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On the side of computer controlled economy, like what GosPlan had, there is also the Chilean computer planned economy system -- Cybersyn

http://blog.fabric.ch/index.php?/archives/1886-Cybersyn-a-re...

In general, assuming we've already given up our privacy and it is gone forever, Google+Government can read our thoughts, email, shopping patterns, knows our positions at all time, would it be possible to even create an optimized planned economy.
At first I thought it was an Onion article.
Unfortunately the NSA has irrevocably damaged their ability to fulfill the "protect US crypto" mission.

Thanks for all the details on the process tytso, not to mention your work for all these years.
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Our representatives (no scare quotes needed) in the House came rather close to voting for a meat ax curtailment of the NSA the very first post-Snowden chance they got, and most importantly the vote didn't break on any of the usual lines like party or region.

I'd say it's way too soon to count out the normal political process, and there's recent history of the Congress doing the right thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee
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Even if you 'foment a movement', will it simply end up like the teetotaller movement which managed to foist Prohibition on a public that didn't want it?

The American people have for a long time been extremely 'tough on crime' (e.g. the ongoing 'war on drugs'), and the reason people don't seem to care is that this is an extension of the same philosophy.
No worries, but all of those stories are lacking in substance if not perspective. As a result, only one had any comments. And those were mostly pointing out how the WSJ (sadly) editorialized its headline with linkbait.
Mmm interesting... would you mind trying in landscape mode?

Also, I think the best use of the book is to read it on a PC / Laptop and copy/paste to try the examples as you go :)

But, as always, your mileage may vary!
I don't know about USA but in Russia people who avoid GMO are the older, perennialy scared of life, intolerant and homophobic demography who vote for Putin or who ever he brings forth.

I mean, why would you do that if you actually took biology classes?
Well, mankind didn't eat wheat for around a million years. Then after eating wheat for around 10,000 years we've only been eating Frankenwheat during the last century.

So the "hipster fad" is actually the eating of wheat. It's not a natural food for mankind to be consuming.
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It's a misdemeanor in the state of GA (all traffic violations are, now).
Of course, this is still just guessing about the NSA's capabilities. As it turns out, the newer Elliptical keys may turn out to be relatively easier to crack than people thought, meaning that the older software may in fact be more secure.

Wait, what?
Thats really interesting. I had a foreign exchange student from Norway come to the States during high school and I remember him telling me that cops had to apply to a judge to bring a gun with them for a specific task, and didn't just carry one around. Big change for him coming to a school that had cops with hand guns at the entrance. Just interesting how different systems work and what goes into making them different...
Indeed, even Sen. Wyden says as much: “Our intelligence agencies need the authority to target the communications of foreigners, but for government agencies to deliberately read the e-mails or listen to the phone calls of individual Americans, the Constitution requires a warrant.”

However such behavior is at least consistent with traditional American 'protections' on foreign traffic. Even before there was an NSA, there was a government office reading Western Union telegrams being transmitted internationally.

This behavior is even consistent with the behavior of even Germany, which has a similar concept of foreign surveillance vs. domestic.
The correct quote is "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the whole country."
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOELRO_plan
Same old risk: drink too much sugary stuff, get fat.
1) So, the vast difference between a modern hybrid high-gluten version of wheat and the grain crops human's have adapted to is dismissed with an uncited "gluten is our friend".

2) Er, no, the question was about genetic modification, which is not the same as hybridization.

Interesting how many people, who quite clearly know nothing about what they're writing, revel in the supposed scientific credibility the word "skeptic" gives them.

This kind of drivel gives skeptics a bad name, making them look as ignorant as the unquestioning who blindly accept the opposite story.
"s there somethig that I as a non-american don't get that makes this newspeak palatable?"

Not a chance; I was born and raised in the US in the consolidation period of the Civil Rights struggle (came of political age in the '70s) and it's just as unpalatable to me.
It's a revolutionary OS hampered by licensing.

Open source the goddamn thing to save its ideas at this point before they are lost to nerd-history and let's see what happens.
As djb pointed out in "Security dangers of the NIST curves", SHA-1 does not prove much. If NSA knows a weak class of curves, they try as many strings as they want until SHA-1 of the string hits a weak curve.
Ah, not Borlaug again.

Look, selective breeding and using fossil fuels for agriculture did increase output per unit of land. But the genetic specialization has weakened the previous genetic diversity of food.

