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Frightening level of stupidity in that article ("Exact details of the setup aren’t yet known" says the writer, so then go on to pull numerous scaremongering scenarios out of a hat) and especially stupid stupidity in the comments too.

Why is this so hard to understand? Router broadcasts a second SSID. Router ensures that connections to that SSID are completely isolated from your own network, never touch your IP address or internal devices, and are tunnelled back to base over a separate channel VPN.

In scenarios where you are maxing out your net connection and someone else is using the guest wifi too, your traffic always takes priority. That's a rule right there - the kind of thing that routers are kind of good at.

It also means that you have access to free wifi when you're out and about, as you can use your Comcast ID to use this same wireless in other locations.

As has been pointed out several times, many ISPs around the world do this. It's simple and convenient and not remotely worthy of the scaremongering and technical ignorance being displayed.
I'm under the impression that the router forms a VPN tunnel to an endpoint at the ISP (which is why public users have a different IP and their traffic is easily proven not to be that of the subscribers)
1. The board already didn't like him.

2. He was offered another job. He chose to walk away.
This is not strictly true. I own my own cable modem (bought it on Amazon before signing up with Comcast - http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-SURFboard-Gateway-SBG6580-Wir...) and I specifically picked this one because it was on Comcast's list of recommended modems and reviews suggested that it worked without headaches on Comcast's network.

HOWEVER, after installing the device, I eventually started to notice that the firmware was being updated remotely, without my intervention. At one point the Motorola administrative web UI was replaced completely with a new Arris UI (this was a few months ago when Comcast was experimenting with their IPv6 rollout). This lasted for about a month before the firmware was reverted back to an older Motorola image (and now I no longer have IPv6 at home -- I guess there were issues).

So yes, you can install your own router. But at least in some (most?) instances, your cable provider may have direct access to the firmware on your router, which essentially means that they can pull shit like this whenever they want, without your knowledge or intervention.

TLDR: Comcast can update the firmware on my cable modem without my knowledge or intervention. Because it's an all-in-one device, that basically means they can do whatever the fuck they want.
Easements are a form of encumbrance upon a title. Though real estate law varies by state in the US, access easements are typically the only form of easement established by use...i.e. Passage across the property for physical access to another property. Any other easement must typically be recorded.

Recording an easement requires paperwork at the courthouse, doc stamps, and approval of any lien holders (such as a mortgager). The reason is that the lien holder has a secured interest in the property secured by the title - that they have joint ownership is the easiest way to think about it.

But rest assured, that if you build a fence on your neighbors side of the line its his fence. You can have a contract that gives you the right to access it and prohibits your neighbor from demolishing it, but it's with your neighbor as an individual. If they sell the property the new owner owns the fence and is not bound by the contract.
Aren't they stealing electricity from these users?

It sounds like nothing but one of the ways laws developed around FAX machine spam was judges said you were costing the end person real money in sheets of paper. Certainly running the second WiFi has some small amount of additional power requirement. I'm not sure it's even barely measurable but it is more then zero which makes it like the fax paper reasoning.
An hour's walk each way = 2 hours out of your day commuting. For a workaholic billionaire with a prediliction for charity, that's quite a waste of time.

Similarly with riding, it's not just the ride. A car is easy if you've got a parking spot at both ends. Hop in, hop out. Commuting by biking (usually) requires you to change clothing, which really should be included in your commute time.

And some people just enjoy driving, like some people enjoy walking or riding. I haven't met the person who likes being crammed into a sweaty train-crowd yet, though :)
As well as those listed by other commenters, there are other FON collaborations listed here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTFON#Collaborations

Belgium, Germany, Greece, Jersey...
It's too bad and everyone lost out in the end. I was also angered by the donation, and disappointed in what had up until then been a personal hero of mine, but even then I still respected Brendan Eich for his many contributions to not only web technology but my own life through Mozilla products and JavaScript.

He could have done many things differently. He could not have taken the CEO position. He could have had a change of heart about his donation. There was also a bit of weirdness in his defense during the storm that struck me as tone deaf. In the end he stuck to his conviction, which might be admirable if his position wasn't about limiting the rights of others.

I don't mind having leaders who respect people of all walks of life and the argument that criticizing intolerant individuals in leadership positions is a form of intolerance is a specious argument. Yet in the end we still lost a great person doing good things on behalf of everyone. Life is weird that way, it's not all black and white.
Are the hotspots free for anyone to use at least? Or do they intend on charging for them, too? Because that would really be a dick move.
I'm one of millions who has reason to be grateful for Dr Edelstein's work and this page reminds me that the technology we use is the product of people with values and feelings. Lovely page.
All cable modems (customer owned or ISP owned) are configured by the ISP. The main reason to buy your own modem is to save money by avoiding rental/lease charges from your ISP.
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Heh, I knew I've seen this naming pattern somewhere before, thanks for pointing it out. Well, maybe at least CS people will come to know some Swiss German words other than Muesli ;).
I don't think it's unique to Haskell. The Scalaz library for Scala also provides Applicative:

https://github.com/scalaz/scalaz/blob/scalaz-seven/core/src/...

