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> ATM cards with their current security are too dangerous to use... We no longer use ours. They stay in a secure place in our home.

Um... how does he get cash out of the bank then? Does he wait 10 min in line and write himself a check at the cashier's every time? Can you even do that anymore, without using your ATM card and PIN to verify your identity?

And are people ever on the hook for fraud? I get that debit/credit cards have problems, but I don't see why any individual person would stop using them. Is anyone ever not reimbursed for fraud?

Occasional fraud is like the occasional car accident -- sometimes somebody will hit your car, and you'll have to file an insurance claim, and it might take a few weeks to resolve. Sure it's annoying, but that doesn't mean you decide never to drive a car again.
"Skeptical federal authorities are also paying attention. Although marijuana remains illegal under federal law, the Justice Department has given a tentative approval for Colorado and Washington to move ahead with regulating marijuana. But it warned that federal officials could intervene if the state regulations failed to keep the drug away from children, drug cartels or federal property, and out of other states."

I have a feeling there are going to be people who ruin it for everyone else.
I was wondering why people wanted to own a device that would be useless without the rest of the solution.
It's not really a bug for the same reasons that jQuery implements focus/blur independently from focusin/focusout. focus events just don't bubble out natively so you have to make your synthetic event system do that if you want / need it. jQuery implements it as a separate pair of events, React chose not to / only deviates from DOM behavior in very few instances (onchange). Using jQuery was just easier for my use case which seemed too exotic to claim any kind of general relevance.
That's because, unlike physical science and engineering disciplines, the application of discoveries in computer science (i.e. software engineering) is done in the context of an ultra-competitive popularity-contest culture, mixed with a strong strain of loner-nerd-hacking-the-gibson worship.

I came to software development from the physical sciences (university level academic and theoretical as well as applied/engineering). To me the differences were abundant and, frankly, shocking. For a discipline that fancies itself one of the more intellectual, there seems to be an awful lot of petty one-upsmanship and "john galt genius" idiocy at work.
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> implemented amazingly badly

The implementation I can live with. That fact that its opt-in is entirely fatal though. Criminals just need to find a website without it. So the only person inconvenienced by it is me.
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GNU Octave 3.8 released
BLockchain roll-backs of leaked info?

/I have no idea what I am talking about :-)
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The banking system took the easy way out at every step of the process that lead to our current electronic money system. No surprises there, banks are immoral corporations. The emergent system is utterly insecure. Again, no surprises, people have been saying that the credit card system is totally compromised for years.

So, we have to look at the root causes of this insecure emergent system:

1. Almost completely unencrypted. The USA's (also possibly emergent) policy on cryptography is to keep it out of general use. Clearly, the NSA knew enough about cryptography in the 70s and 80s that they could have guided the US banking system in a more secure direction. But they didn't, apparently for fear of giving away secrets. Or something.

2. Letting corporations develop de facto electronic money. Crappy security is just one aspect of this problem, others are ridiculously high interest rates, and the fact that it's cheaper for corporations to take checks than than to take credit card payments, as the US Fededral Government runs the check clearing houses for free or almost free.
My experience is that programmers.stackexchange is even more militant about closing questions than stackoverflow. I guess they got tired of receiving all of the unwanted garbage and it makes them extra sensitive.
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I wonder what the web-based POS system they are using in that photo
Well if they can't even change their own configuration, how can we expect them to code? </ sarcasm>
Your concept of the typical Border Patrol agent as a barely-functioning imbecile shows no understanding at all of what the job entails, nor what the recruitment and screening and training process is. Hint: high-school dropouts need not apply.
Brain connections may explain why girls mature faster
They were bought by Monsanto: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/02/monsanto-acquires-weather-b...
We are, primarily due to technological advancements.

The logistics of government have not changed that drastically. In fact, I would say the political climate today is among the worst and absolutely most surreal. Largely because sophisticated technology enables rights violations on scales that were once only a dream. Most of the world still writhes in poverty, but as per Dunbar's number, it is simply impossible for the average human to care.

What has happened in the Western world is that, while we may have toned down the medieval barbarism, the structures and social machinations that build up our society, are profoundly sick and volatile on so many layers, both implicitly and explicitly, like never before.

That said, there will always be time to spend looking under the microscope. Conflict necessitates innovation and discovery.
The very first sentence of the Kickstarter page says, "Space Monkey is the next generation cloud. For $10 per month, you get a full Terabyte (1000 Gigabytes) of storage you can use anywhere, any time."
Create account just to post this comment? Hmm.
If the funds come out of a bank account, and you have no line of credit, it's not a credit card. Visa and MasterCard both issue third-party (as in, not your bank) debit cards with their branding on them, as well as a value-added set of protections as part of their ToS.

