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faschism = An authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization.

Which fits the situation.

Your genocide reference, an attempt to trivialize the above statement, doesn't even make sense.
It's a design concept.
It looks pretty democratic to me. Where are the large protests ?
The tools for this are already here. Check out OpenSCAD. It's a parametric 3D modeling tool, which lets you create 3D models using code (loops, variables, math functions are available). It can export projections of your models in DXF too.
And which one will that be? The "democrat" or the "republican"?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTJ0qYR6YFo
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What would be an effective and relatively inexpensive way to get into manufacturing such OpenDesks?
Her excuse that it "protects privacy" is not only ridiculous, it's insulting (that they think people will buy it).

I feel that this happens more and more, where leaders and elected officials will present completely transparent bold-faced lies to the public, with a straight face, when everyone involved (the speaker and the audience) knows it to be a lie, but because there is no practical or legal way to disprove the lie, it is presented anyways..

Whatever happened to integrity?
> That's something I could do but it wasn't really the goal originally as what I wanted to test was not so much the latencies of connection establishment (TCP Handshaking) but rather an HTTP service itself. I will give it some thought though.

It's not the TCP connection latency you're testing; that is effectively a constant. What you're testing here is the performance of new-connection initialization by a web server after the accept() function has returned a new file descriptor. The code path in a webserver relating to a newly-accepted socket will be different from the path for a reused one.

> I explicitly wanted to abstract the concurrency away from the user of the tool. The API is simplified purposefully.

I think you'll sacrifice some utility by doing that. An event-driven webserver exhibits certain properties at various concurrency levels, while a forking one exhibits others. That's why good benchmarks have concurrency levels as variables in them.
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I shudder to think a nydailynews.com article has made it to the top of HN. It's shock journalism with little information. You really don't need to read past two sentences to get the content of the whole article.
> where are the time estimates from Hayward to the Transbay Terminal in SF, and from Sylmar to Union Station in LA?

How can they know where the track would run? You want an actual train schedule already?

If it is unacceptable not to have a bathroom, then cars are also unacceptable. Somehow it works for many people anyway.

I wonder whether existing HSR plans had to meet requirements this stringent.
You're talking about inductive charging, which is basically how electric toothbrushes charge. It's recently been built into new devices (my Nexus 4 supports it) but obviously requires they be placed on a charging mat/station. Perhaps in the future it could be built into desks, so that everything placed on them charges. I would imagine (but I'm no EE/physicist) that these get terribly inefficient when you scale them up.
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There is a very good chance it will be better, but Sorkin had to take considerable liberties to make The Social Network work as a movie. I really liked it because it captured and conveyed the spirit of things people find hard to understand. But you can't do that and be a historically accurate document. And despite Sorkin being a genius, I know several people who thought sitting through The Social Network was torture.
The primaries.
This is the first time I hear about Oracle spatial stuff being better than PostGIS. Could you give some examples of what those additional operations are?

Also, what is a platform that offers scalability or high throughput?
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Since it's stateless, all info is encoded in the outgoing packet. If the outgoing packet (or the reply to it) is lost, it will look exactly the same as if the server didn't respond - after all, the scanning tool has no local state, and thus can't track if an address has been pinged/re-ping it. The port map is entirely drawn based on incoming packets.
The woman doing the interview really seems to do a poor job.

She seems to let Wozniak get about 80-90% into statements and then speedily talk over him to move onto the next point. It doesn't sound like she's actually listening to his answers, just going down her checklist. At one point he explains why he liked Sorkin's approach better than Kutcher's, then she asked a later question as if he had never said that.

It's kind of sad. Woz mentioned numerous times that the problem was showing the pre-firing Jobs behaving and being treated more like he was after having matured, but the interviewer just didn't get it.

She also asked quite a few questions designed in a "X vs. Y, choose now!" style, trying to get a soundbite or setup a narrative (Woz wisely wouldn't fall for it). Between that and the interrupting, it was actually kind of hard to listen to.

Missed opportunities, I guess.
This is a long-running weekend project I started for my own use in ITF Taekwondo. I've been generalizing it little by little to cover other arts.

It's still a little rough around the edges and a lot of obvious things are missing. (I'm partly submitting this now for the added motivation to finish it up.) Looking forward to your feedback.
I guess Greenwald, his family and friends are now on terrorist watch list. I wonder how soon Guardian will be dubbed Terrorist Organization.

