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Direct streaming via mms://wmv3.china.com.cn/live2?cccode=cc1291 (lags a lot for me)
I was anticipating a very smart connecting board that can determine two working connections and disable the others. I wasn't arguing it's completely viable but simply that it's not beyond the laws of physics as OP suggested :)
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I Need Some Help: Workaround Stopping Truecrypt From Leaking
Some days ago I posted here my blog article
http://querbalken.net/workaround-truecrypt-leaking-containers-security-issue-en.html
and the goal, an open source-project to work around: https://github.com/tverrbjelke/truecrypt_wrapper

Installing truecrypt via dowload package just results in a leaking mess:
All your recently used containerfiles will be leaked into file ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel

Started to create a practicable workaround mini open source project:
wrapper and documentation that guides through the issue.

My last post here got me some good replies.
Summarizing one: "truecrypt binary has no s-bit set,
so set the bookmarking-file to readonly and you be done."

Did that. But that won't help! (see session below)

Maybe I have major blind spots
(hope so, then we could close the issue and live on - so please find my mistakes).
If not, then we indeed have a leaking mess that needs workaround.

So please help me here:

Can you try below session on different platforms with different desktop environments
(truecrypt as I know links to GTK)

I have tried this on my up to date KUbuntu12.04LTS (with KDE) and the downloaded truecrypt-installer.
Same shit happens with different versions of truecrypt, doesn't seem to matter.
Because the open-file dialog does the leaking and that is desktop stuff.

Next thing I would like do is set up a clean virtual machine with e.g. opensuse (which also aims average joe).
But right now I cought a flew and should treat my fiever and recover a bit...

So is there something I am overlooking?

Please can you support me and try this on different platforms / Desktop environments?
Maybe you reply here or as issue into my github project or as comment in my blog...?
And maybe you also have some hints where to go then...

1) workaround, well placed to be found by soluiton seeking average joe

2) fix of leaking truecrypt

here comes the session:
Session

> ls -l $(which truecrypt)

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root Dez 14 10:17 /usr/bin/truecrypt

So no S-bits, normal average-joe installtation via download from truecrypt.org

try as normal user

> cd ~/.local/share

> rm recently-used.xbel

> touch recently-used.xbel

> chmod a-rwx recently-used.xbel

> ls -l recently-used.xbel

---------- 1 tverrbjelke tverrbjelke 0 Dez 14 12:17 recently-used.xbel

> truecrypt

-> select file -> ok -> select -> is there somethin in recently used?

YES! WTF?

> ls -l recently-used.xbel

-rw------- 1 tverrbjelke tverrbjelke 733 Dez 14 12:20 recently-used.xbel

So try2 - chown to root:

> rm recently-used.xbel

> touch recently-used.xbel

> chmod a-rwx recently-used.xbel

> sudo chown root:root recently-used.xbel

> ls -l recently-used.xbel

---------- 1 root root 0 Dez 14 12:22 recently-used.xbel

> truecrypt

-> select file -> ok -> select -> is there somethin in recently used?

YES! WTF?

on the console I see the following message:
"(truecrypt:29437): Gtk-WARNING : Attempting to read the recently used resources file at `/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel', but the parser failed: Failed to open file '/home/tverrbjelke/.local/share/recently-used.xbel': No Permission."

> tverrbjelke@espen:~/.local/share$ ls -l recently-used.xbel

-rw------- 1 tverrbjelke tverrbjelke 726 Dez 14 12:29 recently-used.xbel

So thats the mess I ment with my blog article.
And why I wrote the workaround truecrypt_wrapper script...
If I go out to check the mail, there is a chance I may be hit by a bus. I still walk outside my door.

Purchasing from Steam has risks and benefits, just as purchasing from any other store does. You highlight one risk, and it is a real risk, but you don't really indicate why it outweighs everything else.

Let's assume that Steam games are generally 20% cheaper than boxed games from my local game store (actually, they're much cheaper than that, in this part of the world). Let's assume that one game in ten is a dud (actually, much less than that, in my experience). So we have two options:

Buy 10 games for X locally, get a refund on one game, ending with 9 good games for 0.9X.

Buy 10 games for 0.8X locally, get no refund, ending with 9 good games for 0.8X.

Obviously, option 2 is better. Same games, less money, even AFTER the refund. Plus I didn't have to go outside to be hit by a bus. :) (Plus, my local game store has a poor selection.) Your argument seems to be "hey, options 2 is so terrible I will never use Steam", but I don't see what's terrible about it; it sounds like a great deal to me. Plus, many brick and mortar stores will quibble over refunds; many will absolutely refuse to give a refund if the box has been opened. How is this better?

