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> Seeing all my fellow french moving to the US, Canada, Argentina, Asia, and after only a few weeks, being so glad to call those places home, and saying they would never go back to France, because anywhere they are, it's so much better.

Of course, but that's probably because your friends are educated middle class / upper middle class people.

I can tell you that most of my lower working class (who are working their asses off for a minimum wage) friends and family are much better off in France than they would be in the US, Canada or Asia.

What's the lesson here? The more money you make, the more incentives you have to move to a country where that money buys you more, or where that money is less taxed. Typically countries where the inequality gap is higher.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Gini_Coef...

> When Sarkozy (right) was governing and the crisis started, he adopted a "cut spendings" policy

He also adopted tax cuts for the richest.

Honestly I don't like Hollande more than anyone else, but Sarkozy's tenure was catastrophic on many points, and the picture you are painting doesn't match reality - or at least, it only matches the reality of people who don't have a large view enough on the different ends of the wealth spectrum. You may be no political analyst, but your message has a strongly political bias.

> Higher taxes (75% for one million revenue), more taxes if your net worth is high (even if no income), to the point that every rich known personality from France (actors, businessmen, etc.) are leaving and getting other nationalities, to not have to pay those taxes, because too high.

FUD and bullshit.
The 75% is for revenues ABOVE 1M, which is very different from 75% on all revenues - in fact, there used to be a higher taxation rate in the 1930s in France, which was set at 90%. After WWII, the USA had similarly high rates (from 91% during WWII to 70% in 1964). Bullshit because only a few high profile personalities are whining (mostly actors and overpaid footballers, cry me a river), most of them well-known friends of the French right wing parties. And also because of the large number of tax exemptions who are mostly applicable to wealthy people (because they require capital to invest into real-estate and companies), their real taxation rate is usually low, even lower than middle class workers. Liliane Bettencourt, the richest woman in France (and a friend of Sarkozy) was revealed a few years ago to have approximately a 9% tax rate. It's a very similar story to Warren Buffet who had a lower tax rate than his secretary.
the USD was so much more preferred for such a long time, especially as the ruble was losing 10% of its value each month at one point, that the Russians have made settling cash transactions in non-ruble's illegal.

They also introduced a plethora of cash import and export laws, since at one point 90%+ of all transactions and 60%+ of GDP was black/grey market cash and in USD. Russia is still a cash heavy economy, now its just ruble's instead of dollars.

It means you find it hard to buy or sell rubles outside of Russia, and inside exchanging USD is expensive since the purchaser (edit: exchange businesses) needs to have a license for exchange and a license to hold USD.

off course people still use the dollar, but its no longer a case that you have a black market cash exchanger standing on every street corner, or every restaurant and bar etc. accepting USD. It is why more recently some politicians have called on a complete ban on foreign currencies, and a ban on any cash payments for goods over a certain value.

The difference between now and 10 years ago for foreigners is that credit cards are more broadly accepted and easy to use, as are ATM's for foreign cards. I wouldn't even bother going through the hoops of dealing with cash or exchanging cash were I visiting.
>>It just plain sucks, and after 2 months of not chewing your teeth feel soft

I'm wondering what other damage it can do. If you stop eating real food for long times, will your ability to digest(secrete digestive juices etc) real food go away.

If that is the case. I don't think soylent is worth anything on earth. That extra an hour that you wish to save by not cooking and eating, can cripple you for life.
That's an excellent point! :)

I was so used to thinking of this system as an ORM that I never checked if the term still applies. So... I guess it is OnoRM now. ;)
I'll reach out in the morning to people/orgs in touch with him and see if taskforce.is can set up some way of getting money to him without a big legal risk.
But that's my point - if you don't trust the people putting software into your phone, why would you trust the same people with what hardware they put in?
But chewing is just one of the many phases of digesting food. What about swallowing, digesting stuff in the stomach, functioning of liver, pancreas, spleen. Small intestines, large intestines.

Surely you can't chew gum to keep these organs functioning.
Thats easy to just say, but how wil you financially protect the company developing the software / hardware, if their competitors can just copy the work. Or stated the other way round, how will you keep companies encentivised to develop new software / hardware?
Yay, home automation in prolog. Answers each and every request with "No.". Can't wait ;)
You can also just SSH in and 'git pull' a driver if you prefer =)
How Europe's answer to GPS will revolutionise your phone
I can vouch for 1Password as well. Fantastic software, and they have numerous posts detailing their exact encryption techniques. Remember one really good password, and the rest of your passwords can all be completely random. You can sync it over wifi or Dropbox. I don't know the passwords to just about any websites now thanks to 1Password. We mandate it at our company now too. If you can tell me the password to "Important Website X" off the top of your head, you're doing it wrong.

