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> If any would be terrorists tried the same tactic from 2001 today they would be mauled in the cockpit. Prior to 2001, passengers assumed they would be hostages and would come out unharmed if they cooperate. Now they assume they are potential collateral damage. That's a huge difference.

How good are the new secure cockpit doors? If responsible for securing planes I would be worried about a surprise attack getting through while the door is open and then locking the doors before any of the passengers have time to react. I suspect that the secure doors may be counter-productive and less safe than a plane full of passengers able to help.

Another potential threat is one of the pilots themselves if they can subdue the other pilot and close the door can anything be done?

Equipment available doesn't really matter though short of semi-automatic weapons and explosives.
So all you have to do is start a tech company that does this. When Google knock on your doors, with literally one and half billion dollars of Google stock, you have to say "No".

Would you do that? Could you blame anyone else for doing that?
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You actually can pay employees in BTC, if they prefer that.

Thousands of people work for BTC already.

Utility companies will start accepting bitcoins soon enough, as it becomes more popular.

Taxes are a bit harder, I admit.
Linux Format core members quit and launches Indigogo funded Linux Voice magazine
Just a heads up- your headshot flashes white every time a new reader loads or leaves your page and the XXX readers are here line updates. Its quite distracting now, since you're on the front page of HN and a lot of people are going to the article.
its not too far behind paypal already and growing rapidly in use
http://coinometrics.com/bitcoin/btix
I doubt you will be able to create anything significantly better than BTC and altcoins.

If your solution is not decentralized, you can stop right now.
So releasing documents that prove that US Government is knowingly violating its citizens constitutional rights is equivalent in your mind to killing a lot of people with an explosive?
I only buy digital subscriptions. Hold on, wait. That's not true, since whenever I'm at an airport I buy a magazine such as this. Please make sure that airports will carry Linux Voice!
He's right; implementing plain constant-time AES can be done without AES-NI, but is by no means easy or obvious.
> It's easy to distill these issues and hold a self-righteous opinion, but I personally find most too complex to form anything resembling an educated opinion.

Ah, yes, complexity explains everything from the role of private oil companies in Iraq to the ties of the Bush family with the Bin Laden family.

> But, I fundamentally can't shake the feeling that I have no clue what's going on, so maybe I shouldn't be too quick to judge.

I think a very safe way, given the histoy over the last decaded, to form an opinion, is to consider everything the US defense industry-slash-ministry proclaims an outright lie and only accept very small points as true when they have been verified.
I second that - some more highly technical articles would be great. Heck, even an analysis of an IOCCC entry or something crazy like that. I know it may not appeal to most buyers, but it will appeal to some, and I think the magazine should have a little something for everyone.
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"mistakes made by the contractors aren't due to poor engineering it's a lack of funding."

So to take healthcare.gov as an example those over worked under paid contractors got something on the order of 300 million. You think the problem was that the project was _under_ funded? Government Contractors more often than not get paid obscene amounts of money for the work they do.
Are you actually going to read 500k emails?

Especially when most of them look like water cooler chitchat.
Yes, you are right, it would have been much better if we did not know what NSA does, and to what extent it violates our rights. NSA officials lying to congress, no big deal. A man standing up for what he believes and releasing the truth about a corrupt, lying, and out of control governmental organization. By god, that fucker needs to die!
I understand that (in California, at least) the first two strikes must be for serious or violent felonies; violence is not necessary to count.
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"Although we do not comment on specifics, as a matter of policy the United States does not engage in kidnapping and torture, and does not condone or support the resort to such illegal activities by any nation."

i'm at a loss for words.
I feel a man could steal 1000 wallets and not deserve 10 years in jail, much less life in prison. even if he never, ever, ever, learned his lesson. I personally would not send a person to prison for life for a property crime, and a small one at that.

This phrase is repeated often in this thread, "draw the line," but some people will not conform, some people will commit petty criminal acts, for a lifetime. IMHO that is no justification for locking them up indefinitely.

Think of marijuana legislation, one minute you can be locked up for life, the next minute it is legal. No matter what the crime, there is an element of subjectivity, fashion, culture, in what punishments we apply. Yes, some people may not rehabilitate. But that fact alone doesn't justify life in prison. Or even a severe sentence.

Compassion is real. It is important, even when it is inconvenient, even for people who suck.

At least, that's how I see it.
Careful, though - Google is fighting back against this and in many cases, you don't get all resolutions when disabling dash.
Are we seriously suggesting letting people do this if they think the goal is just ? It seems so. I shudder to think what the consequences of that would be.

