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Corporate IT departments tend to rely far too much on network level security like this. But if the users machine is compromised in some way network security is completely useless. Even if TLS was completely perfect there would still be vulnerabilities in software that could be attacked on-mass.
Google doesn't have any data centres in the UK.

http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/ind...
What exactly are these problems? My only problem has been difficulty forcing it to get down to "advanced options" on certain parts where something needs a minor adjustment that doesn't work through the normal channels
That's empirically incorrect; 0day means more than just that nowadays.
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Can you please specify what is your config (including how you actually block those) so we can fix it?
I remember using Toneloc during that time to wardial entire exchanges looking for dialup modems into servers. I wonder how many people I annoyed with getting phone calls in the middle of the night with my 14.4 modem screeching in their ear.
You're asking if there's such a thing as an enforceable noncommercial license?
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Then you don't understand why copyright was created.

It's not there to give forever and ever protection. It's there to allow you to get some money before society, which made your product worth something in the first place, can incorporate it into culture where it belonged in the first place.

Disney themselves love using other people stories constantly, but no-one can use theirs for extreme amounts of time because they've distorted the meaning of copyright.

There's no good reason for someone else's ideas to be protected, it doesn't benefit society at all. Copyright should be 10-15 years, not this ridiculous century.

Apart from America as it exports the stuff, so, surprise, surprise, they've bullied the rest of the world into making stupidly long copyrights so that everything created in the last century is languishing in untouchable hell so a few big brands can continue making money off things that should be public domain.
> this is the trouble with ssds, they just die

As opposed to hard drives, which are always so good about failing predictably /s

My take away was that SSDs are somewhat easy to predict failure on. I'd take predictable failure over unpredictable any day.
The Mondragon experiment
it's sarcasm.
The main difference is structural sharing: I can update a Clojure map with a new value, which will create another map that shares the vast majority of the data with the former map. With plain JavaScript, you'd have to clone your object, update it and freeze it again. In addition Clojure/ClojureScript/mori offer a whole API designed to leverage immutable data structures.
Well there are well-known noncommercial clauses about redistribution of software. But this license is about restricting third-party modifications, like plugins, which don't contain copyrighted code, but do link to it and target its API. So yes I'm asking if that's enforceable, and what type of law allows for that (contract or copyright?).

Or did you mean noncommercial use, as in evaluation licenses?

(edit: several edits because I am confused)
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It's actually named KL (with a lower-case L), but yes, that was close.
Maybe I'm being naive, but while I'm certain there are easy ways for GCHQ and others to obtain data of chosen people, I have a hard time believing Google would just give them all-you-can-eat data access with no restrictions or monitoring. Simply because they are big enough to be able to take their data elsewhere.
You might find this debate from Intelligence Squared interesting on this topic.

http://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/state-snooping-is-...
> The more important takeaway

That's exactly the issue - you can't have a takeaway if you don't have a reasonable sample size. Are these drives all in the top 5% of quality for their respective brands? We'll never know unless we do a larger study.
Well, first of all, there is mmap(), which does indeed make data available in memory without streaming it through the CPU first. If you have a 10GB file and really just want to read one data point out of the middle, with Cap'n Proto (and FlatBuffers) it's perfectly reasonable to mmap() the whole thing and traverse to that one item.

Meanwhile, in networking, there is RDMA, which indeed allows memory to be transferred over the network without involving the CPU on either end.

But even ignoring those things, memory bandwidth is actually a big reason why you should not want to transform things upfront. You see, if you have an upfront transformation, you're streaming the data into the CPU, then back out in the new format, and then reading it back in again later on when you actually use it. If your data is small enough, perhaps it all stays in cache and this isn't an issue. But if it's large, then you're doubling or tripling your memory bandwidth usage by having a decode step.

