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Windows 8.1 update reportedly hits final stage
Has Privacy Become a Luxury Good?
I literally study the proofs of others every working day, for at least a few hours a day. But I am a young mathematician and still inexperienced with research.

I imagine that once you are a professor you can spend less time studying the details of proofs because you can generate them on your own once you understand the big picture. But even so this depends on your field (combinatorics folks, for example, REALLY spend a lot of time studying proofs).
..I came in here specifically to say that.
Microsoft launches Skype for Outlook.com worldwide
Microsoft today launched Skype for Outlook.com worldwide, expanding the service that was previously only available to a select few countries.
Your comment immediately reminded me of yet another "relevant xkcd": http://xkcd.com/1235/

Regarding some of the other comments here, my sense is that there are some beliefs where mockery really is the best response. (Hopefully not mean-spirited mockery, mind you.) If you engage with flat-earthers on a serious level, you inevitably wind up lending them at least a bit of an air of legitimacy (in the eyes of outsiders who may not yet be familiar with the topic in detail). If you ignore them, they can monopolize the public discussion and claim that you're afraid to face their ideas. Laughing at their ideas can be more effective in both ways, at least if handled well.
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Bitcoin is too new for standards; nobody really knows how to run a business based on Bitcoin yet.

Also, even if you take every reasonable precaution, there's still a possibility that your systems can be broken into.
Nope, Python attracts plenty of idiots as well. It is especially popular among self taught bioinformaticians, who write really bad code.
Never mind that this product could probably be produced with less effort at a centralized location

Transport is a significant cost, even in countries with loads of freeways and autobahns. In the rural areas where these machines are being placed, I imagine the transport infrastructure is particularly poor.
Yes, just like a non-FDIC insured bank can tell you 'too bad, too sad' if they're robbed and your money was stolen. Unless you're specifically insured against loss, banks aren't obliged to give you money lost due to robbery unless you some how prove the robbery was the result of, say, gross negligence.
Twitter's code is "enterprise" code in that it has to satisfy the organization's needs and a huge part of it is not user-facing, but targeting other enterprises (for example, Twitter ads). At Twitter, we use Scala.

So, no, you're not necessarily stuck between these two options (or Java, which is another popular choice in the enterprise scene). Scala was chosen specifically, among other things, because Twitter had a lot of Ruby developers who would cringe at the idea of PHP, Java, or .NET.
I hate trying to locate a slide projector and fumbling for the controller. It looks like PitchIt solves the problem with a more impromptu style presentation. I like it!
No, I'm talking about messaging, on purpose. Generally speaking, getting the messaging right is significantly easier than getting a military response somehow set up.

Yes, different messaging would indeed be helpful. Not being so surprised would be helpful. In particular, having a clear message for the Ukranians would be helpful. Certainly something better than what, say, the Syrians got. Or the Iraqis that stood with us. Or the Afghanis that stood with us.

I recognize that the correct answer to things is not a military one, by all means, but vague promises that we still have no intention of keeping despite their vagueness, such as "Vice President Biden just spoke with Prime Minister — the Prime Minister of Ukraine to assure him that in this difficult moment the United States supports his government’s efforts and stands for the sovereignty, territorial integrity and democratic future of Ukraine." [1] No, we don't. He can't count on us for anything more expensive than words, at least in the short term. I'd appreciate it if we stop assuring people of how we're going to help them, only for us to just hang them out to dry later when they actually think we're serious. We've done an awful lot of that in the past decade.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/02...

That whole message is damn near meaningless when unwrapped from the diplospeak. I had to search for anything that even resembles a statement of what actions we might take, which is what I quoted, and even that is basically meaningless (certainly very unspecific, and in diplospeak that's not an accident). We can't even muster up a sufficient level of concern to do more than broadly promise consequences... we certainly don't have anything like a plan to actually impose even the faintest of economic sanctions for this. (My browser reports that the word "sanctions" doesn't even appear in that text.)

Perhaps something more concrete will come out later; if so that would support my thesis that we were unprepared.

(Of course, unpacked from the diplospeak, the only alternative other than "Uhh... whatever." that that could translate to is a declaration that Russia is welcome to the Ukraine, it's fine with us. "Uhh... whatever" is the charitable reading of this statement....)
Yes. My blog moved to "realfreemarket.org" now. I've been falling behind on posting lately, but getting back into it.
> his decidedly strange public statement just hours ago