This is actually a significant part of why we have trial by jury (according to some; others argue that it's just silly); they can decide that the accused did commit the crime and still return not guilty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification
Heads up - On every blog post it seems to be showing the same figure for "x other readers are here" which is misleading.
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That money is gone forever. It is your money, you are responsible for it.

No one will be able to "give your money back", because you didn't give your money to anyone.

If you fear you might lose your password, back it up. Store it in a safe. Send it to someone you trust. Tatoo it on your forearm (although this is not really secretive)

Heck, if you _really_ want to be sure to have someone who could give the money back to you, just give it to someone you trust. Family, friends... or a Bitcoin bank. But if you do that, we're back to square one.
That stupid and overused quote comes from an opinion by justice Holmes. "Holmes, writing for a unanimous Court, ruled that it was a violation of the Espionage Act of 1917 (amended with the Sedition Act of 1918), to distribute flyers opposing the draft during World War I." - Wikipedia.

Read the case before you quote it. American Supreme Court has done a lot of injustices in its time. And this is one of the more egregious once.
The thing is, it's not just the financial cost of a theft, it's the emotional and practical cost too.

Having had 5 laptops stolen in one hit - because I was updating staff that weekend and the guy got lucky - the cost of changing passwords, and the nagging feeling I may have missed something somewhere and I may get hit with another internet theft....

Then the feeling that the guy(s?) were in my house while my partner and I were sleeping. Na. People who do this need to be taken out of society.

For the speeding point, you can kill people at 30mph if something goes wrong with the car or you do something stupid.
An ethical problem happens when the doctor conditions the alleviating of misery with the alleviating of the money from the miserable in moments of greatest weakness of people.
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I'd second this. I read the word vegan as being 100% vegetarian with that being practically impossible to attain. But it's something aim for.

I think I was overtly strict for the first decade of being vegan. Going to the extreme. Consulting the Animal Free Shopper with each purchase.

These days I don't beat myself up so much about it. I'll even take a local ale (probably non-vegan) over a bottled lager. I'll avoid heavily packaged products even if they are vegan. I'll avoid flown in exotic veg.

I think you've got to find a line that you are comfortable with and be prepared to move it.

From the vegan society:
A vegan is someone who tries to live without exploiting animals, for the benefit of animals, people and the planet. Vegans eat a plant-based diet, with nothing coming from animals - no meat, milk, eggs or honey, for example. A vegan lifestyle also avoids leather, wool, silk and other animal products for clothing or any other purpose.

If you take:
A vegan is someone who tries to live without exploiting animals.

I'd take that and read it with an emphasis on 'tries'. Easier said than done.

In my mind most steps towards being 100% vegetarian is good. I know meat eaters that are careful to source their meat, and are actually mainly vegan except for say eating meat at the weekend. Who just as much have an issue with some agricultural and farming practices. The only difference between us is that I'm not comfortable with murder for my own personal gain where I can avoid it.
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> So you can't just do one state at a time, or one region

Of course you can. Countries outside the US did it city by city, bank by bank.

In fact, the US is in the process of a gradual rollout of EMV cards now - a mix of chip+pin and chip+signature cards. The aim for when to complete the transition varies by state, bank, and type of merchants, but most aim to be complete by mid 2015.

There was no big bang switchover anywhere that has already made the transition to my knowledge.

The banks did rolling releases of chip and pin cards as people were issued new cards over a period of years before the switch was complete. When the first people got chip and pin cards there were no locations where they could use the pin.

And in the UK at least, it took a couple of years before you had to use the pin even when faced with a chip+pin terminal - you could keep opting to sign for a long time.

Doing a singular rollout of tech like this is stupid and unnecessary.
There are plenty of those things, but certain media outlets/"journalists" (Joshua Foust...) have taken this propaganda approach of thinly veiled accusations that Wikileaks only wants to hurt the US and may be a [insert enemy nation] intelligence operation.

It's just a bunch of bullshit. I was reading wikileaks long before the Iraq War logs, and there was before that very little US related leaking.

The interesting thing for you to do is analyze how it is you came to this myopic view of the situation. Who/what have you been reading? Having conversations with? It's a great example of how filter bubbles affect our view of the world.
In some sort of carefully "crafted" regex tests? Also a language can't be faster, did you want to say that JIT is faster than native?
> > It also is significantly easier to trace than current financial systems

> No it isn't.

