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>If you do want to combine them, then I think you need to explain how things are worse now than when the US did things like the deliberate infection of native Americans with smallpox etc. I think the truth is that things are different now

Thinking that things are worse now, helps you to want to change it.

Thinking it's same old-same old, is just a defeatist, "nothing ever changes" attitude.

>I think the truth is that things are different now. It is much more difficult for the US to let a dictator get away with things like using chemical weapons because of the rapid dissemination of information from people on the ground.

Actually in this case it's the opposite. The "rapid dissemination" can be manipulated, and events can be fabricated or done covertly by agents working for the other side. Not to mention, any agent or partisan with a phone can write his "information" as "a man on the ground".

Case in point, the current situation -- where it makes no sense at all for the (winning at the time) Assad to use that stuff, but it's a very good ploy to get sympathy and support for the other side. People spoon fed by mass and social media, will learn about it 20-30 years afterwards and be "surprised", but it kinda obvious to European observers.
It could also be out of guilt. It is much more uncomfortable to see someone doing the right thing, when you know that you have chosen the wrong, and easier path. So you have to rationalize it verbally somehow.
Headline aside, the article seems to be more about companionship than sex. They even have a picture of a realdoll at the top of the article, so they know people already have sex with machines.
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Enjoy your MRIs costing 4 (or maybe 5) digits

Yes, it should be tested for safety, if in one case it looks like a lack of due diligence, in another it looks like an excessive CYA policy with some incentive from tort cases.
That's pretty much a given.
> The debugging tools for Lisp are fantastic.

What is your setup for debugging CL?
Apple bought Next and (accidentally) re-hired Jobs. Microsoft could, finally, buy Yahoo and get Marissa Mayer. But I don't think it's going to happen ;-)
Why are you singling out Home Depot? Most stores use security cameras these days.

Have you considered compiling a list of stores that have taken a stand against cameras for privacy-conscious people to selectively patronize? That would probably do much more towards your ends than boycotting one store out of the many that use cameras.

(I don't mind the cameras: I've given up on privacy.)
That's actually completely fine. You're allowed to do that.

Personally I use the free newspapers they unwarrantedly deliver to my house as a firestarter.
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The Martin Odersky's course starts September 16th. Has anyone taken this course before? If you did, what's your experience?
I similarly find annoying those who realize this negative disapproval act of "non conform behavior" and try to do the opposite. TSA is a giant pain in the ass, let's do something about it to fix it and not worry too much about what its side effects are on people and what it's turning us into.
> Airline security measures is not only a threat to civil liberties, it's also a threat to the airline industry. On short distances (<500 km) I chose cars and trains.

Good. Planes are somewhat decent means of transportation on long, rarely travelled distances, but for everything else, both cars and trains are the more ecological, economical and scalable way to get from A to B. Unfortunately, both cars and planes (and, to a lesser extent, trains) are still subsidised to a large extent, masking the real costs of going from A to B in a little tube with wings, thirty other people and so-and-so many litres of kerosine.

If you had to pay the ‘real’ price to use airplanes (i.e. the costs of airports, air traffic control, standard-taxed kerosine, appropriate taxes to revert the ecological destruction caused by airplane traffic etc.), you’d prefer to walk.
Which is why gay and trans people have been treated so well by patriarchal societies.
The course starts September 16th. Has anyone here taken this course before? If you did, what's your experience?
It's #5 on go-ogle
oh.. it's medium.. that's why it's just a few paragraphs with no food for thought, but huge text to make it look self-important
The terrorists don't win if people in America lose rights. Wtf?

Terrorists win if they don't turn into terrorists in the first place but live normal happy lives in their countries, maintaining a mild disdain for the decadent west while admiring the nice parts, like freedom and wealth.

The radicalization surely has many roots, one of them being real and imagined pressure from the West. I propose looking into that aspect a bit more. I think we (the West) are not intentionally evil towards the arab/muslim world, but that politics happens and power is applied and these people often get the short end of the deal, leading to resentment and strengthening the crazy mullah's teachings.
But if they had allowed the British and French to advance to the defense line before the Germans invaded ww2 would have turned out very different.

Part of the reason that the German blitzkrieg worked so well is the french and British forces where out of position.
IMO This is silly. Yeah I understand why we don't want the NSA looking into all our emails and phonecalls etc...

But its a security check at an airport... This has to be one of the silliest things to get wound up about.
of all the things bothering me about Germany, this is not one of them. More the fact that nearly all shops close at 8pm and everything is closed on sunday.
Assuming it's possible to say that two images are from the same person, it would be trivial to work out specifically who that was with any frequent flyer.

