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Your CEO is like 10 years too late on this one, companies who offshored or outsourced mostly brought those projects back internal since. The companies that were successful got there by starting a development office in the country they wanted to ship work to, that's the only way to do quality control long-term. I've seen companies with less than $3M in revenue do it and then rent the team out to other people for projects. The contract outsourcing teams that were good realized how few of them there were, and then like any good American tech worker those teams raised their price. So the "myriad benefits" are: cost cutting by scraping the bottom of the barrel and accepting that in 3 years you'll have to pay an expensive grown up to redo it...and that's it.

If your CEO is bound and determined to warp you back to 2005, it helps to understand what you are renting when you contract tasks out. If you get a team of 10 people there's: one great coder, one pretty great coder, and 8 random shlubs they grabbed off the street. This absolutely includes contract development teams in the United States. The two good coders are the only ones you will be able to communicate with before you sign a contract. The money you pay them (cost: 1 good coder x10) goes straight to paying the two good guys and then the contracting company makes their margins off underpaying the 8 shlubs. Note none of these are management, project management, or anything else. At best one of the two guys is a Lead Developer but that isn't management.

So in order to do it effectively, you have to have an extra manager in your location whose entire job is to manage the offshore/outsourced team directly. Not a project manager, a literal manager of software engineers. He absolutely has to be able to do weekly code reviews because the two good guys aren't going to do it for the 8 other guys who need it. He has to watch that each of the 8 guys are doing work, checking in their own code (some of them will have their sister do it because that's how they got through college), and you have to have language in the contract where this in-house manager can jettison anyone who can't keep up. The price of that guy needs to be factored into the 'cost' side of the cost/benefit, along with the regular project manager and tech executive time at your end. These people will work twice as hard communicating everything twice to the remote team.

At this point you should be thinking "why don't I just hire this theoretical Managing Developer and then give him two mid-senior recs in-house and let them do the project themselves?"

You can try to offload trivial coding tasks to them but palidanx is right, do not dump infrastructure, foundational tech, or release engineering on them. They will screw it up and in the process they will screw up all your in-house people's work, too.
Theoretically you can do some liveness checks (work better on retina/iris than on fingerprint), but basically everything related to fingerprints is easy to forge outright, let alone making a dead man's finger appear live.
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Where is the snark? This seems like a perfectly legitimate concern.
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Comment really applies to any phone's next generation.
Or "on-contract"?
I wonder if it would be practical couple the CPU directly to an externally accessible thermal pad, and have some sort of docking station which includes additional cooling. There are probably better cooling options available (liquid, heatpipe?) if you could find a way to connect/disconnect them reliably and not compromise much on the mobile aspects of the design.
Leave off them, without the daily mail, how would we know how global warming - and the latest celebrity whatnots - were affecting the countries house prices?
I agree with everything in the article, U.S. News' rankings are terrible and have hugely bad effects. There are better lists. For example, Affordable Colleges Online has a list of the best return-on-investment CS degrees [1]. It has it's own questionable methodological choices but it's a much better start for anyone thinking about getting a degree.

[1]: http://www.affordablecollegesonline.org/college-rankings-onl...
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One thing I was certain about before today was that my next phone would have 32GB. Sorry Apple, I probably would have stuck with the iPhone for $199. Now I'm actually on the fence!
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What should we be using for our information, instead?

Clapper's testimony to congress?
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You don't think the wife would've seen the husband enter his passcode in front of her at least once?
More snark. This isn't helpful.

For those who want to believe it, I doubt there is any amount of information that could ever be released to convince them that the NSA isn't spying on people anymore.
The accidental fork in March demonstrated that all transactions were included in both chains. One guy attempted a double-spend attack against OKPay (but then returned money). Only people who could have been hurt are those accepting transaction during the fork. Everyone else's money was just fine. Everyone should simply listen for alerts and simply stop trusting new transactions until the fork is resolved.

To reverse some old transaction would require enormous amount of computing power and some serious motive. It's not even close to two banks disputing a wire transfer between each other.
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They mean that they are switching to a 64-bit ARM architecture.

Note that the 32->64 bit register and address size increase is by far not the only difference between 32-bit ARM and 64-bit ARM. Aarchv8 (64-bit arm) is effectively a complete clean redesign of the ISA, designed to be modern, fast, and only maintain some backwards compatibility, discarding many signature features of ARM that no longer make sense. Such as predication of everything and free shifts in every instruction.