Do they differ in some drastic way? (Note: I'm not super familiar with the Haskell version.)
Wow. How could Comcast control the firmware updates for a product they didn't make? Did they hijack the update software lookup? This must have been done with Motorola's backing.
because incentives distort actions. if what is seized is destroyed of value, then there is no longer any motivation to view seized property as some sort of fund raising drive.
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Sure, a plane consists of more than aluminium.

But since the topic of the post was aluminium usage, I think the 3400 planes number is exactly spot-on. Nobody cares how much a complete Boeing weights, because that's not the topic.
FORTRAN = decades of battle tested (also not-understood-so-much-anymore), performant code.
Because I don't want anyone looking at a spreadsheet and saying, "Oh shoot, we could actually meet our targets if only the police would seize another $10 million..."

Putting that person further away from the police probably improves things, as I said, but better that we just build such hospitals and fund such social programs as we actually need, and not rely on people doing bad things (either the people whose stuff is being confiscated, or the police confiscating property of innocents) to make it happen.

Note again that at this scale cash isn't really a resource - it's a claim on resources. Destroying it doesn't destroy those resources, it releases the claim which winds up sort of distributed over other dollars.
I am not a Comcast customer, but have a simple question. Who owns the CPE device(Xfinity Wifi router) that Comcast installs in people's homes? Does Comcast own it, and subscribers agree to have it managed by Comcast? Or is it owned by the subscribers?
So if you are part of a group that hates gay people and actively pursue and agenda of treating those people as second class human beings you have a "political view".

But if you are part of a group that opposes the aforementioned group by not wanting to work for or with them and use their services you are a "mass-mob" on a "witch-hunt".

This has consistently been the way this issue has been twisted by a large part of a the tech community. It's offensive Tea-party level logic.

If really you want to have an honest discussion about the requirements for our leaders, you may want to consider framing it in more neutral terms.
At least with smoking there CAN be an indulgent experience, as with good wine, good chocolate, good coffee, great tea ...

Coke is just sugared soda, or artificially sweetened soda. (Yes, I also drink a can of soda once in a while, but that's maybe a can per month.)
Do you have a source for that? I'm looking to buy, that or the Crucial MX100.
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I'm actually one of them :) the company I work for - ThinkOpen - is based on developing modules for, hosting and supporting a FOSS platform called Odoo, and there are hundreds like us worldwide.

I think you're underestimating the number of people who sell Free Software. NewsBlur, for example, is available on GitHub, yet still has thousands of premium users.

In the end, it's not like having a proprietary license will keep it from The Pirate Bay. As long as your price is reasonable and buying is less of a hassle than getting a free version, enough people will pay.
"That sounds like advice from a relatively inexperienced developer."

I would say it sounds like advice from someone who has never worked at a larger organization. I believe what he says holds more true in smaller, very product-driven companies. But whether you get recognition or not for your work still depends on non-coding skills in these environments.
The no poaching agreement went all the way up to the top at Google as well. In fact Google even fired a recruiter for trying to hire someone from Apple, yet they seem to get a free pass in these discussions for some reason.

It's the same effect as the Chinese factory workers conditions all over again. Forget that workers at the Microsoft and Samsung factories have worse conditions and lower pay, the story is all about Apple, as always.
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XSS issue affecting every page on TheDailyWTF
e.g. http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/

Every page is playing an annoying sound, embedded in a comment appearing in the side bar [1]. It looks like they were able to fix the issue in the forum [2], but thedailywtf.com itself is still suffering from the issue.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/0YviIOJ.png

[2] http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/how-about-this-audio-src-http-soundjax-com-reddo-64951-5ecddyhorn-mp3-controls-autoplay-audio/889/23
I'm a developer and not a networking guy, so I'm curious; is dropping packets like this a good idea or is there a better approach? It would seem to be a bad idea to me.
By piping dd to zip?
Recruiting tactic.
and in Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Which covers quite a lot of Europe already, not even counting the rest of the places that do this.
This may have just been in the communities I visit but in the after-math there was a lot of people who expressed regret at their extreme reaction, which makes me think that the "spiral of silence"¹ may have also played its part.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_of_silence
Science of omega 3/fish oil supplemented diets is questionable
"The "Eskimo diet" hypothesis, suggested as a factor in the alleged low incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in Greenland Eskimos, seems not to be supported in the literature, according to a review published online April 14 in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology."
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>While the supply will keep growing for quite a while, eventually it will stop growing. And lost coins will ensure that the supply keeps dropping beyond that point. Bitcoin can only avoid being deflationary in the long run if demands drops faster than supply.

