitatus. This meant that the military was involved in surveillance at both Ruby Ridge and Waco, and also directly provided military equipment and in some cases personnel to these operations (in addition to Navy SEALs raiding crack houses in some cities).

Then came Clinton and things got worse again with the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act and some other laws.

Then came GWB, no further comment required.

And now we have Obama.

Whoever we elect screws us. That's the truth.
The secondary market in private stocks is far from efficient, as can be seen by how much IPO valuations tend to differ from the level the relevant stocks were previously trading at.

Also most people's utility functions are not linear in money - but those of rich people/institutions are much closer to linear, and rich people/institutions dominate the market.
There's still a big world outside the Internet, and yet ironically, we live in a world where some employers are so stupid that they won't hire someone without a Facebook, making the abuse and surveillance of Internet more relevant than it needs to be.

You know what's my thought towards such employers? A big fat FUCK YOU! Those are companies, where I rather collect unemployment benefits than ever working one day for such an outfit.

The same sentiment is extended to any service, which requires me to have a Facebook (or any other social media) account.
> To say nothing of the fact that some of those precast tubes are going to be precast straight, and others precast curved. They're not interchangeable.

I don't know enough about steel and construction, but I think the tubes could all be made straight. Hyperloop curves have very large turn radius. Steel tubes are not completely rigid, they can curve a little by themselves.
The Guardian shifted from a .co.uk to a .com very recently (~10-14 days ago), now showing content with a /uk subdomain. I wonder how much of that decision was based around the pressure they've been put under by the UK government. I imagine it's been a considered change for a while, but if you're starting to get concerned about journalistic freedom in the UK moving your reporting outside of it gives you a little wiggle room. Not sure how well it'll play long term, so we'll see.

It's sickening seeing how far the UK government is going to persecute journalists for exposing the surveillance state that's been created over the last decade. Pulling journalists partners in for questioning as a terrorist, forcing destruction of uncomfortable evidence? All in the name of protecting us from another round of terrorism, when really there's been significantly fewer terrorist incidents in the last 10 years than in the 10 before.

Edit: a quick traceroute shows that The Guardian seems to have it's servers for the .com outside the UK, and guardian.co.uk is/was located in London.
You need a CA for TLS-secured comms between MTAs. Many MTAs are set up to do opportunistic encryption out of the box, but they won't be validating the certs they get, so there's no guarantees about who's got the private key.

Of course there's no need to rely on a central CA - it's not hard to run your own, and you can make it reasonably secure - say, a small ARM Linux board with passphrase-protected private keys on a removable SD card. Generating the keys in a secure way is perhaps a bigger problem - untrusted hardware RNGs, poor quality entropy after boot etc.

One can also keep a virtual machine CA on a hardware-encrypted USB device (IronKey, say, depending on your level of trust with Imation) - it's easy enough to bootstrap a tiny Linux distribuution from source with just OpenSSL and some utility scripts to issue & revoke certs.

You don't necessarily need a $5000 HSM solution to issue your own SSL certificates at this level.
There are extra taxes for trading with currencies in Germany (and other countries, it seems; google "forex tax"). So without it being recognized as a currency, you still have to pay VAT, but not forex tax.
What did you post to trigger that response? I'd like to see the full thread.
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I've worked on OpenAMQ before ZeroMQ. And lots of proprietary stuff before that. So it would be more like dozenth-system syndrome :)
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It's not about a lack of English language skills.

His English is actually good enough. In the post he posted on Mark's wall you can see the language is good enough and I saw the video interview too where he even spoke well enough.

A technical and step-by-step report was well within his capability.

He could attach screenshots or create a video demonstration.

He used the bug on real users (2 of them!) one of them being Mark Zuckerberg which has obviously created huge negative PR for Facebook.

If someone tests a bug on your Facebook account how happy would you be?

Facebook can't reward someone who used a bug against its users.

On top of that he has damaged their reputation too. Almost all major news sites have written headlines similar to "Palestinian developer hacked Mark Zuckerberg", "Security vulnerability found in Facebook" etc etc which I'm sure they are not super thrilled about.
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I don't think that it's useful to be talking about Obama specifically. Before Obama there was Bush Jr, who was the sitting president when most of these programs were put in place. It should be clear now that it's not one specific President, or one specific party, but the whole political class that has been corrupted. Thinking things will get better at the next election will absolutely not help things, unless the issue du jour of the next election is privacy, and the new president chosen based on their commitment to privacy. Even then it's not sure whether such a President could successfully make meaningful change.
There is this annual event "Freedom not Fear" which is about protesting against government surveillance - this year in Germany there is a huge coalition organizing demonstrations on September 7 http://blog.freiheitstattangst.de/

Hashtag: #fnf13

The pirate parties together with other organizations all over the world plan to join in. Spread the message and contact me if you plan to organize something.
> You don't necessarily need a $5000 HSM solution to issue your own SSL certificates at this level.

