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ITS BRILLIANT, anyone had the chance to sneak peak or actually know what kind of websocket server are they using for the mmo implementation on this? would be nice to try it out
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They are not criminals, they are "freedom fighters"

Well atleast that is how they delusionaly see it.
> Does anyone remember what it was called?

Accelerators? http://ie.microsoft.com/activities/en-en/Default.aspx
This is more like "Citrix / Remote Desktop client on Chromebook" than "Windows on Chromebook"
No, but this baker can.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/gluten-pani...
Sure. That's what they do.

The problem is you have UDP packets on port 123 coming from all over the world hammering at your door. They're politely getting dropped by firewalls, but they consume all the bandwidth in to the edge of your network, so the legitimate traffic cant get through.
Trespassing is not a good example. Let's say your private home is (for some reason) in the middle of some downtown area, where every neighbor is a public shop (IE, the expectation is that everything is welcome to the public). Not only that, it's pretty much indistinguishable from the outside from all the other public shops around it. In this scenario, if you leave your door wide open in the middle of the day then no one would take your cries of trespassing seriously.

So no, I don't think trespassing is necessarily still trespassing, even if you leave the front door open. Like most things in life, it depends on context.

The expectation and the norm of this situation is that data published on public ports is for public consumption. You can't blame someone for accessing data that you put out there in a public manner, even unintentionally.
Any way to have wget-able download links for the .deb? Using a browser to go the dl page isn't that easy when on a server...
The fact that they would be cutting their own revenue stream? I'm not saying its not possible but really this is just speculation. I could just as easily surmise that it was from a government or banks who feel threatened by bitcoin...
Being gluten free (wife as well) I was unfortunately very frustrated by this article. I was expecting some degree of information regarding how those of us with gluten allergies might have some hope of eating real pizza again. All I found was marketing for a wheat lab dabbling in cooking processes to make better tasting bread. Maybe lower in gluten, but there is zero mystery solved here.
The high failure rates of startups suggest otherwise.
How much slower than C do you have to be in order to be called slow?

Apparently, the cutoff is defined like this: as slow as Java is not slow, but any slower than Java is slow.
Isn't what google is doing with dart ? I thought they had plan to embed a dart vm inside chrome. As for css i still haven't found a layout framework that would let you design responsive UIs easily. It seems to me that coding in fix positionning is easy in any system and coding for flexible layout is hard no matter what you're using (eg : which of iOS autolayout or CSS 3 is the best ? Hard question)
This is interesting. Where are the public-facing Windows machines? I wonder if there's an opportunity in creating "Windows as a Service?" So many of us live on Mac OS or Linux and only need Windows on those rare occasions when someone sends us a .docx file or when we need to access some horrible web application that only works with Java SE 1.6.36_2 running on IE.
I specifically mentioned dealing with crappy hosts. PHP's biggest strength is that it is available to almost everyone for cheap. Unfortunately most of those cheap hosts don't support sane extensions. And you certainly aren't going to get custom ones on there. Or even a recent version of PHP.

Python has some similar issues. Ensuring that an end-user application written in Python is going to have access the the appropriate version of Python with the packages you need is still a challenge. Asking Joe user to install virtualenv and Python 3.3 is not viable.

Currently I'm working on an app that uses Python, but is written in C and embeds Python for some of the cross-platform components.
.... in what world did Hitler want to solve income inequality?
Owner decided to cash in and retire to no extradition treaty island?
Did you watch Nancy Pelosi on the Daily show last week?

Cathartic.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/thu-january-30-201...
Haha. Not currently. Although I think my dad uses it as my contact photo in his phone.
What language features would you have or not have if you designed a language with knowledge of "modern JIT technology"?
> UDP + NaCl-based crypto.

I would love to hear more about this. I was looking for a way to send UDP that is encrypted and authenticated, with private contents and no replay attacks. The best option I could find is DTLS, but that has spotty support on Windows and no API in common scripting languages. Can you say more about your approach? If it is roll-your-own, what makes you confident it is secure?
...he says without sharing a single link to one of these anecdotal mega viral posts...
Stepping in and helping mitigate DDOS attacks such as this, by e.g. having the Tier-1s dropping traffic destined to the victim at their edges might be ok.

However, Tier 1 providers should not in any way police the internet.
Call me silly, but I believe the primary and original author of a project or other creative work has the right to establish what is "right" or "wrong" for their project unless they otherwise waived that right.
That benchmark isn't benchmarking what you think it is.