Rendering our food supply more brittle, because we've created plants which need a very precise, artificial environment filled with external inputs.

Now, we've added GMOs, which have decreased genetic diversity even more. (Massive monoculture plantings all with the same genes, with even more artificial needs.)

The reason sexual reproduction succeeded was it creates as diverse of a genome as possible. By reducing that process, and substituting what we think of as "better", and then making it so 80% of our food supply shares the same genome, we're really setting ourselves up for a fall.

The mythology of Borlaug is that there are these scientists silently saving the world off in a corner, our own super hero nerds to look up to.

But, we're talking about massive systems here, things we really don't have a clue about. Can we outrun the adaptations of biology with our own GM technology? Can we keep using fossil fuels to outpace what we should be getting out of food?

And with genetic modification, we're always taking something away when we substitute something else. There is truly no free lunch there.

The point being, don't believe the mythology, and don't think this is a solved problem. Yes, we created a lot of cheap food using fossil fuels and brittle plant genomes, but what comes next?
You consider it smoking evidence of "cooked" parameters that he hashed a random string?

This is the technique suggested by all of IEEE-1363 2000, and in every place its suggested, the standard is at pains to suggest that it provides only a degree of assurance; the standard authors go as far as to repeat the exact same text in each location (RSA, DSA, ECC, &c) while customizing the "what could go wrong" part of the paragraph.

1363 predates the NIST curves, for whatever that's worth.
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I was going to make a joke post about how he was really killing all those people with gluten but you beat me to it. Well done.
It doesn't prove much; you can always just generate a new P-256-alike with the instructions NIST provided for you in that document.
> One way of reconciling things was to consider a model of companies being Soviet-style internally but capitalist externally: use hierarchies, internal non-monetary rewards, central optimization, etc.,

I've always pointed this out in relation to large companies. They are not much different than a dictatorship or a single party totalitarian system. It comes full on with indoctrination into company culture, team building events.

Especially small towns where big factories used to pretty much own the towns, provide trash collection services, etc. If the company fired you, you had to pack up and leave. With countries, if you break rules they send you to a labor camp (prison in US). You criticize the company on Twitter you get punished.

In theory one could say well if you don't like the company you just move. In current economy not many have the option of giving their company the finger and saying "fuck you" and I switching jobs. People are desperate are willing to put up with extra hours without overtime, abuse and just to have a job.
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nice effect, but suffers from 'medium disease'. font size is 'unreadably' big, I find it very difficult to read such texts on my normal 1920x1200 24" monitor.
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Me too. And also I was pissed at Bush's (whom I also voted for) disregard and disrespect of the international community in the Iraq invasion. Which turned out to be based on incorrect intelligence after all.

So I voted for Obama, and again when Romney started to sound like Bush.

Sheesh. So disappointed. Honestly, I am bothered by the NSA stuff but part of my empathy goes out to him and 'allows' that perhaps he is acting on information that we don't/can't know. Maybe there arose an enormous threat and he was desperate to stop it.

I await the day when he can tell the entire story of why he made the choices he did. I now fear that this is just fantasy on my part.

However, I see no excuse for going forward with Syria at this time. He would have the same effect if he got the UN and/or allies to agree to a strike if it happens again- rather than doing it for something that has passed.

So now I am really wondering who the hell the guy is.
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Don't overlook geography. The fact that we have easy access to both major world oceans is also a _huge_ part of why we have been successful as a nation. It greatly simplifies both international trade and naval power projection.

We would have been on the winning side of those conflicts no matter which side we chose.
I just think it's right to go out intending to give as much as you plan to take (or more), whether required or not.
Good Art and classic cars do way way better than the stock market, long term.
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I really love the initial scroll! How the page just says darkness and then that becomes the header
“If we’re validly targeting foreigners and we happen to collect communications of Americans, we don’t have to close our eyes to that,” Litt said. “I’m not aware of other situations where once we have lawfully collected information, we have to go back and get a warrant to look at the information we’ve already collected.”

Although I'm receptive to that argument in general, part of the whole idea that generic collection is authorized at all, is that pre-emptively mirroring the data without looking at it (assuming that such mirroring is required at all) is still at least not doing a search on that data.

While I understand the Administration has tried to go away from that argument after it was first presented I see no other justification for capturing traffic that isn't clearly crossing national boundaries (which is admittedly a hard problem).

