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> Should we still not be frightened (or at least concerned) if what's being transacted is child slaves, or kidnapping/murder for hire, or guns for the mafia?

No, you should be frightened by the fact that governments, being monopolies, tend to create less economically efficient products (including laws) than competitive markets, so if you assume that societies are better off if they have legal systems which prevent slavery/kidnapping/etc., competitive markets will be more likely to produce those legal systems than governments.
OK. Nobody is trying to sell how Lisp "rocks more than ever" and is the great new style.
He's not saying the facility is a sham, he is simply saying it's goals are not to generate electricity, it's simply a research tool to provide data to improve empirical models. Those models of course have all sorts of uses, and certainly a big one is nuclear weapon modelling.
Could you please elaborate on what you mean when you say that?
Your two semantic proposals are completely compatible.
I know, when the shit really hits the fan, visual studio is the tool I would use to try and clean up those messy directories.

</sarcasm>. The complaint is about Visual Studio's decision in particular, not the weakness of (some) (old) Win32 APIs.
That's why you launch a few of them. Also, the odd's of the probe getting destroyed e.g by an impact are really low. They get lower once you leave earth orbit and really low when you hit interstellar space. And you can probably get to less impact stuff quicker if you go perpendicular to the plain of the ecliptic rather than out.

Your bigger issue is component failure.

So launch a enough to deal with component failure, wait long enough for them to be out of harms way, and then you have a time lock.

Sure it's expensive, but time locks with a known time to unlock or even a decent estimate are not really possible algorithmically.
Ah, go eat a bag of barewords.
I think that the anti counterfeiters are planning decades ahead with each revision.

Even the older Benjis are still very hard to counterfeit - all of these new changes are targeted almost exclusively at North Korea's advanced counterfeiting program.

So decades ahead.
It might be because there really are things that should be feared, and these people are telling the truth.
Is there an equivalent to D3 for iOS?
Well, that's one way to enhance the persistence of memory.
Indeed.

And it's not as if there is some urgent rush.
he was using many cards with many addresses and billing names. i didn't have a system in place to catch this behavior at the time, and it was totally on me for not having proper countermeasures in place.

iirc there were like 15 different billing addresses and card numbers in a few month period. once i saw that i knew i was going to get fucked on chargebacks.

his fraud scheme was so creative i'm not going to describe it here, for wont of someone decided to imitate it.
Fees all depend on volume of course, so you have to weasel around with sales guys to lock them down. For Inpay I was paying 7% or so fees, and it was free to receive wires in my Okpay account because I am an exchanger with them. To become an exchanger you just buy $1,000 worth of Okpay and fill out the application/send in passport copies. Now all internal transfers, and bank fees are free.

If you want a surreal experience open a bank account in Belarus. A bulletproof limo picks you up at the airport and you go directly to the bank and receive your unlimited debit card and privacy statement they will never give your info to anybody no matter what, unless you commit crimes in Belarus. Azerbaijan is the same thing.

I'm surprised there isn't a gigantic European exchange using a Belorussian bank account. Could accept all the US wires you want and they wouldn't respond to angry requests from NY state to seize your funds because you don't have a MSB license. Of course you could end up kidnapped though for extraordinary rendition back to the US like they did all those Russians who ran gambling payment gateways :P
It is not enterprise enough. If it used Java EE then it would really scale, like a stadium sound system.
The polymer bills can melt in the dryer, or so I've been told.

The hundreds smell like maple syrup - and that's not a joke.
Amy here, one of the creators. Great point, and there will be some self-reporting necessary here since we obviously don't have access to anyone's Google Analytics. If you have submitted domains through the site, please let us know how it's working for you! The referrer should show as domains4good.org. A/B testing the copy/design of the interstitial page before the redirect is also something we can test in the future to see what encourages people to stick around the longest. Thanks for the comments.
It will be my first time as well, Im going and wonder if I will meet anybody. I also want to know has anyone attended startup school and made a good connection that lead to something...
Just use git flow for releases. For non-trivial deploys, you may want to check out teamcity.
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Fortunately/unfortunately, I'm not an U.S citizen, or even resident. I probably wouldn't even be allowed to clean windows for a government agency, let alone work in law enforcement.Btw, I also didn't downvote you.
I just learned some of my blog posts were very popular on "pocket". Maybe I should get an account there.
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The misalignment of state and public interests is not mutually exclusive with the people benefiting from the government. To use a deliberately childish (though still valid) analogy, livestock benefits a lot from farming, but I would argue that (personified) livestock's interests are not aligned with the interests of the farmers.
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I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.
In the aforementioned group, dropping your linkedin, angellist and twitter name on there will be a good idea.