More and more, it appears western governments are following the policy of if you criticize us, you are terrorist.
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> they were used on a relative of someone nothing to do with terrorism purely for the purpose of intimidation

Intimidation is the purpose of anti-terrorism legislation. This is not an abuse of some exceptional powers -- it's their most common use.
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Come again? I thought threatening one's family was #1 in the mafia playbook.
Yes, right. The security team will ask the management to locate an Arabic speaking employee to handle a cryptic email, and do so for every email! That will surely scale. And employees love handling email exceptionally well.
Quote:
"So, let's revert back to racist treatment? This statement of yours is what drove me to the keyboard this early in the morning."

Forgive me, I only meant to say that he was supposed to help injustice, a world he claims to have come from. Now, he "sits in the front seat" so to speak and makes a mockery of what Rosa Parks endured. She really created change.
You talk as if raising awareness of the issue directly to the CEO of the company because his employee was incompetent at handling the issue in the first place is a bad thing.
And as those governments do that, they lose all remaining legitimacy.
Even if you had a working prototype, there's no way people will buy it until you can solve reliability, yield, cost, etc. A prototype that took 100 tries to make and cost $1000 and works only for a minute under the right conditions will never find a buyer. It's not enough to transmit wireless power - you need to transmit wireless power cheaply, reliably, safely, durably, etc.
True, but the interview was still very interesting, I enjoyed it.
Could this be due to GAE not getting as much traction as google had hoped?
You have to accept that not everything happening in the world you dislike qualifies for fascism, genocide or equivalence to Hitler.

Overusing these labels dilutes their 'brand', and then you don't have appropriate adjectives for real cases of fascism or genocide.
Yes, the new Google Maps in Earth mode is perfect. But in the normal Maps mode, it's just the old Mercator projection.
I think it's time we started talking of the "English-speaking axis" and its totalitarian tactics.
The discussion of power loss during the execution of RegFlushKey makes it sound like there's no journalling of the registry hives... is that accurate?
Not clear yet, if its a national issue each side can make their position known and back it up with planned reforms.

The one thing that is clear is that we shouldn't expect change under an Obama administration.
In the really large server-side systems we're talking about here (banks, defense, etc.) both developer productivity and maximum speed rank way, way below other factors, such as having long-lived processes.
The layout is just user controlled (drag&drop), but can also be organized using Graphviz, with the "Tidy Graph" button on the toolbar.
Good point. I think real life globes would take up too much space though. On the other hand, Google Earth looks like it does a good job depicting everything in proportion.
I'm pretty sure they'd see this as a reward.
Any plans to support PHP? It seems to be the only missing engine before being a complete clone

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/php/
um......Its right there in the performance chart?
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Appengine is already cheap and reliable. Why would anyone want it on other cloud providers?
I think that a candidate who was not afraid to make the "security state" a campaign issue, and the massive government encroachment in so many other aspects of our lives, and was able to explain the issues and his or her positions without sounding like he was regurgitating focus-group tested talking points, would do quite well in the current climate.

Or it may be that the average person still doesn't care. People who really don't care don't vote though, so all you really have to do is reach the people who are in any way paying attention.
Consolidation FTW.
I wasn't talking about you when I spoke about the anti-BigCo sentiment.
About two or three years ago I was taken aside when boarding a plane at a London airport back to Belfast by a policeman and held under their terrorism legislation. Being heavily hungover from a night spent funding London's publicans, and a little nervous about flying, I just wanted to board the plane and go home.

Nevertheless, I was questioned by the queue as others boarded the plane, casting nasty looks my way. The cop asked some pretty insulting, at times ignorant, questions. I guess to see if I harboured any anti-British/anti-state/anti-cop feelings. I got the impression if I lost my cool I'd be spending a lot longer in that airport.

I didn't know my rights, that's my fault. Nor did I want to escalate a situation where the odds were stacked against me. I did feel pretty disgusted though, given that I'd done nothing wrong. Even now I feel like I shouldn't share this kind of thing online lest the wrong person read it. I found myself asking; why me? Was it something I said on Twitter or Facebook? Did I just look at him the wrong way without realising?

Luckily he let me go after some thorough questioning and the plane waited for me (although finding my seat was basically a walk of shame). They probably do this day and daily to all kinds of people. And most would never talk about it for fear of receiving worse down the line.
In this case, would you refactor by removing only the components in the interface, or would you ask them to just delete everything extra wholesale?
DId you use a generator for this?
Obviously that depends on the mafia, and the era. Hard to make broad statements about "the" mafia.
This is a really interesting bit of speculation. Obama's consistently "just off" statements (i.e. saying an executive order that hadn't been implemented yet would have protected Snowden) make me think that Obama & his advisers doesn't have a good handle on what the NSA is doing and how the law applies to the "secret state." One could say that "Obama is lying," which may be perfectly true, but it could also be that the politicians are genuinely uninformed and/or think protections exist that don't.