<BTW: This goes without saying, but I'll say it anyway: Don't lose your 1 master password or your password database. ;) >
more about the Galileo Project:
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/The_future_-_Ga...
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I don't know whether or not they're "cost effective", but I don't think anyone would doubt that they've given the US a huge strategic advantage.

It's tough to say. They say their mission is vital, but then their mission is literally to lie for a living.
Both.

The lack of security at lets say mac forums/ adobe/ inputs.io is unrealistically common.

Do you remember the Playstation network hack a while back? That was well reported

Things get hacked every day but the ones where hundreds of thousands of users information is involved that makes for a juicy tweet/ story = more clicks to whatever is reporting it
I'm still amazed how much effort is laid on the UX for consoles, while the browser version needs some urgent attention.
Yes - because he was the only one morally sound enough, in his opinion, to use it. Much like the NSA and GCHQ.
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Well he could have withdrawn some significant amount of cash before leaving, or put it in banks not controlled by US interests.
Did a bit of digging - it lets NACL apps downloaded from those whitelisted Google apis have access to "dev interfaces". Brief search shows that these dev interfaces would have the ability to access the user's PC outside of the Chrome sandbox.

In effect, this gives Google remote code execution rights from their domains on anybody running Chromium.
I think you are projecting; what is my "model"? Why would it fail?

> free software always mimics commercial software badly

One could argue against this, but let’s assume that it is true. Does this have anything to do with the necessity of allowing software makers to forbid the sharing of software? Are you arguing that it is impossible to make money with software which is not forbidden to share, when lots of people are doing it today?

Let’s say the world stopped allowing ideas and other non-rivalrous goods to be considered property. Would the world still need software? Yes. Would the world still need people to write software? Yes. Would the world be willing to pay people to write software they need? Obviously yes.
Where are you a citizen of?

Australians can get the E-3 visa for example, though I'm pretty sure that's sponsored which you seem to not be looking for.
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Wouldn't a government contractor and helping the world be a toss up these days? I guess it's possible to have a net good overall (questionable) but it's also possible your contributions could go to spying on (or killing) citizens of the world (and for those that care more about Americans, Americans).
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Is Pusher down?
http://status.pusher.com/

Marked as down for 13 hours for my status check..
Yes, a Constitutional one and an unconstitutional one.
The code on the device will be open source. If you wrote something that made it easier to use when the internet was down (or you weren't connected at all) and sent a pull-request you'd have a good shot of it being accepted. When the backend is released as O/S too there will no doubt be some effort towards getting it running on the device itself.
Modern C/C++ compilers can detect a sub set of pure functions and do possible aggressive optimisations. There's even an `__attribute__ ((pure))` in GCC for explicit pureness.
Coursewa.re is now open source
The guys (and girl) from CourseWare are open sourcing everything that powers CourseWare domain (coursewa.re).

Check out this article to know more about their history: https://medium.com/teaching-learning/8cd484c1ef92

Check out the github account: https://github.com/Courseware
I'd laugh at that, but I'm a little too cynical to think that the NSA isn't entirely likely to get the IRS to throw a "parallel reconstructed" Capone style charge at him just to avoid having to go to court and admit any of their myriad of best-practice security failings…
The normal sense of ‘need’ is as in “I’m going shopping, I need milk.”.

What does and does not damage society is certainly open for discussion. But when you frame it as “developers’ rights over the software they create” you are presupposing the conclusion. Why should ideas and other non-rivalrous goods be considered property? If I “own” an idea that you have a copy of, why should this give me power over you?
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Hi All, Avish from BitMe here.

RE: assurances - https://blockchain.info/address/1Fm8XdPvGzKbfuHrBrsK8d7ZDLvC... - you can track the donation amounts to the wallet publicly. At the end of each month, we'll convert the BTC into USD and send a check to the Red Cross for the full converted amount.

RE: BitMe blog - we took BitMe down earlier this year after losing a banking partner. We've since relaunched with crypto/crypto trading and will be rolling out BTC/USD with our new banking partner in the coming weeks. You've probably never heard of us because we've kept a low profile while going through the process of becoming compliant. We're currently backed by Tim Draper, Ludlow Ventures, the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund and were incubated at Boost VC.

RE: why not use a traceable currency - we believe the global bitcoin community can have a positive impact on relief efforts in the Philippines by using bitcoins as a means of donation. That's the purpose of our efforts with this campaign.

Hope that helps,
Avish
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In 1980 President Reagan was elected. In addition to many technologies (e.g., LSI ICs) coming online, the amount of taxpayer debt that the US government funneled into our industrial sector over the next few years was simply staggering.