He's talking about following a bitcoin's life from wallet to wallet, not about impersonating a wallet. The whole bitcoin principle is that exchanges are made in clear between wallets and shared to all peers, so yes, it _is_ traceable, like nothing before.

Now, the game is to know who is behind a wallet. And if you didn't use some anonymity method, your name will not be a secret to anyone looking for it.
> Best in class UI layouting

XAML is best in class, HTML is legacy and illogical

> A great scripting engine

yet a crappy script language
Thanks, that's a good idea. This would eliminate the need to download anything and make it usable from mobile without any additional steps!
Incarceration has nothing to do with crime deterrent. Proper policing and better economy prevents crime. Correlation doesn't imply causation.
Feasable for some maybe. I'd find it jolly well hard living in some places and very easy in others. Eastern Europe, and heck, a lot of Europe is difficult (if you don't have access to a kitchen).

I've ended up stranded in parts of the UK, where about the only option on the menu is to eat chips and salad. That gets a little boring. In Scotland I was even served powdered potato mash! In Italy I was constantly subject to ridicule. At least near the med there are vegetable options.
Facebook is the only one smart enough not to invent a new wheel. Not a fan of D though.
> made off with nearly a million dollars

Why do you state-defenders feel the need to make up and exaggerate facts.
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If you look at statistics for access for cancer care for people with low income, you'll probably find enough places to put this money and effort into with better impact.

But that's boring.
"putting money onto it" - that's one way of saying this, another way is "makes a version that doesn't suck".
Norwegians comprise a mere 0.6% of the population of Europe.
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It's very difficult to release an executed man if new evidence shows he's innocent after all.
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This kid sitting next to me in class did it....
A Link-bait.

[my-favourite-language] at [very-small]% - oh, I am so angry. I am so going to post angry comments all around and share the link to the article... Not!
Claiming the US is a third world country may make Europeans feel better about their place in the world but it has fuck all to do with reality.
If this angers you so much perhaps you should organize with other like-minded readers and do something about it?
I'm going to say that the video is almost certainly not real and is in fact a training video.
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Sounds similar to the perspectives project (although with different goals in mind):
http://perspectives-project.org/

Also, what do you mean by "we've taken away source-routing for other security reasons"? Did we ever use source-routing for the internet?
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Except there have already been consequences. There has already been a financial penalty applied and creditors sent to collect it. You are trying far too hard to make your original, wrong comment accurate, when it was a wrong conclusion based on an incomplete understanding of this story.

The subjects complained to the credit agencies and were essentially told to get lost (credit companies have no interest in playing conflict resolution agents, especially given that their bread is buttered by creditors). They have a chance now simply by getting as much publicity as possible (and the outrage and attention which you specifically claim isn't necessary in your post), television networks and others acting on their behalf, however that doesn't make the reality of this bizarre and abusive situation from being real.
Actually, it is. I mean "partisan" as in "parted into parties" which is the same as "us versus them" rather than more jargony "national political parties inside America".
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"It's hard to imagine a good programmer who is slow"

I have seen those. They were slower than me but were smarter than me.

"Having a large code radius"

It's not about the number of lines of code, it's about flatness of hierarchies. It's easy to deal with thousands of components but it's hard to deal with factories of factories of factories.
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Another interpretation could be: "we did out part, we helped batkid. No need to donate/volunteer/etc"

There's a similar thing called in internet activism , where people who upvote/like and comment don't go and be really politically active, in a politically meaningful way.
>"Do as I say, don't do as I do..."

Does the US gov't say that everyone else should abandon land mines?
You have my thanks and respect - I wish more people working in corrupt and unethical organisations did the same.
Depends on your situation. If you have kids and fixed costs, 6-12 times monthly spend (not income). If you're alone and have more flexibility, 3 times monthly spend.
I don’t understand. What do you mean when you say “deserve”? Do you think this is the most effective (in way of deterrence, cost-effectiveness and humane treatment) way to do it? Or are you just in it for the punishment, no matter the consequences?
It's better to know multiple paradigms, learning multiple languages is just one of the ways of achieving this. I made my C# more functional just by reading about F#, Haskell etc.
Intentions of kindness, sure. Grass roots movements, perhaps. But also more than a little wasteful. All of these things can be true at the same time.

