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> It's not government censorship if the government isn't providing a list of banned sites.

By that definition, the Chinese government isn't censoring internet access either - they leave compiling an actual list of banned sites to internet providers, which is why what's blocked varies depending on your provider.
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I think the filters are bad.

But buying and installing filters is hard for many people. They don't know anything about networking or the internet. These people need help setting up wifi.

This is just movong the filter from existing software providers to the ISP. It's not at all ISPs so you can shop around[1] if you want to avoid it. It's optional so you can tirn it off if it's on bu default for you, and not all of them are.

[1] shopping around isn't possible for broadband because of the weird way it's provided in the UK.
This actually is a very scary way for the government to make things happen.

The democratic process is for new laws to be debated in the houses. Cameron circumvented this process quite deliberately.
Yup but that changed a lot these last years. Some women used to be "ashamed" of the fact that they couldn't fast like other people did, but now (with TV, more education, etc.) they know that Islam prohibits that (as it can endanger the baby) and it's bad for both them and their babies.
Completely disagree that this is just an "unintended consequence". This is exactly what David Cameron wants. To muddle the waters, and say they are blocking "obscene" stuff, when in fact they are blocking free speech sites and the like.

Porn filters are always abused (intentionally). Always. I can't stress this enough. You should've learned from the Australians who tried implementing this sort of filter before, too, and it ended up a miserable failure. Not only can you not implement such a system without a ton of "unintended consequences", but it's also very trivially abused, too, by those in power, and they could abuse it for many years before the public even realizes it.
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>I switched from beer (ale) to cider and find I have no morning after 'bowel' effects.

I started having these problems about a year ago for no apparent reason. I'm going to have to give this a try, thanks!
This is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. I can't even begin to explain...
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A lot of ISPs were offering similar filters as a service.

Many people are stupid. Look how many people buy the Daily Mail.
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Most major UK isp's provide their own routers. While for most of them you should be able to use your own router, most people don't. Sky at least provides a router that is Sky branded and running Sky specific software - I would not be surprised if it does automatic software updates.
Interesting to see how mainstream intermittent fasting has become. It's worth noting where it started.

A few years ago a few hardcore fitness fanatics started playing with the idea of using controlled fasting for weight loss and/or body recomposition. Two people that should be mentioned are Lyle McDonald[1] and Martin Berkhan[2]. Martin especially made IF popular via his blog, laying out the principles he used as a fitness consultant with his clients.

Most research (and especially the commercial IF knockoffs) only take some part of these principles, but the "diet" part is only part of the picture when it comes to body recomposition. It's almost worthless without the rest (high intensity, low volume weight training, basic compound movements, progressive overload, no focus on cardio).

Quite a few people/company are trying to rip off customers via their IF programs knockoffs and supplements. If you want give IF a shot, read through Martin's blog, and try the original Leangains protocol.

[1] http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/
[2] http://www.leangains.com/
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Mostly software engineer with some account manager and web developer.

Factual is a great place to work and I'd definitely check it out if you like data and Clojure.
Better would be peer-reviewed journal articles. A lot of books have a tendency to promote the views of the author over providing a balance of information.
Calm down a bit. Of course my post was in jest (well intentioned I might add) - I was pointing out the TMTOWTDI nature of this entire debate. The goal here wasn't to instruct or mislead.

The Linux way isn't always the way the rest of Unix is going. In fact, most of our current OS's are a hodgepodge of different great things developed by different teams - for example, rsync from the Samba devs, sudo from OpenBSD, git from Linux, etc.

This is one of the great things about Unix is that it's a big sandbox to play in. The entire "lets replace init" movement from the last 10 years is pretty fascinating in it's own right. Spend some time looking at how the other crowds out there are doing things - you might find something interesting and helpful.
> With on demand pricing and instant sign up, your lead may already be your competitor's customer before their first phone call.

Sorry, but it just doesn't work this way. My company was bought by one of those companies that doesn't list pricing up front. There's never been a case where a single person could unilaterally decide to purchase their services.

What "Call us" means is "Send us an RFP (Request for Proposal) and we'll submit a bid". Why does this work? Shareholder or government policies usually require due diligence in the form of several competing bids. That means the potential customer has an incentive to contact as many providers as they can find and send them an RFP.

Ultimately the submitted bid is deliberated on by committee and several presentations might be required before a decision is made. You might think that I'm talking about massive deals for something like contracts for infrastructure or fighter jets, but no, I'm talking about simple SaaS.