Target's Red Card program is one of the most common, and it's a big reason that the Target security breech was such big news. When you're issued a Red Card, Target has the option of extending you a line of credit, or simply issuing you a debit card that is linked to your account. This gives them the ability to issue cards to people who would otherwise be non-credit-worthy.

Note: I don't mean to imply you're a non-credit-worthy individual. There are many reasons a person might have a Visa/MasterCard backed debit card. I have one, and my credit score is >780.
He should mention this tool:

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There is a huge gap between the yearly fees of option 1 & 2.
I might miss something but if the business model was based on ~ $10/month/user how come it is still viable with ~ $ 4?
(Without necessarily disagreeing with your broader point...)

I also think the fact that people have been conditioned to think that way is a big part of the reason why there's such an enormous and growing wealth and power divide in the world today.

St. Charles is home to mega-churches and wealthy conservatives. The county went to Romney 60 percent to 39 in 2012. Here's Cottleville specifically compared with Missouri state averages:

- Median household income above state average.

- Median house value above state average.

- Unemployed percentage below state average.

- Black race population percentage below state average.

- Foreign-born population percentage below state average.

- Renting percentage significantly below state average.

- Number of rooms per house above state average.

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The tone of this letter goes after the lawyer more than Starbucks. (I.e., "Please apply the enclosed $6.00 towards the legal fees Ms Owen Kramer received for her efforts in nabbing Exit 6 [...] We realize Mr Bucks probably paid her more than Exit 6 made last year.") Hating the lawyers is a bipartisan national pastime, but it is a special interest of people whose reasons for doing it might be at odds with yours.

The bar is tiny, and Starbucks is huge. But before we get all 99%, we shouldn't assume this particular bar owner is arguing your case with his clever response to the C&D letter.
Yes, React's synthetic event system is supposed to bubble for focus.
scam?

Change the title.

That is completely unacceptable. That's very click-bait, and very disparaging to Space Monkey, who as far as I can tell, is operating in good faith. There is going to be a whole lot of people who are going to get the wrong idea without actually reading the article.

Your problem is a kind of philosophical issue between owning and leasing, and while I sympathize on that front, that is not carte blanc to accuse someone of scamming.
Hilarious? Sad, rather.
This sounds a little like those services that say you're signing up for something free, but on another page outside of the signup flow that users easily miss, it says they'll be charged $X immediately. Those services are deemed a scam, so I would recommend against claiming any points about the necessary information that's outside of the backing UI flow.
Usually follows the US by a couple of years.
Sure, they will say "hm, this is different, we'll send it in to the central office where our tech experts can evaluate it."

Bye-bye laptop for a few weeks.
Is this a "lost art"? I always consider the layout when I'm writing a C struct. It's the principal concern that governs the correct ordering of the members.
Note that the brewer didn't officially name his beer Frappucino - someone just checked it in on Untapped named as such (it was their vanilla creme ale with a splash of Founder's Breakfast Stout added)
Whenever I don't need something, I actually do pack the item back up and drive down to the UPS store and ship the product back to the company. It is a waste of resources and rare metals and stuff like that. Everything should be recycled.

If I leased some security technology, I wouldn't mind getting a used one if it were cleaned and worked well.
I like this one: “The appliances of 2014 will have no electric cords, of course, for they will be powered by long- lived batteries running on radioisotopes.”
The one that stands out for me:

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a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in
intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and
sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry
will be far and away the most important medical specialty
in 2014.

Whilst psychiatry isn't yet the most important specialty in medicine, we are beginning to fall into boredom all too easily, most people can't go a few minutes without looking at their smartphones, most can't live in the moment – yesterday I watched the New Years Eve fireworks on the Thames in London, and the ground was lit up brighter with the screens of phones than the sky was with fireworks.
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The "out of other states" part is what is obviously going to do it. It's just like guns, you can't keep guns out of one state if you can buy them freely in a neighbouring state. It's the same thing here.
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I'm already at that point. If I start hearing about the general public going after corrupt law enforcement & government officials with lethal force... I will not condemn them.

I'll just be like "Well, they just kept pushing & squeezing on people; something had to give. It's just human nature. Maybe the populace has finally woken up."

BTW, as much as I am anti-firearm... the eventual uprising of the public against the government is the only reason I want the public to be well armed. I can count on all those pro-gun people to have a solid stockpile when the need arises. I actually think those in power know this too.

