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when you pay $1500 for glass, you get $600 glasses on it :P
For those curious about "no one knows you're a dog" it's from a Peter Steiner cartoon that ran 20 years ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/nobody-...
My bet is some private contractors hired by the film industry.

In the past, I have seen stories about lens detectors in theatres which work by beaming IR into the audience. I have also seen stories about watermarks in films to encode location.

If it's true there have been filmers caught there, they may have conceivably been on location that evening ready to pounce. They probably have travel to regional theatres and wait for hours for the lens detectors to go off.

My bet is the contractors have some belief the crime is a federal case, having watched a DVD intro, so they feel justified to claim they are "with" the federal services.

edit: see this link to the related federal law: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7093540

Anyone who is friends with cops knows how jealous mall cops and security guards are of the real thing. I'm sure the same applies for contracted IP enforcers.

Hence their excitement, power-tripping and the local cops- to actually perform the arrest as the private security firm has no authority to do so.

Mods should change title from "arrested by FBI" to harrassed by cops and strangers.
No. No one is threatened by women, just perhaps annoyed by their endless complaining.

> To use an analogy, I can't imagine Olympic athletes being happy for the best competitors from another country being sidelined due to their sexual preference. No, that's not happening. because world class athletes know their victories are hollow unless they're truly competing against the very best in the world.

But you can probably see how male Olympians would be annoyed if they had to put up with 24/7 accusations that their superior performance in comparison to female Olympians was only because how much they hated them.
Chromebook still feels pretty limited to me -- that's just a less malicious version of crippled... Or do I misunderstand?

My understanding was that the relatively high licensing cost of windows (relative to the hardware) was a major problem.
I have been to preview screenings were phones were bagged and kept outside to be picked up later. If the cinemas could do it without infuriating patrons further, I'm sure those up the chain would be keen to encourage it.
All I wonder is why most of these comments are taken up by boring and pointless political discussion voted to the top, and almost no technical discussion.

Edit: and downvoted because I want Hacker News comments to be about hacking. Maybe it's time to change the name of the site to Rich People Angst and Bad Economics and Politics News.
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Let me split the difference between you and the other replies to you: it's classic tech-blog material. The journalist mistakes "id's" with "ideas" several times, and the engineer being interviewed is happy to share the fruits of his labor.

You, on the other hand, seem to care way too much about how others perceive Twitter. Why?
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So if you break the law badly it's OK?
Only 5? That'd seemingly leave another 4 incarnations unaccounted for.
> Non white immigrants to me are not minorities but I could be and I probably am wrong.

If you are going by the socio-cultural definition of a person who has not had the chances that the cultures in the U.S. have been given. There are enough minorities, American Indian, Hmong and so on to name a few.

If you are going by the definition of a person who ethnically belongs to a population who is not the majority, then there are Asians who have done well for themselves in the programming industry but still are minorities.

Oh also, sometimes there won't be people ahead to make the path for you. You have to get out there and make it yourself. I grew up in Ethiopia, touched a computer for the first time at the age of 16 (for thirty minutes because we paid by the minute). Not everyone has the magical opportunities that exist in America.
What exactly do you find hard to believe?
Is there something in the story that seems unlikely to happen? In my opinion, although of course I can't verify the source, the story itself sounds very plausible, due to details like him being separated from his wife in a room, the prescription glasses bit, four movie passes and the no-goodbyes bits.

I'm aware of the “many details” bias so I'm just saying, either this story is true, or somebody is very good at inventing fictional stories about problems with Google Glass. I don't really see the point of the second option, so I'm sticking with the former.
And F* has dependent typing. I was never claiming that reified generics was necessary for stronger typing, but I'm also not convinced that it's an impediment.

At worst I could see how it could be a trivial implementation detail, but the fact that Scala went out of their way to use tokens and manifests suggests that the functionality is desired. Whether that's provided by the runtime or by the compiler writer is only a difference in effort (or rather, whose effort).
lol, okay. whatever u say, bro.
I have four VPSs, mostly on different hosting companies. 99% of ssh attacks come from China, the rest are eastern Europe (mainly Romania or Ukraine) or Brazil.

The Chinese attacks use a group of about 15 IP addresses, then, every so often, they all change the addresses to new ones at once. This has just happened, last week, in fact. So now I have dozens of attackers all coming from a group of about 15 IP addresses, which are different to the 15 or so IP addresses they used a couple of weeks ago. (No kidding, the regularity that this happens, it would not surprise me if their military is training a new class of crackers and has been assigned a different set of addresses to use this term.)

When I get a new IP address in the log, I do a whois and rewrite the "inetnum:|NetRange:" field to a class A|B|C address and then DROP it in iptables. Fuck 'em. The whole darn network class gets dropped. Not that I'm likely to be logging in from China any time soon anyway.

