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I think the main reason that Apple doesn't include MicroSD is that they want to control the entire product experience, including data ingress and egress. Not only to protect lucrative margins, but also because they know that if the user screws something up by deleting files off the SD card etc, they'll blame Apple whether that's fair or not.

That assertion of control makes iOS unsuitable for many users, but Apple has consciously chosen a market segment and its proven itself a large one.
Libretarians tend to conveniently forget that the reason we have FDA, EPA and all that good stuff is that when it was all pure market, it wasn't working very well - that's why we set FDA up in the first place. That is not to say that the current system is perfect.
The processor alone would barely nudge the price, but removing the NAND, RAM, and camera modules along with it definitely would make huge difference. Even more if you can kill the touchscreen.

Unfortunately, the resulting product is also an incredibly limited niche.
I believe the same situation happens in the USA: see Ron Paul. The difference is, yours is a party.. and he's a figurehead.
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I'm waiting for the iPad Pro. Assuming "Air" and "Mini" are hints of a mac to tablet replacement (coalescence?) strategy, an iPad that challenges the Microsoft Surface's role as a hybrid device would be spectacular.
Sure, the disk lasts a million years. You just can't read it.
Could you point me to a URL that shows that iOS7 have compressed memory? I couldn't find an official mention of it (maybe I'm searching for it wrong).
This is actually very much relevant to the recent news. Yesterday you have Apple removing valid complaints from one user about their products, while Dell has a very different company approach to let the information flow transparently among their followers. This thread would not even have appeared if there were no such transparency.
Interesting theory, but read this quote from the first page of comments:

"Thanks.. I am having the same issue. When I started using the laptop at the end of last week I thought I smelt something odd. Well.. here I am Sunday doing some work on the couch and my wife says "what stinks like cat pee". I said.. I think its this laptop.. puts her nose up to the keyboard and BAM! It really stinks."

Some guy AND his wife noticed the smell. If you're right, that's one hell of a coincidence.
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Have actual weddings been targeted by drones?
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There is only one logical explanation. Hidden meth lab.
The shuttles had similar concepts - various flaps had multiple redundant hydraulic pumps to control them so that even if one went nuts and started going in reverse that other pumps would over power it, and the result would simply be slower response times.
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The remediation points mentioned in the blog are interesting.

"Make sure the app interacts with its designated server(s) via an encrypted protocol (e.g., HTTPS, instead of HTTP). As described earlier in the post, this is an effective mitigation for HRH, but not a fix."

but not a fix?

http://www.skycure.com/blog/http-request-hijacking/
Over at the chrome dev team: "Oh shit, it's in the spec?"
That is an incredibly well written announcement.
I thought the Guardian article was ok-ish - it was hitting the point, yet interspersed with anecdotes and definitely clickbait titled.

The worst was BBC's documentary (which I would expect to be of high quality and standards) that was painting Japanese men as all being part of this in fact very tiny niche of a niche of virtual-girlfriend-dating otaku from AKB.

As a westerner living in Asia, I must admit that some have quirky habits to my standards (but then again, which nationality hasn't in the eyes of foreigners), but the way they are portrayed in media is sensation seeking, mostly plain wrong, and a caricature akin to "the infantile Africans in Tintin in the Congo".
Really interesting that iMessage doesn't use certificate pinning. Try as I might, I was unable to MITM iTunes store connections thanks to certificate pinning.
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It's typically been my experience that (within limits) higher quality equals faster production. Can you imagine the debugging time they must burn with 11,000 global variables?
That is MacBook air I think. Except no touch, no tablet form factor, no pen and worse screen.
Using it at my company with Clojure, quite happy with it. I prefer it to RDBMS as a default OLTP store now.

Cannot recommend it enough for the sorts of things one would use PostgreSQL for.

Support has been quite good too.

Only regrets/dislikes:

1. It's a young product and it shows.

2. Migrations. z0mg. I'm working on a library that I will open source sometime in the next month hopefully to ameliorate the pain here.

3. I wish we had compromised less on the schema for legacy reasons.
That's generally because the moisture is stick in the filter and it needs replacing. It's mold growing =)
all this after the person authorizing these has be awarded Nobel Peace Prize. Not respecting integrity of country and striking it at will because one can, is recipe for disaster. May be they wont strike back now but not many forget these things.
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..only because you asked, but every large multi-national company is essentially the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation
Even MathJax would be much better than what many large sites, including Wikipedia, still use - static images. It's very annoying not to be able to search for things inside the math, and the images are low resolution and ugly on a Retina Display.

