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> Being in a different country didn't help Kimdotcom.

Most of us are not in lines of business that are so easy to cook up excuses for raids about, nor have a past that makes it so easy to try to make us come out looking like Bond villains.

I'm not saying there are not plenty of cases where "just taking the servers" is a viable option. But that does not mean there aren't a lot of us for whom protecting against NSA to the extent feasible is an option that is not ever likely to result in someone raiding our servers.

> GCHQ is a different problem to the NSA - they appear to try to obey the law but have weak oversight and scrutiny

Arguably the NSA tries to come down on the right side of the law too. It's just that they do so by creatively exploiting every available loophole and making use of every possible discretion of their lawyers and lax oversight as well.

I'm not so sure GCHQ wouldn't do the same if their oversight wasn't such a joke that they were found to boast about how weak it is in one of the NSA documents.
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I find beef dripping far superior to lard for roast potatoes.
"All" in the title is a heavy exaggeration. The site covers very basics only.
Oops! I read that book twelve years ago, so the details are fuzzy. Sorry for the mix-up.

I do recommend it though; it completely changed the way I view immigration, labor laws, and capitalism.
What is 3942.pw? I'd probably stay away from using that in your marketing, it looks really spammy (all numbers, "weird" tld, tld I receive the most spam from at the moment)
Look, we gotta keep busy while waiting for the rustc build to finish. :(
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A main question for me is how dotcom got hold of his email. There is no mention that it came from Snowden's leaks or similar, though it appears that this is what Dotcom is wanted everyone to believe: host an event highlighting mass surveilliance of NZ citizens, publicise an email hours beforehand, hope everyone conflates the issues and thinks that the legitimacy that Greenwald and Snowden lend to the surveillance event is passed onto the email.

Personally, I doubt the CEO of a major company like WB would send an email outlining this kind of agreement, especially when he says that Key told him 'in private' that such and such would happen. I'm not saying it didn't happen but would the CEO of a major movie studio be careless enough to put this in the clear in an email? Half the employees of a place like WB are lawyers...
I said something very similar in another KDC related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317883

In addition to your comments, the fact that Snowden and Greenwald are prepared to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Dotcom shows me, that they are prepared to put their own integrity (which is everything to both of them) on the line, because they believe these claims to be true.

That or the USD has false flag leaked the information in order to make Snowden and Greewald look stupid.

However, considering the lengths Greenwald went to in order to make sure he wasn't being stitched up by Snowden, the likelihood is that he has correctly validated his source.

Time will tell, but yeah, Kimble is a shill. He stitched up a load of people here in Germany back in the day to save his own ass.
I think the side dish (сало) is similar but not identical to lard. Lard is processed by melting and separating the fat from the original tissue, while сало is not processed this way.
This seems like an attempt: http://kyle.graehl.org/coding/2012/12/07/torrent-in-your-bro...
Something like this already exists in the form of SyncNet.

http://jack.minardi.org/software/syncnet-a-decentralized-web...
Yeah I wonder how you can translate "Pomyślało się" :)
While that is true, do you imagine that Greewald and Snowden are stupid enough not to validate their sources? They own integrity is on the line here, and Greenwald in particular is trading on that integrity, and the entire Firstlook.org integrity is riding with him.

Either the USD has sold him a complete dummy and Firstlook is dead in the water, or the claim is true.
I think open source has come to mean for many people /no strings-attached/, as in "I can use it in my startup however I care." AGPL is not just open source but closer to a free software ideal, where proprietary services can't just ride on top of a common good library and not provide the source.
If you want to make a narrow page wider, you can open the Inspector and change the width.

The argument is the same, and they're both invalid. It takes way too much effort. I'm not resizing a window I use for everything just so I can fullscreen it when I switch to another tab and resize it again when I return.
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Although the idea is simple, this need is typically satisfied by a free uptime monitor for me. If I need it to stay up, I might as well let somebody monitor for downtime and alert me.

In what use case would you prefer your solution over an uptime monitor? like e.g. https://uptimerobot.com/
Greenwald didn't mention this supposed email once. He talked about the mass surveillance of NZ citizens only, evidence for which is pretty substantial. That is something he would have validated. No one, as far as I can tell, has said that Dotcom's email came from Snowden or Greenwald or anyone connected to them.
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Why would one want their Heroku instance to stay awake at all times? If the request is processed with a slight bit of latency, I'm okay with that. Plus, it helps the Heroku guys manage their infrastructure and cut costs in terms of unused computation time. This feels like taking advantage of the good will of those providing the service.
Ok, looks interesting for an organisational stand point but I have my doubts perf-wise. Has it been benchmarked a little ?
In terms of accessing small resources (HTML pages), a client-server setup is by far faster than a P2P system. The Web is client-server specifically for this reason. Not to mention that the whole power of a client-server setup is the ability to have clients alter the state of the server. With a P2P system, propagating changes and making sure each peer has the correct copy, requires more time.