I now have a list of network classes with about 35 address ranges that get dropped, if anyone is interested in the list.
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"Authorities" will say almost anything to get suspects to cooperate. Cooperation is usually actually some form of self-incrimination. Unfortunately the average person doesn't understand the system as well as an officer/agent does, so they're susceptible to these kinds of tactics.
Its kinda weird that this is the coolest thing I've seen all day.
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And that was also my point. There's no economic reality requiring programmers look at less-ideal employment right now. Anecdotally, I did work retail for a couple years after the first dot-com crash. It was very eye-opening and educational in a lot of ways; no regrets, would do it again if I had to.
Just remember that police are allowed to lie to you, and will do so any time they think it's to their advantage.
wow, thanks!

Theatre owners can detain any suspected filmers, and can't be held liable for criminal or civil action arising out of it!
The point was that perhaps we should be setting our standards a bit higher than the US government.
The problem is that the current mess is not due to changes in law, but to changes in court decisions. The courts should clean up their mess.
When you want to buy pretty much anything from a Korean website, you'll need one. (I don't think NSA would help you there.) Not necessarily your own number, it seems. Korean banks really believe in transparency and have repeatedly opened up millions of ID numbers for every hacker to use.
It could be scary to try to outwit hackers, but even if you don't tackle the problem head on, a website backup and recovery service could be a big help.
That's not at all what was said, don't blow it out of proportion.

Think of it this way. I carry a pocket knife at all times. When I know I'm going to get on a plane and go through security, I leave it at home. Obviously this is not exactly the same because no one is getting shanked by google glass, but the point remains. If you know you're going to a movie where they really don't like you filming, don't point a camera at the screen. Even if it's off.
I'm with you but at the same time, who cares? I feel like they already earned every penny, not to mention as long as the project is alive it's money well spent.
> it is often company policy

I search AMC's website for policies related to carrying a camera. There wasn't any. Considering that the Glass wearer had been there at least 2 times earlier that week without issue, your argument is invalid.
Sure, encrypting in Javascript would not affect the security of my server and network. But it would increase security of the system as whole, wouldn't it? That is, an attack on Stripe's servers would be less likely to reveal credit card information.
Author here. I changed the body color css after seeing the comment above. :)
I think that would be frowned upon for the same reasons cell/gps jammers are. Creates a potential for lack of prompt emergency response during unexpected situations that often occur when people gather.

I recall the patent[1] by Apple that was aimed at turning off recording functionality at events, with a concert being used as an example. Cell service left intact while your device's sensors refuse to cooperate with recording a video.

Of course that creates a whole other set of potential problems now doesn't it? :)

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
I am not sure if this is what you want, but they describe how they spent in the past years here:

http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/activities.html
Yeah, if an authority ever tells me to cooperate I'm just going to say that I want to, that is what I need my lawyer for. To understand how we can best cooperate.
At the very least, when we program we're writing a story to whoever might need to understand it later on.
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I live that video a lot but then do you really have a choice ? For example on those numerous occasions when TSA takes you to a separate room and starts questioning do you really have any right to call a lawyer ?
To all of you saying this doesn't matter and who gives a shit -- get real. There's this deep-seated elitism to programming that is really damaging to all types of backgrounds. The barrier for entry is high enough -- it's great there's a story about someone most wouldn't think of when thinking of a programmer. It benefits those interested in seeing computer science grow as a discipline to have more people in the fold.
Unfortunately, most startups don't have the time/resources to teach someone how to code. You need to work yourself up to a base level before you can start contributing to an organization/team/business's code base.

You're right that hands on experience is way more useful than course work. You should simply build stuff, lots of stuff. Stuff you might use, or stuff that might be cool to build. No one can really "teach you" coding as much as you can teach yourself. When you get stuck, try to solve it on your own. Google the errors. If you still can't get it, ask a friend or post on StackOverflow. Repeat this process, and you'll be a coder before you know it!
With only 701 copies of the movie on Usenet, they're sure doing a great job!
"perhaps you should clarify the original blog post."

I added some paragraphs of clarification to the blog post.
I agree and I don't. It was just a counter-example.
$30 glasses suck. They hurt your face and don't have anti-reflective coatings. He may also have prisms, progressive bifocals, and so on, which don't cost $30.
Considering the age of some print shops hardware and software, this doesn't come as a surprise.
There's a lot of things to say against Objective-C, as far as I know.
Agreed. Not only is the source extremely questionable, but the details in the story seem odd.

Grabbing expensive hardware off someone's face? Grabbing glasses off someone who's paying attention to you is hard. They instinctively lean back and put their hands up to block. Anyway, police would just order the person to hand over the glasses.

