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Are you saying you think he did know about Stratfor and likely would have hacked it anyway?

There is an IRC log somewhere of lulzsec talking about Stratfor, only one person knew who it was. It has to be characterized in very simple terms for the others (about 8 people there) to get what it was. They all wanted to continue scanning .gov and had to be convinced of Stratfor as being value.

I am almost certain the Stratfor idea came from outside of the group. Hammond was the most politically involved and savvy yet he didn't know about them, I really doubt Sabu did.

The other part of this is that the Stratfor hack has been represented as the work of one man who only got a little help along the way, when it was a few individuals involved. What distorts this case is that the only source of information is Sabu. Since Hammond trusted Sabu and spoke to him a lot (although I think Hammond knew that Sabu was more operations/motivation than skill). So naturally there is more evidence against Hammond, than there is evidence against Topiary and the europeans who spoke to Sabu much less and didn't trust him.

The Sabu evidence gave the feds enough information to issue Hammond an entirely separate indictment for Stratfor, something that happen nowhere else in Lulzsec hacking cases.

He has been charged with nothing else. All else that the case established was that he had views sympathetic with parts of Anonymous and he hung out on their IRC channel a lot. Charged with credit card fraud and $1M in theft even though the guy was eating out of a dumpster.

I think it would have been fair to imprison him for 18-24 months like a few of the others, he seems reformed in any case.
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Report charges U.S. with conducting illegal operations from German soil
Onto any aircraft?
have no fear - our theater is 100% reactionary. when an attack like this is carried out then we'll put in onerous theater procedures to slow things down there as well.

Then... we'll wait for an attack on sea vessels. After people die that way, we'll put more security theater there, without ever reducing or removing the decade+ old theater imposed in other areas.
Right but it's not monolithic. States in the US are not meaningful borders economically speaking. So you can't just do one state at a time, or one region.

I'm not saying the US isn't behind the times, but where else has a singular rollout of tech like this been done on a US scale?
The article states that Kleargear hands off delinquent accounts to a collection agency...
Kleargear generates a fraudulent invoice for the alleged breach of contract, and if no payment has been remitted in the 30 day interim, the account goes to collections.

You, and I, could do the same. (hopefully without the fraud)
What are the banks actual risks in these cases? Why aren't banks showing up and being created to fill this market need?
> "supports privacy and stores no information"

Interesting that there's still a Google Analytics tracking call on the page.
> reddit, what was it by the time he left? It took off long after he left

1. That just isn't true

2. If it were true, you don't think that early investment (in time, energy, ingenuity, whatever) pays off later? That you need a good foundation to build a house?

Source: I was at reddit until 2011.

This all sounds very personal, do you know Alexis?
And I'd be one of those people. But you can't run around telling everyone you're a member of a shadowy criminal organization named Anonymous and not expect people to treat you like, you know, a member of a shadowy criminal organization named Anonymous.
I totally dig the Thoughtbot toys, and use Bourbon/Neat in my own foundation - but it's a pretty loose alternative to Bootstrap if you're looking for all that Bootstrap has to offer. Bitters still kind of feels like an after-thought to me. Not sure if that's unfair or not.
Sign me up, i want youtube to be killed dead!!!! Youtube is cool but google jumps in and just ruins your experience. They asked me 4 time before to adjust my name and i chose my current username....4 times. Now, for the last two weeks i have been getting this pop again but now i must apparently sign up for G+, when i try and comment, guess what that fu popup again, i cannot comment unless i join G+.I have been just closing the window and saying, "O well that saves me some time wasting at least." Google is now as arrogant as Microsoft was and don't care about what the consumer wants but where they want to push you. I will never use G+, Google will save themselves the distraction by shutting down that crap, but they so blinded by facebook that they losing sight of the actual power they have.

They got this idea in their head that they need to create the complete identity for users to target ads better. This idea came about when the press and pundits where saying that facebook was so valuable because of realnames and user identity. The issue is that it's been proven that you can build a profile from a person's search history, even Target can predict if you are pregnant. So why waste time with this shit, anger your users and destroy your brands value?
Unless you're just nesting the ever-loving shit out of your pre-processor, there is almost always lower hanging fruit when it comes to performance.
but hey, fixyt themselves don't store the info, so... i guess it's fine, right?

i'm getting a little tired of the 'privacy backlash' from many quarters, as I don't really get what people are after. piggybacking on youtube, which needs to generate revenue and does so by relevant ads... just strikes me as juvenile.