Check out this paper to learn more about the Web applied to P2P networks [1].

Li, Ruixuan, et al. "WebPeer: A P2P-based System for Publishing and Discovering Web Services." http://www-inf.it-sudparis.eu/~tata/papiers/sellami/P2P_Disc...
The first rule of email: if you do something incriminating, don't use email. Oliver North and many many others after him have shown that people are simply stupid.

From small time crooks to big time politicians and a whole spectrum of stupid people in between the 'incriminating email' seems to be a staple element in the arsenal of prosecutions the world over. I don't see why CEO's of major corporations should be exempt. See recent revelations regarding collusion by big companies to depress engineers salaries.
What YouTube math channels should I be watching?
Indeed, even Steve Jobs got caught out by that one: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/19/damning-evidence-emerges-in...
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I think "telephone" here referred mainly to landlines. Mobile phones were rare in 1985, and completely analog.
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Setting aside 3 whole hours can produce a surprisingly small amount of answers on an AMA.

I don't think most famous people need the karma bad enough to even set aside that much time.
It would also be good to have more engagement of non-citizen New Zealanders this election also!

For non-Kiwis... New Zealand is one of the very few countries in the world where non-citizens are allowed to vote in national elections. Permanent residents who have lived in NZ for only 1 year can register to vote, though they don't have to. They're not allowed to become citizens until they've lived in NZ for 5 years however. This is in stark contrast to nearby Australia where only citizens vote, just like in most other countries, but their unusual electoral situation is that its citizens must vote (or be fined).
Why Kali? Surely you means TAILS?
I use a mirror.
> diversion from our stresses.

Usually I find the shitty interface causes me more stress. Many times I have been tempted to throw it against the wall. Give me a desktop and big screen any day for writing an email, or browsing the web. (And a dog - my parents dog gives me infinitely more fun than my phone ever will).
http://imgur.com/wf53LHK
Mesmerizing. I wish I could stop the spinning though.
Client-server is faster if the server's upload speed can match the client's download speed, for all clients. Which implies a large, central server.
Too bad, the Youtube video does not play in Germany due to copyright issues. This is a farce
It could very well be for monetary reasons. Many non-fiction books are written so as to give the author a possibility to go on a lecture tour, get hired as a consultant or what not.
Apologies for being unclear, I was mostly responding to the bit that states that I'm being 'a bit unfair' to KDC. I think it is very fair and that he's simply a bad puppy. If he accidentally does something useful while he's pursuing his selfish goals then great, but that's not his first and foremost interest, most probably merely a convenient vehicle for his ambitions.
The dishes do not really require lard although it is indeed the most popular fat used in these recipes. The good old recipes used cleared butter rather than lard for dishes like chrust, pączki and other deep fried sweets.
How did Snowden not make the title of this post?!
Yeah, imagine if the car market had been won by General Motors and 9 out of 10 cars was a GM. That's what happened in desktop computers. All other variants died. Apple was down to 4% at one point, and Microsoft extinguished all competition by requiring hardware makers to pay for DOS no matter what OS they actually shipped.

Anyway, don't you think we'd all be better off with 3 or 4 desktop and mobile choices?
They have quite the retargetting campaign going on. I keep seeing ads for this thing everywhere I go.
There is an interesting claim about Rust:

> However, it prevents you from writing generic macros that use any l-value – we can’t write swap!(x[0], x[1]) as we could in Common Lisp.

As long as `macro_rules!` has existed (I could be wrong about before 0.8 though), you can wrote a macro that takes any expression, and will error from the assignment when the expression is not an lvalue:

macro_rules! swap {
($x:expr, $y:expr) => ({
let tmp = $x;
$x = $y;
$y = tmp;
})
}
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I didn't realise I had so many right wing friends on facebook (Read: Not real friends). All they can come up with in response is "omg Kim Dotcom is fat lol"
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There are other parameters that are useful when evaluating a configuration besides just speed. Resilience is one of those, as is long term availability. Torrents seem to do quite well in the resilience department, I'm not sure how well they do when it comes to long term availability. Maybe someone has already studied that, it would seem to be the torrent equivalent of 'link rot', and quite possibly it is very high.
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Me too, a few seconds after playing, it reloaded itself.
"2 weeks" may mean the last two calendar weeks, the last and the current calendar week, or the last 14 days. Without even going in to the ambiguity of what a calendar week is (a calender week starts on a Monday, and I will take no opposition), 14 days is less ambiguous (and therefor better) than two weeks. The same goes for the other ones.
Sorry, what I meant by speed is: the ability to quickly access small sized resources such as HTML pages. The initial handshake required for P2P systems makes this process slower. Obviously for larger files where there are lots of peers serving the content, you can get better speeds.
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I'd be concerned of this becoming an additional security risk. You just know someones gonna find a way to inject malware into it. On a home network it's not a big problem, but on a corp it'll be open season.
But he is currently hiding out in the embassy to avoid being charged, so your innocent query of "has he been convicted/charged" is spurious.
And often, the end user has no idea what information is useful to them until it is presented. In that way dashboards are great: they help the end user figure out what data is important to them.
Is the code available on GitHub? I just saw tge demo on my mobile browser.
Writing more code is not the same as more complexity. Irritating, perhaps, but not more complexity. A larger language overhead to keep in mind is more complexity.
The main difference with casting to Object is that you can use type switches or safe casts which return an additional success boolean, to restore type safety quickly after taking the item out of its container. Yes, you can type-test in Java before you type-cast, but it isn't idiomatic, and it isn't syntax.
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"discredit" was the right word, of course.

I disagree. Solutions can involve broadening technical security awareness and education, not only for experts, but for the great masses. Suddenly, people who wouldn't have done it otherwise, are installing PGP, guided by well-designed step-by-step-instructions which haven't existed before Snowden. This is per se a Good Thing.

Awareness leads to more people trying to exploit things previously thought to be at least very improbable to break. Discussions about Crypto-Quines, VM-breakouts, you name it, are suddenly on the rise, at least in my perception (which has since sharpened significantly, and I'm not even in the least involved in security)

Better tools are developed to prevent goto fail;s. Other people fork OpenSSL, sunset SHA1, visit security-related conferences or donate money, you name it. This is a slow process, but things are definitively moving forward.

But again, you're avoiding to answer the question: What a difference would it make if your scenario would be true? Would it negate that mass surveillance exists? Of course not. But that's what's important here, that's what's being worked on by people.

It's one thing to be a classical "we can't win anyway" naysayer, but is's a completely different thing to try to pull an ad hominem derailment, so the question arises: Who are you working for? What if your supervisor came to you telling you "Try to find something about Snowden we can use against him and his findings. A way to discredit him, maybe find someone who went to school with him who can make a fool out of him; maybe try to pull an assange-like sexual assault case on him, anything", what would you do?

Wouldn't we find you here?
I am beginning to wonder if Woody Allen wasn't prescient with his movie Sleeper. /s

On a side note there is much of food and dietary research from the 50s onward that needs to be reviewed if not done over. I am still fascinated by the fight over salt, something as a cook I never believed as I cannot imagine cooking without it. Having the majority of relatives on similar diets who lived into their 90s its either genetic or just, well its anecdotal at best.
But a hybrid server/P2P system has multiple potential benefits (P2P acting as a CDN for common libraries, sharing live video or simply uploading 'unhostable' content).
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I am so pleased to hear someone else sometimes has intensely frustrating experiences with their phone!

I used to be the kid who could set a VCR timer (before they introduced +codes). Now? I don't know how to share a link from Google maps; I don't understand how this or that chat / messenging app works; simple things that should be a few clicks are seemingly impossible for me to do.

Sadly, these frustrations make their way onto the desktop too. The GMail interface is suboptimal.
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Post from Glenn Grennwald and Ryan Gallagher on FirstLook: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/15/new-zealand-gc...
Sure. Download the index.html and run it locally. Comment out line 259:
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It doesn't seem like New Zealanders are taking this very seriously, even mocking:

http://tvnz.co.nz/seven-sharp/kim-dotcom-s-bombshell-revelat...
I never put any thought in to what butteries were made from but the salted taste and texture was absolutely delicious and plenty a lunch-money coin was spent on them! Ironically the reason I wouldn't eat them now that I do think about ingredients is all the flour.

Another favourite from that era was a scotch beef pie that contained a layer of mashed potato and a small clump of baked beans on top of that.
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And not only once, his emails were the key evidence in the antitrust eBook case, too.