"Steam isn't perfect" isn't a good argument. "Steam isn't the best option" is a good argument, but you might struggle to make it. :)
I'm Uruguayan and I love my country but please, Argentina is at least 2 or 3 times cheaper in everything and you have way more options and things to do.

Also, I've just came from Buenos Aires, Argentina yesterday, me and my friends feel way more safe in Buenos Aires' streets than in Montevideo. We are really far from perfect.
Researcher discloses security bug because Twitter doesn't reward bounty hunters
Egor Homakov has just disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in twitter. He argues that twitter doesn't provide enough incentive for researchers to disclose bugs responsibly.

http://homakov.blogspot.com/2013/12/how-to-send-dm-on-twitter-wo-permission.html

Should researchers get rewarded for their efforts and what a fair compensation would be?
>In a much larger sense, it just feels like there's a giant entertainment industry cash grab that's been taking place off of ongoing US conflicts, and it's being masked in soldier worship and flag-waving. In my opinion, this phenomenon only serves to obscure the real sacrifices made by service personnel.

Unfortunately this is nothing new. It's been happening for centuries. Back with the Roman Empire, Holy Roman Empire, every other country/power/empire ever. It's part of the human nature to glorify strife and war and depict soldiers as war heroes instead of just poor souls sent to die for a cause they most likely don't even understand.

This is just another instrument of that great assembly chain that raises young children into young adults that eventually decide to go to war and die for their country with a (supposed) smile on their face.
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It is really nice to see others having the same "Wait, what did I change?" kind of moments.
Well, he did say "sci-fi" robots.
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This is great, for all the reasons everyone has said so far.

Like to pair with people ?
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Skynet is actually on Google's Master Plan http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/21468536/in/photostre...
This reminds me of my LOVE for the fact that programming is just as much (if not more so) an art than it is a science . :D
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Also related is the ShipIt Journal developed by Seth Godin: http://sethgodin.typepad.com/freeprize/2012/05/the-shipit-jo...
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You can't choose a local representative? Which western european country do you live in?
It does not state on what drivers/other stuff they are contributing. It sounds they work together with the vendors to improve the proprietary drivers, I think. That would be zero benefit for GNU/Linux environment. Also current state of Steam OS is just a standard Debian with proprietary components added. And those components are what really matters in this field. I do not expect that Valve make their Steam Client open source, but at least not relying solely on closed stuff for the relevant parts. In the current state this doesn't improve anything or makes somehow the "ecosystem" better.
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That depends on who you are:

As a politician or as a company, lying is pretty bad. "Manipulation" through emotional ads is more or less expected though, it would be unprofessional to not use the same tools as everybody else. Just watch any tv ad.

Artists meanwhile enjoy complete freedom in what they do. The more creative and provocative they are, the better.
Link of live stream:

http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml
Switch to root, then do this:

# cat /dev/null >recently-used.xbel

# chattr +i recently-used.xbel
A lot of people wouldn't ask them back to their place right away. But that doesn't necessarily mean being upfront and to the point wouldn't work, it certainly does, all the time. Someone like yourself considers it a positive trait, as do I.

Actually, I don't consider "asking someone back to their place right away" as either positive or negative thing because I don't understand the motives. Sorry, this kind of interpersonal stuff simply goes beyond me. ;/ But I assume that if that is important to someone, I don't see a reason for that person not to be candid about it.

I don't think many investors appreciate it, but that doesn't mean a cold email won't work -- but it better be extraordinary.

It's more that I see no reason for why this should matter when many business people don't even consider the effects that their actions or decisions have on human communities, changing the lives of countless other people. So many of them don't give a shit about what difference it makes when they decide to do something, but when someone else deals with them, many of them dwell on superficial veneer rather than on substantial matters proposed? Sounds very much like hypocrisy to me.
Welcome to The GOOG. You will be assimilated. ~Raymond Kurzweil
Best one-sentence advice I've seen on this topic was here on HN: Don't try to micromanage your career, just focus on doing whatever has the most impact, and your career will take care of itself.
1) Line length is arbitrary, and there is no finite limit
2) You can have an escape sequence for a new line

With that said, I disagree that having to mark the end of a statement with a semi-colon is obsolete syntax. Statements and lines should not have to be 1-to-1, even if most code is written as such.
Pretty sure that story is going to change drastically once games are made for SteamOS rather than Steam on Linux. Going to be a non-issue eventually.
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link to a live stream:

http://news.cntv.cn/special/videolive/change3/index.shtml
Buying anything on a credit card (accepted almost everywhere) encourages many people spend more than they originally intended/budgeted for.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/20333-guide-to-credit-cards-...

"A Dunn & Bradstreet study found that people spend 12-18% more when using credit cards than when using cash."

Most people you know might be an extreme minority when it comes to the range of financial habits targeted by credit card companies.
God rules the world. Always has, always will. If you think it's fucked up, that's the opposite of praise.

