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The police being able to turn off vehicles should be heavily restricted and logged to help prevent abuse.

Maybe even require them to contact the manufacturer to get this done.

OnStar can do it currently can't they?
Don't agree. Except unit tests, the automated testing should be done on the very final version of the app/site/software, so that you can also catch integration/optimization related problems.
The JavaScript syntax is easy to get started, and provides many ideas that are not or poorly available in other programming languages. I think, it is not a coincidence that we see this language in a number of different realms today. This is also an interesting read: http://www.2ality.com/2014/07/stages-of-js.html
They just omit the identity of the suggestor..
>How would you go about stopping an autonomous semi truck that was programmed to drive through crowds?

Same way you stop an non-autonomous one

>Will terrorists use autonomous cars as delivery mechanisms for what were formerly suicide bombs?

No. If they wanted to the could use a $200 remote control car to get a good sized bomb into a crowd from a distance.

For those people, suicide is part of the point.

>could a sufficiently skilled 'hacker' intentionally break that sandbox without a trace only to blame it on bad technology?

It doesn't take a genius to cut a few brake lines of your target, but we don't see that happening.
Netflix has actually addressed this in one of their blog posts: http://blog.netflix.com/2014/03/internet-tolls-and-case-for-...

> But when we ask them if we too would qualify for no-fee interconnect if we changed our service to upload as much data as we download -- thus filling their upstream networks and nearly doubling our total traffic -- there is an uncomfortable silence. That's because the ISP argument isn't sensible. Big ISPs aren't paying money to services like online backup that generate more upstream than downstream traffic. Data direction, in other words, has nothing to do with costs.

> in other words, moving to peer-to-peer content delivery
Point of information about Verizon as a purely residential carrier: Verizon owns MCI/Worldcom and Terremark. They're not just a residential carrier. I don't have any idea what the ratio of residential to business traffic is, of course, but I think Verizon is a real Tier 1 carrier. Happy to have someone with more definite data chime in if I'm wrong.
Very cool! Is there any plan to support the slightly different Windows 8.1 tile sizes:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/bg18289... ? I'll be the first to admit there likely isn't much appetite for that, but I'd like it.
That's a lot of qualifiers and still doesn't have anything to do with these Nokia phones.
Thinking it is condescending is once again refusing to take responsibility. Its one thing to allow someone to drink 6 cans of Coke Zero a day, its another to actively manipulate someone into doing so. By saying, "Everyone is just as smart as me" what you are actually doing is removing the responsibility of being more capable.

There are 10 people trapped on an island. You are the only one who knows how to make a boat. Are you responsible to help the other 9 people get off the island? Or are they just "rational actors" that should have know to learn to make a boat and therefore none of your responsibility?

You are letting a mental trick you use in your head to deal with the inequality in the world to control your entire view of the world.
I don't think the report (which is apparently unreleased so i'm speculating) is suggesting that the autonomous car itself presents a greater threat in traffic, but that the driver who no longer has to worry about operating the vehicle is more free to shoot at the cops and bystanders and whatnot - which would be true.
Why would Facebook outsource storing payment information?

Because others might be better at it.
By no means is that true. Some are complicit; some are bad.
I am biking with one hand and filming with the other. The image doesn't shake, try do film walking or biking and you'll see
At a glance that app looks like it will read your data, enriching parent company KISSMETRIC's data set. So - not giving your metrics away to a third party is a massive plus here.
Passenger: "Uh, car, the bridge is out."

Car: "I know Luke" speeds up to jump it

Passenger: "Who's Luke"?

Car: "YEEHAW!!" hits the rebel horn

But seriously, FBI analysts get paid to imagine all types of future scenarios let's not hold it against them too much. It wouldn't surprise me though to see more anti-electronic gear, such as EMP, in the field as we go forward. They already have devices that can shut down a car, I imagine they'll work on these new ones just as well and the FBI simply wants to prepare for it.
Facebook and YouTube have both tried product sales with insane revenue splits and seem to have failed so far. Not sure why they are trying this again.