You'd just build up a body of images of "person 1" then cross-reference with flight records till you narrow it down to only being one possible person who had been on all those flights...
Airports are only a symptom of a wider problem and I see this as running away. Much like when a bear is chasing you, you only have to be faster than those around you. Eventually the bear will chase you again and you'll be the only one left. To make that a little more concrete, you can only keep moving while there are viable places to move to. Sure, that's probably fine for our lifetimes but we're handing on a legacy where we refuse to fight for anything. When these machines and processes are everywhere they become even harder to fight against.

Edit: Also, moving when you have family (partner, kids), becomes even more complex and stressful. It's simply not a viable option for many.
A free service putting itself out of business...

Can someone explain to me how that works?
headphones. white noise.
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I wouldn't use your adblock, I want all ads to be blocked.
One possible way to implement ‘buried deep down’ would be with a command-line option (--enable-tor) that requires input on the console to continue launching the browser. Something like the following:

$ iceweasel --enable-tor
The option --enable-tor will route _all_ traffic generated by Iceweasel through
possibly-malicious TOR exit nodes. Please read http://example.com/TOR for more
information on how TOR works and then type "Enable TOR" to continue launching
Iceweasel with TOR enabled.
Awaiting Input: <user types Enable TOR + Enter>
<Iceweasel starts>

Sure, people could build scripts with expect or so, but I would assume this to deter most unknowing users from enabling TOR accidentally (idea stolen from apt-get’s ‘Yes, do as I say!’).
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The reason why it's an exception is similarly codifiable. Where normal question-headlines can be quickly fact checked for a definite boolean answer, it's really quite uncertain if we'll ever want to do anything in the future. The headline accepts the uncertainty and explicitly frames it in the title.

If you tried to apply Betteridge's "Try answering 'No' to this headline" rule to a headline with a futuristic question, you can't automatically get a straightforward answer, because we really don't know.
Doesn't help the cause if you're already doing a long-distance flight...
thanks for the feedback. I didn't have time to put effort on design but more on content. I will fix it when I have the chance. Thanks
I would love to see the resulting class action lawsuit from that.
Is this even allowed? I had the understanding that once you opt-out, you either have to get the pat down, or you have to leave the airport. Altering your decision and going through the scanner I thought was against protocol, much like when you enter the security line you have to go through security or leave the airport.

Either way you should continue to opt-out despite this bad experience. I always opt-out unless I am with my wife and time is tight, I don't want to be responsible for us missing our flight if the trip is important enough to her. (I've gone through only once or twice.)

In general, if all it takes for an American who is obviously already in the outlier group of people who care about civil liberties to be "defeated" is a half hour of (largely unwarranted) stress about a laptop, we are well and truly screwed. I opt-out because it makes the experience just as uncomfortable for the TSA as it is for me, raising awareness, unlike the scan which is only uncomfortable for me. You should too. Nobody is going to steal or damage your laptop, and either way if that's the price you have to pay to maintain little dignity and perform openly visible, public, safe civil disobedience of a horribly unconstitutional policy it's well worth it in my book.
I'm curious if much will be open-sourced like http://www.opencompute.org/
This is the second time in a week I have read about people refusing to go through security scanners, and then complaining about being treated differently.

You should really put yourselves into security guards' skins here; What if you were him/her? You'd observe millions of people do the same stuff day in, day out, and out of those million, a small percent would refuse to do what's required of everyone - pass the standard security. If you ask me, I'd be suspicious too. And probably annoyed why there have to be a few of smartasses who can't follow standard procedure.

Now, before I hear you complain about privacy, you really need to wake up. If you leave in a city, you're being recorded on pretty much every step, and you still go to the bank, for example, and drive your car. And use Facebook. Or whatever. If you want real privacy, move to Sibiria. Or Zimbabwe.

And for those who think these machines are medically dangerous, toss away your phone - long term effects of it's use haven't been proven either.

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Because their mere existence annoys and offends me and because I can?
Exactly. A Google search for 'bcrypt' displays this post at anywhere from 4th to 10th position [0]

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=bcrypt
Please point me to the train that takes me from Germany to NYC.
>Why would you need AI in a sex robot? People don't go to strip clubs for the great conversation.

You'd be surprised.
> Maybe we can prevent password reuse by the browser taking a hash of the password being entered in a form and comparing it against other password hashes locally?

I always thought that one possible way around this would be for websites to generate the passwords for their users, essentially forcing them to use some sort of password storage (either in the browser, or LastPass, or whatever-you-want). So one would register with just an email address/username and then be shown a generated password à la O5O1zn8H3zEGNjf1Ly8v to store in the browser’s password manager.