I could see this being the case because politicians train to talk about health care and the economy, while the details of NSA programs are rarely discussed and so politicians have little incentive to be up on the facts.
That's not Facebook's problem...should they also write Esperanto terms of service and Swahili terms of service just because security researchers exist who speak those languages?
Maybe it can still turn, but definitely not quickly. It will take a huge amount of effort and blood to take the power away from the sociopath banksters and their puppet politicians, military and media.

IMHO it is very unlikely as very few people in the developed countries today care about political power and modern weapons, like drones and PRISM, are very anti-democratic in nature.
You notice 'privacy' is only a concern when observation makes powerful people look bad?

What a lying scumbag.
The trailer for the social network was amazing and people were anticipating the movie.

I don't think anyone wanted to watch Jobs after seeing the trailer.
People who think banks are high-paying need to re-evaluate. They don't pay high based on the number of hours they force you to put in. This is just sad.
Most of us here are discussing the science of this thing. But let's just say that the science somehow miraculously works. Would any of you actually want to buy that big square thing and put it in your rooms? I can't imagine I would.
Over-application of "Godwin's Law" removes our ability to learn lessons from history.

(Not to mention those sort of comments are nothing but unproductive comment sniping. They do absolutely nothing to further the conversation.)
> > Surprisingly, giving money to poor people makes them not-poor.

> For a while at least. In many cases, they just spend that money and go back to being poor. It's not universal though.

You missed the point, though I have to admit that it is a subtle one and not well known. So let me continue playing devil's advocate.

The not-poor are only not-poor because they receive money through some already existing mechanism of distribution. If that mechanism ceases to operate, they will likely become poor by spending all their money.

So, yes, if you make the currently poor not-poor by changing the existing mechanisms of distributions, and then change those same mechanisms back to how they are today, then quite likely many of them will revert to being poor.

That is not an interesting point, yet somehow people think it is. Why?

Probably they think so because they have an unconscious and implicit belief that the currently existing mechanisms of distribution are somehow "natural". Frankly, that is a bizarre proposition.

Just consider how many laws affect the distribution of wealth in society, many of them largely arbitrary. This holds for laws of commerce, laws governing corporations, it holds for a lot of regulation, it certainly holds for things like patent law and copyright law.
That's not even coherent with the government's story. Or are you really claiming that he was detained and had thousands of dollars of equipment confiscated because Greenwald downloaded some Kylie Minogue MP3s?
This is the same country that used a slightly later, post-9/11 terrorism act to freeze the assets of an Icelandic bank that were in the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsbanki_Freezing_Order_2008

Icelanders replied with some good pictures: https://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+terrorism&tbm=isch

Then again this is the country that inspired Nineteen Eighty-Four (Minitrue from Orewell's time at the BBC) and The Prisoner.
You originally said bullshit TOS, which is why I quoted that. It's not a bullshit excuse for all the reasons I already mentioned.
From a PR perspective, here are the rules:
1. Apologize
2. Pay the guy
3. Spell out in clear,vanilla English the steps to take to report bugs. Don't be a fucking macho/idiot. No need to dig in your heels when u already shot yourself in the foot by saying right out of the gate that it was not a bug.
Probably not, AppScale has been around for years now.

GAE's main customer is Google itself as far as I know, so I don't think they have any problems with traction. They certainty aren't priced or have the features necessary to get much traction outside Google at any rate.

They're a premium service with very harsh restrictions and poor portability. I gave them a try for awhile, but ultimately they have too many drawbacks and have been plagued with terrible issues such as 20sec+ start up times on GAE/Java. It's just not a great option considering you can get the same performance as ~50 GAE instances with a single dedicated host at 2-4 order of magnitude less cost.

AppScale itself is pretty interesting though, but without the Google Bigtable backend, most of the forced restrictions don't make much sense and actually decrease performance and reliability compared to just developing for a linux VM directly.
I have seen Bitcoin rise in India in the last few months. Many of my friends in India now know about Bitcoin and are excited about it. I know this is anecdotal but still.

Also, I don't think Bitcoin is going to be popular because of the weak government that is mentioned in the article. I like that the government said no regulation to Bitcoin in India
I wonder from how high up this order came. After all, it's not like Greenwald is going to take this lying down and that's something that they could predict quite accurately ahead of time. To abuse these powers on the partner of the journalist that is reporting the abuses is the worst tactical mistake made by any government to date, short of the diversion of a diplomats plane.

Taking into account that the UK law enforcement and Brazil have a bit of a history when it comes to labelling people terrorist wrongly makes it even worse.
The UK has a long history of abusing anti-terrorism laws. Just look at Northern Ireland.
Yes, the radio solution is what I read about in the past.