Federal agents conducting a (probably unrecorded) private interview for hours in a mall? They'd have to arrest him before that.

Someone named Bob Hope from "the Movie Association"? Parents don't name their children after celebrities, and Bob Hope has been famous for three-quarters of a century.

And getting a non-apology and some lame movie passes after being wrongly detained for hours? This makes no sense.
Oh... The whole touchscreen/tablet aspect of Windows 8 must have went completely over my head... a lot of what I said kind of goes out the window (heh) with that in mind.

Honestly, as a tablet application this is pretty awesome. The offline caching bit is really cool too.

This is kind of embarrassing... sorry about that.
Raffi spoke at LAWebSpeed as well. Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk07iaYQE1U
> I don't listen to music.

As someone who loves and makes music, I find this _really_ interesting. Do you play an instrument? Listen to unsigned bands? Don't get me wrong: silence is nice, too. But I don't think I will ever have a life without music.
Hm. I just realized that, while systems like this often display monthly donators, I've never seen one that showed the total donated by a monthly donator. If you've stuck with a monthly donation to X for a couple years, you could easily be in the hundreds, usually reserved for a relative few. It seems like this could be a good reward/incentive for monthly donors (which are probably worth more than one-timers anyway).
I have a buddy that works HR at a theatre. The studios take bootlegging VERY seriously, and have spent millions updating their manufacturing processes so they can watermark every copy of every film so they can figure out which theatres bootleggers are operating out of. When they do a bust, they bring out all the big guns they can so as to make a huge spectacle so as to deter anyone else from even trying. That's why the FBI.
Most browsers have a "Development Tools" option that provides a number of tools including a step-through debugger similar to those in XCode/Eclipse/Visual Studio.

I personally use the development tools in Safari most of the time.
Could you explain what you're referring to ("once again")?
It would probably take less effort to just break into the theater and steal the film.
Seriously doubt this was really the FBI. They are better educated than this and more professional. Also, very unlikely to respond in the force described.
It appears that UT is not educated on law, and you have to be.
“Can I leave or am I under arrest” and “I don’t answer questions w/o a lawyer representing me”.
"This guy got away with it previously and I didn't see anything about shoulder mounted cameras on AMC's web site so your argument is invalid."

OK buddy, you got me. Go wear cameras into prohibited areas on private property, specially those where federal law comes into play.
Yea, most certainly not FBI.
That expression is a moronic one and very few companies have ever made it their policy.
Shame that he did that.
Have you seen what some less tech-savvy small business owners write themselves as content for their site? Not sure that all of them would recognise exceptionally poor material, especially when they're told by their web developer that it's important to get more content up on their site.
without even reading the story, you just don't wear a video camera to movies.
Not only that, but a recording that's been truncated at 25 minutes or so because either the battery ran out or the Glass device itself got too hot and went into thermal shutdown mode.
I'm sure it does. I'm from West Virginia, by the way, where federal stimulus money for broadband expansion ($24 million) got funneled to Verizon Network Integration to put routers in libraries. They used $22,600 dollar Cisco 3945's.

I'm sure corruption, regulatory capture, incompetent politicians, and oligopolies have something to do with it too.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201205050057
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At what point does Google Glass become an accessibility device? At some point, people with a hearing impairment will be able to read subtitles on Glass. Then it will be practically impossible to ban.
Maybe it's not obvious to the designers at MS, but the ideal touch screen interface just isn't the same as the ideal mouse and keyboard interface. Sure, put both modes in the same OS, just let us default to something that makes sense for the desktop on the desktop. There is no need for the start menu to be full screen, and there is no need to boot to a touchscreen interface. That's all there is to it.

Windows 8 isn't that bad. That is, it doesn't get in my way to an unacceptable degree. It's just that none of the visible additions are helpful versus Windows 7.
It's no choice at all. Don't talk.

Look, I understand these guys have a job to do, and they have a certain toolset they're allowed to use to do it. I don't begrudge them that. But damned if I'm going to let a sense of civic duty lead to my self-incrimination.

A friend of mine spent some time at the Public Defenders office. The number of times she saw people send themselves up for long stretches in prison, under circumstances in which the authorities would /never/ have gotten a conviction otherwise, led her to give me the same advice you see every single lawyer on television offer their clients: don't say anything!
The alleged behavior of "authorities" is objectionable in the extreme, but wearing a video camera to the theater is goddamned stupid.
The Swiss-French airports mentioned in the article are Basel-Mulhouse and Geneva:

http://www.euroairport.com/en/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EuroAirport_Basel%E2%80%93Mulh...

http://www.gva.ch/en/desktopdefault.aspx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_International_Airport

Unlike the Tijuana project, which is an airport in Mexico with a bridge to the US, in both BSL and GVA you could use either the French or Swiss side of the airport without crossing over to the other side. (Both are now in the Schengen zone, meaning French visas are valid in Switzerland and vice versa, so the distinction is no longer necessary.)
I've never backed anything on Kickstarter yet, nothing's caught my eye, but an iWoz film would be a great way to get into the whole crowdfunding thing.