So the only way I could see for that argument to apply is if the data in question comes up on a legal search of foreign traffic, but not a new selector search into the entire pool of set aside traffic.

If you couldn't have legally run a search on the data as it came across the wire due to lack of a warrant then it wouldn't become OK unless another legal search window into that data opened it. It certainly doesn't become OK just because you happen to have custody of the data, just like we don't let the government open and read our mail without a warrant.
It is kind of obvious advice. By drinking juice, you are consuming an unusually large amount of processed fruit. I hardly touch the stuff. Stick to water or tea or whatever.
I tried adding one of my domains (read.io), but having to create DNS records for every domain I own is a huge pain.

I'm building a similar service now, which automates everything through WHOIS and DNS resolution. The feedback on this post has actually been really helpful.
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short. sweet. to the point. well done. hope to see you build on it.
What species are you including in mankind? Cause homo sapiens (sapiens) haven't been around nearly that long...
"the IP block gave them notice of the fact that they were no longer entitled to access what is otherwise a public website."

The same logic could presumably criminalise the behaviour of making a new account on a site after your old account has been blacklisted.

This isn't so much about banning people from entering a premises, this is more like banning someone from looking at your roadside advertising signs by standing between them and a sign and then taking them to court when they glance round you.
> There's no reason to look down on the humble for loop. Complexity is a bad thing, usually.

No reason? By that you mean that there are no downsides? a hasNext()/next() often means that calling next() when there is no next element (hasNext() == false) will result in a nullpointer exception. That's fine if you always do a hasNext() check before calling next(), but people do make mistakes like that. You might say that something like a loop with a hasNext() conditional is simple enough, but on the other hand I'm not too fond of even using indexing loops in Java (for (int = i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {} ) if you only need to traverse the array one item at a time; you don't need the expressive power of indexing the array rather than simply iterating over it, and this increased power makes you more likely to introduce bugs (wrong initial value of index variable; wrong loop conditional; wrong increment operation: mixing up the indexing variables in a nested loops (the two similar-looking characters 'i' and 'j' are often used in that case). Even ignoring this argument, you might have to make a more complicated loop where the hasNext() or next() is a bit scattered due to some conditionals. (EDIT: since you are talking specifically about for loops this point may not be very relevant.)

I would say that a construct that doesn't encapsulate enough so that you might get a runtime error is in a way worse than a construct that encapsulates enough to guarantee that that mistake can not happen at runtime. It might not be overall worse, but it does have a downside, IMO.
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The author seems to worry a lot about ARM performance. If this "proposal" is going to take 2-3 years to be implemented in browsers, then I wouldn't worry too much about it.

The ARMv8 architecture is supposed to come with hardware optimized AES and SHA-1/SHA-2 encryption, and be "up to 10x" faster than on ARMv7. ARMv8 chips should start coming out next year. So if we're planning "for the future" here, then I'd start with ARMv8 in mind, rather than ARMv7 or even ARMv6 (which really should stop being supported already).

If better and more optimal security means that older phones and lower-end ones will experience a setback in performance on some sites for the next few years (until they get upgraded), so be it.
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Which is why more creators should use limits on the rewards. List enough to meet the goal and you're sure you can produce.
There was basically the same article on medium a few weeks ago titled something like "A shiny content farm is still a content farm". I have to agree... not really new.
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How many years until ARMv8 represents the majority of phones? I think writing off ARMv7 is a bad idea.
One of my favorite features of Plan 9 is the extremely powerful filesystem abstraction through the 9p file protocol.
It is incredible how clean becomes the design of the applications and the communication between the modules with a simple file interface. Currently I'm working on potential extension of this idea - an ontology-based virtual filesystem, where the files are replaced by objects and the organization is defined by relations, instead of the hierarchical structures.
What's the attack you're thinking of against CBC with IVs drawn from an LFSR?
Make your own smoothies -> super healthy stuff with plenty of energy to get you through the afternoon slump.
I would pay folding money for this software+usage data - and I am just an affected individual (bipolar for 20 years). I went through a phase of asking for survey information (after they had published their paper article etc.)- no one would give it up.
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> , nor his roll [sic] in the alleged aggravated assault.

His "roll"? Really? By a professional journalist, on the official CBS news site?

For whom do these egregious misspellings not leap off the page to assault the eye?

Would it be out of bounds to announce the end of print literacy?
> Also, who is Brian Smith?

