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The DOD mandates flu vaccination every year for their servicemembers (who can't simply "take a couple of weeks off"). It does indeed usually significantly decrease the incidence of flu infection.

If it didn't the DOD would probably find some better way to spend that money, like buying a missile or something. :P
It was a hoax. You need multiple doses of the vaccine over a span of months for it to work. They didn't do that.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-cia-fak...

The misguided vaccine program in Pakistan was started in a poor neighborhood of Abbottabad, no doubt to give it an air of legitimacy. Yet after the first in a standard series of three hepatitis B shots was given, the effort was abandoned so that the team could move to bin Laden's wealthier community.
Well it's still possible to be pro-vaccine in general but against a specific vaccine that does not hold up its end of the risk/reward bargain.

There aren't simply two sides where 1 is always pro-vaccine and the other is always quoting Wakefield.
Actually the ISO format does not give you timezone information. It gives you offset from UTC, from which you cannot infer anything about the timezone in which the date resides.
Am I the only one who noticed that Apple didn't appear on the PRISM timeline list until after Steve Jobs died?
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0ad is already a finished game so not sure what you're arguing about.
I got some interesting results. MSX and Atari computed the results correctly. On the TRS-80 Model I, wrong results started on the 12th iteration. Apple IIe (AppleSoft), VIC-20 and PET started the wrong results on the 8th or so. This has to do with the internal representation of floating-point numbers, of course - the Apple II uses, IIRC, 5 bytes to represent a float while MSX uses, again, IIRC (it's been a long time) 8.
Is it really a norm? Most of online stores don't attempt to 'validate' your CC number in this way. Entire reshipping businesses are built on this premise.
> As for CC... why do you need it? Just add the address to the "To:" field. The result is the same.

It's true that to a mail server routing the email, yes, the result is the same. That doesn't mean the distinction is pointless, as it carries semantic information useful to the human recipients. The difference between To: and Cc: is the difference between 'I'm talking to you' and 'I'm talking to X, but you can/should listen in (and I want X to know you can listen in)'.

(To be clear, I actually have no problem with the gmail compose window's implementation of cc and bbc - it does only take one click).
HEP-B is one of the vaccines that a person can take anytime. (It is actually combined A+B 3 shot IIRC). HEP-B is transmitted by bodily fluid exchange so the real danger kicks during puberty. But it is extremely virulent sadly.
EFF has a good page about privacy, including the limitations on privacy for information provided to a third party.

https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy

The "communications records that receive special protection" are limited to ECPA, I believe, which doesn't apply to NSA since foreign surveillance trumps that law (though, IANAL so feel free to read and analyze for yourself).
I have to say that even for someone like myself who considers himself very America friendly for personal, cultural and historical reasons, it is very hard to stomach the kind of attitude coming from the US right now.

The president and the NSA are basically saying, don't worry, we're not running a dragnet data mining operation that covers everything and everyone and violates your most basic privacy rights, unless you happen not to be a US person.

We seem to be at a rather dangerous stage within that process of globalization if a profound sense of injustice and inequality spreads beyond a small group of radicalized fanatics right into the mainstream of many societies around the world.

There are many benefits to having some cultural commons, a language that everyone knows, some common ideas about what's right and wrong. I'd hate to see the world slide into the kind of void that followed the decline of the Roman Empire, or worse some kind of global apartheid state.
If that's an incorrect understanding, it's an incorrect understanding that the EFF also shares, just so you know: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/govt/privacy
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I think there is the kernel of a good idea here, but I can't directly see how to apply it. Is there a concrete example available?
I hope Greenwald is being careful. I worry about him ending up like Michael Hastings.
Honest question which companies? Which companies that currently pay workers minimum wage are able to move overseas? Mcdonalds, Walmart etc cannot move their service jobs overseas.
oh but what about installing the modules/files that are getting loaded?

True, they're not night and day, but it's still stuff to do. Also, the page I sent, the actual reverse proxy is only 14 lines, half of it is extra stuff... The section where it says "start with example.com".