I'm happy for the kid, but I wish a fraction of the human effort directed into this one sweeping act of altruism could be put to more productive ends.
I might have missed the obvious, but what are the currently suggested alternatives to SHA1?
If you're intrigued by Meteor and real-time apps but are turned off by the need to live in the Meteor ecosystem and the magicness of it all, I highly recommend checking out Feathers[1]. Feathers is built on top of Express and Socket.IO so there is no magic, all Express middleware works, and you can use whatever client-side framework you prefer, it just gives you the real-time benefits for free without the commitment you have to make by switching to a big framework like Meteor. (I'm not affiliated with Feathers, just a fan).

[1]http://feathersjs.com/
Practice vs theory I guess and being aware of math as a superset of computer science.
> all native born inhabitants were leaving.

What does that even mean?
I quite agree with that. Java & Go have a close typing system (static but not very elaborate, and java < 5 was lacking generics just like go), share a close philosophy (a simple language with no tricky corner, safer memory management, designed for programming in the large), have built-in concurrency mechanisms, and are even quite close when it comes to raw performance.
Isn't it dangerous for aircrafts? What if some turbo jet engine sucks such seed inside?
Sounds more like Littercaching...
Are you depressed and feeling cynical? Why judge the sincerity of the people involved?

Events like these increase the intangible wealth of a society. Maybe events like these help decrease the fakeness from a society by giving them something positive to focus on instead of the drudgery that is their lives.

This has even brought attention to the disease the child is suffering from probably prompting some to donate.
Wow. This is incredibly fascinating and frightening. I didn't believe that things were nearly this bad in the US...and that's saying something, seeing as I am very critical of lots of things that go on these days.
Strap magazines on your body and fasten with belts, like in The Wire when Omar when to jail or did you have something fancier in mind?
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A lot of people makes a lot of money on this heart warming story.

Just saying.
I couldn't do it, but Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion.

It can be done.
I doubt Go will ever get it, given the religiosity against them from the community.
"Airplane Mode" claims to use a Parrot AR Drone 2.0 (~$290) for parts. The controller used is actually an infrared one from a smaller and cheaper (~$20) RC helicopter, like this: http://www.amazon.com/Syma-S107-S107G-Helicopter-Colors/dp/8...
Sydneysider (who happens to love Melbourne damn a lot) here. I think Sydney has a fantastic startup ecosystem, even though they may be a bit out-of-the-norm compared to SV or SF. The really high tech guys are clustered around NICTA, and they're pretty old fashioned. The uber hip ones are clustered around accelerators like Pollenizer, but in my opinion, are not as high valued/disruptive as the high tech ones (that's my personal bias though)

There is a new accelerator out from Melbourne, MURU-D, which may tip the favour for Melb, but right now, I'd stay in Sydney.
The history of "fire in a crowded theatre":

http://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hac...

Summary - the case involved was not a principled exception to free speech, but the diametric opposite; a judge basically ruled that you can't criticize the government during wartime because it would undermine the state.

> Holmes, writing for a unanimous Supreme Court, affirmed Schenck's conviction on the theory that this expression could be punished in wartime even though it merely urged "peaceful measures such as a petition for the repeal" of conscription, on the theory that the government could suppress speech that might interfere with the draft.
Well, whichever one will allow me to use my favourite language instead of an ugly script.
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Not sure the TC article sheds any light on it, though.
It definitely happens. I can only think of one concrete case off the top of my head, so here:

>The "kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were accused of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit juvenile facilities, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh sentences on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of inmates in the detention centers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
> Privatizing prisons generally reduce the financial incentive to incarcerate more people.

That made me laugh - thanks :)
I gotta quit reading hacker news and start shipping!
> ...which is of zero importance to the primary users of Go, i.e., Google, as they have a unified code base.

And this is why Android will never get official Go support.

- Android only uses dynamic loading

- The Android team does not seem to care about Go

- The Go team is religiously against dynamic loading

So I bet D and Rust compilers will be able to support Android, before Google will support Go in the Android SDK.
Your lack of empathy in these cases is frightening. Do you really feel that spending the rest of your life in prison is an appropriate punishment for stealing? I could probably concieve of some edge case where it would take some slight effort to argue against it, but none of these cases are anywhere near that.

Personally, I would rather just be shot and get it over with, than spending 40 years with no personal freedoms. You are literally condoning a fate worse than death for non-violent offenses with a relatively small impact on the victim. Please take a step back and listen to what you're saying here.
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Or if it's a similar game on a set-top box / console, use http://stb-tester.com (aka Sikuli for set-top boxes). :-)
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