You want "privacy" but you also want the fruits of non-private endeavors? Too bad. Build an entire video hosting and streaming service, give it away for free, focus on 'privacy', and see how far you get. But leeching off YT feels wrong.
That has nothing to do with the subject of the post in question though. He asked how people ever got accustomed to ctrl+a in the first place, since ctrl+a is already taken by your shell and every readline app, so 90% of people immediately remapped screen to use something else instead of ctrl+a. Tmux and ctrl+b don't enter into the discussion at all.
WebGL is just an interface to low-level graphics. This just means HTML was inappropriate for any UX in PS4.

So, why didn't they use just native GL code? Because of sandboxing limitation?
Well, MSBs are held criminally liable for any illegal activity their platforms help facilitate. Banks can be fined heavily (see: HSBC, Wells Fargo) for such behavior. It's ironic their customers can be held criminally liable but they cannot... that's another conversation though.

But yea it's all a game of risk and how much of it they are willing to take. Bitcoin businesses are in the highest of high risk categories and they currently don't bring in enough money for the banks to justify the potential downsides.

At this point any US based entrepreneurs should consider looking elsewhere for banks. I know of a Caribbean country planning to be a haven for cryptocurrency businesses. Things will be announced soon.
Existing in a vacuum != existence in reality.
You do realize that Amtrak is not the only railroad in the nation? While mass transit is subsidized, the movement of goods via rail, which is what the focus of our rail system is, tends not to be. Also I don't believe Amtrak has laid any new rail in well, I'm not sure it ever has to be honest.
I think that feeling is guilt.
I'm pretty sure it's more accurate to say the User Interface is powered by WebGL than the User Experience.
That depends on a lot of things. They are currently licensed up on the federal and state level, so they have that much covered: http://www.fincen.gov/financial_institutions/msb/msbstatesel...

If they defrauded their customers, were subject to a serious heist or were blatantly ignoring the four pillars of a good compliance program they will be shut down. None of those are things we can easily predict however.
> ...since interactive graphical tools are always categorized as being for novices.

Tools aimed at novices tend to ignore some of the fundamentals of solid software development, such as automated testing. In my space, GIS, there are lots of visual modeling tools, and these inevitably grow to a certain size, then get ported over to a textual programming language when maintenance becomes a nightmare.

There is a place for visual programming like there is a place for picture books (graphic novels even push into some pretty serious territory), but at the end of the day text wins with both prose and code, since it is far more expressive where it comes to expressing reasoning and logic. Doubly so perhaps, because unlike stories or art, code is typically not up for subtle interpretation.
This is actually super legit, published in Science. Very exciting. I'm so proud that Canada is a world leader in quantum computing research, what with Waterloo and all the millions in funding they're spending at IQC. I hope this is the first step in achieving real quantum computers.
Who votes for a mayor like Rob Ford?
no surprise. Here in SF Sony was searching aggressively for webGL and JS hackers since last year
There are issues with trusting CA in PKI, but you have to recognized that this is still a good model. What we have to worry about is insider and protecting contract integrity. There are other ways Google can collect statistics and there are items Google don't need and absolutely have no use. In the past people discovered Motorola collecting/logging http requests you are making and this is the kind of things Google should not collect. Protecting whether a malware has been installed in Google's server or a hub is attached at AT&T network room are all necessary things to do.

In any case, if PKI trust model is broken, then nothing can be trusted. Decentralized network relies on a degree of trust in the software developers and the hardware engineers.
I don't think that timeline is accurate. For one thing, Gold wasn't launched until 2010[1], not 2006, which is a huge difference. Additionally, while Alexis did move on to also doing other things, he never really left reddit. He's still on the board, for instance.

1: http://blog.reddit.com/2010/07/reddit-needs-help.html
How about finding out which lawyer wrote that TOS and getting him/her disbarred?
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I disagree. I work at a bank on a complex mobile investment application and we're building it on top of Phonegap. The barrier of entry is easy, people can pick up HTML5/JS/CSS in no time. We were building it in OBJC before and while it wasn't a disaster, the people we hired ended up costing over 8 million more than our current team because it's very hard to find real specialists in OBJC.

The beauty is we have one responsive code base that works PERFECTLY on over 20 devices. It's pretty awesome.
The big privacy concern with YT is that your viewing history will be displayed to your friends and acquaintances, attached to your real name.

People can say, "Don't be ridiculous! They would never!", but Google is so utterly tone-deaf to user concerns that people, myself included, just can't rule it out. And it makes us angry.