It costs a lot to sell to these companies/organizations. The bids are usually hundreds of pages long, stating everything from features to datacenter security. Companies like Rackspace helpfully provide well written documents for this purpose, but you still have to write a lot on your own. The upshot is that thanks to the sales process the prices are inflated and frankly I see more money change hands over a month than I ever did in a whole year as a startup (a startup that was profitable and growing, no less).
Here's a study that shows that while low-carb diets achieved effects faster (involved more weight loss in the first 6 months), after a year the difference in weight was negligible. Low carb diets led to higher levels of LDL cholesterol, which is generally considered to be bad, though were also correlated with better levels of HDL cholesterol, which are considered to be good. http://www.ceb-institute.org/fileadmin/upload/refman/arch_in...

Here is a a long term study that shows that low carbohydrate, high protein diets were correlated with higher mortality rates. It's an observational, not a controlled study, so the usual caveats apply, but it's definitely some evidence that there's no automatic win for low-carb, high protein diets: http://folk.ntnu.no/lyngbakk/artikler/trichopoulou.pdf

I'm pretty sure I've seen another study that linked long-term use of low-carb, high protein diets with increased incidence of cancer, but I can't find that study at the moment.
Energy balance is the physics of biochemistry; there is no arguing away the laws of thermodynamics. If you get heavier, it's because you consumed more energy than you used over a period of time. There is no other way to gain or lose weight* (no matter the proportion of muscle/fat that's gained or lost).

I think you are confusing weight & body composition with "health". They are interconnected but not the same thing. I believe (and it is just a belief) that a lifetime of staying lean (& strong) is the single best way to maximizes the health benefits of a diet, whatever that diet may be. You can't eat "unhealthy" amounts of any macronutrient if you're eating to stay lean (<15% body fat for men).

Don't pull out the "a simple failure of willpower" straw man; I never claimed that.

Hormones play a HUGE role in metabolism. My bedtime reading is how the chemical reactions they drive fit into human metabolism. you're comment seems to make them out to be "magical", which I suspect is due to your ignorance of them. I highly recommend reading up on them, just not via the media (Taubes only gives you his choice of the science), but via biochemistry text books like "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism" http://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Nutrition-Metabolism-Sareen-G...

* there are extreme exceptions; liposuction is one way. :P
If you go through to the original discussion on comp.arch, there are some interesting ideas, including converting arrays of power-of-2 structures into structures of arrays if you're often walking them and not hitting all the fields every time.
This should be called what it really is. The Great Firewall of UK.
I don't travel with any hardware other than a DSLR and then I mail the SD cards home. I'll use internet cafes and my phone and that is it.

It gets broken, searched, x-rayed, fucked up and generally treated like shit.

At Zurich airport, they managed to break my old IBM T42. Had to get my company at the time to courier a new one overnight from the UK by road which cost £1150 just for the courier.
Constrained App Protocol (CoAP), like HTTP for tiny internet-of-things devices.
"Section 11H. Whenever any person or persons, whether or not acting under color of law, interfere by threats, intimidation or coercion, or attempt to interfere by threats, intimidation or coercion, with the exercise or enjoyment by any other person or persons of rights secured by the constitution or laws of the United States, or of rights secured by the constitution or laws of the commonwealth, the attorney general may bring a civil action for injunctive or other appropriate equitable relief in order to protect the peaceable exercise or enjoyment of the right or rights secured. Said civil action shall be brought in the name of the commonwealth and shall be instituted either in the superior court for the county in which the conduct complained of occurred or in the superior court for the county in which the person whose conduct complained of resides or has his principal place of business."

https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleII/Cha...
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No, you don't need to identify yourself - you just need to confirm that there is a valid way to contact you (via email). That mail address can still be a pseudonym.
Except now we have a bunch of concrete evidence of just how stupid and flawed these filters are if the gov tries to force them into legislation. (For example, to force filters onto all ISPs.)
This doesn't look like verifying contact details.

It looks like verifying a contact email address, which is nothing new and a routine with most registrars anyways.
Yes (at least as far as I'm concerned).

But that's what ISPs were doing. And Cameron said it wasn't good enough, which is how we've ended up here.
60 mph is not safe on narrow streets of Paris either. Does it mean 60 mph should not be allowed where it's safe?