I've also pitched my idea in the group and the like and at least managed to get some good connections and some good leads from the group to start. AFAIK, there will be a meetup of some kind after startupschool as well.

Other than that, just go out there and talk to people. A networking event is a networking event no matter who's going.

Many of these people will only be there for one day, so try to take connections from a diverse group of people. Much of your correspondence with people going is going to be online anyways.

Just secure what you can.
really well executed! I think the landing page could use some reorganization to feel really polished but this is amazing to play around with. Is there a way to lock a page from being edited at some point? Just so everyone knows, this is made in part by the developer of http://recursivedrawing.com & http://pixelshaders.com
Well, I get the impression billions spent on fusion research doesn't really employ that many more people, it just spends more on expensive resources. Maybe that has a knock-on effect, but using the money on more labour-intensive work (skilled or otherwise) is still probably a better use. Such as, building and installing a heck of a lot of cheap solar panels.
>in case you don't get it, for gods sake don't run script #2 unchanged", fairly harsh...

Down voting a guy who does have a warning?
However for safety's sake, I would recommend prefacing the code with a warning instead of having it at the end.
We (http://differential.io) have been using Meteor.js almost exclusively since switching from rails about 5 or 6 months ago and are very excited about where the framework is headed.

Obviously, it's still new and has some kinks but 1.0 is around the corner, and we've found the ease of development is well worth the few issues we've had to work around.

An example app: http://assistant.io
I use them as OS based file versioning for my backups.
Scala/Play for any heavy lifting. Node for the web layer and Angular/SASS for the front end with grunt to handle node and front end builds.
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You seem to be assuming in point 3) that the government is rational about this kind of crap. History proves they're out of their minds when it comes to drugs and prosecution of any and everything related to them. They'd throw you in prison for as long as they possibly could just to "make a point".
Fusion changes everything. Cheaper electricity makes transporting materials basically free. And projects like desalination become possible = no one remotely close to an ocean ever lacks clean drinking water again.
When thinking about nukes, always remember, the bigger and scarier they are, the less likely to be used, and the less likely are we to engage in land wars where we gut each other with bayonets.
Interesting. Can you share the name of that bank and the minimum requirements of opening an account in Belarus?
This is a red herring. The overwhelming majority of screen readers support javascript front ends. As in, over 98% of people who use screenreaders use one that supports javascript.

source: http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey4/#javascript
Legacy services.

If you're starting from scratch, you can choose a cleaner setup. But if you're dealing with an existing site, you have to figure out if and how you can migrate all the existing functionality. For any non-trivial case (or one with a realistic budget), you're not going to be able to just do a re-implementation and single cutover.
>Fortunately, quite a lot of people feel that it's extremely oppressive to inflict restrictions, caging, and great violence upon nonviolent, consenting people.

I would agree with you here. However, I wouldn't necessarily agree that all laws are necessarily oppressive or, if they must be oppressive by your terms, need to be resisted. After all, there are cases of theft, vandalism, murder, rape, fraud, conspiracy, etc - all of which would require 'oppression' through the force of law for the good of the community.

I have no problem with your lone person who wants to use drugs and is harming no one - but laws in general presume consequences for violating norms within a society. If on the other hand, that lone user has to commit violent acts or their use poses a danger to others, then in my opinion their right to personal liberty has to be limited.
A bad programmer can write code with poor readability in any language. That's no excuse for a language that makes clear, concise code impossible.
Yes, and it was a useless comment to be sure. My apologies, I try not to go out in public.
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Well, the goal is to make sure that the plentiful modules on the CPAN (all in Perl 5) are usable for everybody involved. You're right, directly mixing Perl 5 and Perl 6 isn't likely to be a common usage - at least, doesn't seem that way to me.
We created a script of our own that did this for the share buttons on http://viralsweep.com/advanced-sweepstakes-guide and the main issue we had was that, depending on the service, you may have to specify whether it's www. or whether there is or is not a / at the end of the URL.