64-bit ARM should be significantly faster, at least once the compilers catch up.
This is just denying a dismissal of the suit, but it's pretty interesting. I'm still reading the opinion, but the court's reasoning appears to be that wifi shouldn't be considered a "radio communication" under the wiretap act because it didn't really exist at the time it was written (and doesn't really belong in a category with things like traditional radio systems), but, as "electronic communication", they find open wifi is not "readily accessible to the general public".

There is a distinction to be made here, but I'm worried about that particular one. It seems like it would be better to make it on something like accessing the data not meant for you and storing it/processing it (something closer to many privacy laws). Criminalizing the access of open wifi seems like it will quickly become problematic, and I'm sure some enterprising DAs will find it the perfect tool for some case they're having trouble making stick.

That said, this is just denying a dismissal, so we could get more nuance if this goes to trial.
We tried this with the web app launcher at https://starthq.com. Visitors could create their app launcher before signing up.

It did not work as expected as users were confused and few completed the process. Right now we ask for the email up front, but don't demand that the email is verified by clicking the link we send them. This works much better and we're seeing more than two thirds of the users coming back after the initial visit.
Yes, either of those technologies would work as well.

I'm still betting it will show up in the iWatch, though.

There is just so much NFC-enabled Point-Of-Sale hardware already out there.
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Seriously?

Ok. It's quite jerky on my 4S.
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>I also use ctrl R <keyword> at the bash prompt but that only gives me the most recent match. //

Are you sure, I'm using BASH on Kubuntu and I get previous matches by repeated use of ctrl+R.

Actually inspired by a previous post here I made a script "hs" that searches archived history files and shows me all past match lines. Before that I did what you do now.
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Ok. Right... So the iPhone 5C isn't their 'cheap' phone at all. That makes more sense.
>> I'm very careful with my fingerprints.

What does that even mean? You wear gloves in public all the time? You wipe down everything you touch?

Which makes me wonder, aren't one's finger prints all over your iPhone exterior anyway. If someone steals one's phone wouldn't it be easier to dust it for prints than crack the security on the digital copy?
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I agree with one of the comments on the source article - Arstechnica, other news sites, and the community at large shouldn't allow John Hopkins to let fundamental questions about this takedown go unresolved.

The specifics matter. Did the request originate from a group receiving research grants from the NSA? Did the request originate outside of the university, and was then funneled in?

If it's the latter, then the chilling effect on academic speech becomes very significant.
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This looks fun, but if this is the only thing you are going to be using on your extremely small Joyent VM, why waste time and complexity putting your OpenVPN setup inside Docker? Seems unnecessary.
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What if the NSA told them they had to have access to the data, or else jail and whatnot.
You are seeing it from the POV of the applicant, not from the POV of the people who designed the H1B visa program.

It is their intent that matters and if their intent were to facilitate such people's immigration there are better ways to do it since the green card process takes nearly the maximum term of an H1B visa. If you don't start the process from basically day one, you are probably not going to get that green card. If you switch employers mid-stream, the green-card process must restart which puts a practical end to it too.
Why do you care if anybody gets your fingerprint, if you have already decided nobody can be trusted with your fingerprint and thus will never trust fingerprint based authentication? Once you are at that point, it's like your eye color or something. I don't care if other people get my eye color, because I will never use it to authenticate.
Because we can't, not really. I mean, sure, at a significant price, you kinda can, but the cost will be great.

Delete your fb, g+ and twitter accounts. There will be a social price to pay, but it's still not too great for a significant amount of people. For many, though, even that is costly.

Get rid of your Nokia, Apple or Android phones. Suddenly, harsh. Still possible, because there's some alternatives, but if you want to avoid US and Chinese companies (srsly, Chinese), your options are limited and not well-known.

And, you've done both. Um, most SSL implementations. Your bank account. You'd have to go cash only.

Seriously, there isn't much we can do in any immediate way. Just vote the right way, and talk to people. Less glorious than pointlessly sacrificing yourself, sure, but actually works.
Yes, absolutely. While the idea of fingerprint-purchasing might have interesting applications, what you mention should also be a serious concern.

The saddest part to me is that people are attempting to put an end to this worry by saying "well, Apple said they don't give apps access to it." And no other tech company has ever told us about any of their involvement and cooperation with the NSA in the collection of private user data.