If you have wider lanes, more lanes, better tarmac and smooth road with safety lanes, people can drive 150 mph without a problem. Like in Germany, for instance. If the road is not safe for 150 mph, then you should drive slower.
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So is the only correct answer to package the hdd in a sales package, then send it and the laptop separately with UPS or DHL in and out of the country?
It is really great to see this. Like the Norwegian Blue, Python3 isn't dead yet!
A frightening thought: if it was practical to search each and every device going through the border, they probably would do so.

Happily enough, statistical sampling techniques can make that possible [1].

[1] S. Garfinkel. Searching A Terabyte of Data in 10 minutes. http://simson.net/ref/2013/2013-01-07%20Forensics%20Innovati...
I think the point was that this filter is optional, but the next one may not be. This one gets people used to the idea of having a filter, and gauges public reaction / outcry.
What is the reason you are concerned with reading fast? Maybe it's just me, but I think that comprehending what is read is far more important than finishing reading quickly.
The routers are BT Home Hubs and are controlled by BT.

ADSL: http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/wir...

Fibre: http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/wir...

This does give them control over the LAN.

If you visit the page for "Parental Controls" then right at the top is the picture of the Home Hub router and the "No software to setup"... because it's your connection that has the filter rather than local software:

Parental Controls: http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumerProducts/displ...

From appearances this looks like a per-customer opt-opt, and then if opted-out (unfiltered ... well, still Cleanfeed) then it goes down to a per-device opt-out.
I had never heard of the term Interdiction [0]

It seems since 29th December 2013 is has an additional meaning [1]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdiction

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Interdiction&diff...
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Every gram of stored carbs (glycogen) gets stored with ~3g of water. By cutting carbs you use up stored carbs and rapidly lose this water-weight. This is why low-carb diets work so well at first, But it's not fat you're losing.
It'd be possible but difficult.

I don't know how to do it without some kind of markup / document system (no morning coffee yet). I figure it wouldn't be that hard.

You could use a TDMS file(v1), which each channel is an item. When ran you give the program a password, which it checks against each channel, calculating the salted hash of your password. When it finds a matching hash it decrypts the document (saved as data within the channel).

This gives you a lot of plausibly defensibility because nobody understands TDMS file structure, not even people who work with them (it is an open standard, just nobody cares). And secondly, you decrypt the document and you get something out, even if that something isn't exactly correct.

I could likely push out a windows version by Saturday I guess if you don't mind it'd be using SHA-256 instead of [b/s]crypt for password checking. Maybe future updates to include some form of internal compression + some type of signing who last modified the document(s).
>>like some of those American Indian tribes that tried and failed to build corn-based civilisations in pre-Columbian times.

Umm taking into account the Aztec, Maya, Inca and all the aboriginal nations that preceded and co-existed with them I would like to disagree with the failure part. It is as possible to build a civilization from corn as it was from rice and wheat.

Oh also, this whole "grains are bad for you because of our caveman roots" thing has to be the least provable piece of speculation passing around the Internet these days. It is backed by few facts and much smugness.

I like to speculate too though. I think the problem with corn is the petroleum refining style approach that is taken with it. If you read up about it corn is treated as almost like a chemical feedstock. The resulting "products" are a public health disaster hidden from scrutiny by the money of Archer Daniels Midland etc and politicians from the Corn Belt.

The problem with wheat is the post WWII intensive breeding programs designed to maximize yield and gluten content. Gluten makes a easier feedstock for bakers and food product manufacturers. It also counts towards protein measurements and that directly relates to price. Many governments like Saudi Arabia that buy wheat for their entire nation look for higher protein levels and bumping gluten is a nice shortcut. I believe these market driven wheat modifications have produced unexamined changes and proteins that negatively affect the health of a significant percentage of the population. I believe in the coming years we will see a movement promoting the revival of "heritage" strains of wheat like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Fife_wheat.
> I don't know what the equivalent would be for internet users.

Dave Green, probably.
Competitor registrar here. This is actually required by the new 2013 ICANN contract. Not all registrars are on the new contract yet, but those that have already signed are required to start following it as of January.

Link: http://www.icann.org/en/resources/registrars/raa/approved-wi...

You can thank the law enforcement lobby and ICANN wanting to keep them happy. All of us registrars fought hard against it for a number of obvious reasons, but they went forward with it anyway.