He's a great engineer, but unfortunately for big-budget film-makers, isn't a name that'll draw people into the box office.
Yes, absolutely. Perhaps ESPECIALLY so.
In the US, "intellectual disabilities" used to be more commonly called "mentally retarded" and referring to someone as "retarded" or "a retard" became (or was always) offensive.
Checking your email on your phone is OK (even though it is a dick move since you annoy others in the theater), but holding your phone up to the screen to record all 180 minutes of The Wolf of Wall Street is in fact not ok.

IE: Wearing a device on your face that is pointed to the movie screen that can possibly record the entire flick is not the same as your phone being out of your pocket for 20 seconds to read your latest text message.
The TSA screeners you interact with at the airport aren't police.

I'd have said, "The TSA aren't police", full stop, but at some point, the Federal Air Marshals were folded into the TSA umbrella, and they most definitely are police.
What did he expect to happen? He was pointing a video camera at the screen while the movie was playing!
>My bet is some private contractors hired by the film industry.

Over on the private forums for Glass owners, the person reporting this story mentioned the company name of the person from the "Movie Association." Some folks looked him up and apparently he has his own private investigation firm.

Sounds to me that the MPAA must hire PIs to represent itself in various cities, and they must like to go all Jack Bauer if they think they've got something.
Paypal was much more than a niche success - "payments on the internet" is huge. You can argue Paypal didn't materialize its vision, but the vision was there.
I wonder who paid for that law...
Does that mean the police has successfully prevent terrorists to commit the killings?
FWIW, I suspect very few of them are "dumb", and that their behaviour is almost certainly explained as them "doing what they've repeatedly proven works well". They (probably) aren't making "irrational threats", and they've almost certainly not got anything to "feel stupid about" or "refuse to admit" (and, I'll bet they care _very_ little about whether you think they're smart or not).

Their motivations have nothing to do with "appearing smart or logical (to suspects)" or even (with my cynical-hat on) finding out "the truth" or "enabling justice". They're employees using the most effective/efficient techniques they know to achieve their workplace performance indicators – either just enough to keep their managers off their backs, or trying to aggressively exceed those performance indicators for career-climbing purposes. Either way – every single thing they're attempting to achieve is likely to be something you'll end up unhappy about if they successfully achieve it. How much career boost do you suppose their report of "Investigated complaint, discovered misunderstanding. No action taken, apology delivered on behalf of the Bureau" gives them, compared to "During a voluntary interview suspect confessed to three unrelated misdemeanors, two crimes, and one probable felony. Referred crimes to local police, who arrested and charged suspect. No copyright infringement found, case now out of our jurisdiction. Local police will advise outcome of criminal charges through usual channels."
I never used Stripe before, but seeing the tokenization method without revealing information to third-party backend to stay compliant just makes me cry. Smart solution.

EDIT: Agree with the top commenter. 3rd party website can always be compromised. Tokenization only takes care one side of the story.
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PageRank and AdSense likely go a long way towards encouraging all the MFA sites and low-quality guest-written content people would dislike on the net.
In support of jasonwocky's comment - this is always worth a watch if you haven't seen it: http://youtu.be/6wXkI4t7nuc
Is the Mars One crew doomed?
Most of Marc Barros' blog is a post-mortem of Contour: http://marcbarros.com
>OK then encrypt the credit card number + merchant ID

That would be significantly better.

>Although even a single key pair for each card network would still be better than the status quo, wouldn't it?

If it gives people the impression that they no longer need to even try to protect their infrastructure because the card numbers are already encrypted, then yes.
There doesn't seem to be any attempt to confirm that this is actually a problem on Backblaze's end -- it's just as likely to be a problem with Sean's internet connection. One of the problems with downloading large zip archives is that a few scrambled bits or dropped packets can scratch the whole archive.

Backblaze offers the ability to get your data in the form of a flash drive or external drive (https://help.backblaze.com/entries/20224632-how-can-i-restor...). It's not free, but if your data is important, it's a pretty reasonable cost-of-hardware-and-handling price.
Not a movie but there's more about Woz in here than anyone else...

http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers
And of course social media links are generally going to be nofollowed. Doesn't leave much use for it.
No, no it doesn't because you have no proof they won't cause you problems if you do cooperate. If they tell him he is free to go, but he stays and gives them information. It is much harder to claim the fifth latter on.