In any case, the fact is that there are lots of real servers out there that are CPU bound and spend double-digit percentages of their time encoding and decoding Protobufs.
I wonder if there's a way to get those ssd metrics like wear indication and reallocated sectors on the macbook? Not that I'm ever likely to write that much data
Sorry, data center fiber connections, not data centers.
Can we have a "Betteridge headline" option next to [flag]?
Quoting from the wiki...
"Criminologist Marvin Wolfgang, who described himself "as strong a gun-control advocate as can be found among the criminologists in this country" and whose opinion of guns was "I would eliminate all guns from the civilian population and maybe even from the police. I hate guns--ugly, nasty instruments designed to kill people" defended Kleck's methodology, saying "What troubles me is the article by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz. The reason I am troubled is that they have provided an almost clear-cut case of methodologically sound research in support of something I have theoretically opposed for years, namely, the use of a gun in defense against a criminal perpetrator". He went on to say that the NCVS survey did not contradict the Kleck study and that "I do not like their conclusions that having a gun can be useful, but I cannot fault their methodology. They have tried earnestly to meet all objections in advance and have done exceedingly well.""

He deserves credit for recognizing his personal bias.

Here is Wolfgang's 1995 paper, "A tribute to a position I have opposed." http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/cgi/viewcontent...
If you only issue licenses to businesses that aren't close to other businesses, you've created an artificial scarcity. That's fine, but the economically optimal solution to scarce licensing is auctioning or, if that doesn't work, secondary markets.
I have ideas around providing CSP in ki, but so far I haven't implemented them. All there is in ki right now is the (letc ...) form (see http://ki-lang.org/api.html#misc), which provides very similar functionality to LiveScript's backcalls. It is no CSP but it allows to straighten up nested async calls.
I think that's a bit of a weird comparison: a "typical" Linux boot on a server usually doesn't involve bringing up a GUI, while on Windows you're always bringing the GUI up (right? I haven't touched Windows in years; maybe new Windows Server versions have a true headless option?). If you were to bring up X11 with a full-featured desktop environment on a Linux server, I imagine the I/O operation count would go up quite a bit.
Interesting read, thanks. I do wonder about his characterisation of Philosophical Investigations: he seems to be saying it's only good for showing philosophy students that philosophical ideas are duff, whereas I think it has more value in showing that ideas most people carry around in the back of their heads (like: "there is such a thing as the meaning of a word") are duff, and maybe working towards disinfection of the collective psyche in that regard. Also, it's not quite as out-of-kilter with the Tractatus as implied. The Tractatus itself was aimed at ruling a lot of metaphysical theorising as out-of-court. Philosophical Investigations does revise the approach substantially, but shares some of the goals of the earlier work.

Maybe the most enjoyable thing, though, was the complete lack of any false modesty on the part of the interviewee:

> I can do psychology [...] far better than the best psychologist like Daniel Kahneman, who hasn’t been trained up in philosophy. It may be because I’m smarter than him. But there’s probably more to it than just that.

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You can opt-out, says Microsoft.

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https://choice.microsoft.com/en-us/opt-out

For personalized ads from other companies [1], it redirects me to this, which doesn't work:

https://www.aboutads.info/

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The section regarding external communications starts on page 37. The same document seems to contradict this article's premise:

(from p.41) "Despite the fact that some UK to UK communications may be intercepted under section 8(4) warrants and that common uses of the internet by persons in the British Islands, such as a Google search, a Facebook post, or a "tweet" on Twitter, may entail the making of "external communications" for the purposes of Chapter I of RIPA, the section 8(4) regime as a whole is designed so as not to authorise the selection for examination of communications of this nature, except in the tightly constrained circumstances set out in section 16 of RIPA."

Disclaimer: IANA-(British)-L
I was hoping the one aditya linked was newer as the article was written this year. Did they reuse that old video or is there indeed new footage?
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Also, houses are made of wood and have carpeted floors. Highly flammable.
I didn't quite understand the need for openscoring and pmml. If it's just a question of using a sklearn model to predict an outcome, why not just build it into a simple json-rpc with Tornado, Gevent or whatever the rage is, currently?
I wonder if this is just a retelling of the myth(?) that leet speak originated in the practice of renaming files to avoid detection by sysadmins.
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The offices at Nortel (and Qualcomm, too) are lined with patent plaques; they covered every wall I saw. It was definitely a patent culture.
They held the sandbox breaking contest (our team came in second!) in 2009. You're suggesting they announced in 2011, right?
Well I did not want to promote C~ that much in that article :-) (there is not even a reference in the post). And yes the post is a bit simplistic, but I wrote this in response to hardware designers who believed that any sequential code (mostly C/C++) could be transformed to hardware given the proper tools.

