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What is the problem with the idea of an ID card? There are situations where you need to prove your identity, and a government-supplied card can be useful in those cases.

The alternative is using a driver's license or a passport, both of which are also cards (or booklets), and government-supplied.

It is not like you'd be forced to get one, or carry it around. Finland has had ID cards as long as I can remember, and I never had to get one.

I had my passport stolen once, and identifying myself to the government to be able to get a new one was a bit of a pain in the ass, since I didn't have any other valid national ID (driver's license isn't considered one). The alternative way of authenticating involved maybe fifteen minutes of questions like What was your street address in 1987?
I wear a tinfoil hat because governments have a history of abusing their powers. Although we live in steady and somewhat well-governed democracies, there's no guarantee that this will always be the case.
Ah that's ok. I think I've done my patriotic duty for the day by increasing knowledge of us :)
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As long as there are still people who derive their 'wisdom' from religious texts that they do not test or criticise, the enlightenment will continue.

You say "enlightenment values as values of enlightenment government" but what you mean is the values of government in the period of the start of the enlightenment movement. But as we all know, the process of replacing faith with reason was not something that was decided upon and implemented.

Even now countries that claim to be enlightened, like the U.S., tolerate openly Christian leaders. That's a sign the enlightenment is far from done. And proof that any enlightenment government is not likely to actually exhibit full congruence with enlightened philosophy.

An enlightenment value is one that has been tested to reason, regardless if it has been inspired from a bible. After all, the values of the bible once sprang from a reasoning human too didn't they?
> Since TUPAS requires no dedicated hardware ...

Can you explain this bit? My bank here in the UK has an OTP mechanism for internet access, but it uses a small key generator card provided to each customer, controlled by a PIN on each use.

Does the TUPAS card itself generate the key?
This is quite some schmaltz
In germany we have the EPA or nPA or how this is called. Thank god we can opt out the functionality of these features.

Good luck proving you didn't electrically sign that contract. Forget decrypting pay-TV this is the new shit.
oooooh boy. Might want to do some research before your holiday to Belfast (or Derry).

Edit -
I realize that came off snarky - it was meant lightheartedly. In all seriousness, though -

Republic of Ireland - a soverign nation of 26 counties. Split from the UK nearly a century ago. There's some interesting (but very painful) history behind that.

Northern Ireland - 6 counties at the northeast of the island

Ireland - a geographical entity (the island itself)

Ireland (or Eire) - the official name of the Republic

Great Britain - the island with England, Scotland, and Wales. Often used to refer to the UK (but this isn't completely accurate, if we're being pedantic it's a geographical, not political, term, and there's still Northern Ireland).

United Kingdom - England, Scotland (for now), Wales, and Northern Ireland

It would make sense for me to make an error in there, but I think I've got that right. Hope it's helpful!
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Since I don't really understand the local sentiment of the Irish and the British, I gotta ask, do the people think it's a good think that there isn't a central Primary Key to link all of their records together?
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Right. It is high time that percentage change in GDP is not the sole consideration when measuring growth. While GDP will always be important, measures like Gini and HDI (or others which measure overall human "happiness") be taken into account when judging if a country is prosperous.
People have been saying that OpenSSL has been of poor quality [1], that the documentation is bad [2], and the developers don't really listen [3] for years. Heartbleed was just the straw that broke the camel's back. OpenSSL really was one of those pieces of software that was Just Good Enough that people tolerated it, but at the same time, filled them with a desire to punch kittens whenever they had to code with it.

[1] https://www.peereboom.us/assl/assl/html/openssl.html
[2] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/l-opens...
[3] http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2012-Octob...
Please, have some mercy on the rest of humanity and just donate anyway!!! I just sent them some money. Now I can sleep at night.
> The thought of being fined for not "showing my papers" while walking down the street is disturbing.

Having a ID card does not imply that authorities have right to inspect it at will, or that you are required to carry it with you at all times.
No, UK citizens are not homeless. Neither are identity papers necessary for anything you listed. Go troll somewhere else.
Lol, talk about making it easy for UKIP.

I swear sometimes it's like they actually want us to leave.
In Belgium the electronic card took off ~10 years ago but it is seldom used outside of official state matters (on the top of my head: when you move in/out, when you get married, etc. Basically used for anything that the state has to formally identify you). Administration are well-equipped with readers and you can file your taxes with it if you have a reader (everyone that I know and own a reader bought one for that sole purpose).

We have two-auth for banking as well.

edit: oh and some public transport use it to fill in addresses field faster when creating bus or train card.