>>There is a saying that "A well-armed populace is the best defense against tyranny."
--- http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Second_Amendment
What people here think about actually leasing a device (clearly stated that this is happening) along with a plan like this? Would it make sense?

Of course switching what happened from "you get a device with your subscription" to "you're allowed to use our device while subscribed" is a huge clawback. That's not what I'm asking - if they had started with the latter model, what do you think, would it work in such cases?
The worst case outcome of letting things continue along their current path is quite simply the end of the human race.

The system is forcing 100's of millions of people to choose between utter misery or soul crushing servitude to capitalists and managers whose philosophy of labor differs little from the slave holders of the pre-civil war south.

And that's how things are now. What will happen when 100's of millions more lose what little value to the system they currently have due to automation and robotics ?

Given the pace of technological advance sooner or later (I would guess within the next 100 years) one of these unhappy people will figure out how to synthesize a species ending bioweapon. I've heard the secret service is already taking measures to protect the president's DNA due to fear of a targeted bioweapon being developed. But an untargeted bioweapon would likely be easier to develop and it's effects far more frightening.
This is not a philosophical issue. The 'scam' in question is them trying to sell me a device that I already own, and is already in my possession. To me, that is a scam!
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Yeah, I think a change in how the voting process works, including something like point based voting would do wonders to shake things up. The problem I've seen is that most people have no idea how to begin to contribute to making a change like that happen without getting into politics themselves, and doing that successfully seems to require getting completely entangled in the existing way things are done. Anyone have any suggestions besides donating to various advocacy groups?
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Forgetting legalese and merely applying common sense: it was abundantly clear from the KS [1] that the device was leased or otherwise returnable.

That was the selling point!! Dirt cheap physical storage + cloud backup, with the trade off that you didn't own the device.

I hate to criticise, but your post seems quite entitled. It's fine if you misunderstood the produce, and perhaps SM should have shown goodwill in letting you have the device after all (rather than this ruckus).

The example that I gave was that if I were to walk into Verizon and get one of their free phones that accompanies the service

That's not true though is it. Your contract leases the phone to you - if you tried to cancel that service you would still be charge some sum X, where X is basically what is left to pay on the phone. For the period of that service your contract fee is extra to pay for the phone (when your service period ends, if you want to keep the phone you'd be crazy not to switch to a cheaper service without a free phone!! When my contract runs down I can switch to one half the price without a phone upgrade).

What SM appear to be saying is that they leased the device, but crucially without quantifying the cost of the device. That they are now able to do that might mean it is no longer cheap enough for you or others, that's their risk. But I think you've overreacted to the situation.

1. which I thought about backing then decided it wasn't something I would use as my backup needs are an order of magnitude larger)
This could be partially automated with `__attribute__((__packed__))` and a bit of -fipa-struct-reorg for better cache performance. Sadly, there's no any kind of `__reorder_yes_i_know_and_i_want_to_violate_c_standard__` attribute. But I really believe managing and optimizing memory layout (unless explicitly necessary, like when declaring serialization formats) should be compiler's job, not human's.
I don't blame Google. I blame the Bump founders. Their users were their responsibility, and it was their decision to shut the service down.

I only wish there was a way to incentivize people away from the "get acquihired and shut down" model. In this cloud reality we (the users) are repeatedly being led to depend on services that subsequently get shut down at random (with all the nice messages from CEOs that basically say "fuck you and thanks for all the fish"), and we have no way of fighting back.

That's one of the main reasons I hate the SaaS trend and wish it to die in a fire.
A lot of it is really good, but the part about boredom is interesting:

“[M]ankind will suffer badly from the disease of boredom, a disease spreading more widely each year and growing in intensity. This will have serious mental, emotional and sociological consequences, and I dare say that psychiatry will be far and away the most important medical specialty in 2014.”

One thing we haven't had any trouble with in terms of advancement is how to entertain people. Facebook, Twitter, World of Warcraft, (ahem) Star Sonata, traveling, sports, German board games, ... The entertainment possibilities are endless. I think too many entertainment options is the problem, if anything.
I was wondering that myself. This doesn't seem like a "lost art" so much as a basic necessity for even moderately constrained applications. I can't remember the last time I did not consider the layout of members of my C structs (other than toy, or proof-of-concept applications).
@rubiii it's a teaser, the first two gems are scheduled for this month.
__attribute__((packed)) in GCC is probably worth mentioning if you only want to apply it to selected structs.
Under what definitions of "foreign" and "domestic"?