Ref: http://qz.com/87184/the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-w...
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It's not a flamewar starter, it's using specific examples for a directed point (hence MasterCard and not credit card, Facebook photos rather than photos from any other cloud provider etc...)
Surely this isn't a problem with checksums/hashes to verify the integrity of the files?
The JS components are a non-issue, I agree. However, the one problem with customising Bootstrap is if you're using a front-end dependency manager like Bower, as far as I am aware, you cannot easily customise the dependencies in Bootstrap if using Bower or Component. Sure, I could use a custom generated and downloaded version of the compiled CSS files, but then I loose the ability to change colours, fonts and whatnot using variables or the internal helper functions...
I think this is always the question that everyone asks of founder stakes in their big companies. Noam Wasserman summarized is best in his book "The Founder's Dilemma": it is a conflict between control and wealth. You can't have both and you'll have to figure out which one you want to avoid pain later.
I'm with you on the point that accessibility should be a concern of framework developers, but none of those issues should be too hard to tackle for them. Therefore, filing an issue on the Github project would help (at least, more than commenting here), especially because the project is still young.
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You should also consider how much it costs you to miss a part of a process that is manually carried out but that could be automated. If it really expensive to miss something then automation might be a good idea even for simple tasks.
So it's a high-quality android phone for $250? That's pretty freaking cool :). Open source, yay! Even if it's a NSA phone.
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Not really a fan of Google negotiating unmetered access for Android to cellular data like this. I think Google/Apple/BlackBerry/Windows Phone/Xiaomi/random OEM should all have equal access to cellular data and let the user choose.
> "For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. [...] Zaphod waved a hand and the channel switched again."

-Hitchhiker's Guide (1979?)
Have you submitted a pull request? There's plenty of accessibility related-stuff in Bootstrap so I think they care about it.
No. If you couple a good thing with a bad thing, you make it hard. I won't share this with my friends because I would not want to advertise Dotcom's personal agenda as byproduct. This is similar to politicians of the wrong parties saying this one might agree with. One has to be careful what implications are part of a package.
$250 is the monthly income bracket they target, the phone itself is on sale for Rs 6400, which is about $100.
> To help ensure a consistent experience, Android One devices will receive the latest versions of Android directly from Google. So you’ll get all the latest features, up-to-date security patches, and peace of mind knowing your stuff is always backed up.

This rings a bitter note for me -- I bought a Galaxy Nexus a while after it came out and I was really surprised how quickly Google discontinued updates for it. Is it expected that "the next five billion" will also buy a new phone every two years?

To quote Google:

> Galaxy Nexus, which first launched two years ago, falls outside of the 18-month update window when Google and others traditionally update devices.

(I still own the phone and I have the latest Android because of Cyanogenmod, but again, this is not something that can be recommended to "the next five billion".)
The NSA has a plan to map the entire Internet. It's called 'Treasure Map'
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Sounds similar to lardo [1], which is a false friend of lard. Lard in Italian would be called strutto. Funnily enough lard in French is just bacon, and lard is called saindoux.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardo
Most of them do, however they disagree in a lot of different and often entirely contradictory ways.

So given the problem of doing something about a disaster, trying to keep all the different belief systems happy at the same time will just stop you from doing anything. You can't keep all the different belief systems happy when there isn't a disaster and lives to save, trying to do it when there is seems to be just setting yourself up to fail from the outset.

Also, given the context of disease, stopping it spreading is not a wholly altruistic act. This is about self-preservation as much as anything else and most of the world's religions are pretty clear on what you are allowed to do to others when the tribe is threatened. The religious reaction to this in many cases would be mass slaughter.
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People seem to be missing Skidoo's joke here:

"all of these men are absolutely on the same page...of persons who will never in their lifetimes be invited to any White House gala"
Pattern matching looks cool but I have some concerns. What is the best forum for Rust discussion? I get the feeling HN would rake me over the coals for bringing up switch, falling through case labels and of course, goto.
does anyone know if Google will release source for Android One phones to the same level as Nexus ? I have heard that Mediatek is notoriously closed source, so I'm wondering how this works out for the community/cyanogenmod at large
Surprise guest.
I'm not going to speculate on what Assange's real motivations are for hiding out in that embassy, he's said enough on the subject and whether you agree with him or not that those are his true motivations is between you and him.

So no, he hasn't been convicted and/or charged and as such calling him a rapist is getting ahead of the timeline.

What he does in the meantime doesn't change that one bit.
Playboy interviews used to be great! There was no limit in length or content. The interviewer was allowed to ask whatever he wanted. If you get a Playboy from the 60s or the 70s, the interviews fill 20 pages and more. No pics, only text. Unimaginable nowadays in a printed product.
I bought some old Playboys because of this (Castro, Connery, Dylan etc.)

There are also books with the interviews only [the directors (Clint Eastwood, Billy Wilder, Orson Wells etc.), larger than life etc.]. Great reads.