Think back to Buzz: suddenly, you could view all of your contacts' contacts!! That's the level of deafness Google has to how you might want your data displayed to people you know...and that's why this feature is so unacceptable to pretty much everyone.
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It's sad that all women came at work, and all men come at home or school (roughly same with home)

Anyway IMO, Alexa stats are not that much trustworthy…
Yet it remains, sadly, all too accurate. Newer tools like SASS and LESS help a little, but not enough.
Wow, it definitely looked like the person holding it would have been maimed.
That's not a technicality, and with most clients (e.g. BitTorrent) it's quite possible to download without uploading. There's a fair amount of work focused around penalizing people for downloading without uploading.

All I really torrent anymore is Linux images, and there I usually find I can't seed more than I download if I try.
What previous attempts has the US Government made to destroy Bitcoin?
It's a step in the right direction.
I might suggest that doctors and funeral home owners profit by alleviating the misery of others.
I don't think even all current Intel chips have it either.
>Finding people who are irremediably bad programmers is not that easy

What? I can go get you a few hundred right now if you want. It is trivially easy to find tons of bad programmers.

>The most you will find is people who are still learning

I wish. Mostly I find people who should be still learning, but don't want to. People who have an incredibly superficial knowledge of one set of technologies (lets say php+mysql) and think they are set. The kind of depth of knowledge you would expect from someone with 6 months of experience, even though they've actually been doing it for 5+ years.
But that's exactly relevant to the point - the issue is that the details of the arrangement matter, which is relevant to the wider point: how are we expecting profit to be made? Gesticulating to size doesn't actually monetize something.
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No, the action of selling weapons to both sides is much different than someone simply talking about it. Giving someone the ability to make money selling weapons has its own problems - which will incentivize those people who are looking to make profit do things they wouldn't normally otherwise do, and then worse - if they have the ability to sell weapons to both sides of a battle or war, what might they be willing to do in order to incite violence of one party against another? Do you not see a problem with this?
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/l65mvq$du0$1@digitalmars.com#p...

> The D Programming Language? $80? Ha... Fail.

How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd
just started assigning it.

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Actually, it long predates computers, handwritten and typeset materials as far back as the 12th century use it. As it turns out, it's frustrating when two common characters look so similar.
While a satellite would provide continuous coverage over the area of interest, I'm curious to know if it's upfront cost of "several hundred million dollars" couldn't be better spent on continual coverage with UAVs during the summer months and daylight hours.

Just a thought, I could be totally off base here. I'm just not seeing the inherent advantage of a satellite, especially given the cost.
While I don't have that Chase card, I do know very well that most BofA branded cards have far less lucrative rewards than many of their competitors. FIA has a few great cards and they're owned by BofA. But even when I became a so-called "platinum privileges" bofa customer their best card was not very attractive.

Flat 2% cashback cards are great. Rotating 5% category cards a great. Big signup bonuses are great.

I have a Chase British Air card I opened with a 100,000 mile bonus, plus a companion pass once a certain spending level was reached. Long story shorter, we opened two (one for me, one for my wife). Pooled the miles together. We have 220k miles and a companion pass. We're using this for 2 first class tickets from SFO to Europe in the spring. That is, literally, $25,000 in airfare.

Oh, and it's chip + sig :)

tl;dr Often annual fees are very worth it. And also often, an issuer will waive them in all or part.
Given the proposal to encrypt everything, I wonder if the architects are going with standard SSL or the extended validation SSL. Will we need to provide full business details and such just to get HTTPS on our websites, or will a simple credit card payment complete the process?
Yes it does.

It has been trivial to bolt encryption to things for a long time now. Encryption is worthless without trust. Ubiquitous encryption more so because it's no longer a surprise when something is encrypted, it's just expected that you have your snooping client MitM the traffic with dummy certificates.

It doesn't stop 3-letter agencies (though really, people should stop pretending that's where the real threat lies for most people) and it doesn't stop informed hackers or intrusive corporate firewalls.
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"War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone but affect the whole world.

"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from the other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole."
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If not "Kilroy" then how about "Emmanuel Goldstein?"
While this is all interesting, none of these videos show any actual lethal potential. I'm not saying that there is any, but there is no target and no way to show whether these tools inflict any meaningful damage.
Oh definitely yes. Being in a conversation where one of the parties doesn't know how to keep the topic aloft is excruciating.