Basically it's a glorified unique address memento.
It's not considered a failure though.

edit2: Most importantly: id cards are mandatory in Belgium and most entities have switched to electronic card.
Think of TUPAS like OAuth/FB Connect as envisioned by banks. Typically TUPAS uses a printed card of single-use passwords.

Here in Germany you instead get an SMS with a single-use password every time you have to authenticate (for example, to pay a bill).

As an alternative German banks also provide smart card reading OTP generators that interface with your bank card:

https://www.sparkassen-shop.de/sfp/shop/tan-generatoren,375/

In Finland universities also have the need for federated authentication, as students can take courses in different schools. Instead of TUPAS they standardized on Shibboleth and SAML.
If they deny your application, people will probably get pissed about losing their money, though (the $185k are non-refundable).
I'll have to break it to you then: it's exceedingly easy to get the same use of data without an ID. The lack of national ID does not protect your privacy.
Case in point: HMRC (UK Taxman) is about to sell 'anonymized' taxpayer data. With enough 'anonymized' data-dumps and CPU power, at some point, it will become trivial to correlate an ID Card ID with datapoints.
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well, I guess some grammar is crucial to intelligibility, not necessarily the prescriptive grammar. When a lot of people make the same mistakes, they share a new code, new intelligibility expectations, a new grammar.

I think many people forget that when talking about how the newest generation mistreat their language, or whether foreigner's mistakes can be understood.

heck, sometimes it's funny when a native speaker tells me that I speak X very well (I don't), just because I use some prescriptive form correctly.
I thought it was easier to replicate handwritten signatures than digital ones, no?
Administration are well-equipped with readers

I think I've seen the same in police stations in Finland... some kiosk PCs with a card reader and access to the various forms you might want to file there. Can be used to skip the line when applying for a driver's license, gun permit, or something like that.

IMO, the couple of times you might do that in a decade are not quite worth buying and carrying the electronic ID.
"What is the problem with the idea of an ID card?"

In my view, the problem is that it increases the government's power over citizens. Much government is useful and good, but it's an ineluctable law that powers are abused. ID cards extend the territory on which the abuse of power can play out.
Sadly the compile step is unavoidable if you want the contractual guarantees, but it's possible to use Contractual JS directly, without compiling it, so you could potentially avoid compilation during actual development.
At least they succeeded in their goal of annoying web hipsters. Why don't you sell your fixie on craigslist and donate some money anyway, please?
In the UK, one does not need government approval or permission to live in a house, so it's quite possible not to be homeless and also not to have government ID. Crazy times.
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Yep, FB and twitter doesn't need your national ID card number to know more about you than your spouse does
Asimov didn't really have an agenda. Kurzweil is trying to push the envelope. He has to, the chance that singularity or cryogenics will be available within his lifetime is pretty small.
I've described what's usually known as asymmetric coroutines or semicoroutines. "Asymmetric" because [as claimed by Lua manual at least] there are two separate calls for control transfer (yield and resume). Generators are less powerful.

See http://www.lua.org/pil/9.1.html
I said easier, not foolproof. Just a postcode and some other piece of data is often enough to tie a record to an identity.

There's a difference between possible and building a system specifically to help it happen.
Curiously, the Heartbleed bug was found by the Google engineer who is working on replacing NSS with OpenSSL in Chrome: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ML11ZyyMpnAr6clIAwWrXD53...

From the Pros & Cons table, it doesn't seem that NSS is obviously superior to OpenSSL. Both seem to suffer from focus on extra features instead of maintenance and reliability.
Interesting update. I never linked ng-repeat to the initial render lag with my app (one page, 1200 - 3000 bindings), otherwise the performance is great.

I've assumed it was a server side issue I could tune before pushing to production. Thanks, now I know where to look.
That why I said "mandatory"...
Thai is strictly phonetic as well, with only 44 consonants and some easy vowel constructs. I and many others mastered the script in a week. Tones are easy after you learned your first tonal language as well.

I am tending to learn Korean and not Chinese because the Chinese logographs are pointlessly making the whole learning process unrewardingly slow.

I like tonal languages but I also like phonetic scripts like Thai or Korean. Why did the PDRC abandon Bopomofo :( It would make it so much more fun to learn Mandarin or other Chinese languages!

Or let's use IPA for every language. Semantics would be lost, and a mandarin text couldn't be understand by a cantonese speaker, but I don't care. (Just kidding)
Well at least the FAQ wasn't a NAQ (never asked question).
I can't wait to be added to yet another database ...