Services like Sharetally are neat because they do the crawling for you, but the numbers still may not be entire accurate; especially if you consider URL shorteners and how various services crawl and report those. Even more confusing is why some services (in particular, g+) seem to over-report the number of shares, only to self-correct later on (by as many as 10-11).
It can make sense in certain situations. I personally grew up as a very late bloomer. By very late, I mean I was THE shortest person in school (boys and girls) until junior year of high school. This put me at a huge disadvantage when it came to sports even though I am naturally very athletic. This of course didn't ruin my life, and I don't think I would have ever made pro. But who knows.
Here is the product page: https://www.microsoft.com/office/perceptivepixel/products/de....
Can you trust Facebook with your genetic code?
I wish all CSS was described this way... Thanks!
Alright, I was quick to judge and there is no way of knowing how many people worked on it or what technology is included. However, 10+ years is a heck of a long time to work on the bill and I'm not sure taking more time on something necessarily insures that it is the best. But I will concede on the grounds that this is one of those situations that you can't just iterate on. It works or it doesn't and the consequences of failure are incredibly high.
https://github.com/rebelidealist/stripe-ruby-mock
You could always try an informal payment scheme. Find existing storefronts that have MSB licenses that do currency exchange, ask them to take payments for you. End of the day they deposit to your business account. Now you can have cash accepting storefronts. Find an easy yet secure method for these stores to notify you of cash payment and release the coins.

This is better than cash deposit directly to your bank account because of MITM fraud attacks, and because banks hate people coming in to deposit cash and quickly try to shut down the account. Again I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if you'd need a license for this in the USA but overseas it would work in countries that need this service, like Pakistan/Philippines/India.

EDIT: I would imagine, if you do quite well, you could sign a 1:1 agreement with companies like Bitpay who are looking for USD, and have BTC, and you have USD and are looking for BTC. win/win
Some say that Perl really whips the llamas ass.
It's the name of a general project in the Perl community to try to decouple Perl 5 the language from perl the runtime...

This is literally impossible: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=663393
Okay, aside from some scientific functions, what do you really need from an integer that 52bits isn't enough for?
The classic 43 year pump and dump, we should have seen it coming.
Yes, and it's not certain that we will ever be able to have a stable, viable fusion plant. There are even somewhat recent works showing that certain kinds of confinement which were being tried in the early days are not theoretically viable.

We're still a few orders of magnitude away from energy, and we're probably quite a few reactor design innovations and material breakthroughs away, I'd say, as far as my layman knowledge goes.
I've no idea. That's why I'm asking. I guess internal use, yes, i.e.: for high-throughput local network infrastructure. I guess just going to 10GbE or fibre would be a cheaper method.
Actually, the site you linked lists 3 goals. Weapons research is only one of them. The other two are commercial and scientific research. Those are not mere byproducts, but explicit goals of the facility.
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I think your referring to civil disobedience, which was a PR tactic for highlighting racial abuse under Jim Crow, not a system for selling contraband. I think a more accurate comparison would be to the speak-easys and moonshine of the 20s. Handing out flyers with your name and plans for a speak-easy market would've been just as misguided.
Not only is it never going to happen, they would be mad to try.

Even, if they did make the change and somehow managed to re-test and fix all their software, they would still have created the potential of breaking every piece of Windows software in existence.

Making the change has to potential to cause untold chaos, the likes never before seen in the software industry.

It would make Y2K look like a paper cut.
A lot of cryptographic mistakes people make, you can blame on the 1990s. For instance, the ubiquitous CBC padding oracle (most recently of TLS "Lucky 13" fame) is the product of MAC-then-encrypt constructions, where attackers are given the privilege of manipulating ciphertext without having it checked by a MAC. We didn't have a mathematical proof to tell us not to do mac-then-encrypt until after the 1990s. So if you have that bug, you might consider blaming the 1990s.

But using the same RC4 key in both directions of an encrypted transport isn't just a bug known in the 1990s; it is the emblematic cryptographic attack of the 1990s, the one crypto flaw that even non-crypto pentesters could reliably deploy. For instance, bidirectionally shared RC4 keys broke the Microsoft VPN scheme, a bug discovered by Peter "Mudge" Zatko when there was still a L0pht Heavy Industries.

So my point is, this is a bit sad.

I should add, recycling the keystream of a stream cipher is worse than he makes it sound. The attack he's describing is called "crib dragging" and implies that an attacker has access to plaintext. But attackers don't need access to plaintext to attack repeated-key XOR, which is what a set of ciphertexts encrypted under the same stream cipher keystream works out to be.
But what if you end up "working" for your company? Let's assume that you are in the US and might have to put in hours to hack together a product or a service. And none of your "employees" are in Latvia or Belize. Is it still legal?
I always sort of wondered about this, but I never got around to investigating it. Thanks for the lesson.
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There's that "probably better" part of the debate. The fact that what happened, happened, though, is just further evidence of the fact that third party ratings agencies exist.

