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The government is absolutely the force of censorship here. These requests to be forgotten only have any teeth because the government backs them with its ability to punish Google if they fail to comply with them.
Interesting. Do they have a public road map so one can see how far they've come with this project?
Why no mention of FirefoxOS?

The Mozilla foundation has our best interests at heart much more than Google and while it's not C++, html5/javascript is certainly an open enough platform which basically everything has started to target anyways.

Sure, a pure linux phone would be cool in some ways, but FirefoxOS seems much closer, realer, and every bit as awesome.
This is one thing that has always annoyed me about debian. Nice to see there is a solution.

I rather prefer the /etc/rc.conf approach of BSD systems though.
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> ... CyanogenMod is free; it is mostly a build of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) release with a bunch of added goodies. Google's proprietary user-space apps and utilities are available, but they must be downloaded and installed separately.

Interesting. Isn't this against any Google terms?
And think about it in the longer term (talking from a Brit perspective here). In ye olden times, when everything was made of wood, people could still go down to their library and look through newspaper archives and find out stuff about what you'd done, however 'spent' the conviction. (OK, the UI wasn't great, but those were the days when local papers would reliably have loads of reports of magistrates courts, so the content was probably better. My brother and his friends, who often made an appearance, called it "Stars In Their Eyes".)

It is not illegal for newspapers to report past, spent convictions if you should make your way back into the public eye. There has never been a right to 'privacy' in this way. There still isn't, except for Google's search index.

In general, privacy laws of this kind - which we know all too much about in this country - help the powerful. (I don't notice any blacklisted trade unionists taking out superinjunctions - just Trafigura[0] covering up an ecological atrocity and rich men concealing their infidelity[1][2].)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura#Super-injunction

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389841/Ryan-Giggs-n...

[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13190424
Unless you were happy with the default configuration, in which case it is much easier not having to start the thing manually.
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I tried to setup a Seafile server a while ago, and it looked kind of slick at first, but it was pretty hard to get up. Lots of dependencies, and then the first thing after I got it running was that my server got 100% load and could only be accessed after power cycling.
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Thanks for the link to that white paper. I've skimmed the intro, and
then skipped to the end for their conclusions. I'll read the whole thing
later tonight, but as expected, the conclusion states itself to be
speculative, without supporting data, and in need of more research. From
the pdf:

> "many experts speculate that the overall benefits outweigh the
potential negative externalities."

> "Additional research is necessary on a number of aspects related to AVs,
including ..."

Like everyone, I really want to believe having more automated and
autonomous vehicles on the road will result in fewer accidents, reduced
congestion, and other benefits, but all we really have at the moment is
(seemingly well reasoned) speculation since we lack supporting data.
Until we have supporting data from repeatable experiments, whether the
speculated benefits will both materialize outweigh the negative impacts
should remain open questions. The open questions will get answered,
eventually, but it will take a few decades and buying into the all the
speculated hype at this early and unproven stage is harmful.

I guess I'd rather be cautiously optimistic until we have more useful
and repeatable results.
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Some asshole might be screwing lots of businesses, suing them, being a patent troll, etc. Let's call him - made a fortune on loopholes and f other businesses, dodgy/illegal deals, and so on.

And you will never know whom you face, because apparantly that he has a right to prohibit others learning about his wrong-doings.
I always feel that Elementary OS is all looks, no substance. They replace many well-established applications with their own basic apps that might look better but lack functionality.
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Isn't TextSecure already built into Cyanogen SMS app? And anyway dependent on the Google Play Services?
Damn, that's very nice. I guess they won't be using MPEG anymore though :)
My point is two-fold:

1. You can't have real and complete usage statistics so those metrics are at best meaningless and at worst misleading. Also, something being popular doesn't mean that it will fit one's workflow and needs.

2. Choosing a tool because of its perceived (through meaningless/misleading numbers) is not really the smarter way to build-up one's config.
I think a saner default would be to not start daemons on install. It's one of the reasons CentOS has grown on me.

The biggest annoyance is the lack of consistency. Some daemons start on install, others do not. Some use an /etc/default file to control it, others do not.
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Hey samnardoni, you might wanna check the updated video. same link.
How about a reform that tie patents with the R&D costs? placing the incentive where it's actually matter

i.e:

* for each patent filed, one should provide an 'expanse clause' of the R&D expanses

* if one file a patent then those expanses became taxable (the same way warehouse stock is?)

