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It's been a while and I don't know if you'll come back, but here goes...

It is not sexist in any way. If you disagree, please elaborate.

I know many women who don't find rape amusing. Most ugly rape jokes that I've seen (popular rape jokes? anyway...) are made by men.

The content of the comic matters when evaluating the veracity of the criticism.

This is our central disagreement, then. The original work could have been made in ignorance and been excusable. But some of Penny Arcade's own fans said, "Hey guys, can you not make light of the fact that some people actually are raped to sleep every night?" And in the face of those revelations by real people they decided to have a laugh. Their own fans exposed some vulnerability by admitting these feelings and the PA guys stomped all over them. They're just being bullies.

Additionally, the content itself matters less than its audience's reactions. This isn't some lunatic fringe pulling meaning out of nowhere, this is a demographic of people that PA has largely tried to defend through their policies at PAX. Except here, where they made fun of them when they were down.

The fall-out from this stretched on for about a year. Krahulik, via Twitter, demeaned the concept of triggers and, basically, denied that what these people were feeling was real.

Dickwolf t-shirts do not harass or encourage harassment of women.

This statement makes no sense. When women respond to a rape joke by saying, "Please don't say that," and you print a t-shirt in response to their criticism that depicts a (fantasy) rapist... how does that not encourage harassment? How does that follow in your thinking?

if you disagree with the critic's assessment of the work

Which Krahulik himself does not: http://www.penny-arcade.com/2013/09/04/some-clarification

Here's Krahulik's own words from that page:

> I regret the follow up strip, I regret making the merchandise, I regret pulling the merchandise and I regret being such an asshole on twitter to people who were upset.

When you say Women are not made unsafe by the comic of the selling of t-shirts based on the comic it tells me that you don't know what it is to feel unsafe or be a woman. I've read a lot of first-hand accounts of women saying they felt unsafe in a crowd of men cheering for rape.

I'm gonna put a lid of this one on my side. Thanks for the level-headed discussion, though, much appreciated -- especially because this shit makes me jump up and down.
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This is identical to the article from the NY Times that was already posted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6336178
As the submitter, I'll just point out that I'm following HN's rules and used the OP's title. However, in defense of the OP, the title is not misleading. This man is confessing to killing a man and the source of this video, i.e. its original poster, is a new startup

Here's how a local newspaper covered it: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/09/05/ma...

edit: Also in reply to the parent comment, the man who is confessing is not the man who owns the startup (though that would create a pretty interesting legal/business situation)
It may be coincidence, but both Edgehill and Bull Run are locations in Virginia, where I imagine a lot of the DoD resides. I'm not saying they weren't named after the battles, but it's not like those names are exclusively related to civil wars.
I cannot understand why it would slow you down, why do you think it might?

For me, I found the changing color to be too distracting. My eye was constantly being drawn away from the text I was reading to another color on a line below or above.

It may be worth noting that I only have one eye, and it's not a very good one - 20/100 visual acuity with about a 15deg. visual field.
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The effect of all of this is mistrust and suspicion of nearly everything. Which, compared to the alternative of implicitly trusting nearly everything, may not be a bad thing.

I'm hoping open development models(open source, peer production, peer review) end up providing the correct institutional incentives for us to innovate away the mistrust.

To misquote Linus: “given enough eyeballs, all backdoors are shallow.”
One-time pads are probably what they meant to say instead of simply symmetric crypto. One-time pads are unbreakable, but the issue is transmitting the key to the recipient. Public-key crypo is so widely used because it offers a solution to key distribution. But in terms of theoretical security, public key crypto isn't as secure as a one-time pad.
I have also thought that square and stripe could merge but I think both companies have enough potential upside on their own to keep forging ahead without it.
I dont think so.

I was talking to a potential client 2 days ago, they provide SaaS to a number of clients, and up until now this has always included data storage.

One of the projects we discussed involved, for a specific customer, moving data storage off the current (US based) server and onto their customer's servers in their own country.

Anecdotal, but still I am really small fish on the far edge of the world, I cannot imagine the reaction where the bigger fish are swimming.

The difference between 'suspected that our confidential data may be compromised by a third party if you believe all the conspiracy theories' and 'know absolutely that our confidential data is being compromised by a third party as we speak' turns out to be pretty big, and worth a lot to international companies who value the commercial value of their private data.
Thanks, great link (that's gonna kill my work productivity this afternoon…).
They talk in the Times article about the government asking them not to publish at all, and them refusing but agreeing to omit some details in response to concerns that officials raised.