That's a very long time in the future. Some coins may be lost, but not enough to have a significant force on the price.

> An inflating currency would never catch on.

>Like US dollars? Or Euro?

US dollars were backed by gold. I'm not sure about Euros but I believe they were probably initially backed in an established currency.

>This is an issue if the inflation is rapid. If the inflation is slow and steady, it's a benefit: It means the value of currency that is inactive - because someone put cash in their mattress for example - steadily diminishes, which gives you a reason to ensure your currency holdings are put to use, whether by spending them, investing them, or lending them to someone who will invest them (e.g. in the form of bank deposits). It helps stimulate economic activity.

People do save money by putting in the bank. If bitcoin got large enough there would likely be bitcoin banks. There is also nothing preventing people from doing this with other resources. E.g. rich people buying oil rights or something to store their wealth in, just like they hypothetically would with deflating cash. Spending money also isn't inherently good for the economy. See the broken window fallacy. Prices are flexible. If someone takes money out of the economy, prices will just go down by that much to make up for it. Reverse with spending.

>As long as the rate of inflation is low enough, people are relatively insulated from the negative effects - you won't really notice price changes from day to day or month to month much -, and the yearly inflation can be accommodated when your salary is adjusted.

Wages are generally the last price to change in response to inflation. Wages are the least liquid market. (Artificial) inflation hurts the general population to benefit whatever group receives the printed money first, before prices rise.
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You might be interested in bash-modules library, which is written with these options in mind.
On third hand, how has heard of this site before today?

This community of raving fans is less than a drop in a bucket for IKEA.
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Mozilla is different as well. They have a significant reliance on the volunteer open source community. If you isolate the community, you shouldn't lead.
Why does that matter? And it doesn't matter how great it is if no one wants to use it to begin with because it has no value.
Yes, that sounds like a feature. People who work against gay rights will not be able to work. This is a good thing IMO.
Agreed, I'm not sure it's a good idea to change the # of shifts or any other constants. They are/should be optimized so Differential and Linear properties are minimal over the whole cipher, which is certainly a non-trivial optimization.
So I looked into this a while ago and wasn't really able to find an authoritative answer. Farthest I got was here: http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/DOC...

The claim seems to be that Comcast has the ability to update the firmware of any modem that is physically connected to their network. I don't know if this is actually true. There might be some obscure part of the DOCSIS spec (or an extension) that specifies how firmware updates can be delivered from the coax side (if so, I've certainly never been able to find it, and I don't even want to think about what they're (not) doing for security and authentication).

If this claim is true, then the best you can do is to get a dumb "modem only" device, in order to minimize their control of your hardware and network. Use your own router and/or your own wireless gateway and maintain exclusive firmware control over those devices.

If the claim is false, then they're likely able to get in via some sort of Comcast-specific protocol. This protocol might be in the generic firmware because Comcast also happens to sell this particular device themselves, and maintaining a single firmware image is probably easier for Motorola logistically. I wonder if there are similar update channels for other ISPs on the same device.
They have an ad network but it doesn't necessarily mean they are good at the ad business

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/02/18/apple-iad-stingy/

"Apple's unwillingness to share large amounts of consumer data is hurting its iAd business, according to Madison Avenue media buyers that spoke with AdAge. The company is said to be "downright stingy" with the information it shares, too slow at developing ad products, and "too reticent to foster relationships." "
These days, whenever I do a recursive remove, I always include the parent directory name, just to force the habit. "rm -rf ../project/" (or . in your case). Same effect as ./*, but much clearer - to me, anyway.
>People do indeed have a tendency to do exactly that. Take gold hoarders, for instance.

So then why aren't all rich people hoarding gold and destroying the economy? The argument can be generalized into "any resource deflating is bad", there is nothing special about currency. It would at most be one more resource which is deflating.
The only witch hunts are the with counts against LGBT people. There are people who want to ban mention of LGBT topics, who want to imprison LGBT people, who think those people are wrong and immoral, and think it's right to best this people up and kill them.