My guess is that most don't have 30% of gross spare when they could just link out. It's one level of egregious for Apple to do it but at least they have the stored credit cards to throw around, not really sure what Facebook is bringing to the table here.
You could try using http://www.hboehm.info/gc/

An alternative is to do reference counting (in your prototyping phase), which is much easier to implement.
> They've done (and continue to do) enough harm regulating their fiat currency.

It is extraordinarily easy to point out how shitty a job the Fed has been doing from a society that completely depends on it. When you compare how the American financial system has been doing compared to the rest of the world the results are astoundingly in our favor.

I find it difficult to understand how Bitcoin enthusiasts can so thoroughly discount how well our current system actually functions. There are no questions that there are deficiencies in the current system, but the Btc community hasn't seemed to even identify what they actually are, much less propose solutions in any reasonable way.

Propose, for instance, how HSBC would be prevented from laundering money for literal international terrorists and drug dealers. Or remittances, another Btc enthusiast favorite: do you really think the fees you are paying Western Union are related to flipping bits and not to keeping massive stores of cash, securely, in remote locations? Maybe some day cash wont be necessary, but we are extremely far from that point, and until we are there Btc remittances are essentially useless.

> That some part of "The Government" thinks they can regulate something that is not theirs is laughable.

That some part of our culture thinks it is reasonable to create a new currency and not have the government regulate it is laughable.
The failure of these Kickstarter projects is several orders of magnitude less than what we will see when crowdfunding of startups hits full stride. It's a snakeoil salesman's wet dream, to be able to sell a great idea, "fail" and say "sorry, we tried". The only difference is that it will be 13,000 people losing $50 as opposed to a handful of rich people losing $1M each.
Is he? Where is the line drawn at "knowingly," if not at the decision to have sex?
For those interested, the WARN page now shows that 1351 employees will be laid off in Redmont.
It's a possibility. Police officers aren't really the type of people who are prone to freezing up under scrutiny however. It's already a high pressure job and the people who do it are those who can act under pressure. Also I would say that some people are bound to perform even more excellently when they know their actions may be seen by others. i.e., some people are encouraged to go above and beyond when they are on camera.

Controlling the circumstances under which recordings are viewed or released is important to consider as well. The way I see it there are two circumstances for viewing these recordings:

- Internal to law enforcement as part of performance review or incident investigation.

- Requested by the public in regard to a specific incident.
The software doesn't break CAPTCHA's. It does however allow the user to integrate CAPTCHA solving services in their bots if the wish to do so.
ActiveRecord Concurrency in Rails4: Avoid leaked connections
This is a very bad analogy. When you sign up for mobile phone service, you're also agreeing to usage fees or paying extra to get "unlimited", which case, you pay nothing for those calls.

When I sign up with an internet provider, I am agreeing to pay a fee for open access to the internet at large. I'm not signing up to pay for each piece of content I access or each site I connect to.

I've never agreed, to the best of my knowledge to pay for access only to content served at a rate limited by the reverse utilization of the peering connection that content provider's content can be accessed across.
Everybody has sex and birth control is imperfect.
It wouldn't be the first time. I've observed for quite some time now that even much more relevant articles get deep sixed.
Monthly fees? I don't know where you get that from. The state of the art CI tool, Jenkins, is actually free software.

What there is to a complete CI process depends on what your release process is, apart from the build process. There may be code signings, integration with external services etc. These are steps that are not part of the individual developers build process.

The letter I in CI stands for integration. Two checkins might very well look good on their own, but cause havoc with other systems.
Trying to whitewash it now serves no useful purpose except causing confusion.

Again proof that you have no familiarity with the abstract concepts or its history, prior to the popularized furor. Nor do you care or are particularly curious, or are capable of processing the logical implications of such new information.