I don't know much about The Guardian, but The Times, for better or for worse, has always self censored based on its own perceptions of the trade offs. It considers itself a responsible part of the establishment -- the loyal opposition if you will. You aren't going to see a wikileaks-esque dump from them.
They don't tell you who reported you so I don't know who. As I said though it was basically a non-issue. They have to respond to reports but we were in no way considered a danger to our children. Others experiences may vary of course so don't generalize from mine.
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Appropriate use of the word. Look here [0] as it pertains to law.

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all."

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3A+violence
The only reason people trust the dollar is because if you refuse the dollar, the US military shows up and kills you.

How long until we find out that the "humanitarian aide" so heavily pushed WRT Syria, is an IMF debt loan requiring a central bank and fealty to the US dollar is the primary reason for the opportunity war being sought.
Are you claiming that my analogy didn't point out a relationship between the two subjects in dispute? Because it very clearly did.
I tried messing with the Mediagoblin Openshift project, I think I've given up. Do you have video working on the Heroku one?
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Too much Elon Musk. He's beginning to exhibit signs of a cult of personality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_personality
Gracious no, but to be safe I've contacted the author & he's agreed that a restraining order is the best course of action for us.
Where does it say that Schneier has access to the documents?
I agree that they are probably subverting endpoints. Nobody has mentioned it yet, but I suspect that differential power analysis plays a big role. The published attacks using DPA have been both devastating and trivial.

The allegations of widespread hardware backdoors are ludicrous. The backdoors would eventually become public, requiring the replacement of billions of dollars worth of equipment, and the several times that cost in audits. Only a spymaster with a suicidal death wish would chain his career to that. More likely is that people are misinterpreting backdoors in a few chosen endpoints, which we can take as standard operating procedure.
No he didn't mean that. Scheiner constantly talks about how mentions of OTP are a key red flag for snake oil crypto. Yes the math is impeccable, but the implementation challenges are enormous. As this leak confirms implementation is a much bigger problem than the math.
Enough with the anti-Wikeaks crap. They reviewed and redacted and if you don't know that you just come across as ignorant at this point.

And if you DO know it, then suggesting which specific document was unethical to release would be a good start.
i setup my own xmpp server so that we can do otr messaging but none of my friends will switch from whatsapp..
You should write him directly and get involved in Free Software!

He's just rms at gnu dot org
That's the thing I've been wondering about--either Snowden was a full-blown spy with lots of outside help, or he hacked his data out of the NSA on his own, with no formal spy training (and it wasn't as easy as downloading some files, either), which is ridiculously embarrassing for the NSA. The fact that they haven't branded him as a foreign agent immediately is telling.

The author in this article seems like he's being deliberately obtuse--

"Putin today called Ed “a strange guy” – whose main purpose is causing pain and suffering to Washington, DC. Which, let it be said, he has done rather well, thanks to the propaganda offensive waged by Greenwald, Poitras, and their helpers in several countries, with Ed’s purloined information, and who have masked their radical activism under the (thin) guise of post-modern journalism."

Right, because there's nothing at all problematic with the programs that Snowden revealed, and anyone who has a major problem with them is clearly a 'radical activist.'

I think we've found a great example of the type of mindset that led to these programs being created in the first place.
I interpreted this to mean that your private keys are probably not as safe as you think they are.
In defense of the confessor...I have to disagree. He made this statement before being charged...some HN readers might remember the lawyer from this video:

http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc

That lawyer would go ballistic at this video...the confessor has basically given up any easy way to get a reduced charge, even though, with a good lawyer, you can bring charges down quite a bit. For starters, this was not a murder. At most, this was a vehicular homicide, and while all murders are homicides, the reverse is not true. Furthermore, vehicular homicide has to show (in most states) gross and reckless negligence. And yes, while the average person would agree that being drunk and driving seems to automatically to fill that bill, courts have shown otherwise. At the very least, I think we can applaud this man for not making a horrible situation worse by prolonging the court battle.

The startup-side of this seems crass, but in their defense, they did not solicit this confession:

http://becauseisaidiwould.com/saveyourvictim/
upd. I found it. https://github.com/nraynaud/webgcode
Most people, I would guess, read the headline as "Man Confesses to (Killing Someone in Promotional Video ...)", even though it's meant to be read as "(Man Confesses to Killing Someone) in Promotional Video ...". It's very easy to misunderstand.
That's why he only runs a machine built in the free as in freedom PRC? Not to get jingoistic, but when do you expect to see an exposé on Chinese hardware and firmware manufacturer's backdoor analysis by the Ministry of State Security (MSS) – 国家安全部 in the People's Daily. Sometime after they have freedom of press I suppose.