Of course, this only works if people only ever use the service from devices they own and I have absolutely no idea how common internet café/public library users are nowadays.
I stopped using Google Reader when Flipboard came out and Twitter become stronger news filter.
"It's like receiving free news every morning, but you have ordered a kid who delivers them to cut out ads."

What's wrong with that? What laws is that breaking? I'm not even sure that's breaking any social contract.
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I really don't care. I'm just not going to look at any adverts.
It introduces a different mentality: you have to do something other than shop.
Same on Chrome 24, using Ubuntu. I just copied the Download like directly and will play with it later. http://parall.ax/parallax/downloads/jsPDF-0.9.0rc2.zip
>So the way to fix this is to get involved and write some software instead of commenting in a forum as if software is a static problem. Why not open a bug report?

It cuts both ways. I don't understand why you meta-comment, instead of going fixing those things yourself.
That's how languages evolve.

This doesn't mean that language should not be rigorously taught to children, if only for the rigor.
This bother me as well. However some stores are open until 10pm

In Dublin they open on Sunday, but close at 6pm on weekdays
Slightly off topic: I would like to know where it's still cheap to buy a beach front house that is accessible from the United States? Is anyone doing global real estate pricing?
I don't understand how ad-blocking is even legal. It's like stealing - stealing content for free, IMHO there's no difference between stealing MP3s and news or any other content. There's some kind of user agreement between websites and its users - "you can use our site for free, but you have to watch the ads". Adblock violates this agreement. The people responsible for this should be in prison, they're thieves. And I'm pretty sure the time will come they will.
That's not really the demand, except for a relatively small set of people who are savvy to the reasons why advertising exists and benefits big companies. It wouldn't be nearly as successful.
It's a matter of the principle - if you don't stand by the right to have freedom, someone will eventually erode it piece by piece. And The People will not care because "it's just a security check at an airport". It has been shown that they offer little to no added security, but they do reveal a lot about you and it is in electronic form. If it somehow was guaranteed that this information would never leak it would be a non concern - that is however not the case (they need to preserve this information in case it is needed). It is comparable to pictures of a strip search getting leaked.
Someone has the domain I want. What can I do?
For what possible fucking reason! This is foolishness or possibly a form of mental illness.
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With all the control springing in USA and EU, I don't know how we will be entertained. When the lobbies are stronger than ever cutting all the possibilities to consume culture without paying a tax for it, I see the future black instead of whiter. 15 years ago, even with Internet, we have the same consuming habits, imho, we listen music, we play video games, we download movies, etc.
Hackathons are a lot of fun if your goal is not only about winning. You meet a lot of people. Sometimes future employees/founders/CTOs or sometimes friends. You learn a lot if you really put yourself to the challenge and pair program with others. I usually go to hackathons to have fun. Most of the times I cannot stay all day so I go to meet people and make friends. I even help other teams brainstorming, refine their idea, testing.
But when you see suspicious crap it is unmotivated for everybody.
Besides having fun all teams have a goal of winning. When they realize nobody had a chance, it is disheartening.
Local prices did not fall, of course...

I think one reason for this is that rent, especially in shopping centres (malls), had kept pace and didn't drop away even though their tenants were facing tougher competition from abroad. Another is that distributors were less than keen to give up their slice. So, even when some retailers might've wanted to drop prices to compete, they were facing pressure on the cost of floor space as well as product.
If you choose not to read billboards displayed alongside highways, is that also stealing?
> Scrypt is ... memory hard

Haven't seen the answer to this: does scrypt being "memory hard" imply that you'll need a ton of RAM for your server if you get lots of users logging in concurrently?
At first there was no plain text. Then ASCII became standard enough and if you passed a file to someone they would be able to read it without you needing to tell them an encoding. Extensions of ASCII and other options spread, and there was no way to have plain text include characters beyond the 128 of ASCII. Over the past decade or so we've been consensing on utf8, however, and the probability that some random piece of non-ASCII text is utf8 has been getting sufficiently high.

There is plain text, and it is utf8.
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Another very good, and free, option!
Do you feel that violating any user agreement should be illegal and those who do it "should be in prison"? Furthermore, where the user agreement isn't specifically given (eg a mandatory ToS), do you feel that any agreement the site owner can claim was implied (use the site for free, watch our ads) should be legally binding?
That's quite an interesting search problem - I guess it depends on what you mean by "accessible from the United States" and the implicit requirement to be able to do something on the beach without hypothermia?
I'm not sure how I hadn't already thought of this, so I wonder has everyone else missed this or not. We've all been thinking that not enough people outside the tech. world have been paying enough attention to these revelations - what better way to change this than through celebrity endorsements? Not necessarily of Snowden himself, but endorsements of the message that what is going on is wrong.

