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Unemployment insurance doesn't work like you think it does, at least in the states I've run companies in.

He could be 100% liable for unemployment benefits made against his company in the form of increased benefit charges.

Here's a quote from Georgia's handbook:

"Experience rating is a system which relates employer taxes to the cost of providing unemployment benefits to its employees. Lower rates are earned by employers whose unemployment experience costs are less, and higher rates are assigned to employers whose experience indicates greater costs.

"Under experience rating, benefits paid are charged to the claimant's separating/most recent employer, provided the employer has paid wages of at least 10 times the claimant's
weekly benefit amount and the separation was under allowable
conditions as defined by the Employment Security Law.
The employer most directly related to the claimant's
unemployment will be charged for benefits paid and thus reflect a true experience rating. This system helps to maintain an adequate reserve fund from which future benefit payments will be made.

"No employer's account will be charged more than the amount of wages that employer paid the claimant and the employer will pay only for the period of unemployment attributable to the separation from his employ."

Employers directly pay for state unemployment benefits; it does not come from the public tax pool.
Why do they "require" email in order to function? Can't they handle communication via a web based application which is part of the site? A few forms here and there, some https...
I agree it's primarily a political fight, but I think we should work on both.

But it's true that with absolute government power where they can justify anything, and with so many partner countries willing to play along with them - encryption won't get you very far, no matter how good it is and where you are in the world. They'll find a way to put a backdoor into the systems somehow with or without the service provider's knowledge.
Friends don't let friends use cleartext...
Lots of geeks with jobs funded by the public sector have no idea of the history of some of the agencies they work for. The history of misdeeds by American intel agencies is a topic that is relevant to hackers, imo.
>Or, better, spread the word on how to secure your own communications. Make people realize there could be no expectations of privacy when the letter's not in the envelope

That's a BS interpretation, based on a BS american law.

One should always have an expectation of privacy -- ie nobody but the recipients should be legally allowed to read your email (except with a warrant or similar).

That should be made into law (and it should be made so that there are severe penalties for anybody reading your mail without your consent, including employees in your email provider. It should also not be able to be used against you in court).

That they can read electronic mail (e.g if it's plaintext etc) easily is not a concern at all. One can easily walk into someone's house and steal things, but it's not allowed all the same.
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The nice thing about Pure to me is the fact that they encourage you to write your own top layer. While Bootstrap 3 says that they also encourage this, the number of components in Bootstrap make it somewhat difficult to learn and implement.

An hour of looking at Pure, however, is enough to get started with confidence.

The grid classes are a bit strange to me though.

`pure-u-1-2` is "descriptive"? Not so much, unless you know the system.
> It was ruled a suicide by local police.

How convenient. Maybe Greenwald and other persons of interest should go on the record that they does not intend to suicide.
I was using the term "blueprints" colloquially, meaning "plans" or "details". Quite a few of the leaked slides are exactly the type of material that one would expect the government to have "tighter controls on", compared to petabytes of mostly useless data.
Or will it be like the elevator operator industry, where people might not realize it used to be a job? (There are of course a few elevator operator jobs in the world.)
Milo makes some reasonable points, particularly concerning the somewhat disingenuous tone of recent Guardian reporting.

However, they are a party to this dispute, and whilst the lack of professionalism is disappointing, it is quite understandable.

One can easily understand the imperative to make their coverage as compelling as possible; to tell their side of the story as strongly and as forcefully as they possibly can; to spread the message far and wide. There is no illusion of impartiality to be maintained here.

One can also understand (and feel some sympathy for) the embattled security services, unable to respond in any meaningful way whilst they endure a barrage of criticism from all quarters. Notwithstanding a small number of shameful episodes, they have largely acted with professionalism and restraint.

However, these shameful episodes, together with increasing partisanship in the media coverage leads me to worry that the level of professionalism so far exhibited by all parties is being gradually and inexorably eroded by partisanship and jingoism.*

The debate on digital surveillance (in all it's forms) is too serious an issue to be sidetracked by entrenched partisanship.

Yes, it is an important issue, and yes, we still need to rope in as many debate participants as possible, and yes, that means being shrill and controversial on occasion. However, there are enough sensible, actively involved people for us to start talking about what to do next.

* (I count myself as a guilty party when it comes to shrill and partisan commentary).
It clearly didn't? I'd say the iPod dock ecosystem and all the optional cables (like VGA, HDMI, digital out etc) more than justified the cost of the 30 pin connector.
I mostly agree with you.

I have no problem deciding if I'm a genuinely good person. I am able to determine if my actions are correct and accept valid criticism.