Or what about any of these groups?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies

Which one(s) do you want to be the very best at this? Do you think the US is? And why?
This paragraph from the ProPublica article:

> Intelligence officials asked The Times and ProPublica not to publish this article, saying that it might prompt foreign targets to switch to new forms of encryption or communications that would be harder to collect or read. The news organizations removed some specific facts but decided to publish the article because of the value of a public debate about government actions that weaken the most powerful tools for protecting the privacy of Americans and others.
It's in a different post (he has been posting a lot)

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/09/the_nsa_is_bre...

> I have been working with Glenn Greenwald on the Snowden documents, and I have seen a lot of them. These are my two essays on today's revelations.
"The startup-side of this seems crass, but in their defense, they did not solicit this confession"

No - they're just happy to exploit the death and name of a man, who can't possibly consent, in order to promote their shitty Wordpress blog.
I read shadowOfShadow's comment the same way you do. (for others reading this): in the comments section, I reproduce an exchange (anonymized, of course) I had with someone complaining about my support--when they were trying to install a cracked version of my software. This exchange is what led to the blog post linked here.
I want to say that a confession does very little and life altering changes like not drinking and driving might have done more good in the long run. Imagine if the guy confessing dedicated his life to charity work, instead of languishing in a prison cell?
> I'm a guy, and I find it disturbing how much weight some women put into their looks.

Some men also put lots of emphasis and thought into their looks. Why specify women, and why does it matter that you're a guy? Why are we even talking about what you and your friends like in women? Why steer it towards "men" vs "women" stereotypes?
All the hidden service communication happens inside Tor. No exits are involved.

You are correct that a HS node doesn't have to be a bridge, etc. But it is a good idea to mask the traffic.
Bullshit.

"Even agency programs ostensibly intended to guard American communications are sometimes used to weaken protections. The N.S.A.’s Commercial Solutions Center, for instance, invites the makers of encryption technologies to present their products and services to the agency with the goal of improving American cybersecurity. But a top-secret N.S.A. document suggests that the agency’s hacking division uses that same program to develop and “leverage sensitive, cooperative relationships with specific industry partners” to insert vulnerabilities into Internet security products. "
They redacted for a year and then released everything. Allegedly inadvertently, if that makes you feel better.

In any event, you misunderstand my intended tone. I'm not saying the New York Times' establishmentarian leanings are great, just they have them.
Seems entirely possible that this bot net represents an intentional attack on Tor. While it doesn't seem nearly as effective as it could be, that may be intentional as well, both to leave doubt as to its true nature, and to gather data with some long-term goal (likely eliminating Tor entirely) rather than simply causing short-term pain.
And you do not even need to control all the relays: assuming you control the first node and the last node in the circuit and as Tor is a low-latency network, it's trivial to perform timing analysis to find out what someone is doing on the network.
Since the first Snowden revelations surfaces:

I've checked I've still got working (and strong) passphrases for all my PGP/GPG keys, refreshed my collection of friends and colleages public keys, and committed to sending at least one GPG encrypted email a week.

I've updated all my Tor browsers - including on my iPad - and I'm making a point of using it regulaly - especially if I need to visit a government website, hoping to leave obvious Tor-usage traces in their webserver logs for completely ordinary site use).

I've installed and configured EncFS on several machines, and started storing encrypted EncFS volumes on Dropbox/Gdrive/BTSync (including syncing and time0machine backing up those encrypted files on my media server, which doesn't have EncFS or the encryption keys installed), and I've also signed up to JottaCloud to give me a non-US hosted cloud-synced option.

I've acquired several SSL/TLS certs from StartSSL, and started installing them on various sites (including sites running on shared ip addresses using SNI - sorry IE6 users…)

From a recent comment in another thread - here's my under-way email project:

I'm in the middle of a project to replace my use of Gmail for something like $60 in hardware and under $20/month ongoing - with the bandwidth costs of my home internet connection ignored and replacement/upgrade of the RaspberryPi and it's USB drive storage ignored. Some details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6319119
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How about "I would rather my children face danger from enemies of the state than from the state itself.", the expanded version being "I would rather my children face danger from enemies of the state (which it will try to defend them against) than from the state itself (because, of course, it won't try to defend them against itself)."

Or the economic angle "I would rather my children face danger from people other than those that they pay taxes to support, rather than face danger from those that they do support and trust."