God's world is perfectly just. Yer fucked.

God says...
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what_a_nightmare bad_ol_puddytat yikes fancy by_the_way
in_a_perfect_world BRB Venus virtue hooah incredibly
Uruguay people fume when they read all those Mujica praising articles.

I saw lots of Uruguyans upset on Reddit, and I have some Uruguyan roommates that explained to me why they hate Mujica.

A couple recurring points:

1. Education worsened.
2. Crime skyrocketed, one of my roommates was a cop in Uruguay and said when he was a cop there was about 350 arrests per year, now there is that number in one month and only in the capital, and for more violent crimes, like murder, where the most serious crime he usually arrested someone was stealing without using force.
3. Although the president is populist and socialist, somehow people now are starving, my roommates are here in Brazil to earn money to ship to their families, and they said this was not necessary before Mujica, one claims that the government took 150000 USD that his mother left in a savings account.
4. Mujica openly bribed voters. Several expat Uruguyans repeated the story that Mujica paid airfare to anyone willing to go back to Uruguay during elections and vote for him.
5. Mujica is fake poor. Although he gives away his salary, the population believes he gets a cut from Brazilian and Argentinean gold laundered there.
6. Marijuana was made legal only to increase government revenue, not in form.of taxes, but by having a law mandated monopoly.
There are lots of other complaints, these are the common ones.
Here I feel like it's the urban planners that need to learn more from tech. The article's entire point seems to be that the tech community is not acting like a community because its gathering spaces are not open to members of the local public. That strikes me as an incredibly facile and outdated understanding of the concept of "community". The whole point of globalization and the information revolution of the late 20th century is that location increasingly does not matter. "Communities" are stronger than ever - but they are defined by shared interests and ideals, not historical accidents of where you happen to be located. I personally care not a single more for my own neighbor than for some random individual living in China; in fact, I would probably care more about the Chinese person if he was a "Mozillan" and my neighbor was not. The local Starbucks the author praises is closed to everyone that is not geographically close to its location in Menlo Park; the public Mozilla coffee house is closed to everyone that is not close to Mozilla in the social graph. The latter actually seems like a much more of a real "community" than the former, which allows individuals to whom I have no interest in speaking. That is not to say open and non-discriminatory businesses should not remain the dominant type of commerce; Starbucks has provided me a truly invaluable service by providing a consistent experience of hours of personal office space with accessible free wifi in every city or country I go. But the author has it exactly backwards in his general point; "community" is the antonym, not synonym, of "everyone".
Reading some of the stuff that got him in trouble, it's not particularly offensive (to me) but neither is it insightful or funny. Scott Adams was a good, even great, newspaper cartoon strip writer for several years, but he's been repeating himself for twenty and outrun hos talent.
"the global elite also control what we see, hear and think about"

Rolls eyes...
Replied in the other reply too:

Buying anything on a credit card (accepted almost everywhere) encourages many people spend more than they originally intended/budgeted for.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/20333-guide-to-credit-cards-...

"A Dunn & Bradstreet study found that people spend 12-18% more when using credit cards than when using cash."

No doubt you are the special snowflake exception, but the majority of people overspend and carry a balance. Paying interest on stuff they bought that they don't need to get rewards that are a fraction of what they'll owe.

We use the target card and simply get 5% off everything at target. That's it - no gas cards, no anything else, no flyer miles, etc. And it seems to me that target's approach is such that they're simply keeping the savings of involving a merchant bank by processing the transactions themselves from my debit account - that's saving them 2-3% right there, so the 5% isn't really much skin off their nose.
Is this the Octopus of our time?
Some areas of the US have experimented with electing some surprising things, including police chiefs and even judges. The system is flawed, and it doesn't work very well.

However! It's only very slightly flawed, and it works about as well as all the other systems. The key is this:

> they hold no "political power", they should do what the government has chosen (as a boss would follow the order of the board/owners).

Right. But the government is chosen by the electorate, who are the ultimate "owners" in your analogy. The difference between electing a governor (or state congress, or whatever) and having him appoint a judge, or just electing the judge directly turns out to be really, really minimal. If an electorate would have elected a far-right (or far-left) whackjob to be a police chief, then they'll elect the kind of governor who will appoint a far-right (or far-left) whackjob as police chief. I happen to strongly dislike Joe Arpaio, sheriff of Maricopa County Arizona, but I don't see why Governor Jan Brewer could be counted upon to appoint someone better (google those names and you'll see why). The people there support policies I dislike, and they will find ways to implement them unless forceably stopped. That's democracy.

