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> Essentially he was exploiting a vulnerability in JSTOR to mass download court documents

He was downloading academic articles, not court documents. You're mixing up the JSTOR download and the time he pulled down PACER documents. He did have legitimate access to the JSTOR documents, but was bypassing rate limiting. In the process, he did do some things that were illegal, but nothing that honestly justified the Feds charging him with CFAA or wire fraud charges filed, nor anything that justified a felony conviction. What he was doing wasn't the sort of crime those laws were written to address and that they were intended to stop. The Feds. abused the ambiguities in poorly written laws to charge him.
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The problem is that calling "blaming the victim!" dismisses the list of faults these whistle blowers are bringing to light.
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Nvidia's Maxwell GPU architecture seems to add some very nice VR features [1]. With Maxwell coming to Tegra, and Nvidia finally being able to utilize heterogeneous computing, it seems to me Samsung would be really smart to try and get the next Tegra chip for their Note 5 or whatever phone they use for Gear VR 2, next year. Oculus/Carmack also have some great relationships with Nvidia, and it seems Carmack has already been able to convince Samsung to do a lot of technical changes for them. I think if they make this happen, Gear VR 2 would be a lot better next year.

[1] - http://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2014/09/18/maxwell-virtual-real...
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Nicely done. It's similar to iStroboSoft, but I like the UI here. I still prefer Tonal Energy Tuner, though what works best for you will depend on your instrument.
Yeah,they totally went overboard. The last time I tried to check my G+, they had a dialog asking me for more personal information and wouldn't let me get past it. I closed the window and have not gone back to it since. I was once a supporter of G+ (since I really think facebook needs competition) but I'll likely never try it again.
10¢? $20 would be more like it paid to the government who would then, on request provide $15 as compensation to pay for the postage and time arranging your new payment card. Even then it's just a token of the costs that they've caused to be incurred.

So, $1 billion fine, do you think they'd do it again? Executives from other companies holding that many card details might actually think it was worth paying a few $100k to get their own systems in order then.

IMO if a company can still afford to pay profits to shareholders after making these sorts of errors then you're not hurting them enough.
> Actually creating alternative competitor networks are insanely prohibitively expensive,

You don't create new networks, you have the gov/FCC require that the owners of current networks license the last mile connections to any and all other ISPs, opening up consumer choice in the last mile [1]. Your ISP giving you fast lane/slow lanes and you don't like it? Choose another. That last-mile monopoly really needs to get solved first, then we can re-evaluate after a couple years whether Title II reclassification is necessary.

[1]:http://blog.samaltman.com/net-neutrality
perhaps it's too artistic?
I love this idea and have even spoken to some pretty fundamentalist libertarians that see nationalized last-mile fiber as a solution superior to the government sponsored monopolies we have now (and continued easements and digging up of people's property any time someone wants to introduce some competition).
In Dutch it's Turkije - there's a j in between ("ij" makes a single sound, and the "e" is another sound). "Turkie" would sound weird in Dutch too and it's not Dutch spelling, though I guess it looks like it.
Fun. It'd be nice if there were some kind of transition to display the bot's shots.
I'm somewhat interested in the tools, to see how the internet would route around the problem.

One idea would be to make a browser that can 'leech' off sites that paid for fast lanes. Say, you store your data onto Google Drive, Facebook, etc and the browser will load the actual content off of these services and present it as if it were its own unique web site, stripping off all of the host site's branding. I won't say that's necessarily ethical, but it does feel like an inevitable consequence if things ever got really bad.

You'd probably gain web hosts that advertise having peering deals for all of their hosted sites, so you just pay more money to host on them and your users "magically" get faster service.

VPNs would likely play in a lot. I'm not sure how businesses would tolerate their required secure connections being throttled in the extreme.

I wonder if a VPN service provider could pay for a fast connection to your ISP, giving you a link around it? Perhaps instead of Netflix at 100% speed, $tinywebsite at 20% speed, this could give you 70% speed across the board by connecting you with a neutral backbone.
Probably the most strategic way to use 50mm credit cards would be to use them destructively, rather than just for direct gain. (All of this is illegal as well as immoral, but just presented so people can develop countermeasures)

Know that using the credit cards will cause the accounts to get frozen, which will cause decreased purchasing; it will also scare people away from those stores, and possibly from purchasing in general.