"This test exercises database writes. Each request is processed by fetching multiple rows from a simple database table, converting the rows to in-memory objects, modifying one attribute of each object in memory, updating each associated row in the database individually, and then serializing the list of objects as a JSON response."

You're actually just benchmarking the mysql driver for each of those languages, not the actual JIT capabilities.
At that level you might as well argue that WWI was caused by agriculture, because without agriculture the war would not have happened. Any history without aristocracy or monied interests would be likewise completely unrecognizable. But neither social nor economic inequality plays any significant part in any credible narrative on the causes of the war that I've read. (And I've read many).
I really wanted to learn the meaning of the lyrics I was listening too as well, but you are right... the big motivation came from the need to learn English in order to find what I was looking for from the computer/programming world.
Ron Paul's idea, I believe, is to allow states to make the mistakes. Citizens can then "vote with their feet," moving from crappy states to better states. You end up with fifty laboratories experimenting with various policies.
Venture Capital Firms Still Bullish on Bitcoin Despite Risks
Democrats realized that being hawkish on security was the path to votes right around when Obama ran as "the guy who shot Osama bin Laden in the head."
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What are your thoughts?
Title ("Windows on Chromebook at last"... will probably be changed by mods since it doesn't match the source post) is somewhat misleading in that this is just a remote desktop client to VMWare Horizon.

I'm sure this solution is nice for people that are already invested in the VMWare Horizon infrastructure, but for people with Chromebooks who are already tied to physical Windows machines just using Chrome Remote Desktop (which has been supported on Chromebooks for quite a while) is probably the better solution.
This is nonsense. The transaction malleability issue doesn't cause coins to be automatically resent. The simple explanation is that the owner ran off with everybody's money.
Dwolla uses a credit union pool account. Taken from https://www.dwolla.com/security

Dwolla, Inc. is an agent of Veridian Credit Union and all funds associated with your account in the Dwolla network are held in a pooled account at Veridian Credit Union. These funds are not eligible for individual insurance, and may not be eligible for share insurance by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund. Dwolla, Inc. is the operator of a software platform that communicates user instructions for funds transfers to Veridian Credit Union.
While initially aimed at enterprise the fact that there will be a fairly simple app for this in the app store could radically change Microsoft's role in the marketplace.

My shelved Chromebooks for Seniors project is now off the shelf. I came to realize that they would not appeal to those who already have Windows computer experience, by far the largest share of those with experience. That group is rapidly becoming the majority of seniors. Having a unified hardware platform that can be shared among the complete set of users totally changes the game.

This might be the final correction to the deviant path taken away from thin clients with the advent of the PC.
With any other business I would agree, but a $90k+ payout would probably be very attractive for someone running a clone of a drug site that got publicly busted just months before. I would imagine these guys have a countdown to when they get arrested ticking in their heads...
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> and pursue fundamentally new ways of computing.

Do you have any examples or ideas regarding that new way of computing? I'm not even sure I understand that phrase.

Maybe you meant new way of interacting?

And why do you mention both backend technologies, phone apps and web itself? Those are entirely different things that may rely or interact with each other, but they are not the same.
Mr. Frank Abagnale might also have a word or two to say about checks and trust ;)
I am part of the group I was referring to as amateurs, and I was not using the word in a pejorative manner. I mean it literally. We, the amateurs I am speaking of, are not experts at server administration and do it either out of necessity, for fun, or out of principal. For me, it's a bit of fun and principle—I feel it's a good thing for me to more or less know how to manage a server even as I acknowledge that experts know much more about it than I.

I would like to see servers demystified in general, and that's why I applaud articles such as this one that make the necessary counter-measures/workarounds plain and clear for those like myself.
How do we know the founder didn't steal everyone's coins and is using hacking as a scapegoat?
Um. It's great progress but while the energy that was absorbed by the target may have matched the output way more energy than that was used to produce the laser pulse and was NOT absorbed. So, we are waaaay off from more power out than power in.
probably, but I really can't see the effort in learning extra features of facebook. It maybe did ask me after a host of other yes /no type buttons to the point I wasn't paying attention.
Easier not to touch the button when I see one.
Taking the measurements isn't really the thankless volunteer work involved here. The work is in ensuring new programs actually follow the intent of the benchmark and work across supported architectures.

This isn't an automateable task, although it may be a crowdsource-able one. Luckily the benchmark game publishes pretty much all of the tooling they use, so you could probably get a pretty big headstart there on your improvements.
Allez les Cougs!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFEh12Fm078
Eh, I beg to differ, coming from the Haskell world.

I think what you are appreciating is the tree-but I may be wrong in my supposition.
Agreed.