And that's the whole server, whereas the
It always seems to be the reaction wheels. Are they inherently difficult to get right?
A sieve would just be a one-step funnel. If your engagement involves more than one step (sieves in series) then it's a funnel.
> But this is true for any open source project

Not in my opinion. In my opinion, Gnome, KDE, Ubuntu and many others are self-destructing in an effort to imitate Apple's design without understanding it, and generating a good amount of bullshit in the process.

I don't think anyone here is suggesting that companies==bullshit. There's nothing wrong with smart employees of big companies contributing to the kernel. In many cases it's mutually beneficial so it's the rational thing to do. On the other hand, it seems to be very hard to create a big corporation without letting bullshit fester. Linux is not controlled by the sort of people that thrive on bullshit. But could it fall under their control in the future? Sure.
My point, how does the grandparent know he's never met someone with autism? Autism isn't always a visible disease. The faces of autism are the faces of everyday people. My guess is they have meet or seen an autistic person, and didn't know they were autistic because they have some kind of preconceived notion of what an autistic person looks or sounds like or acts like. Look at the pictures I posted above of my two autistic family members, if you were to see them out and about, would you think "there's some autistic kids?" Well, they aren't kids anymore, they are in their early 20s.
That's a random fact, but not evidence in support of your thesis, which is that the currently accepted set of vaccines should be evaluated for their costs and benefits by individuals.

The evidence that individuals are better equipped and are less biased than the current scientific establishment to evaluate the costs and benefits of a particular vaccine is the evidence I'm looking for. The evidence that vaccine X was crappy is not. Evidence of people trying to get a new vaccine into the market or required for children is definitely not.
I hadn't heard about this so I looked up the primary reference[1]. I'm not sure that high aspirin regimens (the overmedication you're referring to) would explain the high mortality of the flu outside the U.S.

Further, the author of the study cautions that this is a correlation that could be important given our changed understanding of aspirin toxicity and not a proven finding.

[1] http://cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/49/9/1405
Right, I've gotten certs before. I'm saying that they could be faking certs for their own usage, and we're also assuming they have subtle backdoors in openssl, for example, to perhaps render having the private key moot.
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I had the same problem getting internet to my rented office space. The ISP didn't have an updated db with the building's new office numbers.

I had to call and talk to someone put in a work-around. That meant I lost the discount for doing it over the web. It also meant that it took months and several phone calls for the bill to start coming to the right place.

Perhaps the message should be- "please double-check, we can't find a record of that <> in our database." But accept it if the customer insists.
Long term, there's potentially a point where we can repurpose mechanization faster than we can repurpose people. I certainly don't make the claim that we're there yet, though.

Short to medium term, one angle is figuring out how to actually get people paid for the new stuff - there is a lot that creates value that is difficult to capture.
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Isn't this the attack that reduced the strength of their PBKDF2 scheme by one (1) bit? Because they were unnecessarily calling PBKDF2 twice, where a normal system would have called it once and expanded the resulting key, resulting in exactly the same speed characteristics?

Your snark would sting more if you knew what you were talking about.

The reason nobody's hair lit on fire over this is that it's a stupid issue.
I'd suggest using timegm instead of mktime, or set the TZ environment variable to UTC to ensure all implementations return an identical date. I ran the same tests and found that the strptime was quite fast, but gmtime was taking most of the time. To speed that up, you could borrow SQLite's implementation. Checkout the computeJD function from SQLite's date.c - http://www.sqlite.org/src/doc/trunk/src/date.c
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AFAIK LastPass is an online password manager, i.e., you do not only trust a software vendor like AgileBits for 1Password, but you trust your actual passwords to an online provider. Is that wise given that LastPass could get hacked or asked by authorities to provide your passwords – if there's not already an existing legal access channel?
That title here on HN is a little misleading.
I used KeePassX in the past but switched to 1Password since there was no browser support to speak of. Has that changed?
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"...you feel confortable following the cdc, i prefer to keep a critical mind..."

* Do you have information that is not available to the CDC?

* Do you have evidence that the CDC is biased in a fashion that prevents it from being suitably "critical"?
20-ish cases is not what I would call a big outbreak. Some of those affected in Texas had received vaccinations, but for whatever reason[1], weren't protected.