People shouldn't wooed by this new feature and be blinded to its security implications. Start taking this stuff seriously, instead of what these companies are telling you.
Jobs was the entire reason that their product offering was so focused. Look back at the mess that was Apple's product offering smorgasbord before Jobs returned and took his hatchet to it.

Without visionary leadership, most big companies are unable to resist the temptation to take the kitchen sink attitude toward product development.

The coherence of Apple's product strategy will most likely decrease as we move further past the age of Jobs... unless they find a new similarly-capable leader.
Well most TV shows air at a particular time of day, so if you watched it you presumably wouldn't be coding at that particular time of day, either. Women code while their husbands watch football.
First it was Cheap, then it was Crappy, now it is Clown? I mean, the idea that there will be a real, actual funny joke around what the "C" stands for seems only real in the sense that people are talking about how there is going to be people talking about what the "C" stands for.
"Although it’s unlisted in the release notes, the developers tell us that it will now keep tracking your without a data connection – perfect for when you’re roaming (and roving) abroad."

Neat! Been waiting for it to do this.
Here's the rub.

Google's vision is definitely out there, but it's intangible. Glass is a $1500 product that is geared towards geeks. Folks who don't even know how to properly use a BT headset would be overwhelmed by Glass.

I guess it's about target market. Apple makes it available, like, everywhere, and accessible to folks like my parents. Google puts it way out there (cool), but it requires a nerd to use or grok.
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So now your "docking station" is actually a separate computer; what part of the phone would it use? The storage?
Isn't brand loyalty wonderful?

Good on these two for exploiting one of the oldest cognitive biases out there. How's about a Reddit Sundae next time?
"Honey my battery is dead. Can I borrow your phone?"
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First I've heard of it, but I'm not American. Is this really true?
Still no NFC.

It's an underrated technology for pairing devices. Real investments and more hardware would follow if Apple jumped in the pool with everyone else.
What was snarky about it? I hadn't properly considered that my fingerprint would likely end up with spy agencies if I used the new fingerprint service.
Why does everyone keep going on about NFC? It's been on Android for years and it's never been used in any meaningful way. I don't see Apple introducing some new hardware component just for the sake of adding it. They'll introduce something when they have a really solid use for it, which is something that Google seems to have never really had with NFC.
I think this lineup may backfire. People with a 4S wanting to upgrade will probably opt for the coloured, cheaper version. People who previously wouldn't have bought the iPhone because too expensive (mostly in Europe where subsidized planes aren't always available) won't buy it now anyway because the 5c is in the same ballpark of the 5s.

They have basically introduced a cheaper alternative to old customers.
I have 8 years experience with Postgres and I already know that a lot of cool built-in features just do not work in production, under heavy load. Usually I have to make some logic inside application in order to protect myself from postgres-driven fuck up.

That's why I am sceptical about this new cool and ambitious built-in MM replication.
This is a very good summary.
...and Haptics!

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If the NSA has compromised everything, what's the point of all this paranoia? If you can't trust your software, your compiler, your operating system, your microprocessor, your network adapter, your router, or your ISP- you're hosed. It's over. You lost. So can we at least stop banging the war-drums?

There's either absolutely nothing you can do about it, or it's not as bad as you think and you are being wildly over fearful.
They don't charge for months that you don't make a commit in. But I still found it to be overly expensive (for 10,000-100,000 users it would cost $399/mo or $299/mo if prepaid for a year) if you aren't working for a company that is already taking in a lot of revenue.
I fully agree with you and for the exact reasoning (as a Canadian).
Unfortunately, if the US News' rankings suffer from certain problems, these rankings suffer much more heavily. These rankings compare universities that have far more quantitative differences than the US News' rankings; they compare sets of universities that don't share a language, structure, culture, etc...
In the future you aren't going to be able to keep your fingerprints to yourself anyway:

http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/06/keeping_you_saf.php
I can't agree with this line of reasoning. The words are not irrelevant. The words "make me a sandwich" aren't powerful because someone of the majority (in, say, a school context) said it, but because of the wider implication that that's a woman's place--making a sandwich for a man. In fact, these sorts of words can be used by people who have little power in a given context because they derive their power from the wider cultural norms. The power dynamics of whatever isolated group under consideration is what is irrelevant. The fact that they chose to bully her in that specific way indicates a sexist train of thought and that must be addressed separately from the issue of bullying. One can bully based on gender without it being sexist. This was not such a case and that fact is meaningful.
Well that'd be defying common logic and data. High end jobs are less in numbers almost by definition. No one I know who educated from an American university with a B.S./M.S. is taking up jobs at the consulting companies that are taking up majority of the H1-B Visas. Those people are getting the high end Google/Apple/Microsoft or startup jobs.