Just apply the usual headline rule: If the title is a question, the answer is "No."
The risk might be on the merchant, but the premium will of course be paid by the consumers.
My title refers to the user experience, not the infrastructure.
Go is anything but slow, it's just not as fast as Java. I was just addressing the idea that Java is somehow slow which seems to float around occasionally. Java is arguable the fastest language that isn't directly C-based and anybody thinking of it as slow is simply misinformed.
Reports like these make me wonder what Hacker News would have looked like during the gold rush in the 1800s.
They wanted to exit the business from the start. Saw a convenient time with everyone discussing a vulnerability, claim right away that vulnerability was used to steal all the money to avoid backlash from users.
I have the sense that the protections in place on above-the-board, regulated financial services companies are more meaningful than those placed on companies dedicated to selling contraband. (That is: none)
I am confused how RTSes are not fast paced. I can't imagine any FPS has players do the same levels of Actions per minute [1] as some good RTS players.

[1] http://starcraft.wikia.com/wiki/Actions_per_minute
Coinbase launches "BitHack" an online Bitcoin Hackathon with $18,000 in prizes
I am one of those that didn't know there was a difference.

I was hoping you had a short explanation as I am pretty sure searching with some of those keywords will cause an issue at work but if not this will serve as a reminder for me to look it up when I get home.
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Modern banking is over 100 years old. There is 100+ years of fraud protection processes, legal experience, etc built into the system, plus a huge and complex industry that has a vested interest in overall currency stability.

Bitcoin and other digital currencies are learning firsthand what it means to "disrupt" on this scale. Part of that is learning the hard way what the old industry has known since before any of us were born.
The biggest problem is that Go's garbage collector is conservative and slow. Add in that I don't think Go's optimizer is yet as good as HotSpot's, and you've got the recipe for those benchmarks.
I thought the 'malleability' problem only resulted in miners being DDOS'd. The transactions themselves were supposedly still 'intact' - i.e., inputs, outputs, addresses were not modified.

So.... what are SR2 saying happened here?
- Is it a double spend using SR2 escrow bitcoins?
- How was the malleability introduced?
I don't know what it's like in your area but the Craigslist personals here are just abysmal, full of very low quality mates. I think the anonymity and lack of entry barriers scares anyone worthwhile away, leaving only the desperate and those willing to endure the safety risks.
lol and there was gullible little me thinking 'wow the hackers moved fast'
Eugene Roshal, the inventor of RAR.
I haven't. I've never used SASS directly on the production server, I just run Compass on dev and push the compressed css to a cdn or media server.

You might want to look into the C implementation? https://github.com/hcatlin/libsass
No. I don't know how Haskell fans feel about it, but I don't see anything wrong with it if it works and lets you write more good code than you would writing everything in C. C isn't that scary.
Addresses are one-time payment codes and should never be reused at all under any circumstances.

This is how Bitcoin was intended to be used from the beginning, and how it's always been implemented in the reference client, but unfortunately due to a usability bug the most popular wallets these days reuse addresses and are teaching new users this incredibly destructive habit.

The problem started in the original client where it generated new private keys randomly. This meant effectively there was no way to implement a sane backup policy. Later on, they implemented the ability to generate private keys in batches of 100. This is better, but still problematic because your backup have to be refreshed after no more than 100 operations.

Obviously that was a usability disaster, and so wallet designers worked around that by just using the same private key over and over again. Other people worked out secure deterministic address generation so that you could just backup a single seed once, but by the time that got standardized (BIP32) the damage was already done.

Blockchain.info is the most popular wallet, and they've taught about a million newbies to treat single-use payment codes as permanent account numbers. It's a privacy and security catastrophe, but those issues are invisible to most people who only care about ease of use.
Luckily, dense sourdough rye bread is really simple to bake yourself.
It's not like he can say "sorry, but it wasn't me. Still friends?". The risks are probably the same, so it's better to be hated AND a thief :-P
The more restrictive your licensing, the less likely many developers are to use it now. Although I'd readily admit that applies to some industries more than others.

As an example, John Carmack (formerly of ID Software) recently posted this on twitter:

GPL never did really do anything for game code, and I do
wonder whether it was a fundamental cultural
incompatibility.

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/434005981379309568

When I was merely a user of free software, I too believed as others did, that a more restrictive (or "stronger" if your prefer) copy-left license was better. However, the more years I've spent in the software industry, the more my opinion has varied.