I'm interested, what was this statement? Thanks
Regarding the pricing, we're in the process of revising the pricing structure so that it's based more on volume instead of how many servers you have. In that case, you wouldn't need to cheat. :)
Clever Volvo Advertising in W3School Code?
One thing that is very strong is the need for a "host" with a Nagios service definition. This doesn't map so well on to environments like Amazon EC2 auto-scaling groups. You don't necessarily know the host names in advance. You wind up building Nagios plugins that can monitor a pool of hosts (using cloudwatch or whatever) and gives you some kind of aggregate status. It sounds like a kluge to push it into the plugin, but it does allow you to use the Nagios alerting, which is pretty well understood.
And when there's demand, I just don't see how outlawing possession would end that demand. Think guns. Does outlawing the possession of guns put and end to the black market for illegal guns? On the contrary I think!
The way I look at it, I will not switch frameworks just because the web community says so. I will switch only when the current framework is causing issues (loss in productivity, stability issues, performance issues etc) and most importantly how does it better solve the problem your application was trying to solve in the first place. IMO, code, programming styles, frameworks (js or server side)and IT in general needs to align with the problem its trying to solve. Just changing because the community thinks its cool is for the birds.
It is extremely important, yes.
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Don't think buzz is a good reason to be "stealth" either - very few companies get buzz because they were stealth. there is also a difference between being stealth and just not yelling from the rooftops about what you're doing. The latter is usually enough to make sure you don't get covered before you want to.
It's less incredible once you come to terms with the fact that like so much "zero-tolerance" emotionally charged legislation its role is to be a political gun that doesn't require the ammunition of justice or reason to function. "But he's a child molester!" is all you need, logic and facts be damned. What's worse, is it's impossible to get rid of these laws because anyone who tries can easily be branded as a <insert evil demographic> sympathizer.

As unsurprising as it is that these laws exist and continue to do so, it's still utterly horrifying when you realize it's combined with indiscriminate data hoovering for later use.

I don't think there's any solution but to stop reacting emotionally to terms like "child-molester", "murderer" and "terrorist" and instead think critically about the deeper reasons behind why people do what they do. I'm doing my part and I encourage anyone reading this to do the same.
The UK is still one of the wealthiest and, yes, best-armed countries on Earth. Few even have one aircraft carrier - China, which everyone sees as a world power, just got a refitted Ukrainian one. (Humorous coincidence there).

I guess that still isn't a big enough military for you.

You didn't NEED to go to the Falklands at all, it was a splendid little war for you though.
I know/get that, so it kinda answers the first question.

But then the other one remains, basically for any OS: if signature-based scanners aren't good enough, how do you properly check you are secure? Is something like connection logging sufficient?
I was about to say the same thing... not only are there no images, but there is a such an overwhelming amount of text and bullet points on the "About" and "Feature" pages.

This looks more like documentation and less like a product landing page.

Here are some nice examples that might help: http://land-book.com/

https://www.gosquared.com/ (pulled from the first page of land-book)
Truly, a very motivating story.
There are only very few universities that will actually give you a proper indoctrination in most modern software engineering practices. Usually you get a bit of horrible object orientation, a few stern words about coding standards, and the lovely advice to "always test your code". If you take a Compilers course chances are the words "static analysis" will be used a lot.

I'm sure there are exceptions to this, but they are hard to find and universities aren't entirely to blame for it. Some parts of software engineering move fast and there is a justified fear to teach students things that will be useless by the time they graduate. So the focus is more on laying a solid ground-work.
There's no pleasing you, is there?

Maybe we should add some <blink> and <marquee>?
No. Don't hash passwords. Don't even hash salted passwords. And especially don't encrypt passwords. Use a key derivation function.

The story here is not the weak encryption. Who cares if they used XOR instead of AES or whatever is the best encryption at the moment? The story is that yet another piece of software isn't using a key derivation function.
Were the headphones a contrived example? I was just curious about the headphones and how they performed. Most of the usb headphones I have seen sounded like garbage.

I really think a lot of it is workflow. When I thought about that AOL new IM noise I cringed. I like my bells to be visual.
About 1 in 5 Model S cars coming off the Tesla assembly line headed to Europe last year. They're not starting from nothing; the Model S was the best-selling car of any make in Norway, and has sold at least hundreds of units into 6 European countries. Small numbers compared to the incumbents, but certainly high enough to matter to Tesla which only sells some thousands of cars each quarter.
I'm with you on a lot of that, but:

"...the deregulation experiment in the U.S. over the last few decades has shown that lightly-regulated markets function better"

Uh, I'm really not interested in an economics debate, but I think many people would disagree with that blanket assertion. The deregulated electric market in California springs to mind as one counter-example.

Some of the supposedly evil taxi regulations that Uber has been fighting here in DC actually seem pretty reasonable to me. I'm OK with Uber drivers being required to have extra car insurance and the city making sure that the GPS-based meter system is accurate.
You are using economy of scale, but you're not serving customers that are afraid to give you important data, which is not economical at all.
there's nothing clever about w3schools.
I bet they forgot the padlock icon.
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Is there anyone you find eloquent enough to decide for you what you could read? You would give the job to decide for you? To relieve you from the responsibility of hearing what you might have to hear?