* when applying one can choose to hold the patent for a limited some of years (say 5) WITHOUT dependeing on ROI,
OR
hold the patent untill ROI exced 10 fold but no longer then 10 years. (number cand depend on general public priorities {medical , novelty , etc.} )

* the 'expanse clause' should be limited to what R&D that is strongly tied with the current patent, but can include failed R&D as long as they are strongly tied to the successed one.

* patent must reach a working implementation within the 1st year of filing, or they are revoked.

* maybe have two types of patents:
- one like the above for those with working implementation,
- the other for 'consept patents' that have a fix price for filing, and can be held for up to 12 months before one must file a 'regular patent' with a working implementation, and if faild to do so, it is revoked retroactivly so it can be used to sue.

[*] P.S. not a native english speaker, so commetns on grammer and spelling mistakes are actually welcome.
I have repeated endlessly, "Do you know what arandom number is? Like lottery?" NIST is a governemnt random number.

You can play dumb. I'll laugh at you.
Also post it on your Facebook, for prosperity.
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I'm guessing that Swat Inc. gets a permit (or some other legal construct) allowing them to act as police officers. A bit like an extreme version of citizen's arrest.
I think properties should allow direct constructor assignment. I think it looks better than strings.

props: { name: String, age: Number }
presumably, as a programmer, you check return values. Especially if they could be a null reference
In their defence, if we all really just did it like this, it really will all be perfect. Communism only failed because they didn't remove enough problems and over-extended their limited resources. Look at the Amish for a successful example.
interesting how the article goes on to say that 2015 will be a massive year for the car - hydrogen powered cars... - ...installing the infrastructure is prohibitive.

I wonder how they make that leap? This technology will take some years to refine and sounds like 2015 to be talking about hydrogen fuel cell cars (however the hydrogen is produced and stored) is a wee bit premature.
No one is making the claims you're refuting. If you don't like Google's results then you can use a different search engine. The issue is that the government is censoring information. You can't fix that by using a different search engine because the other search engine is presumably subject to the same law.
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I've used GMail before I switched to Fastmail. Not missing any e-mails, don't notice any excessive battery drain (using K-9 Mail here)
This is the same article that was posted here a few days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7930430 (335 points, 200 comments)
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> The newspapers aren't wrong to report things.

Is there such an EU country, where newspaper is permitted to disclose identity protected victims by officials?

> Now ask yourself, is that the world you want to live in?

I want to live in a world, where search engines do what they are supposed to do - search the internet. For the hamrful information available, authors shall be accounted responsible.

Shall we pass any law by giving colourful examples? Yes, censorship can be positive, if it protects the girl you knew, I agree, but it does not stop being censorship.
So wait private corporation are allowed to have SWAT teams now?

That sounds safe...
...and my repost from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4821942.

A bookmarklet (paste in address bar) to show truly random and "evened out" dot distributions side by side. (Don't laugh at my Javascript):

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I've been trying to give the police orders, but they are fucken stupid niggers needing a beating.
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> pling: Or you could just stop using the tools that incriminate you? Voting with your feet works pretty well.

What a stupid thing to say.

Are you seriously suggesting that people "just" opt-out of modern life?
That works for native types but gets trickier for custom datatypes, and ones where you want to specify custom getters and setters for example, and then specifying some as strings and some as constructors gets messy.

We do need to do some more documentation/cleanup around custom datatypes though for sure.
I understand that this concept has the upside of not having to trust a central authority, but is this really any better than trusted timestamping[0], at least from a legal perspective?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Occasionally, usually over zealous stripping back of machines in very controlled environments[1].

1. I don't do much work with these kinds of customers any more as I chose not to go for security clearance (on purpose, as this is a convenient way of avoiding these kinds of customers).
Probably because it is more work in that environment. To accept payments for an ad-free version you need to create and maintain some sort of payment processing, and of course user authentication & session management. With iOS apps a lot of this is baked in.

Also it is much easier (for a non-technical user at least) to just skip the ads on the web using browser plug-ins, than it is to get around them in an app, so to an extent this extra work may be wasted and the number of people who take up the "pay for no ads" option might not be enough to warrant the work that goes into maintaining it.