Or has this been happening already and I just missed it?
> as a learning exercise to become more intimately familiar with lambda calculus and s-expressions

Any Scheme implementation will be better for this. Much less primitives, one namespace for everything, hygienic macros, immutablity by default/encouraged.

CL is exactly the opposite of that - it's complicated because it wants to be practical. And for the most part it is. It supports procedural, functional and OO programming, probably logic programming too with the right library. It's designed as a real system for solving real problems - and as such is not the best tool for learning about lambda calculus. Actually you could program imperatively in CL for the long time before ever feeling awkward.

Scheme, with it's mandatory TCO and encouraged immutability is much better for learning lambda calculus... and about Lisp in general.
> A free service putting itself out of business...

Are you suggesting a free service can't make enough money to operate a business? Man, how am I getting away with not paying for that Wikipedia subscription.

Adblock operates on donations and if it were to eliminate advertising, its current product would become useless.
my mentality is "I want some milk" and "I bet the gas stations are pretty happy about the Ladenöffnungszeitengesetz"
While not being able to opt out is more restrictive, it is probably much quicker, go through or don't fly, done.
That's a little extreme...there's no law against blocking advertisements. And you're not seeing this from the perspective of AdBlock users.

They don't give a shit. To them the ads are just annoying and they're getting rid of them. They don't even read TOS agreements, let alone agree to some implicit contract where advertisements are required.

Also: nitpick. The people who created adblock aren't thieves in the same way the founders of the Pirate Bay aren't necessarily pirates. They themselves aren't stealing anything, just mass-producing a method whereby it's possible (in your opinion). I'm not trying to argue semantics, but if they were charged for something, it wouldn't be thievery.
Could you lay off the personal attacks?
The agents are 'supposed' to be protecting America. Not just the people, but it's ideals as laid out in the constitution and the bill of rights. If someone in that position takes umbrage with someone else exercising their rights, then they are the wrong person for the job.

You don't have to like it, just like I don't have to like reading the endless swill of weak minded, shortsighted arguments like the brain numbingly asinine one you've just posited. What you do have, as a citizen of a country that gives it's people rights, is a moral obligation to acknowledge and respect those rights and to ensure they are administerd equally and without prejudice, even if it's hard sometimes. You do not have the right to pick and chose which rights other people can exercise, especially when you are in a position to do just that.
> There is an extremely simple solution: leave.

Actually, it's not a solution. If everyone who questions such ineffective and intrusive procedures leave, the ones who imposed them on your fellow citizens win.

It's not my country, but I like it a lot. And it deeply saddens me to see what is happening to it.
You probably were gouged when you bought that TV.

A record fine for a CRT price-fixing cartel that ran from 1996-2006:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20608949

And an LCD price fixing cartel that ran at the same time:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20910299
Having lived in several buildings identical to the ones in a couple of the photos for nearly a decade I can assure you there is nothing very nice about living in them. The lifts and the hallways have no air conditioning. The flats themselves are really really really small, you can fit a queen size bed into the larger bedroom, but you're left with enough room to ease into the room sideways. The worst is during Jan to early March when you get 6-8 weeks of cold weather. It's only down around 10C but the buildings aren't insulated and everything is made of tile, so the wind slices through the walls and the tiles suck the heat out of your body. A lot of these housing blocks are built on top of enormous shopping malls, or train stations or both. And getting to and from work every day means pushing your way through what my Chinese wife used to call "a sea of people" which people in the West would only see if you went into a city for fourth of july, or new years eve fireworks.... And the pace of life there makes NYC feel like a backwater village. There truly is no place like Hong Kong on the planet.

That said, my time in Hong Kong was perhaps the happiest of my entire life. And you get used to living on top of everyone else. I'm headed there next month, which is only a 1.5 hour flight from Phnom Penh. I can't wait. There is a little noodle shop in Dai Wai that I've been dreaming about for two months now....
Why yes, I'd love to drive over the Atlantic ocean.
As soon as 9/11 happened (I'm too young to have been aware of the Troubles), I argued, and continue to argue to this day: after a terrorist attack, as soon as _anything_ is changed, anything at all for any reason, the terrorists have won.

And now an exercise for the reader: do I mean the arabs, or do I mean the government and megacorporations and their lobbyists?
Sometimes I feel confused. Are "we" the real terrorists?
According to cousin comments this stat is per development block
oops, got me there..
I think that's the only way add block remain operational
You missed out a letter (and a space) on "Would not".
That's not exactly the same as the billboards effectively not existing for you like with adblock. You still see absorb the advertisement passively.