If you want to see masters of keeping up a conversation, watch some comedy improv. Their entire task is to take a topic which they don't know about (usually specified by an audience member) and convert it into a conversation that must be kept up by each person. Once you see enough of these improvs you will notice that each comedian is able to inject something interesting into each sentence that keeps the conversation going, but not too much (or too little) that it causes the topic to die on the vine.
Yes, creativity and experiments aren't the answer. It's rejection and protest that will solve all our imaginary problems.
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One thing I've really thought is consistently screwed up with security proposals is what do you do when it might be compromised?

Users invariably click through the big red web page because they still need to use their email at the end of the day, and that page provides no information as to what's going on.

If the certificate doesn't verify, don't give up - try a different route to it (sadly we've taken away source-routing for other security reasons). If that fails then start a Tor session and try connecting through that.

Then show me a little diagram that shows where we think the problem is so I can think about what might be the problem.
It has been quite long enough since the Stratfor data breach for the CC companies to close & reissue new card numbers. This is much ado about nothing.
Not related to the concept, but your font choice seems suboptimal. Raleway's a beautiful typeface, but as small, thin gray letters on black background, there's a lot of subpixel rendering artifacts that make it really difficult to read. Example: http://i.imgur.com/Ips6rng.png?1
Lol their acronym is FUEGO for the project (Spanish for fire). I swear these people think up an acronym first and work backwards...
Please do some research before you make accusations like this. I have seen zero evidence that they're involved in the arms trade whatsoever. Your conclusion to the contrary is based on a misreading of a bad joke taken out of context. See my other comment here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6743185
They may not want to do business exclusively through Bitcoin and Bitcoin exchanges?
Surprised no one has pointed this out. The headlines for "statfor" today aren't this dump, but rather: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/jeremy-hammond-anonymous-strat...

I imagine the two events are connected
I make computer programs for a living. Perhaps in the future, if opportunities arise, I hope to go into hardware production business.

So being in a situation where I must exert my "creativity" in order to succeed, I must say that this article is a resounding confirmation of what I had known all along. In fact, one of the earliest words on this topic that I remember hearing, was from my own mother, who is an artist. She told me that great, creative ideas came from observing many different great ideas produced by others, and juxtaposing them intelligently to make it your own.

I have two things that I want to talk about on this topic:

So firstly, I want to talk about the value of possessing(or experiencing) great, well-designed products. Although I try not to be so visible about it, my closest friends know I am completely anal when it comes to quality and design. As an example, when I am hanging out with my guy friends, and we decide to rent a movie online, I am the one that insists on renting the HD version. It's because of these type of situations that my friends would joke that I am a snob or too materialistic. And perhaps that is some truth to those statements, but I always felt that there was something much more important in the reasoning of my desire. I always felt that great products and great experiences set up the environment for me to be creative. I think Steve Jobs said it best when he said, "In order to create something that deserves to sit alongside the best products in the world, you have to have spent enough time interacting with the best products."

Now as for my second comment: It seems to me that most of the people in the world have this idea that creativity is purely original, and thus are so appalled when they see things such as Apple taking cues from Window Phone's flat design concept, and so on. And although technology is a relatively new thing, creativity has been around ever since there were civilizations, and so people were "stealing" ideas for centuries. How is it, after all these years, that the general public still have this almost mystical view on creativity? It's as if this is a deep, dark secret that all "creative" people in the world try to conceal from the general public to keep themselves in the business and to attach a "magical" appeal to their work.
I believe this is the end game:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6693455
Yes. And thanks for that. There are older bands that still have their music on myspace and nowhere else.
The weapons they mention are traditional Roman gladiatorial weapons. I think that they're meant to be taken literally but are simply a reference to the presumed entertainment value (sigh). And honestly, even if literal giving swords to an army with automatic rifles is just giving them ceremonial props, not weapons.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murmillo
In what way do the nice appearances and animations suggest reality? :P Still funny.
> during the summer months and daylight hours.

That's one advantage of a statellite: it's always looking.

Also, I suspect the UAVs would be more expensive than one might expect, once you factor in the manpower necessary to operate them (pilots and maintainence).
I like how the title indicates that educated = job. Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
Can a collection agency affect your credit without having your ssn? Credit card providers ask for ssn. So do utility companies. But buying something from a company doesn't involve providing an ssn.
People who say something you don't like should be lynched? Really? How about what you are doing, advocating for someone's murder?
Given the fairly extreme historical levels of death during/immediately following childbirth, isn't that pretty reasonable?
yt-project looks interesting. thanks for sharing.
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A living death: Sentenced to die behind bars for what?
Couldn't shell companies that had no direct relationship with bitcoins in theory be used, if that were the case?