Almost all registrars will be on the new contract soon if they already aren't because ICANN made it a requirement to be able to sell the new GTLDs. This is now going to be a normal part of owning a domain name.
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Excellent, strong and relevant counterpoints
Ten confirmations in, my coin still isn't showing up. I guess the site's overwhelmed, but I wouldn't recommend others spend any money until the backlog's cleared.
>Well now, the Boston bombers only killed three people -- bad, but you know, not that bad.

That is cruel to the hundreds injured. Try harder to not be a jackass.
Yeah; you are pretty one-sided too when the example you use is "the convenience of 10.000s of people having a station a little closer" and not something along the lines of "the difference between a straight route rather than two curves on it resulting in adding 30 minutes to the traveling of every person that uses that route now, and in the centuries to come"

That example also shows why "millions" is not an understatement.
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My very limited experience working with the Smalltalk language and environment was quite negative, although I hear people sing its praises, so perhaps I just didn't know what I was doing.

That said, it seems to me that many Ruby developers (and to a more limited degree, Python developers) are learning Smalltalk nowadays, for the same reason as English speakers learn Latin: to understand the origins of the language, and thus get a deeper understanding of how it works.
Personally I think this is a good starting point: http://gorban.org/post/32873465932/software-architecture-che...

In terms of books, I really like "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" (http://aosabook.org/) which is also mentioned in the blog post. For the enterprise world, "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" (http://martinfowler.com/books/eaa.html) is a good choice.

However, before applying any technical software architecture methods, it is really important to understand what your stakeholders actually want/need. Unfortunately most of the time they don't even know it themselves. In my experience most software projects fail, not because of technical reasons but simply because the original problem hasn't been understood. This is where communication is key. I assume the reason why the authors of the blog post encouraged drawing diagrams and looking at different perspectives/views is to facilitate this communication.
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A - Nonsense. It's not hard. You can take your computer to any "computer repair" shop and get it installed. You can install something yourself or you can call your ISP and ask them to install it. You can get help from your kids' school or you can get help from whoever it is that helps you set up your email or home wifi network. It may not be absolutely trivial, but it is a solvable problem for an adult willing to invest an hour or two and/or a little bit of money. I just hate this "people are dumb, this is hard for them" argument. People are capable if they are interested.

B - You can use legislation to make it easier while preserving freedom. I don't like this option, but it's much better than mandatory. Make it mandatory for ISPs to offer free filtering.

This is a case of not trusting people to manage their own families' affairs.
Sometimes malice tries to hide behind stupidity's back.

What you are suggesting (or quite in the spirit of that) is currently being implemented in Russia [1] as a so called Unified Register of Forbidden Websites. It is perceived by a lot of people in Russia as a dumbest initiative by government in the whole IT-regulation field and continues to produce suspicious, erroneous, as well as erratic and simply idiotic bans.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Internet_blacklist
Let them eat bugs...
Jill's bucket is in Wilmington, Delaware, USA.
I believe i know who you think you're quoting there, but it seems he never actually wrote that.
Hardware is cheap in the US, I'd leave my laptop at home and get something cheap (either a Chromebook or a used laptop), then access/transfer data and configuration over the net.

As for my phone, if I were in a position to be worried about customs installing backdoors, I'd prepare a recovery zip beforehand with all my data, then download it from my own server or a secure storage, and flash it after passing customs. Or better yet, travel with a SIM and buy a cheap Moto G, the resale value alone once back at home would make up its US price.
It is highly questionable to claim to know for sure how long the jailtime would have been. It is not like the USA isn't known for overly hard punishments.

Besides, I still think that such a possible outcome can be a hard burden, even with the knowledge that it is unlikely.

> To me it seems like a bright man got caught doing something illegal and couldn't face the music.

"Face the music"? we are not talking about a game here, but about jail and a real life. Besides, that comment totally ignores how far the prosecution stretched the law to define the illegality of his actions.

edit: I never claimed he killed himself over the number.
You're right about all of the self help books, however, I could live like a king on $4k a month. Its a matter of perspective and dedication.
There's an even bigger weakness: timestamps in files and the Windows event log. These will show if your "innocent" OS hasn't been booted for $long_time...
Exactly. ISPs can already offer this with a simple question/checkbox on the act of signing up for service, no technical knowledge needed.

If you're going to legislate for the stupid, you better completely forbid driving, drinking, nightclubs, free marriage, having children, knifes and gas sales etc etc. You see where that leads.