A nation state could do this for disruption directly; Russia could filter the 50mm cards to find cards belonging to US people (or just assume home depot = usa), and intentionally cause transactions requiring replacement. Do this on the last week before xmas, or black friday, or some other strategic time.

A criminal organization could use the breach to manipulate the stock market -- either directly (shares in the breached company tank, although this doesn't happen to a very large extent), or by blocking cards used at one merchant in particular, raise the sales of a competitor indirectly.

There's also straight extortion -- we'll sell these back to you and go away IFF you pay us.
I'm not really in charge of managing companies infrastructure, so it doesn't stand so important for me, but every time I run across talking about all these provisioning tools, I'm taken aback by how many of them are there. Ansible, Puppet, Chef, now this BashBooster. All of them written in different languages, having different syntax and all doing basically the same thing — the same thing I'm using a couple of bash-scripts for when I need to set up another server or VM!

Yet all projects are alive yet, so there probably is some difference which makes all tools applicable. So it makes me feel uncomfortable asking this obviously nonsensical question, but: is there some one tool I should chose if I want to get away from the stone age of using bash scripts for provisioning?
See my response below - I'm all for this. That said, is that actually more or less difficult than declaring ISPs common-carriers? The latter seems much simpler than nationalizing the last mile.

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Thanks, when I started working on this 4-5 years ago, there was only StroboSoft. Now there are a lot of strobe tuner out there, especially for smartphones. I was always fascinated by the mechanical strobes I saw on youtube and wanted to try replicating the effect. When I started I didn't know about Nyquist, PCM, FIR, IIR, FFT, etc. Had to learn about everything first and I still have so much to learn. First version was written in Vala, with JackAudio. After getting a Mac I rewrote everything in C and Obj-C.
I don't see where morality comes into play when talking about weighing the interests of different for profit corporations. I realize that people here tend to sympathize with internet companies over telecommunications companies, but that's precisely why we don't just base the law on peoples' conceptions of "morality."

In any case, a debate over words is rarely just a debate over words. Words delineate the scope of expectations and obligations. Which category you fit into dramatically affects what's expected of you and what you're entitled to. Imprecision as to categories on the basis of vague moral arguments makes it easy to ignore the bargain achieved within each category balancing obligations with entitlements.
> I never implied that pointers are bad, just that this particular usage of pointers is bad, and as such should not be used as an example of why we would want something else over C++. If I ever saw a function with a signature like the one proposed I'd be extremely suspicious of what was going on.

You would. I wouldn't because I don't know any better. How many others are there out there that don't know any better? If you code by yourself, fine, but if you work with a team you are gonna need a higher level of training, so you could teach people like me to catch the problem. Are you always going to be disciplined enough to do code reviews that are in depth enough to capture fishiness in the type signature?

With Rust, if it compiles and passes unit tests, the code review is already 90% done.
You're wrong on that. The problem with the US telecom industry is really bad regulation, not lack of regulation.

The US already has so-called evil socialist government regulation, to an extreme. The US economy, including the telecom sector, is among the most regulated on earth. Per dollar of GDP, nobody passes more economic regulations each decade than the US Government.

The US Government has been in control of the telecom infrastructure when it comes to regulating it, for decades. Their incompetence at setting up a functional environment is a huge part of the problem. They've been screwing it up when it comes to ISPs for 20 years.

'Evil socialist government regulation' isn't helping Canada or Australia either. And exactly like in those instances the problem is really bad regulation, not lack of regulation.

The US has faster average internet speeds than: France, UK, China, Italy, Australia, Canada, Brazil, India, Norway, Russia, Taiwan, Germany, Finland, Israel, Austria, and so on.

In fact, there are no large countries by population above the US in speeds other than Japan and South Korea (both of which are generally far beyond everyone else). Most of the fast countries are tiny in population: Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Hong Kong, etc. - and even then, the US isn't drastically behind them.
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Read "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe", where the main character's boss, "Phil", is an instance of Microsoft Middle Manager 3.0. Phil is an OK boss, "with passive-aggressive set to low". In keeping with the increasing banality of computing, Phil is a banal AI boss.
That statement cuts both ways... If it is a choice between good and evil, the obvious moral choice is good. It is only a moral decision when it is between two evils.