[1] I guess they had either neglected to get a booster, were not scheduled to receive the full series of shots, or the vaccine's efficacy isn't what it is claimed to be.

>My anecdotal experience among anti-vaccination people I've known is that they're only weakly correlated with religion or politics

Here is another anec-data point for you. I'm not anti-vaccine, but I am more skeptical / cautious than most (we selectively decline / delay vaccinations). I am also Atheist. My impression is that the skepticism is rooted more in lack of trust in authorities, than religion.
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The reason for that is because there's far too little work being placed in them. These types of places need to scale 1000x and you'll see wages rise to middle class level.

This is also a much bigger opportunity for startups than traditional eyeballs model. A startup that can pull it off could easily be worth a -trillion- dollars. Apple, Microsoft, Google grew large just by taking $100-200 a year from a billion users. Imagine a mechanical turk that grew to a billion users - it could be taking $500 a month from users while paying them $5000 a month. Truly immense potential.
I can't wait to start hearing this excuse.
Why not regulate work week trough WTO, UN or other international organisation?
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There's a much higher probability of your data being compromised by the NSA than by any other surveillance institution. Not sure why you don't understand that, not all surveillance is equally successful.

The very principle is wrong, but if we assume everyone is surveilling us (which is what is being discussed as people make excuses for the US government doing it), then you'd want to be surveilled by the ones who are the least likely to actually hurt you.

It's obvious no one is thinking their own government will never try to break laws just because they're national, but the extent to which they'll do it is far, far less than the US government. For the very practical reasons of political capital, budget, technological and intellectual capabilities.
I found this article confusing because the introduction -- the title, the SunOS history, the Longfellow quote, and Morton's quote -- all suggest a self-righteous position around technical integrity and engineering choices. (Such a position would be poorly-founded anyway, since economics are a crucial part of engineering, even engineering that starts from a principle of technical integrity above all else. Besides that, various sources peg the percentage of Linux kernel contributions coming from commercial entities upwards of 75% -- which is a great thing, but can hardly be said to be free of commercial influence.)

The meat outlines some good points about modern advertising, but I don't get what it has to do with Linux. (Which "Linux" is this? The system? The community? Something else?)

It's also wrong to say that software systems don't lie: that's what virtual memory is, for example. Obviously educated people know the truth, but there's a real sense in which the system is presenting one thing as though it's really another, when the system is actually just going through great pains to make things look that way. This is often a good thing in software, unless the system gets caught in the lie (e.g., when it has to page things out or deploy the OOM killer), at which point real people are often surprised at what was going on all along.
While I didn't quite read this article (I skimmed), I talk (read argue) about this subject very often with some friends.

I think in the end, the inventor of a technology is somewhat responsible for figuring out what the people he/she will displace can do.

For example, if I'm about to put a whole industry out of work ('disrupt'ing it), I think it would be reasonably responsible for me to offer training or some kind of conversion for the workers of that industry (so they can use /license the tool I have made).
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It's not like TrueCrypt, where change logs read like, "Minor fixes" and there is no public repository in 2013.

I was thinking of just this the other day. In light of all the recent news, what's people's feeling about TrueCrypt. Elaborate ruse by the NSA or really good software that is very secure?
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So... what's the point of this article? Young man who:

* quits HS early, has multiple opportunities to get equivalent degree but doesn't

* quits his first job without another lined up

* 'hangs around' for a couple of years, but somehow...

* lands a steady (albeit crappy) job at Jiffy Lube, yet...

* doesn't bother showing up for his first or second day because 'reasons',

is discovering that life, in fact, is hard. How is this a societal problem, or anything other than 'lazy kid can't keep a job because of his own personal problems'?