There is no insult intended in calling lower end jobs what they are - it's just a relative distinguishing mechanism. You can hardly justify arguing that everyone that maintains a run of the mill C#/Java app should get paid a $100K in Youngstown, OH.

Oh and look up real slavery before using the slave word in H1-B context.
There are maybe 20 million students in the US and the top 10 schools in the rankings have maybe 50000 or 60000 students. That's less than 0.3%, just sayin'.
Maybe it allows Apple to play both sides of the whole male/female marketing angle - the 5C is safe to be a bit more "feminine" while the 5S is angular and masculine.
Well, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, today Turkey tops the world in the number of imprisoned journalists: http://cpj.org/imprisoned/2012.php

No journalists are jailed in Russia at the moment, but Russia comes in 4th in the world in the number of journalists killed since 1992 with 56 deaths: http://cpj.org/killed/ Turkey is 13th with 21 deaths.

Statistics are indeed useful when we're separating these sort of extremes. The article gives the example of Norway being less corrupt than Angola, asserting that you "don't need an index" to tell you that. But comparing Norway and Denmark is where rankings are less useful, according to the author. The argument is not that it is always impossible to compare different countries in quantitative terms.
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I'm not quite sure I get this level of paranoia. We all leave thousands of fingerprints in public areas every day.
>If you don't start the process from basically day one, you are probably not going to get that green card. If you switch employers mid-stream, the green-card process must restart which puts a practical end to it too.

And the alternative to that is to do what? Not bother and not try getting the green card?
I agree that there's too much absurdity around these types of product launches in general. That being said, Apple has always enjoyed lambasting the competition as being aesthetically challenged. Apple has probably more than earned the blow-back for this rather lame design.
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No thanks Apple. I don't struggle to get my ass out of bed, go through a torturous 2 hour daily commute, sit on my ass and do something I dislike 8 hours a day to waste $500+ on a colorful iPhone.
> For those who want to believe it, I doubt there is any amount of information that could ever be released to convince them that the NSA isn't spying on people anymore.

The NSA is a spy agency, of course they are spying on people. Unless the NSA ceases to exist it will spy on people. They are not actively trying to claim otherwise (only that they try really hard to only spy on people who are in someway connected to someone who is not an American or has been designated dangerous).
Thanks! We'll try to work that into the next round of edits!
Still trying to figure out what the headline means myself.
Last time i checked it was quite expensive
I don't understand why the parent is getting downvoted. It is one of the few rational, realistic posts so far in this discussion. [Edit: In the time it took to write this post, a few other people now seem to have expressed similar views.]

Of course visitors would rather try everything for free indefinitely and never give anything up in return. That's obvious.

On the other hand, in today's world, web sites are often transient things you find via social networks and search engines and visit only briefly the first time. Even if you find a site interesting, if you forget to bookmark it somewhere obvious or you found it at work but get distracted by the time you reach home, you might never think to go back. From the site owner's point of view, if subsequent more deeply engaged visits never happen and they have no way of re-engaging with genuine prospective customers, they could be losing a huge proportion of their potential revenues.

There's always a balancing act in these things, trying to demonstrate enough value to a prospect as easily as possible that they engage, yet not giving away so much that they have little incentive to engage and don't see enough extra value to justify becoming a paying customer. Trying to get people to sign up when they don't even know what you do yet is probably not a good strategy, but neither is letting them see so much that they wind up just circulating around your site and never converting.

Ultimately, if being a little more aggressive about getting people to the next stage of conversion puts some people off, that's good. Those people probably weren't going to sign up anyway, and all they were doing was wasting your resources and polluting your data about genuine prospects. It sounds harsh and unpleasant to say it so bluntly, but it's probably the reality if you're running a modern commercial site that offers genuine value but isn't an essential service where visitors are certain to come looking again later.
Well, whose fault is that?

Scheier's special prosecutor plus truth and reconciliation commission seems reasonable. But we're getting way off topic.
Seems to work when I have my gloves on.
Not on high resolution cameras designed to record them attached to your identity.
It's basically for the American market. The after-provider-subsidy price difference will appear humongous, and consumers aren't rational about provider subsidies.