Well sure, I can issue them myself in a few minutes, the issue is that arbitrary mail servers won't be able to authenticate me. Which means we're means we're back to MITM attacks—better than plain text if the observer can't manipulate the data stream—but I wouldn't bet on it. Work with the assumption that the NSA is Mallory, not Eve.
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The problem with Occupy was that there was no demanded reforms, only complaints and protests against things. Protests aren't ever enough though.

It is telling how little credibility Occupy had with Washington when Obama, giving his jobs speech during the protests, called for the deregulation of Wall St.
My experience is that third party blacklists (especially for e-mail spam) have a much worse false positive problem. As I said in another comment, economics is working against you. There is relatively little or no cost to a blacklist provider if there is a false positive. And there are a lot of people who care very much about spam, or malware, who put a lot of pressure on blacklist providers to be as comprehensive and to react as quickly as positive.

Heck, if you are looking at this from a larger social good perspective, it might even be better for society at large to have the blacklist provider be much more aggressive about blacklisting sites quickly. What's the cost of a malware compromising someone's machine, and requiring someone to take their desktop off-line for a day or more while they reinstall everything from scratch (and find out that they no longer can find their MS Office reinstall disks, and the new MS Office requires them to relearn where all controls are on the reorganized toolbar)? Versus the economic cost of some minor web site getting blocked for a few days?

In any case, given that you as the minor web site won't be providing any payments to the blacklist provider, why do you assume the incentive structure will be any better with third-party blacklists?
It does provide us the protections we need, the government just violates those protections until a court slaps them down. It becomes a battle of lawyers, between those who twist the words to bypass every protection and those who sit there and pull apart every twist to reveal the deficiency of the argument.

The 4th is more than enough to protect the taking of our cellphones. Like any property of ours, our houses for one, it should require a warrant to search
Then it's not an open one.
first step to native support for retina images in browsers, not one of those dozens hackish polyfills :)
For those not from NZ and wondering like me what the "GCSB Bill" is:

GCSB is the Government Communications Security Bureau of New Zealand[1]. There seem to be two bills[2], and the topic has been on HN several times, but never got many points[3].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Communications_Secur...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5989010

[3] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=GCSB+bill
I thought that another big advantage of micro USB over mini USB was that it's a lot easier to combine type A & B. The difference between A & B is most obvious in a full size USB cable. The "A" plug is the flat side that goes into your computer, and the "B" plug is the square one that goes into your device.

The differentiation made a lot of sense when USB was exclusively master-slave. However, the addition of the on-the-go standard (OTG) means that things like a cell phone can function as either a master or a slave. Thus the connector on your cell phone is likely a micro-AB connector that can accept either a type-A or type-B plug so you can connect your cell phone to both computers & storage devices without requiring two different ports.

However, a double check before posting indicates that a mini-AB standard does exist. So that's not the reason. I'll post anyways because I think it's useful information on its own...
That 'something unhealthy' is called privilege, and most people assume that it will protect them from government atrocities.

Little do they know that privilege is given at the behest of the oppressor, and can be revoked instantaneously.

I suspect that US tech companies who are complicit in dragnet surveillance - and PRISM specifically - are already understanding this.
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I found this insightful: "[flat design] can hinder usability because users don’t always know what is clickable."

I ran into this playing with iOS 7 beta. When I'm trying to close an application in their new overlay, I expect to "tap out" of that mode. It didn't work. Turns out I had to swipe it away, and I think that would have been more obvious without a flat design.
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Could you explain the history of the 5th ammendmment in this context? I understand from some light Wikipedia reading that it was originally around mostly to prevent tortured confessions. Why is it still relevant at all?
One can wonder what both Iraq's invasions will result in.

I still wonder how many Iraqis casualties are dead from Iraqis bombings. I often read numbers like 60 at a time. Makes me wonder if political change in a country is worth that kind of situation.
People might flip out at first about putting all those classes in there, but it works great for tricky layouts. Extra Strength Responsive Grids uses basically the same approach.
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Once you get used to it, the grid classes makes it easy to look at the markup, see whats going on and move things around any way you choose.
nice. he made the world a safer place.

else
{

//Meanwhile somewhere in the black market

$parent->postFacebook("I'll be early from work today and have lost my key. Leave the key in the flowers.");

$child->postFacebook("Ok, no problemos.");
}
Sort of takes away from the "power" and "beauty" of the language when you need to dissect your code and understand the runtime to get reasonable performance.
That's a completely new one on me. I seem to stand corrected on the Dell issue (could someone expand on this?) -- but I still think you are casting your net a bit wide. I apologize for the heaping pile of denigration as you call it but maybe tone it down a bit and take the time to show (and link) in more detail why you are saying what you are saying, ok?
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The purpose of C++ is to provide experts with a toolbox to do anything without any compromise. This is why the language is hard to master and very easy to misuse. It's a two edged sword literraly. Although in C++ one could say it's more like a two-edged chainsaw.