This isn't about that. It's about not "letting the bastards get you down."

The creative world is rife with people who pooh-pooh your work. Often this criticism is within your own mind, preventing you from developing/creating/succeeding. Having a defense against other people's negativity is an important step to keeping you going.

Duke Ellington simply refused to read critics. In today's hyper-connected world, it's difficult to not be "part of the conversation." Having a way to insulate yourself from undeserved hate is an important tool, and knowing the difference is an important skill.
We haven't heard from the Home Office or the police why this was legal, only that they think it was. So we don't really have any substantiated arguments as to how a person could be held under a terrorism law for questioning about journalists.

I'd be very interested to hear them argue that it was legal in front of a judge, so I'm pleased Miranda has now taken legal action. Let's hope that it gets past letters from his lawyers and the government try to justify their position in court.

EDIT - letter to the home office just released:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/aug/20/dav...
Conspiracies aplenty to choose from, likely some of those will end up being true after all.

The benefit of knowing which is which is today, 50 years hence it won't matter. Some of the records are sealed for 70 years, sometimes with the most transparent of reasons for the sealing attached to them.
I've never thought of Medium as a blogging platform but rather an article publishing platform with tools to encourage conversation and sharing around each article.
I said rooted in officer safety, not solely because, ;-).

Even if the search happens AFTER the arrest (assuming it's lawful, without that there is no internal link to a legal search), the court is still going to look at whether the seized item was taken incident to the arrest. That's why trunk's can't be searched unless there is a "particularized" reason, i.e. drugs, contraband, other evidence of the specific crime for which the offender was arrested for.

Under that line of reasoning, it's pretty likely courts would be ok with thumbing through the offender's call history to find other possible offenders for the related crime.

Not saying it's right, but that's how the law is evolving on evidence collection. Truth is, we need much deeper analysis on the technology at hand, but our courts are OLDDDDDDDD. Not saying octogenarians can't make effective re: technology, but it certainly hasn't bore out that way yet.
It's the stuff like this that lends credence to the 9/11 truther nuts. While I still don't think 9/11 was an inside job, it's very clear that the 2nd phase of that theory is in full effect all over the world. They're using terrorism as a justification to silence people and control us, right before our very eyes. This is scary stuff folks.
What is this trying to accomplish? Did they really think the Guardian has the only copy of that data? They couldn't really believe that, could they, after the Guardian pretty much explicitly told them it wasn't true. So they're just government thugs playing whack-a-mole? Confiscate some usb sticks here, smash some Guardian storage devices there...

If they can't ask the Guardian to overwrite the drives a few times and expect the Guardian to comply with that, what good does physically destroying the drives do? The Guardian could download the encrypted data from some (backup) cloud storage location and have it back in an hour.
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Most cars automatically shut down fuel supply to the engine when a collision is detected. Even if it's just a minor hit the engine can't be started again without clearing the collision warning from the computer.
The mailing list just had a long post by Isaacs about how 0.10 is the last release before 1.0 and that 1.0 should be backward compatible with anything you write for 0.10.
Crawl out the window?
Medium I love you. But
I agree, but I'd also like to add a more specific cause to this idea. Like you say, technical measures aren't a bad idea either, but only drag things on.

My political view is this: both the right to communicate and the privacy of communications need to be treated as a fundamental human rights, just as freedom of speech is currently treated.

Then there are subjective measures. Breaching these rights may be warranted in certain specific situations (just as free speech is), but the current processes don't seem to go far enough to protect us. Even freedom of speech seems to have been curtailed too far in recent years. We need to have the political will to push back on this. But this can only happen if, first, we add freedom of communications and privacy of communications to our list of fundamental human rights.
People dancing in the streets celebrating babies being killed.... Those aren't the terrorists. Thos are like the Justin Bieber fans of terrorism. Terrorism is a supply and demand thing. Killing babies gets some people excited and motivated. On the other side. Its like the war on drugs, that overlooks the DEMAND for drugs. Terrorism is borne out of a demand for bloodshed. The terrorists just supply the blood of women and children, because that's the lowest hanging fruit (the easiest high, if you will). So, at some level, I still agree with you that these' people are f'd up to be so bloodthirsty, its really still a more complex problem. As long as a baby killer is a hero, we will have baby killers. It really has nothing to do with the 'guilt' of the baby (that exploitation of the innocence of the victim, is actually the "terror" in terrorism).
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That implies you have not read 1984. You should.
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Well, this is just precious. When the first C++ recommendation turned out to be not applicable, the answer is:

1) He can solve the issue by requiring C++11 (!!)