It's about more than just privacy or danger. Like a case of (what should be) a trusted parent, relative, clergy, etc. abusing someone is in some ways worse than a random criminal doing it. Both are wrong and bad, but one is wrong on more levels. And once trust and respect are violated, other things break down or are called into question.
So which one is the novel contribution here? I get that he is combining a bunch of EXISTING technologies, but does he need to be in the video? Are his motives just to show off the technology HE invented or just a way to publicize his company and his name? I have seen many projects where they control objects in the computer with hand motion (and even gesture) like this.

I'm sick of people worshiping folks like him or Jobs for no apparent reason. I get that he's risk-averse and is willing to put his money into innovative ideas, but it's not like they're all coming out from Musk.
> Some men also put lots of emphasis and thought into their looks.

A significantly greater percentage of women care about their looks than men.
Obviously you're not an SELinux fan.
In my view this was true anyway, since any mistake could be the result of foolishness or malice - if not on the part of the NSA, on that of the Russian, Chinese, British, Israeli, (etc.) security services. Crypto is an arms race between people with conflicting interests, and always has been; I don't mean to be rude, but I think your former view of the way things operated was a bit naive.
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We actually know quite a bit about how NIST generated the random curves, since the methodology (which is based on hashing strings) is in the document that defines the curves.
I always found projects like Croquet/Open Cobalt and Wonderland fascinating and wondered why haven't seen more widespread usage. The idea of being able world hop through immersive environments created (and run) by other people is singularly impressive.
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I wonder if that's how Scandinavian countries, who are renowned for having much better prison conditions and rehabilitation programs, would handle such a case. For a repentant person convicted of manslaughter, assign them a lifetime of community service to make up for their crimes.
Not really. It's just pegging the CPU of the nodes attempting to rendezvous. Noise can be filtered out.
.. or the same folks, at a different life stages.

I used to love to own stuff. Had great pride of my mp3 collection with pristine ID3 tags, my Star Trek TNG collection, or the piles of magazines and books...

After my last couple of moves between cities, I got tired of having to carry stuff around. Or to keep things organized, sync'ed, backed up across multiple devices. What a waste of time and money.

Can't say I won this battle yet, but at least I started to be more rational. Started donating half my books, and only purchasing ebooks (except for programming languages; still prefer the dead tree version). Also gave away DVDs, almost all CDs (still need to rip a few rare ones before giving away). Threw away most magazines, except for MakeMag and Circuit Cellar.

A couple of more moves and I'll be really free :)

ps: speaking of donating stuff, a friend created an awesome startup for exactly that reason: http://www.bondsy.com. Rather useful for things that you still care, but it's time to find a new home for it.
I agree that the website looks sloppy and the viability of its mission is doubtful, but what's the insinuation here? That if they hired a better designer and followed the lean startup book, that what they've done here would be more acceptable?

Like most everyone here, I know of a few people personally who've either been killed or nearly destroyed by drunk drivers. When I was younger and more idealistic, I couldn't understand why it was so hard for people to get a goddamn designated driver. Now I kind of shrug...we have a culture of denial and selfishness, and carelessness comes naturally and fuck-it-it'll-never-happen-to-me is easy to be lulled into. Add to that, the ability for those with money and charisma to talk their way out of serious punishment, and there doesn't seem to be much else to feel but cynicism about it all.

But I'll admit this video surprised me with its message. Statements of sorrow are common after you've been sentenced to prison and had time to think about it and nothing to lose...they're pretty rare between the indictment phase and the verdict, and virtually unheard of before the charging process. So some website I'll never go to again will get an upsurge in traffic...small price to pay if it means more people watch the video and, hopefully, really understand the tragedy and take it to heart.
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I am dyslexic. I just used the screen reader on the iPhone to read to me the challenge text at full speed. It told me that I read 4% faster with BeeLine on :) apparently the iPhone cares, because I wasn't even looking at the screen.

Insidently, the speak function of iOS is amazing for people with dyslexia. I use it all the time to listen to text at speeds of 300+wpm. I know many of my friends can read at 600+wpm my them selves, but not for a few hours on end. In any case, if you are dyslexic and use iOS, check out the read function under accessibilities.
And until v2 happens? What is with malnutrition, or possible worse effects?

When it comes to my body, my health and these subjects, I tend to err on the side of safety, instead on the side of something, that is "scientifically tested" like soylent.

I know, with our food industry nowadays it is, that we are the rats in the longtime testing lab.

But that is the reason, I changed my foodsources. And it is the reason I would never buy soylent.

The other reason is, that I really see more in food, then giving fuel to my body. It is an experience of cooking, of creating, of being creative, an experience of taste, of texture, a social experience and so much more.

So there you have the two reasons. The missing scientific rigor/testing. The arrogance, to believe, what he did is best for all and better then everything till now. And my personal take on food.