(However, I guess Wikipedia has a MathJax option; I wonder why it's not enabled by default.)
I don’t buy that. The Pitbulls of Australia seem to have a habit of mauling and killing small children on a regular basis, more so than any other dog breed.

Maybe the Pitbulls in Australia are different but I doubt it.
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Stackato is built for large enterprises who want the convenience of a public PaaS (like Heroku), but with the flexibility to run it in the datacenter of their choosing. With that, our pricing is built for large enterprise, which entails support calls, training sessions, webinars, bug reports, and all of the other good stuff that comes with enterprise support models. We really pamper you through the startup process to get you running on your feet. I understand though that our pricing is unreasonable for smaller businesses. We are however very open with our customers, and a lot of our existing customers really like that aspect. A great example of this would be the interview we did with Chris Turra at Mozilla on Wired: http://insights.wired.com/profiles/blogs/upholding-the-open-...
Also because they can charge $100 for 16 GB of storage. The same microsd card would cost you $10 or less.
I've had a similar experience. I've found out, though, it isn't really what you say, it is how you say it. Be assertive without sounding arrogant and pushy. If you go in to an interview and pretend you are a consultant selling your services, and not someone who is desperate for a job, then chances are better you will get an offer. Now part of this is reading body language, to see if what you are saying is triggering a happy emotion in the person interviewing you. For example, in my current position, it was apparent that things were in chaos. I started mentioning some automation tricks, and that lead into a strong emphasis on repeatable processes. Turns out, that was the key phrase that got me hired -- I found a dozen ways of giving the same message of automation, repeatability, and trackability. In a previous position, I had sold the hiring manager on a design for a web based user account automation system (kind of accidentally). Turns out that was their biggest pain point at the moment, handling a huge stack of account request forms. So either I was very insightful during the interview process, or extremely lucky. Or, I happened to take my vitamins that morning.
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I cannot find a way to reply to the first portion of your comment because I cannot speak for our current users and what their individual interests are. Everyone is provided the same tools to use and they use them as they best seem fit.

I do understand your point though. One of the highest of our priorities is to continue developing ways to discourage crappy/lazy/junk content from being posted and voted on. And that's why were trying our best and actively listening to feedback like the one you just provided.
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Fair point, but I am not saying a transparently priced system could be established over night nor would its benefits be felt right away by everyone in every situation. However under the assumption that you succeed setting up such a system, price competition and public reviews would continuously lower prices to attract more business whose success function would have to be truly happy patients expressing their health benefits publicly. This would force rapid medical progress and medical innovation such that a future you in this scenario could easily cover said surgery with your catastrophic insurance at the fraction of today's cost and probably with better quality care - because it will be in the clinics/doctors self serving interest to offer you the best possible care for the lowest price ... And in many cases this could just be a side product of a fast paced procedural and technical progress driven by transparency in price/quality which might lead to X-rays actually becoming cheaper or free and not more expansive then when they were invented which seems to be the current models trajectory - amu ing if it was not so sad.
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Good luck with that. Samsung and Qualcomm chips are everywhere.
Appcubator looks like a great product, but I'm not sure I could use it. I'm a full-stack guy myself.
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Why am I getting downvoted so much?

(I'm not asking this flippantly, or protesting the fact that I'm getting downvoted. I'm just interested in knowing why -- I had no malevolent intention with the comment, I just wanted to ask a question basically.)
Mob mentality.
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Probably because he purposefully ignored mentioning the two non military buildings in NYC that were also hit.
That's true. My next laptop will be bigger! For now I have good eyes to see the 7px fonts. And it was some real work to remove all the window decorations, editing config files to get a slim profile on everything. Usually I have my code on one side and a browser on the other side. When it gets tight I have 3 options: 1. zoom out the browser (not always an option for detail work) 2. flip the important activity to the bigger window 3. use the higher/lower hotkeys to give one side or the other more/less room. Typically I do not like to write code in the left panel because then my eyes are way off to the side. Took me years to get to this point with Linux but I feel very productive now when I sit down to work. I had to ditch Fedora/Gnome, figure out Crunchbang, pytyle2 was a pain to install, etc. But it was all worth it, at least in my opinion ;-)
I guess it's mavericks not iOS7.
WeFunder has something like that. You can invest one lump sum in a group of YC companies.
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So Dell Laptops stink?

Hasn't that been common knowledge for at least a decade?
> Not that mongo is bad or anything this is just a good time to say it.

To be clear, this breach had absolutely nothing to do with Mongo. It occurred via a web interface which could've been put in front of any hosted database.
Few innocents died while killing terrorists. I see no harm in that. In any case that single terrorist would have killed lots of innocent. That innocent could be from USA, Russia, Israel, India. And at that time there will be hue and cry saying it is intelligence failure.