No, it was you who tried to create your own interpretation of DRM which differs from what its designers put into it.

Let me assure you that the designers of DRM had the other interpretations in mind the whole time. You are basically arguing for your own ignorance.

don't expect anyone to understand you.

In other words, I should expect only uninformed rubes on the Internet.
At a guess, those applications routinely require large amounts of mostly random (not CSPRNG random) numbers. This syscall returns data from the kernel's entropy pool, presumably at the speed of /dev/urandom.

The recommendation is probably a way to say "please don't abuse, and please don't make the kernel spin".
New evidence shows patents dont stifle follow-on innovation
It's not right, but that's the problem of the people saying it's all their fault, ignoring the Fundamental Attribution Error.
Sure thing. I'll take a look at that when I get home tonight.

Thanks for the feedback!
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> - "Unlike reading from the /dev/urandom" -> author meant /dev/random

Pretty sure he doesn't. He's describing the differences between using the /dev/urandom pool (through getrandom(2)) and actually reading from /dev/urandom.
I wish this would have gone more in depth in his experience with colemak and vim. I've considered switching keyboard layouts in the past, but applications with lots of keyboard shortcuts (like vim) make it seem too difficult.
You can remote control a vehicle or truck at the moment with a few electronics and supplies. I don't see anyone using them for weapons, so why would autonomous vehicles be used that way?

As for suicide bombers, a lot of them appear to have other options for achieving the same goal, yet they choose the method that takes their life. They can buy a grenade for $10, and toss it into a crowd, yet they choose to strap a bomb to their chest. I don't think they're doing so because it's the only option, and because autonomous vehicles are not available, I think they're doing it because they want to give their life to their cause.

What about quadcopters? Couldn't anyone just strap a bomb to a quadcopter, fly it over a stadium, and down into the crowd? I think that's even more scary than autonomous vehicles, because they can fly over barriers.

People have countless ways they can cause damage or mass casualties available to them. However, I can walk around a city surrounded by millions of people, and feel completely safe. Most people are quite nice, they're not sitting at home unable to achieve their terrorist goals because Google autonomous vehicles are not available to them.

Nothing will change. Sure, someone will toss explosives in an autonomous vehicle, instead of putting them in a parked car. It's unfortunate, but not a reason to hold back technology that would positively benefit the other 99.99999% of the population.
That does make sense. But the screen size must be at least as big as the iPad.
We'll look into make it iPad/web friendly

Thanks for the feedback!
The Linux urandom pool is managed almost identically to the random pool. The fact that random is "safe" (if blocking makes you safe) immediately after cold boot is actually just a side effect.
Not sure if I understand the technical jargon in the article, can someone tell me what the implication of this LLVM engine is?

Will we finally see cross platform Javascript mobile apps that runs like native apps?
+1 for this. Grouping by ASN and netblock owner would be nice as well. I'm happy to shoot down entire ISPs.
Thank you for the encouraging words! I had no idea that those would work (testing non-roman characters totally slipped my mind). So, I'm really glad they do!
Journey was a joint effort from what I remember.
I think that change over time could be pretty cool, especially if the host locations can be resolved down to the city or province. I'll check out D3.js.

I did a first take using Kartograph: https://int80k.com/ftb/
Scientists Are Mapping the Ocean's Plastic Because 99 Percent Is Missing
Yes probably not Glass itself, if only for the fact that they would look ridiculous :P

There is something to be said for power of the first-person view however. Maybe a more "police-ish" looking Glass?
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They took the sane design from BSD ("here's a single system call that gives you crypto-safe entropy") and effectively made a family of system calls that replicate all the pointless drama of /dev/random and urandom. The NIH criticism is valid.
Did anyone else pedantically think that this phrase

> The average maximum force the bricks can stand is 4,240N. That's equivalent to a mass of 432kg (950lbs).

Should have instead read...