I wonder what countries are left where you can mind your own business without being tagged like some vulgar cattle.
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Yes. It makes it a little more fiddly for our Government to create a PRISM-like database of our offline lives.
No. Read about anonymous credentials ;)
Ah, that sucks. I thought I read elsewhere on this thread about losers being "compensated."

That said, if it was just $10-20, I'd be up for contributing to such a Kickstarter even with the proviso it might not work out. Getting 15,000+ people to feel the same might well be difficult though..
"Not that it really matters once the referendum comes up as the UK will likely be out of the EU after that."

That's actually highly unlikely. Much as the Brits value their independence, the economic cost would be too high.
Well go check it out, the license that you grant can be revoked.

The only reason this doesnt happen more is that most freedom software has many authors and a change in license would require consent from them all. But a really nasty person could still decide to rip his copyrighted pieces out of any previous version thus crippling the whole project.

But nobody is an asshole like that, but legally the possibility exists.
Read about "anonymous credentials"
I still prefer Firebug; you're not alone! It's annoying to see more of the web go Webkit only, though. Reminiscent of IE.
Actually, I would advise you to get on and have the children earlier. Do you want to be an old Dad, straining to keep up with your kids?

I now have two children. I kind of wish I had had them earlier. When you are younger you have way more energy.
getting a .actor domain is easily going to be a must-have for anyone who works in film/TV/theater

I'm sure the applicants think the same, but I'm completely unconvinced of that. People have trouble using .info and such already. My guess is that most such TLDs will be dead on arrival; most people don't even type domains nowadays, they search and use links.

Having a good Facebook path is probably more important for most people than any domain will ever be.
I allways wondered about the aversion to id-cards. Doubly when I heard the story about catch-22 style schenigans I heard you need to go through in GB, if you want to open a bank account, and rent a flat at the same time (or so I heard, that most of the time bank accepts as proof of identity utility bills from place where you live, and landlord accepts similarily a proof of existence of a bank account) ... in czech republic I just show them my id card, and everyybody is hapy. I could even pay a little bit extra to have digital signature embedded, which would allow me to fill my taxes via web ...
The article argues that glass is not successful (that's what they mean by "How Google Screwed Up Google Glass"), and you say you disagree with that argument.

Didn't you read the article? So what did you mean by "with that goes the argument", if not to disagree with the argument presented in the article, and what did you think the article was arguing?

What I don't understand is why you'd throw out the entire argument, which makes a lot of sense to me, just because you don't agree with what it said about selfies and twerks.
The description of this card's features are a little too basic to my taste. Based on the "anonymous credentials" they mention it seems to imply that they're using attribute-based cryptography* to preserve privacy, which would be awesome. Can anybody shed some extra light on this?

* = See https://www.irmacard.org/. It allows your card to reliably answer questions like "Am I allowed to enter this country?" and "Am I old enough to buy liquor?" without you having to communicate all your personal data (like full name, exact age, exact country of origin) to the party who needs to check it. In fact, that party would not even be able to gain more information. It just communicates parts of your identity on a need-to-know basis.
Portugal already has these. Our ID card is a smartcard, and contains a personal X.509 certificate, issued by a national certificate authority (and a bunch more stuff, like my address or photo). You can use a card reader and standard software to sign legally valid documents. You can login into government websites with it.

I'd wager about 80% of ID cards already use the new model.

It looks like this:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4kQttk9aLQI/TT7-nale3lI/AAAAAAAAAC...

Its site is: http://www.cartaodecidadao.pt
OpenTLS was already taken: http://www.opentls.org/ -- it's dead, but still taken.
Lack of ID card doesn't stop UK to share all your data with private companies, like in case of care.data and now also HMRC data. I never felt as tracked as in UK, where all companies know where I live and lived for last several yers.

On the other hand in Poland we do have mandatory ID card, and companies still don't have that much access to your data.
At the ScalaX conference last year, someone demoed the Scala plugin for Eclipse debugging actor messages asynchronously, so you can breakpoint on receiving a message, then see the callstack that generated that message on a different actor, and in fact follow back through all the messages leading up to that. Very cool, though I haven't tried it in production yet (I'm currently using IntelliJ for Scala)
The dropping sales numbers of CDs indicate that it's the pricepoint of CDs that's ludicrous.
I am not sure if anyone noticed the footer of the page. It not the PR's fault or anything to blame PR. Its just a link for donation :).. they are trying to improve the standards of the web by wanting/helping to get rid of comic sans font
No, you obviously don't. The notion of "effectiveness" exists only when there is an agreement on the goal. If my goal is to have fun while driving - then I don't care about the type of "effectiveness" you have in mind, nor should I. And there isn't a single thing you can say to convince me that saving 5 minutes during commute is objectively more important than having fun while driving. This is also why we usually walk from place to place instead of running: walking is slower, but running and getting tired is not very fun: and most people choose fun over speed. People are not computer software, and what's important to us is not defined by god.