Innocents will die either by terrorists or may be by US drones.
The four digit pin isn't to be confused with the passphrase that is used to encrypt/decrypt the keychain data. The pin is just an extra measure on top of your iCloud password to release your keychain data, along with SMS confirmation. A longer password or no password won't stop a government agency from being able to obtain the encrypted keychain data.

I just confirmed that the encryption key is different from the PIN by going into keychain and viewing a password in the iCloud chain. It is indeed my much longer pass phrase that decrypts the data.
I'm not defending them. Just pointing out that there are tradeoffs associated with the configurations you were advocating.

That doesn't mean that Apple's choice is right and yours is wrong (or vise versa) just that they are different choices.
So I'm not American, and so have no idea what you're talking about. Estate tax seems to be something to do with taxing wills? Regardless, doing away with any kind of tax would be equal opportunity, because it's being gotten rid of for everyone. When I say equal opportunity I mean: "presume that everyone is exactly like me: how should I behave?". E.g., "Just because someone is poor doesn't mean they should be taxed less than me (or me more than them), we should be taxed the same".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airst...

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

I'm not sure whether the airstrikes were performed by manned aircraft or drones.
dear srean, It would help a lot if you go through history of India.
Also learn more about Jihad and how it is funded.
I only referred to the the Iran Air disaster because "Scenario fulfillment" was implicated as playing a part in the problem.

Being trained in various scenarios combined with a high-stress situation resulted in one of the crew misinterpreting the data and claiming the plane was diving (like an attack run) instead of climbing (which it was really doing)

Basically it is scientific way of saying something like "force of habit" (with more to it, that is a bit of a dumbed-down view)

Which I can easily see transferring to drone pilots raised on a diet of CoD, Battlefield etc.

(There is a very good documentary about the entire Iran Air thing which talks about it, you can see it on youtube.)
Sorry but targeted drone strikes are the exact opposite of terrorism. If the US wanted to terrorize we could carpet bomb cities much quicker and cheaper than with drone strikes.

I 100% agree that accidental killing of unintended targets is terrorizing the native population of countries where this happens, and also leads to creating more terrorists/enemies of the US than it possibly eliminates.

Jeremy Scahill wrote a ~700 page book about this very subject that came out a few months ago. Dirty Wars. It is worth reading.
The test inputs here are very instructive as to how Web developers can actually use this.
Here's the pedantic war reply I was expecting, despite the obvious fact that it's not legally a war.

If it was a war legally, would targeting civilians be okay?
This is very much true in my own experience. I have an incredibly sensitive nose especially to alarming things.

I once woke up from my sleep due to a LPG gas leak in a different floor, and alerted them of the leak! People who were awake hadn't noticed the smell; but once alerted they could easily smell it.

Also, once when I was working on a new Dell laptop, it started giving out an acrid smell when running CPU-intensive apps. Most people couldn't believe that, but one another guy in my office floor could detect that smell as well.

I think there is a larger hypothesis that can be made: it is optimal for the survival of a species if individuals of the species exhibit slightly different behavior from each other. As a group, it helps cover more ground in the event of a threat or opportunity. It is also a way to jump out of a local optimum.

Is there any established terminology for what I am describing above?
I actually don't really understand why there's some type of "rule" of war. It's WAR, following rules seems to make something inherently savage into something we can feel okay about because there appears to be some type of logic that makes it less horrifying than it really is.

cup has a great point. We think that the Twin Towers were civilian targets but to those flying the planes, everyone in the West was probably fair game and the "enemy" even if we don't think so. Similarly, those people at weddings that were bombed probably thought they weren't fair game but we thought since they decided to host some terrorists at their wedding that they are complicit in their activities and thus are fair game. How do we classify "civilians" that may not be actively waging war but are part of the support network either through willful ignorance or by becoming human shields (like in Mogadishu, etc.)?
Microsoft thinks it's worth $20 for an Ad-free Outlook.com.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/ad-free-outlook
i've seen you on IRC or IRL before, right? (are you coming to the haskell computer music meetup this wednesday?)
> blah blah military in quotes

I used it in quotes because I was thinking of cases where I'm not sure how it would be classified. Assumed base of operations that turns out to be false? Regardless, nothing as sinister as you imply.

As for not being at war with Pakistan, would that make a difference to you?
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Not if they are both of the same genetic pool. For example if they are both Dutch or Korean etc. Especially if the 'not smelling' it gene is the less common one (and on ethnic boundaries). For example all of the workers were Chinese and Chinese don't have the gene.
> deliberately targeting or disregarding the safety of non-combatants to achieve this goal.