There are some sites that offer the "ads or pay" option so it presumably works out worthwhile for some sites, but I've not seen it often.
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None of my java classes are this that long. 3 words max.
TextSecure uses Google's push service because there is no viable alternative available.
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Ah, OK thanks for the clarification.
"Why push for developers to waste time porting between c++ and java"

Yes, using something like C# and Mono would be a huge win.
Is there a good open-source swipe keyboard available in F-Droid? I couldn't find one.
Another alternative is just bypass the Deb repo's altogether and install from source, but do so using the awesome Debian Alternatives tool [1] so as not to drop a bunch of unmanaged files into /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin, etc. Takes some setup work, but very powerful and useful after you get it working. Example scripts:

https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/h...

https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/j...

https://github.com/byrongibson/scripts/tree/master/install/s...

Can do similarly with any other package. Download and compile the source to --prefix=/opt/name/version, look at the /opt structure (it will mirror /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin/, /usr/share/man) and script the update-alternatives command correspondingly.

Tons of benefits, among them being better post-install startup control, but also you can install multiple versions side-by-side and swap among with a single command. Upgrade painlessly, rollback if the new version breaks things, all very easily.

Reminiscent of Gobo Linux [2] but still a Debian.

[1]:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

[2]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoboLinux
Only if apps don't matter to that target user base. Most people will probably not want to go without Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Pandora, Netflix, etc., and devs won't build for a small user base (just ask Microsoft or Blackberry). A Google-stripped Android phone would at least be able to run Android apps.
Not as much stupid as opportunistic and complacent/lazy...
Why would a financial institution invest on something that would bring smaller profit margins than keeping everything as is ? Making money has a much higher priority than providing optimal customer service and as such until competition forces said institutions to adapt they have no incentive to change to a less profitable model...
No problem :) it looks really good - just thought I'd point that out!
I've been bitten myself by this during my Chef days. Good to see a solution!
I killed almost a year on a similar project and it flopped majestically.

I even worked out how to do the whole verification part that it works out of the box without the need for any software or 3rd party service. You just needed a Windows box. Still that made no difference whatsoever, because ultimately selling this sort of service is like selling insurance. You have to force people to think about bad things that could happen in order to make a sale, and that's just not everyone's cup 'o tea.

Postmortem - http://swapped.cc/certtime
I'm not a fan of the ruling, but Given the nature of the ruling, I think it's unlikely that information like this would be removed from Google's index.
I'd be more interested in the reverse; getting the "mothership" (ie first-class Google services) without Googles platform. I just generally dislike Android and would love to see something that allows running Android apps smoothly and transparently on a GNUish/POSIXy system, especially on mobile devices. Haven't tried Jolla/SailfishOS yet, maybe it delivers on that front.

Last time I noticed this "disconnect" was when I looked into running TextSecure on my desktop. Sadly it seems that there isn't really any good way of doing that (yet). I'd imagine that these days you could whip something up with LXC and Android-x86, but it would obviously need some effort to make it really smooth experience.
FirefoxOS is definitely a step forward and I'd love to see it overtake Android, but its only a half measure. The problem is a phone does not need to be an operating system, it would be fine as just a program/desktop environment running on linux. A phone is not a special case, there are plenty of mission critical applications that run on top of linux without having to resort to building a whole new OS.
> 1. Physical exercise won't help but getting up from your seat does. The former is a super set of the latter. You could argue that you only get up once for physical exercise but you can't totally discount the muscle movements during that 30-60 min period.

They're not saying sitting for extended periods negates all of the advantages of exercise, but what they are saying is that no amount of exercise can negate all of the disadvantages of sitting for extended periods. The counter-intuitiveness of this claim is exactly why this is in the news.
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You are only considering the censorship aspect, and seem to be ignoring the privacy aspect. When people call this EU policy censorship, I can't help thinking that they consider all forms of privacy protection as censorship.

And I see including the message only on affected pages as a kind of circumvention of the court ruling, because then the privacy of the individual is not really protected. Seeing such a warning only on an affected individual's search page would prompt searchers who are not already aware of any issue to look deeper, and probably find the information. (Which is why you want this I guess, since you seem to dislike the court ruling, and this would effectively circumvent it.)
That's the same "think of the children" kind of logic that governments use to justify PRISM et al.