I guess I could have been more precise, because indeed Haskell would not have the limitations of sequential languages (such as parallelism limited because of explicit memory references). Maybe I'll talk about parallelism in another article!
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Since the secret laws are actually out there, what conclusion does this fact support?
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Is this only the English version? I read somewhere that translations are derived works and hold a different status.
Its in Arch's [extra] repo, which is convenient.
It also comes with a "No Piracy" emoji:

https://twitter.com/xor/status/478797422496215040/photo/1
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You should try it with a lightweight plastic football. They are smooth and really easy to spin so the effect is quite obvious. The more harder you strike it the more it will curl the wrong way.
It goes on though to say that tweets are posted to a US platform, not an individual, so they all count as external. Only email from one person to another both in the UK is "internal" but they admit it will be collected anyway, but say they can't look at it.
I imagine minecraft hosting is a lot more expensive. The server has to keep substantially more state as well as deal with users potentially consuming a lot of CPU server side resources (why most servers ban things like TNT and fire). There are all also a ton of mods that users may want. I imagine your 3c/mo game doesn't have the same amount of interactivity involved.

The real issue is that there are a fair amount of people who want to run minecraft servers for free anyway that it forces out commercial operators.
I thought NPR's piece on Harper High in Chicago was an interesting look into a culture where, despite strong gun control laws, many young people feel it's a necessity to carry guns for defense. Do they NEED guns? I don't know, but how do you convince them that they don't? What would motivate these kids to disarm when they know the people they're afraid of are possessing/carrying firearms illegally? (Ironically, the gun laws cause people to keep their guns in abandoned buildings and under bushes, where kids can and do find them.)

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/488/h... (Act 3 in particular looks at how kids obtain guns)
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http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BounceLanguage

http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/lang/bounce/bounce.html

http://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality-profiles/vpl-research....

http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/graphics/misc/siggraph/courses...

https://w2.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/being...
Bluebeep was written in pascal and IIRC it had a really impressive content management system in there.

I was inspired by it to write a UK-centric redboxing program on the Psion organiser. I can't remember what language psions used. It worked though, through a mix of tone generation and a little social engineering you could get free calls from payphones in the UK. I remember working really hard to figure out how to convert from the Mhz figure I needed to produce into whatever input the psion's sound API took. Fun times.
> The more Disney uses variations of them, the bigger the minefield becomes in terms of sticking to the depictions that enters/have entered public domain.

That's a two-edged sword. If someone else produces material featuring Steamboat Willy which does not violate recent usage, it could seriously curtail Disney's future ability to use the character as well.
I'm in London, and have a list of people who were looking for ppc machines (in process of distributing some ppc mac minis I acquired), email in profile... I might be able to get to north west surrey too...
> Here I am working hard end paying my taxes so that (in a very, very small way $ or % wise) I'm empowering someone else to just sit around and get paid to do nothing but pop out babies and raise them poorly.

Personally, what causes me to feel moral outrage is when I encounter this sort of derogatory statements, aimed at the poor. Based on something once overheard on a bus, nonetheless.

The fact that there is a tiny percentage abusing the help is a very poor excuse for not giving help to the much, much larger percentage of people who are deeply, genuinely in need of it.

As a continuation of your realization that your opinions are probably based on irrational emotions: why is this irrational anger aimed at the part of society that is least well off? For instance, I wonder what is the percentage of actually rich people who are payed with tax dollars to do nothing of value, or even something destructive.
I'm not entirely sure you would necessarily need more lines of code to express it in python or Javascript, to be honest. I'll see if I can give it a shot this weekend. Curious to really know. You could certainly use more, but the same could be said of Haskel, as well.

But I'm not necessarily trying to make a claim that it can't be done in Haskel. More that I have not seen it done. You can claim that the final polish of the original is irrelevant, but I find that claim hard to believe. Especially since I have yet to see an example that has said polish.

Sadly, I don't know how you would really go about proving that one way or the other.
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There's a lot of luck there, but it's a good reminder that features don't sell games. "Fun" sells games, and it's very hard to quantify.
Okay, I'll take the bate :-P
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> I suspect an English translation would be even easier for English speakers to read.

Yeah but it would take-away the prestige, that comes with the proverb. Reciting English is one thing, reciting Latin is another ;-)

> That's Greek to me!

Exactly!!!
> If you're trying to translate an arbitrary high level program into hardware, that's gonna be a pain in the ass.