How would this achieve the goal? The Taliban and AQ members don't care about innocents dying.
"They see your mail." Ooh, scary. Email is effectively a postcard. It gets sent in cleartext all over the internet. If you think that email is even slightly private, you are misinformed. I don't see why I should trust LinkedIn any more or less with my emails than Google, Yahoo!, or any of the other companies that run regular old SMTP servers which process and store (possibly forever) tons of my email.

"sharing passwords" isn't a problem with this scheme because it doesn't use your password. It creates a separate IMAP account and links it to your regular account via OAuth.

"I think this programme is being criticised because it intercepts people's mail and inserts content" -- really? A sample comment is "they are spammers." Nothing there about man-in-the-middle, nothing there about email interception. I don't think most of the people bashing LinkedIn here even understand how Rapportive/Intro works.

The particular CSS exploit shown here seems like one that can and will be fixed. Obviously, there are other ways to do phishing via email, including just sending an email that looks like someone else's mail (remember: postcard). A lot of mail services are starting to filter spammy or fake-looking mail, so that may help.
Yep, definitely should have noted that. It's an interesting mental exercise though.
This problem in general is yet another symptom of the immaturity of the software industry as a whole. Most standards are community standards rather than well accepted and extremely well known official standards. And a lot of best practices still come down to judgment. Moreover, best practices and standards vary greatly depending on the nature of the product. Even within a small sub-field like embedded systems the requirements are very different for a car, airliner, or 3D printer.

It's telling that even at a big company like Toyota which is fairly risk averse and is well known for its commitment to quality and safety they are still capable of churning out pretty crappy software that is hugely important. Software dev is still a pretty hard problem overall, we live in an era where there have been lots of successes, but failure is still common and the consequences of failure can sometimes be severe.
So Ionic is big on AngularJS...is AngularJS pretty hard to learn? It seems complicated. Say if my only framework experience was a few blogs with Python and PHP frameworks plus some average JS & jQuery experience.
Maybe. We already have a lesser form of living wage in the form of minimum wage. The merits of either are debatable; I might disagree, but I wouldn't deem anyone crazy for taking either position.

However, genuinely believing that the earth is 6,000 years old is not an idea that should be taken seriously, any more than believing the earth is flat (or anti-vaccination).

Tolerating willful ignorance of science has cultural ripple effects across all sorts of policy issues, from sex education, to common-sense environmental debate, to critical thinking skills, civics, and political discourse. It arguably matters more than anything.
If that's the case with the resolution setting then my concern there isn't as major, although users might still be at risk if their webservers are configured a certain way.

I'm not concerned about users uploading files to someone else's server, but sometimes servers are configured to rewrite certain urls, or to do redirects, and attackers might be able to take advantage of that to rack up some user's bill. For instance, some cache-busting schemes rewrite /d/_somehash_/file or /d/file._somehash_ to the same /d/file and your service has no idea they're actually the same file. In this case, some attacker can just make up random hashes to make false transcode jobs, even though they all return the same video file.

Does your service treat /d/file and /d/file?v=1 as separate files? If so that can also be used as an attack vector as someone can add whatever parameters they want to the url, and most webservers silently ignore those. You can close this by ignoring those parameters, but then you exclude sites that serve files through some script (like /cgi/get-file?f=somefile)

Does your service whitelist file extensions? Or stream in file headers first to decide whether any file is a valid movie, otherwise stopping the download? Otherwise, any site that hosts other large files (say, linux ISOs) can force you to download really large files and waste bandwidth and resources.

With that in mind, I think if you also make it so your clients must also provide a subdirectory (for example, I could set it so only files within /static/videos/ are valid, as that's where I've decided to put my videos) then most of these issues will be taken care of. Your clients would then just need to make sure they don't have rewrite enabled for that subsection of their site, and make sure other large assets live outside that subdirectory.
Exactly. Which is why he is asking for evidence that there is a currently US military policy in place that states soldiers are to intentionally target civilians in the "war on terror".

Individuals acting on their own committing crimes is much different than an official policy, ordered to be enforced by the military chain of command.
> It's akin to dropping bombs on military targets during WW II.

You couldn't have picked a worse example. Innocent civilians were widely targeted in WWII. Entire cities were subjected to terrorist bombing campaigns specifically to "break the morale of the population which occupies it" and "make the people conscious of constant personal danger."

WWII pretty much invented large-scale terrorism justified as military necessity.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_...