<actually read the final section after posting this>

just to update, it appears that by the end of the article, our 'hero' discovers that showing up to an interview early, dressed in suit and tie, with a warm smile and firm handshake, does indeed stack the deck in your favor. Continuing to show up early and do the job you've been hired for means they'll continue to pay you. Shocking expose by WaPo right there.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the guy found work by the end of the article, and I hope his attitude changes and he reaps nothing but success. However, up until that point it appears that the majority of his troubles are of his own making. I still fail to see how the above bullet points are society's problem, which seems to be the point the WaPo article dances around.
I wasn't skeptical at you saying the increase was this big, and then I went to try it for myself. Wow. This definitely allows my eyes to track better. I'm a bit dizzy now, too ... Reading felt as fluent as my own thoughts.
It is most likely that raising minimum wage will lower demand for employees. How? For one, there will be more deployment of previously unviable technology to compensate for human labor. There are many other unintended consequences as well.

Unless we were to subsidize companies when they hire more workers, raising minimum wage would increase un- or under-employment.
> Edit: perhaps research and training in security and seeing how I can contribute on that front is the first step back towards being proud of my work...?

Well. The open-source tools might be as easy as the professional tools to taint.

Someone training for the CCNA/P-Security or any other certifications is still using the same corrupted conduits :(

William Gibson said this about virtual lights (a novel which deals with bike messengers and data): "In the future, information'll be more secure when written on paper and transported by physical human hands than on the wired."

Which reminds me of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452

And there is work to do : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
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Incentives drive behavior (not 100%, but hugely influenced). When real estate agents are incented to sell,your house quickly (vs. at the highest price possible)... they sell your house quickly, and not the highest price possible. For their own houses, they of course go for the highest price.

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Is HTTP 2.0 finalized and approved? If not could we push for it to support PFS by default with ECDHE, which seems to add only 15 percent overhead [1]? That seems like a small price to pay if the security of every session grows exponentially, with each one being encrypted with a new key.

HTTP 2.0/SPDY already makes TLS mandatory, no? So why not make PFS mandatory, too? I'd rather we do it now than wait for HTTP 3.0, and it might force a lot more companies to adopt it by default as they move to HTTP 2.0 (companies such as Microsoft [2]).

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[1] - http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-se...

[2] - http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/06/25/ssl-intercepted...
Won't the result just be a further investment in technology that leads from two people making $10 an hour to 1 person making $20.
There's nothing inherently wrong with input validation. The real problem here is twofold: Validation rules that make no sense, and what action is being taken by the system when input fails validation.

Instead of just rejecting the form submission outright, why not just ask the user for explicit confirmation that their input is not mistaken?
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I think it depends how close the text is too, and how long the sentences are on a single line. If it's heavy reading then you don't necessarily want to be or able to read as quickly, though might be good for skimming it.
> (1) Churchill's Coventry quandary is a myth.

It's not whether it actually happened that's important or not, and I think you realize that. Prime Minister Churchill certainly did need to be careful about what actions he took based on ULTRA decrypts so as to avoid revealing the activities of Bletchley Park. Coventry is the quotable example despite not actually happening the way the story is told.

However if you require an example that actually happened, consider when Adm. Nimitz received message intelligence pointing out Adm. Yamamoto's flight itinerary.

In his case he ended up using a literal example of parallel construction (having a coastwatcher send a report of a Japanese flight) to generate a non-codebreaking reason for his staff to know about the flight, and then sent out his fighter planes to shoot Yamamoto's flight down.

> (2) The NSA is way out of line in this respect and no matter how much they do/did it that stands and you should not apologize for it.

With respect to things like DEA I would agree with you. But on the other hand if they came across a no-shit email from a hitman or something describing an upcoming murder I would expect them to report it.

It may be that it's impossible to write a policy that straddles that border, in which case I'd say we should probably ban that type of information sharing and then rely on the idea that an analyst who sees that type of murder plot might still leave an anonymous tip.

> The balance here is not to get to perfect security without privacy, the balance point is to get to an optimal level of security with a maximum of privacy.

Hey look at that, we fully agree!
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>HEP-B is transmitted by bodily fluid exchange so the real danger kicks during puberty.

Right, we determined the risk of contracting Hep-B was very low for infants. The other risk factors are blood transfusions, medical malpractice. They will get it before they start school. There is also very low chance for an infected infant/toddler to spread Hep-B so, no ethical worries there, unlike MMR.