If you want to see a witch hunt, look at how many people treat LGBT people.
I thought even Microsoft had given in to OSI's definition of "open source". So you mean open source as in source available, like PGP was. Fair enough.
That's true in some places, but Seattle weather is very good for biking. It's pretty similar weather to Copenhagen and Amsterdam, where everyone bikes. Two "plus" factors that the three cities share are: it rarely gets particularly hot or cold, and the rain mostly comes in the form of drizzle rather than cataclysmic thunderstorms.
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As compare to Google, presumably.

The privacy implications of their respective offerings are quite different. Gmail actively scans your email looking for keywords, while iCloud is not ad-supported and does not read your email. AdWords makes your web searches follow you on the sites that you visit; iAd does not allow your Internet activities to affect the ads that are displayed. Google's servers log what I searched for, and Apple's do not. Etc.
Begs the question. Before you can ask why sexism persists in the video game industry you have to ascertain that it really does persist. Personally, I don't see much evidence.
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Until the next cause célèbre comes along...

Keep in mind a traditional view of marriage has existed for a long time, and many good people have held that traditional view.
Yes, I thought that there was a big assumption in the fourth paragraph of the OA, just under the video.

"Think of the amazing increase in quality of life that we saw in the United States and other rich countries in the past 100 years. We want most of that miracle to take place for all of humanity over the next 50 years." (my emphasis)

I'm wondering if other countries will separate the quality from the quantity a bit better than the currently rich countries have?
What would you think if it was instead popular to segregate women or race? Their favour for religiously harsh revenge-justice for insignificant crimes? Just a con to majority is right mentality. Not justifying Eich or discrimination but it could work against us if it becomes law in a world that is obsessed with exploiting/exposing private matters.
I hear what you're saying, but I believe that anyone who condemns Snowden's crimes while saying nothing about those of Alexander and Clapper is ethically challenged at best. Snowden arguably betrayed his government, while Clapper and Alexander committed offenses of even greater magnitude against the American people. If Andreessen has a beef with anyone, it's with the latter two people.

I personally find it difficult to believe that Snowden's revelations weren't already old news to the influential foreign business and political leaders that are the target of Andreessen's concern trolling. Snowden's sin was bringing the knowledge down the mountain to the rest of us.
>For example, how many of us simply memorized stacks of words to achieve higher scores on the SAT -- did that kind of memorization somehow quickly make us more 'prepared' for college?

Dear God, no. I just had that large a vocabulary.
Yep. That's something I see a lot when looking at stuff from the FP community: map a commonly used term onto something that is easy to do with FP, losing almost all relevant properties. Then claim how the ease of doing <commonly used term> in FP shows the superiority of the FP approach.
I believe it's pretty common for the customer equipment to be updated by the ISP. I have an old modem-only Scientific Atlanta modem. If I start it up on Comcast, the web GUI gets rebranded to Cisco, who now own SA. If I start it on WideOpenWest, it isn't rebranded anymore, it says Scientific Atlanta on the web GUI again.
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I thought this piece was fabulous and a great insight to a man who is finally turning around the company from being completely oblivious to helping the world into a company that cares about the mark it leaves on the world and the actions it can choose to make with its money.

Instead of sitting on its money, Cook is choosing to use some of Apple's cash stockpile for good such as by building 100% clean energy datacenters and beginning to open up to donation to charity/education as well as working to force its supply chain to be more fair on the humans it relies on.

It's a great new direction for Apple; critics could say it's not enough, but it's better than the company was under Jobs in terms of philanthropy.
I'd like to understand what you mean by "mob". Do you people individual choices about who to work for and volunteer for being influenced by what they feel about the political views of the leaders of organisations?

Are you saying that people who are in group that has been oppressed in recent history and people may feel still is oppressed or unequal who feel that Eich was trying to deny them equal rights (in society) should be "more thick skinned"and carry on working for his organisation rather than speak their mind.

I am aware that there is a certain spin to the above paragraph but saying that victims (at least in the recent past) should be "more thick skinned" sounds pretty offensive from a certain viewpoint.
For me, a16z was just the best VC ever, I thought wow finally somebody different to everyone else, finally a real investor. But that statement just shattered all my high opinions of them, they're just another VC firm/shark/herd investor like everyone else. How sad :((
If you're going to memorize 6 digits, I'd hope you would get more than 6 digits of accuracy at approximating pi. Try 355/113
and that sucks, which is the reason why developers who do not wish to become grand masters in communications skills and Buddhist patience must leave the enterprise :P
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I mean didn't the no poaching agreement come from Apple?
And there is of course Elite: Dangerous:

http://elite.frontier.co.uk/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-danger...

And while I'm dropping links, I found this older interview with Bell (hosted on Bell's homepage, apparently):

http://www.iancgbell.clara.net/elite/archive/b5081501.htm
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