One should look at where this revenue was coming from and compare GE to other companies in the sector (i.e., other makers of nuclear reactors and jet engines) during this time before drawing conclusions about personnel management theories (of all things).
Why? Most people watch Netflix content on a television through a console or a set-top box. It makes complete sense to concentrate resources developing the experience for those markets rather than the browser. On tablets and phones people will use the app. I'd guess that the number of people looking at Netflix content in a browser is probably in the low single digit percentile range.
Serves him right. He is a convict bringing harm to the United States of America and its international allies. Hopefully the financial desperation will make him turn himself in. It will only be for the better. I know you guys stand firmly against it, but this man has endangered millions of innocent lives. Sure, he revealed some illicit behavior within the archipelago of our government, but that doesn't mean we should turn against our internal structure.

What do you want, anarchy?
That article doesn't have much details on what the new UI is based on... does anyone know?
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They are as useful as any other currency. Converting between currencies ceased to be an issue in Russia about 20 years ago.
Ah, yes, ban everything that you don't like. That would get rid of it for sure.
Chemical and biological weapons are banned? Yes.
Do we have them? Yes.
Will we use them to survive? FUCK YES.

So stop this meaningless "Geneva talks". "Killer robots" will be built and will be used.

Don't ban weapons. Ban wars. I don't see why 1st world countries would need them anyway.
Yep, I already do that.
Ntp is good. Assuming that time is coordinated, much less monotonically increasing, is a bad plan. Just the other week i got paged in the middle of the night because a clock moved backwards.
Modern warfare is already vastly stacked against the poorer side. This has arguably always been the case but it is especially true in the present with billion dollar warships and million dollar jets, missiles, satellites, etc. Not to mention nuclear missiles.

Robots don't change anything. Your evil rich people can just as easily fight the rebels with human flown planes or human guided drones and paid mercenaries.

And please with the "imagine a robot shooting a kid, we can't ever allow that to happen" hypothetical. Soldiers kill innocent people all the time, just on accident. Missiles miss, land mines get abandoned and kill innocent kids, warfare has never been tame. A robot would arguably be better because it might rarely if ever miss, it could have better vision than a human, it could possibly be a better judge than even a human with sufficient AI, and it never gets emotional, angry, or tired or insane.
With DNS hijack, everyone can remote execute.
> How about if you promised not to do that in your acceptance of the license agreement?

I could do that, and then the ethical burden would fall on me to motivate why society would benefit more from my use of the software than it would benefit everyone I would potentially deny to receive a copy of it.

But, the way you phrase it (“claim on the fruits of the software authors labor”) presupposes that it is property, and a rivalrous one at that. However, software is a non-rivalrous good, and whether it should be considered property is the question we are debating.
As last summers negative leap second fiascos demonstrated even a trusted source isnt enough.
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You can't dissociate parts of an individual just like you can't say that this part of the clock is so so but the alarm bell is great. What counts is the overall, if I may say holistic proposition of what you are evaluating. Does the person fit well in the team? Are they bringing value in one way or another ? It shouldn't be that important to evaluate the specific skills of a said person, but at least recognize what they achieved (or missed) and try to understand why, and then make a picture out of that. Likability cannot make up for actual results (or lack of), or at least not very long.
Don't have to help for now, says in the fourth paragraph he's got a new job.
Good idea! Keep us informed if it worked, I would be very happy to donate!
We like our superheroes to kick some villain's butt without pesky 'due process' getting in the way.

Kinda like the NSA, if you think about it.
Is it just me, or do almost half of my searches return `Dvbc' for no apparent reason?

http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Saturn%20-%20Rings%20%2B%2...

http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Chrome%20%2B%20open%20sour...

http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Unix%20%2B%20Open%20Source
The intersection of requirements for visibility and prominent project get even more interesting when attempting to cross bands.
please replace "or" with and
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At least Poulsen is sticking with the facts:

> A U.S. email provider can promise its users all the security and privacy it wants; it still has to do whatever it takes to give the government access.

Correct.

Again: Just because Lavabit designed its security in a shitty manner to make it easier for end users, doesn't mean he can somehow wave his hands and claim "but but but but, I've designed this system such that you will be able to also read other peoples emails whom you've not subpoenaed. That is against my mission statement!".

Sorry bud.
This thread is all too interesting. I found myself revisiting the dictionary for definitions of words I never knew.Everyday I learn something new from HN
It is true that this could be _one_ of the flip side arguments in favor of using machines. However, as we probably know, it's a pretty weak one. I don't think any human beings should be subjected to having somebody else's idea of a "brighter future" shoved down their throats regardless of whether they agree with it or not. This is especially true when the people deciding this future is half way around the globe and does not actually have to live that future.