Gandalf, Galadriel, and Elrond all reject the Ring; Gandalf says that "I do not trust myself in this, and I refused this thing, even as a freely given gift." Those who most want power over the thoughts of others are the worst keepers of such power.
True. However this specific person being part of the problem makes me have a lot less sympathy for them.
Gmail doesn't do any parsing, Gmail provides the SDK described here https://developers.google.com/schemas/tutorials/google-now-c...

When developer / brands create emails following Gmail quick action guidelines, and you have Google Now enabled, then you will see Google Now cards.
The "main problem" with nagios is that it's configuration is godawful. The "main problem" with most nagios users is that they edit their configuration manually.

Automate that shit. We use Nagios to monitor our infra (5000+ checks, hundreds of hosts), and chef maintains the config. Works without a hitch - and best of all - it's been running for years, and not once has anyone had to poke it with a stick.

Yes, NetSaint is old, yes, the UI is worse to look at than Putin's crotch, yes, the plugin architecture is whimsical as all shit - but... IT WORKS AND YOU CAN RELY ON IT.
What is craptacular about printing?
A secondary issue for the UK is that we're densely populated and our housing stock is, on average, 75 years old. Lots of dwellings predate the automobile and/or lack a garage or a garden (US: yard) on which to build one. Consequently, home charging is less of an option.
I would argue Europe is a better market than the US because the distances are shorter (how much of Western Europe can fit in Texas?), so there would be less of a range anxiety discussion.
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The title is misleading; I expected an article about Javascript.
So if the internet were a free for all, there wouldn't be child pornography? Your logic here doesn't follow.
For adult porn the legal system doesn't really care if they are consenting or real. A special needs teacher called Jane Longhurst was murdered by a guy who enjoyed violent pornography, so now mere depictions of particularly dangerous (and soon non-consensual) sex are made illegal. You could literally have signed written consent proof but if it looks like rape then it lands you in legal trouble because it might turn you into a rapist murderer.
Kind of like Perl CGI?
Not many places using that these days.
While I understand the attitude of wanting to try as hard as possible while there's still a chance to, I hope she's not actually doing more damage while not being able to really feel what's going on. How do you not destroy your ankles in cross-country while not being able to feel your feet?

At the same time I respect the attempt to triumph over adversity. Took me ten years to get a sub-20 5k, and I'm about the same height and don't have MS.
"What about the extensive British investment interests in Russia?" Well, Britain is one country in a trading block of +28 countries, so the photographed agenda is a position of one EU member state, not all. In this type of situations, not everybody is a winner. In government and finance this is called "political risk", and investments in Russia are priced accordingly.
I recommend FuelPHP [1] - it has amazing documentation, a lot of built-in libraries, takes advantage of PHP5 features, is quite mature and really easy to dive in.

[1] http://fuelphp.com/
This is not a cool idea, and I would be interested in seeing what a $10/use restroom looks like. Pay toilets are illegal here in Chicago, (allegedly because a mayor once ran out of change at the airport), so I'm sure there'd have to be a fight to implement here.
Wait a minute... I'm pretty sure that Seinfeld and the iPhone did not overlap in time...
I'm seeing a lot of snarky comments, but the only reason this is being talked about is for the irony. It neither proves nor disproves that a filter is helpful or harmful for child pornography.
So I like this idea a lot. And honestly, there's definitely space for it if it's executed well, as long as the web interface is VERY slick, and management is auto-save to the cloud (it has to beat Google Drive in aesthetic and Microsoft in the cloud).

I think the thing I'm having trouble with, quite honestly, is the marketing site itself.

A few notes of opinion, but do remember this is purely opinion.

1. Is it PitchIt, or Markido PitchIt? The first one works. The second one is confusing.
2. The landing homepage top area feels cramped to me. Additionally, there are three different typefaces, four counting weights, that are fighting for my attention.
3. May want to lose the blue shadow on the play button.
4. The stock photos are a bit distracting, and resultingly aren't as effective as if you were to provide simple screenshots, or even a simple infographic.
5. The large crossed out circle (cancel sign?) feels fairly negative, and is one of the first things I see on two separate pages.
6. Overall, the design seems to harken back to a Windows 98 aesthetic for some reason. And, that may actually be totally fine.

I certainly don't intend to provide negativity, only honest feedback and response. And, as a post-disclaimer, I am fairly sure I am not a part of the target market.
It's really exciting to see all this feedback on this idea. I've been holding off on sharing http://www.clnli.com until it was more mature. But now seems as good a time as any.