>The average maximum force the bricks can stand is 4,240N (950lbs). That's equivalent to a mass of 432kg.

?
> The Big5 ISP's are purely after the money.

I work at an ISP, can confirm. All decisions about capacity are about how much money we'll make or lose. We're intentionally keeping bandwidth constrained because we know it will severely impact our cable TV business.
it's a good idea - but we want to make it super easy for the product submitter to post.

for some reason, we find that people are more responsive on twitter.
Thanks a ton, brunch looks awesome!
Case for using shitty passwords
NSA likes this. Only one random and entropy code to compromise.
Thanks a lot for this answer. Good point about keeping the branches small and about having only two.

The team I work on is quite small, so I can see how not using branches can work. I've worked on larger teams and I can't imagine how we would have managed those changes without an excellent branching model (git-flow).
I do miss git -- for exactly this reason ;)
You can't rely on a salary to get rich
But the only player providing transit here is L3. Verizon is not - it is simply delivering to its customers what their customers has bought.
Netflix offer this as an option to any ISP that wants it, free.

They will put a server in a data center anywhere an ISP wants, and they'll manage the whole syncing thing so the ISP doesn't even know it's there. After that, all content comes from that cache.
Own your own data
Linux kernel random interface designs are themselves not a good source of entropy.
Hey, if it was "Tool Command Language" when I first learned it, it's "TCL" now. :-)

Then there was that weird period when all the other language's gui toolkits were based on Tk.
Some of the cuts have already come. Unfortunately, two of my friends at MSFT have already been given notice. They're bright, talented people and they'll be fine long run, but it's devastating in the short term since they've worked very hard, gotten good reviews, and essentially just rolled poorly on their saving throw vs disaster.
Yet another buzzword.
Somewhere between sysadmin and developer. In 11 years, I have done a bit of everything, mainly database development, these days with a Django front end. I can do a bit of JavaScript / HTML / CSS. I can configure a web server, set up a linux box, compile install software. I have automated tasks using Jenkins. Does that make me DevOps? Or am I still a dev?
iirc it is part of the peering culture there, but I am not sure exactly, never having worked in that field
What those papers (or at least the ones I think you're talking about) deal with is something slightly more nuanced than what is being discussed here. They analyze how the pool recovers from a compromise, i.e., if you somehow manage to dump its entire state how quickly can you gather entropy again to minimize the damage.

It turns out Fortuna and variants thereof score very well in this metric, but this does not have any bearing on the quality of the output, or whether it loses entropy by generating more bytes.
Dude, how do you live with javascript disabled nowadays?
A rough estimate (based on yahoo's data released in 2010) would set the percentage of users with JS disable to 1.3%, and that's four years ago.

Nowadays everyone's on facebook, and everyone's likes shiny features and eye-candy, so I would bet those values would be at 1% or less if you exclude all the robots and spammers out there.

I mean, I would only disable javascript if I had an accessibility issue and it made it hard for me, or if I was a paranoid conspiracy theorist that uses TOR behind several proxies to access the web, and even if I was, the guy is forcing SSL (kudos for that, I like it).
All true. I think at one point MS figured that original shows were a way into the "war for the living room" that everyone was talking about back then. XBox had a decent share of Netflix streaming traffic, and a strong share in games, and it seemed like a decent idea to solidify the XBox platform's lead as a multi-category entertainment device by covering all bases.

In retrospect, I think people have been streaming Netflix on XBoxes because it's been convenient. And because, for several years, few alternatives existed that streamed Netflix on your TV, and that didn't require the purchase of yet another specialized piece of hardware to cram into the media cabinet. Netflix on XBox was easy, and that was the source of the correlation. Nothing more and nothing less. Microsoft can be forgiven, IMO, for having read more into the correlation than might have been there. For all of Microsoft's missteps and organizational challenges, you can't fault it for having imagination in this case.
Perl is a (3) as it was the scripting language on *Nix, and CGI was pretty crucial in the early web.