Are we moving from a state that can know everything on us, but at least might be too busy, to a mob that insists on knowing everything about us, because it's too idle?

I'm pseudoanonymous on here, deleted my LinkedIn account years ago because I despise the site with an utter passion. And, fuck me, I've probably said something stupid about cryptology online because even though I love practical math, crypto is really hard, and IANAC.

I could explain that I'm pseudoanonymous here because I actually am an attorney,[1, 2] and I don't want anything I accidentally say online to be associated with any of my clients. But while that sounds very serious, it's actually pretty unlikely, so no, there's another secret reason that's utterly selfish. I'm going to reveal it here for everyone.

I don't use my true name all the time because I don't want my online reputation in every community tied to stupid shit I said online when I was 15. And when I'm 35,[1] I might not want to tie my online reputation to the stupid shit I'm saying right now. I like the freedom online communities provide to earn respect from nothing, without people relying on any preconceived notions based on how your name sounds, or even what you did last year. I take comfort in the realization that if it all doesn't work out, I can always walk away from a profile and start from scratch. It's social bankruptcy protection. Or maybe, the summer before your freshman year anytime you need it to be.

I feel like in 2002 we wasted a lot of time trying to figure out who in the sphere of public thought was a secret terrorist. I don't think we got anything out of those conversations, and I'd hate to see us repeat the same mistake digging for secret bureaucrats.

I know the recent news makes this hard, but maybe go back to "Is this guy Bruce Schneier, or someone I've never heard of? If I've never heard of him, I'll provide extra scrutiny to the proposal, not because I'm necessarily presuming malicious intent,[3] just because his reputation is not established, and it's a better use of my time to scrutinize the proposal than to scrutinize some random guy's life."

You can waste a lot of cycles trying to confirm or deny if someone has a secret life, something that's probably unknowable, and none of that work actually improves the crypto.

[1] Head start on the doxxing for anyone playing along at home.

[2] I am not your attorney, so don't get any funny ideas.

[3] Well, arguably in crypto, you should always assume malicious intent, constantly ask how any little bit could aid an adversary. But that's not all we're talking about, is it?

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He is right about how specific the circumstances are that give rise to Bard's CBC IV attack. Not only that, but BEAST itself was the product of a former NSA cryptologist, now a Wisconsin university math professor; it is vanishingly unlikely that it was common knowledge inside of NSA, since the guy PUBLISHED it just a year or two after leaving the agency.

Either way, IPSEC was formulated in the dark ages of crypto. Almost nobody (except Phil Rogaway) knew this stuff about CBC back when the standard was being drafted.
Just changing the order of the suites could be done quickly. Of course committees won't let that happen.
It seems obvious, but you'd be amazed how many people don't do the mental math. I've actually had this conversation while waiting in line with someone as he got a Jamba Juice.

Friend: "Why aren't you getting one?"

Me: "Too much sugar. I'm trying to eat better these days."

Friend: "What?! This is a smoothie! There's nothing healthier!"

Me: "But you just saw them grind up 8 oranges, 5 bananas, and 2 pounds of strawberries and put them in a single cup."

Friend: "So?! Fruit is healthy, dumbass!"

Me: "Would you ever eat that much fruit in one sitting?"

I'll stop before it becomes painful. :) But you get the point. People have strong mental associations between fruit and health, no doubt conditioned by years and years of advertising, and USDA guidelines, and so on. But they don't get the whole "too much of a good thing" logic.

That's what makes smoothies particularly dangerous. People know they're not making a great choice when they drink a Coke. People firmly believe they're making a great choice when they drink sugary smoothies and fruit juices. And Jamba Juice, despite being a sugar bomb, at least uses whole fruit. A lot of the packaged drinks use heavily processed crap with added sugar.
Probably the best opsec for this would be to access the Wi-Fi from a location that is somewhat distant from the hotspot using a cantenna. Use a laptop that you purchased with cash at least a few months ago at a non-local thrift store (most thift stores won't archive video for more than a few weeks at most, if they even have cameras) and run off of a live CD like tails. Wear gloves while using the laptop and destroy and dispose of it immediately after use, preferably in a place where an old discarded laptop would not be suspicious.
It's already been done with a general purpose OS, see https://github.com/anttikantee/rumpuser-xen/

I agree, it was easy to do.
Not saying it isn't but curious how this is different / better than Google Alerts?
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