We're going with a totally different business model. It's really good to see another player on the block.
Agreed. Contracting out your monitoring seems to me to defeat the point of running your own infrastructure.
RT's Abby Martin speaks out against Russian invasion of Crimea 3/3/2014
Interesting... Thanks for the disclosure of the code. Now if only NSA was willing to open source their image/video manipulation software...

When researching for this you didn't find any good premade solution or were they simply too highly priced?
Google Account Activity merged with the Google Dashboard
From the email announcement:

Account Activity information merged with the Google Dashboard to provide you with a single point for account activity information and to provide more up-to-date information.

Your existing Account Activity reports will continue to be available here until 5/31/2014.

The monthly emails you received to notify you of new reports will now link to the Google Dashboard, which will continue to improve over time to provide a similar experience to the Account Activity reports.
somewhat-related: I recently learned that there are public restrooms in Penn Station! So if you're out and about in midtown, there's an option.
was nagios setup before you started the job?

Yup.

did you setup nagios yourself?

god, no.

is your internal process for managing nagios broken?

It was the best they knew after a dozen years of experience at other companies.

culturally do you work at a place where ops is an afterthought?

Nope. We had three people for 500 machines and two data centers.

if Nagios is your technical debt do you have a way out? are you crushed by other commitments? Maybe it's more of a management/culture issue.

It was "good enough" and nobody wanted to build out an alternative (or knew how to—the others were pure "sysadmin" people without programming backgrounds).

The problem: apathy. The solution: leave...after three and a half years.

I can't tell how much of it is trolling

Never trolling from this account, just unfocused anger with no other outlet. :)
There is no monolithic thing called "regulation" that can be turned on or off. All cars and all businesses are regulated in various ways. Here in DC, cab drivers need to get their cars inspected more often than regular drivers, need to carry additional car insurance beyond the normal minimum, and need to prove they have a license in good standing. These rules seem reasonable and it seems fair to apply them to Uber.
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Maybe I don't follow the issue closely enough, but I think it's been adequately explained that the video and images are almost always uncharacteristically unclear. What kind of discussion are you aiming to get? Because moving goal posts has nothing to do with it for me. Even if you showed me a crystal clear video of a UFO and intelligent beings working around it and then leaving, what action do you want me to take? We already have projects aimed at detecting alien communication and have made attempts to "put ourselves out there" so to speak. What else are you hoping for other than for more people to believe the evidence? I think the video of the Arizona incident you mentioned is pretty clear, for instance, considering the distance, and I even know people who saw it. I don't know of a satisfactory explanation. But... what can I do about that?
Which year was this shot in? (talks about iPhone)

Edit : Found it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seinfeld_(Curb_Your_Enthusiasm)
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> confronted with something they've never seen before

But we have seen it before, these are just illegal unlicensed cabs. There is literally nothing separating Uber from an illegal cab, except that they've got an app for that.
Hah, clever idea. My strategy, which works well in fairly urban areas in decently sized cities(so imperfect I know), is to just use the bathroom in Hotel Lobbies. Always clean and always available and usually no problem accessing them.
FWIW, that was from Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld was over long before Madoff and iPhones.
London is obviously first, interesting that the second most prolific place for charging points is around Sunderland in the North East ... where Nissan make their Leaf electric car.
I get the feeling it's doing fine in Denmark as well. Seeing them more and more each day.
If the paranoia runs that deep, and there's enough anxiety built into the scenario, then a substantial amount of responsibility must be adopted before embarking upon your journey.

This means your options are limited, but if you believe you have a real adversary, then your adversary defines the scenario.

Option 1: Obtain source code, and secure a build environment. Review the source code. Build from source, and test the behavior of the built product. This approach incorporates some cognitive disonnance, particularly when building crypto software from source. The axiom "never roll your own crypto" brushes closely against building a tool like PuTTY from source. How do you know you did it right? Well... does anyone REALLY ever know?

Option 2: Pay through the nose, and carefully identify the entities you accept assistance from. Do your accomplices carry any conflicts of interest? This includes your ISP, and the open source project you've selected as the authors of your tools. Do you need to pay for professional class internet service, including pre-defined static TCP/IP routing across leased lines? Do you need to speak directly with the team that develops your software? Have you considered paying for a proprietary tool, with a service agreement? Is what your doing legal? Do you carry liability insurance, in case damages result from your actions? Do you own life insurance?

If you're confronting an opponent, is the scale of your opponent real, or imaginary? The manner in which you arm yourself for the confrontation will be priced accordingly.

...but the short answer is: obtaining hashes over SSL from a source with a certificate that can be validated by a "trust-worthy" certificate authority is "probably" okay for most ordinary people, who aren't confronting state-sponsored adversaries.
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There are other users that kindly point out prior submissions to highlight past discussions. You're just being unpleasant.
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