So the real question is, do we want our private lives permanently documented for all to see; or do we deserve some level of privacy knowing there's a legitimate risk that a very small number of people will abuse those rights?

Personally I have the opinion that bad people will always find ways to do bad things; so I'd rather not punish the majority of good people out there just on the off chance that we can catch a couple of extra bad people.
It seems normal that there is debate about details of a theory. However, the relevant aspect seems to be is there significant global warming because of human influence and should action be taken against it.

I think people who deny one or both of those two points are usually called global warming deniers (or skeptics, which might give them too much credit). I don't think arguing about some detail of the theory is in the same camp.
How many of those apps actually run without Google integration, though, and how many will continue to in the future? Google's moving more and more core functionality into their proprietary components.
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Yes, and the government has teeth because it is backed by its citizens. You could probably argue that the main force from governments comes from police and other armed force, but this is not what found their legitimacy. And most people in Europe, for historical and deep-rooted cultural reasons, seem to be in favor of the ruling. So all is well!
A file in /etc/default is a standardized way. It's part of the Debian Policy.

Putting it in the metadata wouldn't help, since the point is to be mutable, that is, to allow the admin to switch the default to "run on startup".
Yes - truth be told, I am not sure if there's much to take away from this article if you're not really aiming for something huge. And even then, maybe you should spend time on what'll get you traction rather than trying to design an architecture for what you hope to become. Instagram is very much an outlier.
The EU ruling is not about publishing, so your comment is a non sequitur. The EU ruling concerns Google's search index. That's something completely different.
Impending lawsuit from THE SOCIAL NETWORK...

No, in all seriousness I think the key to services such as these is trust. Trust that no matter what the company won't falter and nip into the database and change a few dates.

When people actually need this service, they'll really need it and I'm wondering without an accredited and independent survey of the site and company (as well an employees) whether this will be worth anything legally and in a court of law?

I don't know
I had written a comparison between server management systems including Ajenti: http://yusufarslan.net/choosing-control-panel-server-managem...
Not sure if anyone pointed this out here before, but asking for a participant's gender in a questionnaire before any of the questions are actually asked skews the results. It's got to do with stereotype threat and is scientifically proven.
I'm not sure undefined behaviors are so much unpredictable...
And, even if that doesn't somehow make you rich, at least you've got it there for posterity, as well :-)
The government is not censoring information. The information is still available at the source. The government is preventing Google and other search engines from permanently indexing personal irrelevant or no longer relevant information. I am beginning to get the impression, most commenters who are against the ruling barely bothered to even read it properly before forming an opinion.
AFAIK, Mehserle is still unable to become a LEO due to his conviction and loss of appeal [1]. Of course, he still might work for a police department as parking enforcement or receptionist. But he'll never be legally able to hold a gun ever again.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Mehserle#Appeal
What would be really nice would be seeing a language-agnostic device. Based on linux, with the same APIs available to everyone, so that as on desktop linux, a thousand languages can bloom, and everyone can use the development language of their choice (including yet to be invented languages). GUI bindings would be the issue here of course, but it is not insurmountable.

It's a shame that the software landscape is so dominated by large corporations, who demand a tithe of our data every time we want to use a device.
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Does an average consumer have good reason to not use them though?
After spending some time as a contractor doing systems work for a few companies I've stopped ever assigning an internal network to 192.168.0.0, 192.168.1.0, or 10.0.0.0.

The number of times I found myself attempting to VPN into a clients network, only to find it conflicted either with my home network, or whatever coffee shop I was sitting in, was ridiculous. Depending how many hosts you need to run on your network there are huge numbers of possible subnets you could use for an internal network - do yourself a favour and keep off the ones set up be default on every router sold.
Nice writeup, I think your conclusion is pretty spot on. People neglect to buy insurance, don't back up data, and ignore safety margins. Why would they start timestamping their files.

That being said, I really like how the service worked. If I understand it correctly, I would download the signed work (signed .exe with content included), which also means that I would have proof after the service got shut down.
We might not agree, they do provide us a great service actually. One can never have to many different opinions to consider. It seems online American opinions about what Europe should do outnumber the European opinions 10 to 1. They told us a million times what they think about it.

What do the Russians think? And the Chinese? And the Africans? No one knows? Assuming they even have an opinion about it?

If we don't like it we can always censor them?

hehehe