In this case, I would simply say that the author problem is more about how he relates to C++ than about C++ itself.

Saying C++ is abrasive is a valid point, but saying it cannot be as fast as C or it cannot do "something" is stratospherically stupid.
True, but is it a good impulse? http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/purity.html
This is why my friends ask me as an Iranian how the hell I can be happy living in the U.S. I can't explain them that U.S. citizens are viction of the same policies. The thing that I don't understand is, who are those elite people who make this kind of decisions? Who are they? Who leads the whole thing?
How does this project relate to crossroads IO, if at all?
A slightly related problem is that we cannot use WordPress as part of the domain name which would probably make easier to distinguish ourselves (and all other WordPress related products) from other kinds of sites
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Would an independent accelorometer in the battery assembly shut of the power when the car is involved in a collision?

It wouldn't make sense for it to be dependent on a link from the airbag sensors, it would have to be local to the power plant.
Facebook is not worried about that at all.

Whitehat bounty program, as the name implies, is for whitehat hackers.

And whitehat does not mean "Will not sell in black market as long as there's good enough bounty money to be collected".

Facebook is not competing with or outbidding black market rates.

If someone is the kind of hacker who would just go and sell the bug in the black market, Facebook would not want to pay them in the first place.

The purpose of bounty programs is NOT to "encourage black hat hackers to sell their bugs to us instead of black market", but rather it is "encourage white hat hackers to challenge our application instead of millions of other applications out there".
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> ... usually don't destroy hard drives of journalists or don't detain people as a matter of harrassment

I actually remember a similar action taken by Apple (though through the use of a government agency). But bear in mind that corporations' rights to employ violence have been taken from them, but only after they'd been put to good use. They had a long history of terrorizing and killing people (in the US it was during the days of the Pinkertons), and Google is already more powerful today than the robber barons ever were. If government is weakened enough, corporations will gladly fill the void.
The bill allows our previously Foreign-intel Spy Agency extra domestic powers to (a) assist other agencies like the police and (b) undertake mass domestic surveillance with very little oversight in the name of "cybersecurity" and "economic security"

It's point (b) that's causing the real controversy, particularly since we're in the 5-eyes network and thus the GCSB are likely data-sharing with everyone else in the network (e.g. NSA, GCHQ.)

In reality the GCSB has been caught illegally spying on NZers, so the new bill is a rush-job to retroactively legalise it, but it's just ridiculously vague, and without even the protections of the US FISA court.

The oversight regime is that warrants are issued by the Prime Minister (the leader of the majority government party) and/or the Director of the GCSB (currently an old school-buddy of the current Prime Minister.) There's an auditor/investigator (one guy) who will get to review things once a year after the fact, although amendments to the bill might make it a panel of three doing the reviewing.
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This is no longer true, as the IP stack was rewritten in Vista.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/network/bb545475.aspx
You know, it's funny. There's this image cultivated of some elite team of soldiers waiting to snipe a pasty nerd at his computer as he attempts to write the characters "#include <openssl/" for civil disobedience, and yet when I take a stroll around firearms enthusiast sites (a group much more directly threatening to the government at large), I (still) find references to this: http://sofrep.com/16644/1000-green-berets-sign-letter-of-sup... ?

How can it be that active-duty soldiers working for the government advocating civilians owning firearms for the explicit purpose of overthrowing the government if and when it becomes tyrannical doesn't warrant the "lawyers and assault rifles" approach, but an intelligent person creating the next great encryption application does?

Hmm...

The only thing worse than a decline into fascism is not doing something when you should because of the ironic fear of what is going to happen when you do...
Comment of the CEO of the service PJ chose for her communications: http://blogs.fsfe.org/greve/?p=625

"While we’re happy to provide a privacy asylum in a safe legislation, society should not need them. Privacy should be the default, not the exception."

So it's come down to privacy asylums and digital refugee camps now. WTF?
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A purely quantitative comparison between governments and corporations is completely pointless.

Governments have a monopoly on the use of force, on law making and on many other things that we all depend on. Governments have much greater powers than any particular corporation, and hence the abuse of that power is a lot more dangerous.
Or the author might have been distracted by the web instead of completing his idea.
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I think it's both, as what you mention is quite true and Musk has made some comments about "getting it right" after the Dreamliner battery issue.
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