2) Just rely on cache-effects making it pseudo-O(1), unless
(insert various cases where it might blow).

Sure, he can jump through 200 hoops to use C++, special features, rely on CPU cache behavior, finetune to death, etc -- or, you know, he can use C and be done with it...
They get their exclusives handed to them because they are stand-up, they're not stand-up because they get exclusives handed to them.
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I've had more micro-USB failures than mini but good connectors are expensive to make so part of the problem may be that micro is better in theory but harder to manufacture in practice.
Hi John,

Thanks a lot for your detailed response. Really appreciated.

Probably both sites were infected at some point. Again, I never saw the malware message myself but the guy that alerted us first copied the message he got and it was explicitly mentioning the demo site: “Content from demos.shapingrain.com, a known malware distributor, has been inserted into this web page. Visiting this page now is very likely to infect your Mac with malware.”

And now, we’re going to immediately clean the CSS since this is something that had not occurred to us could be the cause of the problem. Let’s make sure we are not blacklisted again!
I think the interesting thing about decoupling the incentive structure isn't so much how the blacklist operator would react (more liberal blacklists), but how the browser maker would react.

Since the browser maker will no longer control the blacklist, they will now have users telling them that sites are broken (because they've been blacklisted), and they won't be able to do anything about it on the blacklist side. So, what they will be incentivized to do, is to make whitelisting a blacklisted site (especially those that only get loaded through invisible iframes etc.) have a much simpler/easier/clearer UX, so that their complaints go down. This is good for everyone, but it's not something they'll do when they still have the option "just remove X from the blacklist."
Huh? I just don't follow. Groklaw is not a site that depends on anonymous tips. The last few stories posted on Groklaw were on Apple vs Samsung and did not appear to require privileged confidential information.

How is it that other groups that do directly go against the government, such as the ACLU and the EFF, continue to do so without a paralyzingly fear that they can't keep their communications secret? The logical implication from Pamela's opinion is that these groups, by continuing to operate, are little more than a honeypot to be used against their clients.

That seems a bit overboard in defeatism.
The American government?
We need technical tools to be able to communicate. If these tools are subverted, the political fight is harder to organize. So both go hand in hand.
It's worked just fine so far, Assange's hide-out still hasn't been stormed and he's safer where he is than Snowden.
> once you debase intelligent debate/freedom of expression and [...] you debase the minds of the people as a whole and open the door to committing worse atrocities.

see: the cultural revolution
Considering the language barrier I have to shoot down some of your assumptions.

> - I understand that English is not your first language and of course that's perfectly fine, people usually don't expect perfect English on the internet. However you have written the report quite lazily and haven't taken the time to clearly explain the steps. For example you have said "mark profile" instead of "Mark Zuckerberg's profile". That's just ambiguous language and confuses the reader. They probably receive a lot of wrong reports every day so if you make mistakes like that you are less likely to be taken seriously.

The part where Khalil writes "mark profile" is the way it is said in Arabic because Arabic has no capitalization. There is no "apostrophe + s" in Arabic either.

The violation of TOS is a obviously a violation, but the language barrier thing again. The TOS is not in Arabic.

Finally:

> - Just because they fail to receive your bug report does not make it ok for you to go ahead and exploit it.

The word "exploit" is not the right word here. He didn't exploit the bug, he demonstrated it, albeit in a poor way but it wasn't an exploitation.
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Is there anywhere where they define the nature of the threat?

Section 2, quoted by symmetry above - 1 a,b and c must be satisfied before terrorism is applicable. Satisfying 1a requires satisfying at least one item from section 2, which is a list of possible actions which can be considered terrorism. Endangering life, serious violence against people or property, risk to health or safety etc.

Far too broad of course, but still not applicable to Miranda.
Wow, introduced to Nmap in 1999 on Slackware Linux 2.2.x , back then we would scour the internet on our providers CIDR range looking for open windows 95/98 shares and boy there were plenty back in the day. Today I mostly use it to find out what ports are listening on a node when not sure what type of OS is on a machine since we run AIX/Linux/HP UX/IBM TPF. Great to see Fydoor still behind his baby, got to try out NCat scripting utilities to improve some network testing bash scripts we have in house.
Chomsky noted in a speech recently (http://www.salon.com/2013/08/17/chomsky_the_u_s_behaves_noth...) that the very vast majority of us have absolutely no impact on the policy of our governments. Only the upper tiers have influence and the utter richest minority are likely to get what they want.

In both the US and where I am in Australia, the two major parties are barely different and doubly so in regards to this whole issue. A vote is not going to mean a great deal.