This is also why utilitarianism in ethics is ridiculous.
I can't help feeling a bit bad for the OpenSSL team in all of this. For years they did a thankless yeoman's work with insufficient resources and now that people are recognizing the work they did it's almost uniformly negative.

Of course you can argue that they brought it upon themselves, but man would I love to watch a 60-minute documentary on how OpenSSL came to be, the people behind it, and how it went wrong.
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I wish I had the type of job that involved enough free time to do something like that.
Well a good first step would be to consolidate the overlapping number of subsidy programs of which there are over twenty two hundred. They even made a nice pie chart for us to see them all https://www.cfda.gov/

Assistance programs and just like taxes, there are so many rules and requirements all because politicians use our money to reward those who do as they are told and those who don't, well there is a rule against supporting them or supporting them not as well.
Finally someone who chose to explain things instead of just bombing down votes. Thank you for taking the time to explain that.

And I'll just take solace in this (apparently) Scottish Proverb:

"He who asks is a fool for a moment. He who doesn't is a fool forever"
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I work for a real estate startup which got acquired recently. I am a developer and employee #1.

Suppose I have 1% equity vested over 4 years with 1 year cliff, what will happen to my stocks?

The company started in June 13, so none of my stock options are vested yet. I have read about single trigger and double trigger but couldn't fully understand it.

Its a cash-stock deal. Do I get any cash out of this aquisition?
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As I understand it, TUPAS is more of a protocol for providing authentication. Every authentication provider is allowed to implement the authentication at their end however they please. I think some have keyfobs, but afaik majority rely on printed list of OTP codes[1]. If you are familiar how 3-D Secure (eg Verified by Visa, MC SecureCode) works, the process is somewhat similar. So there is no "TUPAS card".

[1] example pic: http://imgur.com/Bi5LB06
You know, instead, they could fix the damn email and content spamming rampantly going on the internet.

How exactly could they achieve that?
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I actually think it's the other way round.

I actually think the other way.

In countries where you have ID card, you just show it to confirm your identity and you're done.

In UK you need to bring your bank statement and utility bills, with your address. Combined with your date of birth, it makes it much easier to match with companies database.
And you would lose your money.
Ironic, that this website does not use SSL.

~B
I've seen some great talks by the amazing game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto.

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

In an earlier talk, he explained that he designed his games starting with how you physically interact with the controls you're holding in your hand, and then inwards into the computer, instead of the other way around like so many other people tend to do.

In a later talk, about the Wii, he explained that now he designs his games starting with the facial expressions of the people playing them, then to the physical experience that could evoke such an expression, then on into the computer that could conduct such an experience.

As an example, he showed a picture of a grandfather with his granddaughter sitting in his lap, playing a game, looking totally entranced and delighted at the game, and her grandfather looking at her, with just as entranced and delighted an expression as on his granddaughter's face, even if he didn't necessarily understand what the game itself was about. He got so much enjoyment out of just watching his granddaughter enjoying the game, that it was fun for him, too.

The Wii was so successful as a social party game, because the players themselves were more fun to watch than the game on the screen, because they make spectacles of themselves, which is much more entertaining to watch than the computer graphics. And you don't get bored waiting for your turn to play, because it's fun watching other people play.
Well sure, OpenSSH is probably one of the most useful and versatile tools out there, there's no denying that it's a huge achievement.

That being said it's a program with mostly well defined use cases while OpenSSL is a library used in thousands of programs (including OpenSSH) on a variety of hardware and operating systems. The OpenBSD project naturally mostly cares about OpenBSD first and the rest second, which might be a bad thing if we end up with a multitude of forks each supporting a particular OS/architecture, increasing the chances of messing things up. After all, the latest big OpenSSH vulnerability was due to debian-specific patches...

Also, for what it's worth, sloccount tells me the latest snapshot of OpenSSH has about 90 thousand lines of code while OpenSSL has more than 360 thousand. It's a huge, huge library, forking and maintaining it is a tremendous undertaking, even compared to OpenSSH.
There are rules. If you do not follow them, everybody speaking Russian would understand you, but you'll sound like a foreigner who learned Russian via books and had not enough exposure to real spoken language.
How are they "fucking up the whole internet"? People are taking their aesthetically sensibilities way too seriously.
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Anyone wishing to try this should use proper polarised glasses, though, rather than repurposing filters. They're not protective from UV, you see.