Remember "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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That's not always the case. For instance, on Galaxy Nexus (CDMA), the radio is split from the AP, and are in fact manufactured by two completely different folks (the AP is TI OMAP, and the radio is VIA Telecom). I'd imagine the same thing with Mediatek, who is a large and growing player. You are right that Qualcomm does fuse their radio with their AP, though, and they do control quite a lot of the US market.
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Expected: HN,
Got: Digg
Back to FF, I don't like where Google's going and the tools are getting better.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Microsoft's Log Parser. It provides query access to CSV, XML and many types of log files.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptcenter/dd919274.asp...
> Brief search shows that these dev interfaces would have the ability to access the user's PC outside of the Chrome sandbox.

Aren't they just the APIs in https://code.google.com/p/chromium/codesearch#chromium/src/p...?
By the looks of it they're just things that aren't ready for primetime, not things that are special dev-only debug tools or whatever.
> or put it in banks not controlled by US interests.

That would probably be tough for him to have done.
So true. The comments section on time.com almost got me a heart attack. Thought that HN would not be infected with that breed of ignorant nationalistic sheeps.. Thank you for restoring my faith
No it does not, nor does replicant or any other alternate phone OS.
No, HTTPS only. So probably only Google or the NSA, I guess.
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Right, you want this superhero cape with Bayes' Theorem printed on it?

It's got priiiiooooooors.
Why not use Western Union?
I worked telecoms a few years back. One of the things I worked on was an anti spam system for SMS. It had the ability to blacklist, throttle and log messages based on a number of identifiers including imei, phone number, Tower id, service center id and message content (typically binary patterns in non text payloads but there was nothing stopping it to be used to block messages containing certain text or keywords).

So if we were using these numbers to block messages then I'd absolutely expect government agencies to use them to monitor or track phones.
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Actually quite the opposite. If legislation were passed that required an entire industry to open source their firmware (automotive, voting machines, medical, etc), it would provide better IP protection. Did company A copy company B's code? Well it's open source ... go look! As opposed to being able to hide things in binaries.

But yes, this only applies if the competition must also open their kimonos. That seems practical for industries where regulation is required or provides reasonable benefits to society (automotive, voting machines, medical, etc).
mysimplegrid is a piece of attempt. Still quite linear and simplistic for now though. (http://mysimplegrid.com/)
Actually I find its broken down into two camps:

Consumers want the latest.

Companies want the most stable.

After some particularly huge disasters I've had to deal with coming onto new projects and with general consumer electronics, I'd go for the latter every time both as a consumer and company these days. Time is valuable and losing it to a feature packed unreliable mess is a big risk to that time.
There is a concept called "consultancies" (I am not a lawyer and have no clue about the legalities). Many of them provide H1B to anyone for a fee of $5K refundable deposit.

The best way to find out the list is to see the USCIS issued list of companies that had filed H1B petitions. The top ones will be companies like Infosys, TCS etc. The bottom ones who files around 10 - 40 petitions are generally these consultancies. Contact them.

Note: I have no clue about the legalities. I am not a lawyer.
How old are you guys, like 8?
Totally, if such a ban were in place that would have certainly prevented Al Queda from bombing and killing. It would also prevent Afghan tribal conflicts and the Sunni-Shia battles. It certainly would have stopped Chechnya and the Serbo-Croation war and probably Kosovo as well.

Let's do that. Let's ban bad people. Let's make it international law that all disagreements must be settled via pillow fights with squadrons of 12 year old girls. Of course the Muslim extremists would naturally lose since they'd never let an 12 year old girl out of the house
in the first place. So they'd have to send boys. And since proper war fighting pillows are in short supply in places like Yemen, then they have to use more readily available materials like diesel fuel and fertilizer, you know just to be fair, given their logistical disadvantages in lacking both available 12 year old girls and properly spec'd combat pillows.

So now the law abiding rest of the world sends in the 12 year old girl combat pillow division (polyfill only since feathers have been banned as cruel to birds) and the promptly get set on fire and raped by an enemy that obviously does not give a flying fuck about a group of cognac-sipping first-world diplomats who decide to ban killing when waging war.
What might these anti-corruption technologies look like?
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XMPP would be cool too and suddenly you have a chatbox.

Would be cool to have in all the "home server" platforms (Freedom Box, ArkOS, ...) too!
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Textbook API's actually save students hundreds of dollars on textbooks?
Kikbooks will allow students to do price comparison for textbooks.