(Conversely, at one time Senators were appointed by state governments; they are now directly elected. Doesn't seem to have had a ton of impact. Conservative states went from electing conservative state governments which appointed conservative senators to just electing conservative senators. I think the earlier system might have been better, but I'll be damned if I can point to any concrete evidence either way.)

People seem to get the government they deserve. :)
Nice work!

It'll be great if the textarea for commenting grew in height as you typed more.
I'm interested in this, but the information must come from a more credible news outlet. I've never heard of http://dcclothesline.com
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I have a database (MySQL) that is unique id, name, address, and data appended.

I get updates to the DB. I am looking for the best tool to update / ingest new / delete old data quarterly.

It is about 6 M records each update.

looking for front end tools, if they exist. Thank you ahead of time.
I haven't read the paper, so I don't even know whether they said anything remotely like that, but "not a Poisson process" could mean anything.

For example, if you start with a Poisson process of tsunamis, but add a tsunami exactly one year after each tsunami of that process, the resulting is not a Poisson process. Such a theory can easily be proven incorrect, but the idea that an event may make it more likely to have further events soon doesn't sound that illogical. After all, for earthquakes, we talk of aftershocks. In a true Poisson model of earthquakes the idea of aftershocks, that is, of relations between earthquakes would be nonsense.
All true but a "political space race" can have a bad ending as well.
Landing..
'if the country were run by its population, the vast majority of whom aren't wealthy, they'd abolish debts, redistribute land'. A crass assumption if I may say so.
You are assuming that English and international use of the term democracy was developed by American and for America. That's not the case.

The evolution of the use of the word happened in England and France. Frenchman Marquis d’Argenson (1694-1757) was first to define representative democracy in the way it's used today.
France also added a few years here and there. For example the period in WW2 when France was occupied by Nazi Germany doesn't count for copyright.
Wow. Five minutes ago this post was #4 on the front-page and rising, now it's not even on the second page. Shame.
100meters to go
Landed!
Landing success. Congrats to China. Rover will be deployed from lander few hours (8 hrs?) later.

Landing video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnM-sJ-KbNg
Can you elaborate on your skepticism?

The global elite control corporate news, educational institutions (the tuition fee does not cover all expenses, so universities depend on the financial institutions), and entertainment. Do you refute this?

So, through the control of TV and news, they control what we see. Through control of political debate in media, they define a framework for acceptable political discourse (where the penalty for going outside is being dismissed as a radical/political outlier and ignored), thus controlling the thoughts of the general population. This control is improved by making entertainment reflect this framework.
Congrats to China. It was really exciting to see it live.
If the images were hosted in the EU, then there's limitations on what the hosting company can store and process about to visitors. For the USA, there is less protection.
I have to admit, the EFF has just lost a chunk of support from me over this. Google never released this feature - you needed to install some 3rd party app to expose the settings, this alone is enough for anyone of any intelligence to know they are doing something not intended for the general public.

Seriously EFF, get your act together please. I do want to support you, but not like this.
The problem is, all credible news outlets are probably controlled by the "super-entity" mentioned in the article. So, if true, how could this article ever be published in such a news outlet?
Can you point out any misleading information in their advertisements?

By the way, it is a full blown OS.
Nice to see New Tab Plus, a new tab replacement add on mentioned.

We have a new tab replacement out as well as well. Unlike NTP, it's similar to the old style Chrome new tab page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/starthq/

The functionality is pretty basic for now, but we're slowly rolling out much cooler features like deep links, multiple screens and Greplin like cloud search.
Vast majority of the population do not have the knowledge to use that. Surely it's good to spread the history and these documents as far as possible. Putting requirements and barriers like "you must use bit torrent" excludes people.
I find this weird. Was there some kind of manual correction? This article is doing really good compared to other /newest links
Mhj... Palaces, motorcades and "frills" are designed to allow the governors to work from the "abstract", which is the only sensible way to make good, consistent and long-term policy.

The first question that comes to mind is... Is the palace his property to turn it (or just part of it) into a shelter? Because being president does not turn you into the owner of the palace.

What is the former presidential driver working at?

Etc.
I once, when I was about 12 or 13 made a transformer from scratch. It didn't turn out to badly, but the faults that it had were embarrassingly easy to trace to my own impatience.

I learnt that winding transformers, like sewing, welding and many other skills, is a diabolical combination of high motor control and extreme patience if you want to do it well. I have huge respect for anyone who can do things like this.
Also take into account that it is not the same to be in prison on a democracy that in a dictatorship.
It technically is a full blown OS, just centered around gaming. There are currently 100 or so games available for Steam on Linux. The OS as far as I can tell, is currently in Beta. It's released now so Valve can get feedback and tune it so it works better when the actual steam machines is released.
Either there are many users who flagged this article or some HN moderator manually corrected a little value, which I think is the case (because it disappeared from the front page in a minute).