Ruby I guess is a (3): Rails is a killer app.

C, well, it's the a major accomplishment of human civilization and has held up for half a century. I'd call that idiosyncratic.
I switched to Dvorak about 7 years ago. In hindsight I probably should have stayed with Qwerty.

Nobody can use my machines. My girlfriend already knows to Ctrl-Shift to change keyboard layouts, but that's on my PC where Windows is in English. On my laptop with Windows in Spanish it's Alt-Shift. Even I get confused sometimes.

Most games I play don't recognize layouts, so WASD doesn't work. I have to Ctrl-Shift before launching a game. And that's on Windows 8 that has per-session layout. Windows 7 is per window layout so if Ctrl-Shift doesn't work inside the game I have to manually configure keyboard.

Copy Cut Paste become Ctrl I, Ctrl B and Ctrl . I think this is not a problem in Colemak.

My first language is Spanish. After learning Dvorak I no longer use accents or ñ (just Alt-164'd that one) so it's a pain when I type something more or less official that can't have spelling errors.

After that rant, I'm still relatively happy with Dvorak. At least I have something to say on job interviews.
You can go to the map store (http://store.usgs.gov) and search for Geologic Map of Mars. Make sure you get the one from 2014.
I've recently been making the switch to Norman and use vim. I initially tried to remap a bunch of keys (especially hjkl) but you end up going down a path of remapping more than you want.

So I've just started getting used to using the same keybindings just in a different spot. So far it's not too bad. Like anything, you get used to it.
another service i used a lot was padmapper(?) (CL killed and then stolen the feature) and then another site that allowed me to search on all craigslist sites around the US. i used it to check the price of whatever i was buying locally. or to find things so rare around i am that i would be willing to risk having my money stolen and nothing delivered... i don't even remember the name of the site, but nothing have come even close to filing the gap. one would think ebay is the logical solution, but ebay is filled with crap that it is useless.
Going Underground
Except they just shot down a plane on Monday (not civilian, I know) and they've been bragging about having the Buk missiles since two weeks ago. Given these are just amateur morons equipped with very advanced missile systems, trusting that said amateurs would not target civilian planes or misidentify them seems like a huge blunder by all relevant aviation authorities.
> I thought they were supposed to investigate crimes?

When someone manages to figure out how to send a driverless car through a crowd of people in a mall somewhere, do you want the lead investigator to show up and say "What do you mean there was no driver?!"

Some of investigatory science comes from analyzing crimes that have taken place, and some of it comes from imagining potential new crimes. By having imagined the above scenario and being familiar with the type of car in question, they might know to look for computer logs on the car that could lead them to the perpetrator, or that autonomous vehicles rely on GPS which might have left a trail.

The purpose of the research and report is not to determine whether or not driverless cars should be legal, rather to determine what the potential risks are and how they might be mitigated with regulations and/or cooperation with the manufacturers.
Starbucks Has Bigger Plans in Mobile Payments Than Most People Realize
Do you know where maps between IP addresses and ASNs/netblocks might be available for download? I can't immediately find this on IANA's website or on those of the RIRs, and I think it'd be too much to grab from whois.
That would be a terrible idea (currently). I don't think they have any last-mile infrastructure.
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Any way to get this in Google Earth yet?
Thank you for this, I'll better start upgrading my servers...
> he'd hang out on the porch with a bullhorn and chase after cars

Oh, now that's downright odd; I was never anywhere close to that premeditated.
Fail2ban is fundamentally a wrong answer to the problem. If you're taking the time to install such things, you should instead either be turning off password authentication (relying only on keys) or shorewall (to default deny ssh access except to authorized subnets) or both.

Waiting for multiple authentication failures to mark a host/net as "bad" is fundamentally a bad idea. Stop using passwords.
Because who watches the watchmen? Who is this "3rd party" company that verifies kickstarter projects? What metrics are they qualifying the projects?