What I'm trying to show in this post (and obviously I failed, sorry!) is that transforming a program written in a high-level sequential language to hardware is indeed a pain in the ass, but even more it just leads to inefficient hardware. Of course I took a somewhat extreme example with C++ and STL :D
> So you enter a read-only mode, and then on power cycle you self-destruct, making the intact data inaccessible? In what circumstance is that possibly the right choice?

I agree with you - I was surprised by the behaviour the article describes. That said, the obvious alternative of entering a permanent read only state is still problematic: how do you dispose of such a drive safely when you can't overwrite the data that remains? You'd need people to be aware of the secure erase command and continue to support that in read only mode.
I'd like to see the same kind of test with identical drives mirrored (RAID 1 or another suitable way to precisely duplicate disk I/O). One of the things I've always wondered is if two SSDs from the same lot are more likely to fail at the same time. It's not unusual to have such an arrangement in a newly deployed server. Longevity is (more than) nice, but simultaneous failure is still a disaster, whenever it happens. Does it make sense to provision drives that don't match exactly (in age, manufacturer, etc.) in order to avoid potential issues?
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Actually, yes. Most doctors would call it fringe science, but I've been able to improve my eyesight with what's called Plus Lens Therapy. It has you wear glasses that are the opposite of those you've been subscribed, or that are significantly less strong, and using them while actively trying to focus at the edge of blur, e.g. by reading a book and keeping it far enough away so it's ever so slightly blurry but not too blurry either, forcing your eyes to clear the image. It's not clear why it works – do your eyes actually start changing their shape, or is it simply the eye muscles that get stronger? – but if you're willing to put in the months and months of effort it requires, for many it does help.

See http://gettingstronger.org/2010/07/improve-eyesight-and-thro...
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Oh just put it back in the deck.

Someone reading this who has a brain can easily figure out that you got it out in the first place. I was only talking about geographic and economic circumstances.

If you actively declare your ethnicity while throwing around accusations of race-baiting whenever someone highlights your baseless brand affinity,

Whatever. I was giving you a chance to "put the card back" but you blundered ahead anyhow. Anyone reading this thread can see you open up with the race-baiting question. Now you are upset because you were called out for it, and it's there to read.

Exercise: Where do you try to use set-like precision where it's not appropriate and wind up with racist pseudo logic, and what should one learn from that?

Also, if this is really about "brand loyalty" from the beginning, why does it take you so long in the thread to come out with brand-related evidence? Come on now.
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Great news someone is investing in this recession-stricken country of ours.

It would be worth noting that "capiche", "capisce" and variations of it are not an Italian expression. Also, I'm guessing "ora che cosa?" is a direct translation of "what now?" and would be better put as "E adesso?".
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> Apparently there are 100, of which you consumed 0.

The 100 is a normalized number, it's not the actual number of blocks. (A percentage basically, so 100% are still left.)

If the drive used any blocks at all I'd worry about it, I would not consider it a wear indicator but rather a failure indicator.
Plus, you know, if you want a couple of big guys a long to impress a date. "Yeah, since I got my 2nd round the VCs insist on it."
Don't forget about "the muslim problem" and the "international islamic conspiracy".

I'm sorry to Godwin the thread, but it's pertinent. The push on "british values" (nationalism) and "preventing non-violent extremism" (such doublespeak) and "combatting islam" is fucking terrifying to anyone even vaguely familiar with the events that preceded the holocaust and the second world war.

The surveillance state we find ourselves under just makes it that much easier for atrocities to be committed and utterly hidden from view.
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Happened to me too. Unfortunately, lending money or items to a friend is very dangerous if that friend is precious.

When it comes to money, I'd say generally speaking: lend as much as you can afford to lose. Like short-term, high-risk investments: It is a high-risk investment, you could loose a friend. On the other hand, the bond could become stronger and he will owe you one, but friends who count who owes how much to whom are in bad territory anyway...
Really neat announcement. This opens up a bunch of interesting possibilities for applications that are cpu-bound once you're on SSD, but for which the delta between SSD-backed EBS and ephemeral storage doesn't change the bottleneck.

In particular, in that sort of scenario, you might be able to mix-and-match and get a compute-optimized instance with loads of cpu power and a healthy amount of sufficiently performant storage on EBS.
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