But a vote that can make some difference is voting with our wallets. Can very conscious purchasing decisions made by more and more people remove some of the influence held by the very richest on our planet? Is that too dreamy?

Where possible, I try to avoid purchasing from the biggest brand in any category, but there'd be a lot, lot more I could do about this. If we imagine the typical food pyramid, but fill it with brands and apply it to every product and category showing the richest and most influential at one end and the delightful smallfry at the other, could we help motivate people to make better decisions about where they spend their money? Or even where they earn it? Earn a fraction less to work for a smaller supplier perhaps.

Apps, surveys, social media, gamification - these are all things that might help people make more careful decisions. Ride a bike, grow food or buy from independent greengrocers at least, seek out furniture that's locally made, etc.

Give me a site/app that asks me about my life and rates my efforts or motivates me to make a better choice in everything I do. Help me identify brands that feel independent but are actually owned by corporate monsters.
Inspiring presentation. On to reading the references.
There must be a name for a logical construct where you imagine an obscure explanation for a phenomenon, reject this explanation and then extrapolate this rejection to phenomenon itself.
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Don't be very optimistic about Russia. Things are even worse here, but local and worldwide ignorance presenting the problem as non-existent.

As for whistleblowers — it's all about politics and “your enemy is my friend” between States and Russan rustlers.
>This may seem like a stretch, but when you consider the government is using secret interpretations of laws how is it any different than what they are doing?

The difference is that they have the guns, the tanks, and the full weight of the Department of Justice behind them.
The public by and large has forgotten it, hell the public hardly became outraged before they forgot it. This and Lavabit and basically preaching to the choir.

The only difference between this and me saying I'm going to stop using email and drop off the internet would be that my statement won't generate several threads on HN. It would, however, have the same effect. Those that already know will ask why, and the rest of the world will go on oblivious.
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I don't know either, but I do wonder if it could be to do with this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/07/money-nsa-vote/
I consider Kangas the first internet-age reporter to die under suspicious circumstances. I won't busy up the thread with links but I urge anyone with an interest in this topic to research Kangas and his writings. He imparted much information in his short career.
I still think it's good because even if it doesn't provide good info, it links you to a list of articles in other languages that does. Providing you speak more than one language, it's very useful.
I agree with you. Medium isn't trying to be the next blogspot. It's not all things for all people. Medium is a place to read recommended essays. Having a group of more influential writers emerge who happen to read and recommend each other more doesn't kill this.

I think the analogy is Time magazine versus Foreign Policy. I may subscribe to Time and read every issue cover to cover on the subway to get a broad view on what's going on. I'll only buy Foreign Policy from the newspaper stand if there's a long article that specifically interests me. In that case I'll look it over and give it a deeper read.

My recommendation system for what to read in Medium isn't Medium. It's HN.
One needs to organize to fight politically. if you cant speak, you cant organize. that's why they are going after e-mail...they are desperate to keep themselves in power...
Bear in mind, however, that a 21st-century programmer is in a much stronger bargaining position than an 18th-century workman. I've seen people in the former category let their lives get screwed up by following subservience instincts more appropriate for the latter, and as a way to avoid that, regarding yourself as the peer of your employer is a decent first approximation.
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Well, yes, OBL and the mujahideen who became al-qaeda were set up, trained and armed by the CIA in the 80's. There's no way it's not blowback.

I mean, jesus, the US are supporting AQ RIGHT NOW in Syria.

Fickle.
Recycling the same astroturfing from the Prius a decade ago. Boring. Try something new, or people remembering last time around are going to LOL not get scared as intended.
Maybe I'm just not "getting it", but this seems like an incredibly odd decision. It is not a revelation that plaintext email can technically be looked at by people beyond the sender and recipient. And it's not clear what in any reported stories would specifically relate to Groklaw's use of email.

What it seems to come down to is the general fear that the NSA COULD, from a technical perspective, be reading specific unencrypted emails. But before the recent news stories, did PJ (or anyone else) really send and receive emails thinking "there is no way the NSA, or anyone else, can see this email"?

As far as chilling effects go, the knowledge that a multi-billion dollar signals intelligence agency is technically capable of reading an unencrypted email seems pretty mild. Is free speech and free communication really so fragile that it rests on the idea that casual communication you make no special effort to protect is totally out of the reach of large police or intelligence organizations?
I wonder what 'Unglued Empire: The Soviet Experiences with Communications Technologies' [1] has to say about that

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Unglued-Empire-Communications-Technolo...
It doesn't depend on anonymous tips, but encourages them.

PJ is basically saying she wants to prevent folks from sending her honest questions about things they have done or are involved from admitting guilt to law enforcement who can read everything.