I think it ultimately comes down to who the primary "users" of your code are. If it's an application, it's probably ok to use more restrictive licensing. If it's a library, or code that's in any way intended to be reused by others more generally, the licensing should have very few restrictions if you want to encourage wide usage and to discourage others from duplicating the work.
The sad thing is that not only will people trust people like this, but they'll advocate for them having more power over their lives.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Contra_affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
If they've got one more appropriate I welcome the change.

Yes, initially for enterprise, but once the door is open and traveled by experts a bit to wring it out and simplify it it becomes everyone's egress. The fact of an app store app for it (mentioned at the bottom) portends that future.
Wow! That's actually really amazing, thanks for posting that!
The main protection overall is probably the reversibility of most kinds of transactions in the mainstream banking system (and the liability of banks to customers in many cases of fraud). At least, this kind of policy can be seen as a backstop to particular arrangements and policies like limiting the size or rate of transactions, requiring multiple authorizations for certain transactions, and so on.

The reversibility of transactions has drawbacks (one that's of interest to me is that it serves as one motivation for reducing privacy and increasing data retention).
AFAIK the only optimization they disallow is the use of caching results. It's clear why they do this: if you allow caching, you're just testing memory fetch speed and all your results across frameworks will probably look about the same. The idea of the benchmark is to actually do the JSON serialization/database access/etc.

I believe they have plans to add additional tests which will allow for caching and that kind of thing.

I don't think that removing caching across all frameworks equally is creating 'artificially hamstrung implementations' as all the frameworks would benefit from caching.
With the government, at election time, you have the option to vote between one corrupt asshole or the other. With corporations, you can just choose to not buy from them (therefore starving them of money).
"Windows as a Service" is essentially exactly what this is. Despite the hype I've seen in a few places suggesting this is some radical way to run Windows on Chromebooks what it actually is is a Chromebook-hosted client for VMWare's Horizon "DaaS" (desktop as a service) platform.
I am not celiac, recently I tried to stop eating gluten (for several) reasons, and when I end eating gluten, I feel like crap.

Or maybe I am a undiagnosed celiac, who knows.
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> it's just a matter of installing the VM's on the computer and modify the scripts.

That can be a pretty huge "it's just". In practice many of the existing scripts make use of C bindings or rely on odd behaviors that aren't replicated by alternate VMs. Since the alternate implementation, benchmark programs, and benchmark tools are all available, I'd recommend you put your theory to the test. It'll either prove eye opening or make for a nice contribution back to the game!
Since this is an enterprise blog, it appears this is a solution for IT departments where they can host a Windows instance on a VM on their server. The end users can then login via almost dumb terminals.
I just came back from AH with some dark german bread. There is a ton of selection here in the Netherlands. But you're right, most people just take the whitest, fluffiest bread available. Unusual for a place where people eat more bread than they breathe air.
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I think you're confusing Silk Road 2 with Atlantis. They did talk trash and flapped their wings with fancy Youtube commercials etc before they suddenly closed down soon before Silk Road got busted. Silk Road 2 always claimed to be the rightful heir to the original Silk Road, and have their own Dread Pirate Roberts.
You don't need the block chain to keep coins. You only need a wallet. Technically your private keys never need to see the internet at all.

Edit: here is one way to do it https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/How_to_set_up_a_secure_offline_sa...

At a recent meetup there was a presentation recommending Electrum with HD wallets instead. That would mean you really would only need to memorize a passphrase, all the keys would be generated from that so no backup necessary. Personally I am not yet 100% sure HD wallets are safe, need to look into it.
This is the key. Technological progress follows the money.
The idea is that he gives few shits about what states do to their residents, so long as the Federal government does not trample on states.

The counterpoint is typically along the lines of "well since he is in the federal politics game, what he thinks about how states can treat people is irrelevant".
No because if there are bad charges on my card the bank absorbs them, I am refunded, and I am issued a new card in under 48 hours.

If the bank itself collapses the FDIC insures my deposits.

Then again if my drug dealer steals all my money I am shit out of luck, much like all the users of this site. I guess it isn't that different at all.
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Chattycloud is a social website where people can search for chatrooms and create their own live discussions.
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Well, thanks for pointing it out. That's a good opportunity for improval :).
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The form validation is broken, thanks NSA.
If it's a few huge multinationals vs. individuals it's not so easy 'to just get another phone'.

Isn't society/government here to provide general regulations? Ok, some are stupid but (at least in Europe) many are reasonably good. And e.g. protect a consumer where you also could have said 'his problem, he made a mistake'. Or regulations about people's health where you could e.g. say, oh, why does he/she eat that many burgers?

Why should a government not take care that app/content can flow down to consumers freely?