Frankly, I do think they can be better than government alternatives, but I acknowledge it's open for debate, rather than the simple fact that they actually exist and operate.

Keep in mind the government alternative in the scenario you're talking about is the SEC, and perhaps Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who were actually involved in the disaster and several narratives exist in which they directly caused the disaster. The 2008 GFC as evidence of market regulation being essential is no knock-out punch, in fact it makes a pretty good point in a set of arguments as to why the inverse is true.

Too big to fail, the government and fed response to the crisis, the government regulations which contributed to the fiasco in the first place, and the half assed regulation that served neither a free market nor a centrally planned economy that has been par for the course both before, during and after the crisis are good cases in point.
There's good code being written in PHP, but as far as I can see, not really in this project. JS, HTML, PHP are all mixed together, global functions and variables everywhere, no classes or objects.

Also they are not using an existing PHP framework so they'll have to reinvent the wheel many times for proper session handling, caching, encryption, and for countless other problems that have already been solved.
Every few months this comes up:

http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2009/08/on-parsing-perl-5....
I agree that no one should discout Franklin's inventions and great ideas. That's why I was careful to mention them in my comment.

But I take issue with forgetting about this one aspect of Franklin's character because he was simply following the standards of his time.

The question is, standards for whom? Affluent white people? The standards certainly weren't acceptable to black Americans.

I know that I may sound nit-picky, but I think it's important to apply our current sense of morality to this period in American history. When we gloss over the uncomfortable details, we gloss over some of the lessons.
There are more languages for the CLR than the JVM, since, via IKVM, the set of JVM languages is a proper subset of the set of CLR languages.

So, if there being more languages that can be run on the VM is a marker of weakness of the primary language for the VM, ...
There are good fiscal reasons for the price rise of some goods. You're confusing fiscal factors with monetary ones, while ignoring all the stuff you can get cheap today that cost a small fortune in 1997.
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There are projects to do exactly this... LinkedIn for example does this for mobile vs. desktop rendering... so they can share the same rendering templates and logic.
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"Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has a mission of strengthening the United States’ security through development and application of world-class science and technology to:

Enhance the nation’s defense;
Reduce the global threat from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction;
And respond with vision, quality, integrity and technical excellence to scientific issues of national importance."

https://www.llnl.gov/about/whatwedo.html
He calculates 476mbps at the IP level on 1gbps ethernet, but continues…

Note that this disparity only happens because we are using very small packets, where per-packet overhead dominates. In normal Internet usage, packets are 500-bytes in size, and the per-packet overhead is usually ignored.

So, to one digit of precision, gigabit ethernet is still gigabit ethernet.
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Excellent, but the point is to make the most secure/cheap solution, he already has a mountain a he could build a room with gigantic 100mt of steel walls with a piece of paper with the pass on it recorded by 100 webcams on 100 diff connections, or send a 10000 probes.
Math for building an idea to hack is so good because ideas and intelligence to build them are so expensive the other parts of the problem look more feasible to hack/fix/try
Prepare ordered sterile Petri dishes with nutritious solution. Expose some to bacteria, forming bacterial cultures, but not others. Ones and zeroes.

At first, they will be almost impossible to distinguish (you cannot hurry much your culture medical exams even if willing to spend a lot, right?) After a while, the cultures become obvious.

The timing is heavily dependant of the bacteria's life cycle, but I guess if you stricly control the number of individuals initially put into the dishes, and keep temperature and lighting optimal, you can predict the time-to-observability to around 40%?
I find that the best thing that's ever happened to my task-delegation is Service-Oriented Architecture. You break a project down into a tree of tasks--then find the nodes are the most weakly coupled, and call each such subtree a "service."

Each service gets assigned to one developer to build and own. Each developer then publishes a protocol/API for their service, and other developers--instead of needing to talk to them to consume their service--just consume its API.

This means each service can be developed, tested, mocked, gateway-ed, and made Highly Available in isolation from synchronous/blocking work by other developers.
IR LED for illumination, use the camera to detect movement where there should be none.

It would burn a ton of power though.
I'm a big fan of Meteor. As a front-end dev that got his start in JavaScript with jQuery, it's been really easy to settle into. I did a pre-release of a Meteor app into production today (https://properapp.com) and it's running pretty well.

The latest dev shop outlines what's in store for the 1.0 release (http://www.meteor.com/blog/2013/10/01/geoff-schmidt-at-devsh...) and based on where they're at now, it's exciting to think of what will be possible.

Definitely not a toy, though, and something that should be evaluated carefully.
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Anyone familiar with why Linux in particular can't hit the limit?