The amount of power needed would really depend on the device and the application, I guess.

How many mW are we talking about, in the best case scenario ?
Well hey, NYT articles make it up there too.
He was being sarcastic. This has nothing to do with the principles of fascism. It may be tyrannical, but tyranny != fascism
And Don Mattrick was fielded for Ukraine :) It was fifa94 if I remember right
How very 20th Century of you. We're all in the database; much more efficient.
Aging is a complex process, which exists because evolutionary pressure decreases once an organism has lived past its reproductive lifespan. There is not one source of damage that leads to aging, or a small number of genes that lead to aging. Many things start going wrong in the body because there is no evolutionary, selective pressure for the problems to be fixed.

There is not a single gene that if mutated will lead to immortality. This girl will eventually die; her body will not last much beyond the average lifespan of a normal human. This is because all the other genes in her body have never been selected for to work past the range of a normal human lifespan.
> why me? Was it something I said on Twitter or Facebook? Did I just look at him the wrong way without realising?

Yeah, don't think too far - it's probably your skin color that makes you a terrrist.
Obama is nothing, but a puppet. His masters surely have blackmail material to absolutely ruin him - say a recording of sex with an underage.
Author of AppScale here. We have php support on our road map. I suspect its about one to two sprints out.
Huh? The UK doesn't have a constitution. Or are you talking about the European Convention of Human Rights.
Bug profit flowchart:

You discover a bug on FB just by being a normal user not a "whitehat" security user:

* You discovered it by doing "something" to someone else account --> FB will not pay : SELL on black market.

* You think the bug isn't really a bug but then it happens again --> FB will not pay : SELL on black market.

* You have a life that you don't want to waste with reading through legalese and filling out forms. FB says it is not a bug. Maybe they are right? You don't want to spend the time arguing about it over email --> SELL on black market

* You are not a lawyer, or do not do security testing full-time on FB. Or you are a normal user who has not kept on the FB ToS now that we are on the 100 billionth version --> You probably did something wrong. --> FB will not pay : SELL on black market.

* You are a US citizen and do not want to be charged with CFAA violations as a hacker --> SELL on black market.

Otherwise,

FB might give you some money.
Putting the torrent up now. It's ~100GB of content, so give it a bit.
Are you really that naive as to expect change under the next democrat|republican administrations?
Whatever happened to integrity? Do you really think it just recently vanished?

To quote from Machiavelli's Il Principe, from the 1500's: "The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present."

Want to go earlier? Let's get Julius Caesar: “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”

And I'm sure he wasn't the first one to say or think so, either. Integrity is not a quality we can ever assume in existence - the only thing that will guarantee a semblance of it is accountability.
There is also issues with mitochondrial DNA along with a whole host of other issues.
My views below are not directed at you individually.

Through my sarcasm I was trying to convey the often imperialistic (and in my opinion useless douchebaggery) view we tend to take on certain matters and people, which, I believe, hinders communication and progress in general. It's not just a language barrier, it's a cultural barrier. One that exists even between people who speak the same language. (Don't know if the social media movie scene with Zuckerburg being reprimanded by Harvard was based on real events or pure fantasy, but that's a good example)

So he ignored some squiggly red lines, maybe his command of English is marginal. Maybe he's worried about bullets possibly flying over his head in a few minutes or in a situation that many of us in the west couldn't fathom. I've had to communicate in Spanish before and I know I probably slaughtered the grammar, spelling and more, but at that time I was trying to convey an important message. Fortunately the people I was speaking with were very kind and patient. They listened and somehow understood the sentences and symbols I had cobbled together.

We have this whole attitude that if someone doesn't fit our cultural context in language or behavior, their are somehow inferior, is absolute BS. I have seen programmers with a an accent perceived as being "dumb", while in fact they were far better than their peers. I myself have been subjected to this type of bias, when I forgot to follow some proper decorum somewhere, simply because I was broke and had more important things on my mind. This is typical of out-of-touch monolithic institutions and the type of thinking that goes with it. It's outright absurd and funny, just like my sarcastic comment :)
> Whatever happened to integrity?

That's a really good question. I think the answer is partly that it was never there to begin with, just a thin veneer to cover the filth underneath. The difference is that there is now not even a pretence at integrity any more.
The public would, politicians not so much...
Rather than fascism per-se, actions like holding people without charge, perusing their personal belongings and papers without due process, and threatening families or associates, are the marks of totalitarianism. It exists on both the right and left ends of the political spectrum.
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I agree. The private case may be more appealing though. App developers might have some enterprise customers who want to run their applications behind a firewall.