Determining the lesser and potentially sacrificing for the common good. This the primary responsibly of any leader responsible for strategic decision making.

As you said, this means making sacrifices for the common good.
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Not necessarily - look at what's happened in Canada and the UK. The governments have forced the major ISPs to lease lines in order to instill competition.

I'm a Canadian, I left a major ISP for one of the smaller competing ISPs because they were offering unlimited bandwidth. Now, 2 years later that major ISP has caught on and is now offering better high end plans than the smaller competitor I was using. Looks like that might change when new plans come out with the competitor, but... point is, competition helps. At least in the case of high-bandwidth consumers.

This simple change made me go from feeling like my ISP options were terrible, to having 4+ completely acceptable ISP options in a matter of a few years.

Anecdotal, sure, but I think freeing up the lines to competitors is beneficial with or without additional net neutrality legislation. While it might not be the only solution, people having only 1 choice of ISP in any given area certainly hurts. Having an option that doesn't have motives for slowing down service to certain sites basically kills this entire issue.
Constant learning does not necessarily mean that your mind doesn't become more set in other respects. For example, problems in software engineering are of a particular type - however, known strategies now may turn out to not be as optimal, and there are potential cues one can take from other domains of knowledge. We are less likely to explore those domains as we get older.
The Native Americans neither were or are presently at an intelligence handicap compared to the Europeans.
I could listen to John Carmack talk all day. Awesome keynote
This is the 3rd or 4th time I've seen a proposal for visual programming environments (e.g. see http://cs.brown.edu/~spr/codebubbles/*, LightTable, this one, probably others) and I'm not sure why they don't take off. On the one hand, they seem incredibly useful and I really like Code Bubbles' approach to automatically pulling in relevant code (http://cs.brown.edu/~spr/codebubbles/bubbles01.gif). On the other hand, none of the projects seems to have significant traction (though LightTable seems to be growing). Are existing environments good enough? Is there an impedance mismatch between existing languages and visual code-design/programming?

* I really thought CodeBubbles was clever and I'm sorry that it appears to be defunct...
It will be interesting to see the effects on crime rates, if any. The policy has been controversial, so it will be important to see if it was getting actual results, or whether it was raising controversy for no reason.
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Any word on whether this is the final iteration between DK2 and the consumer launch? I'm debating whether to get the DK2 now, or just wait until the thing is launched.
May I recommend a good and more realistic Terminator fanfic: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9658524/1/Branches-on-the-Tree-...

Actually I recommend everything alexanderwales has written. He has a Frozen fanfic, which basically is about the technological singularity via magic: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10327510/1/A-Bluer-Shade-of-Whi...

I consider the suggestion that Terminator is realistic as trolling. So I will refrain from arguing against it, because there is nobody to convince.
Anyone have a prediction for when the DK3 will be released?

I'm on the wait list for DK2 but it's still going to be at least another month before it arrives based on their estimated ship date.

Wondering if I should figure out how to cancel my order and wait for DK3 or just hold tight with the DK2.
Apparently the difference from DK2 to Crescent Bay is just as large as the difference between DK1 and DK2.
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I'm fairly new to JavaScript and would really appreciate any advice on how I could improve my code.
It's recognition of the fact that "social" isn't a good marketing medium. When G+ launched, Google employees were told that their bonus would depend on what they did in "social" products. For a year, Google obsessed on "social". In the end, it was far less profitable than search.

Facebook seems to have hit the limits of user ad tolerance. Myspace ran into that limit, and it killed them. It's not yet clear if it will kill Facebook.

It may be time for social network systems that don't have ads. Ones where you pay a few dollars a month on your phone bill. As computing gets cheaper, the cost of such a service drops, while the "free" ad-supported services keep running more ads. "Free" has an attention cost, and it may be possible to undercut "free" on perceived price.
Another way to say this is that Haskell encourages what Rich Hickey would call "guardrail programming". The types give you hints as to how the different pieces of the program piece together. When you finally get everything to compile it should hopefully work straight away.
>Security is not economically feasible //

Isn't it that others bear the cost of company's security lapses - except for good will - and so they don't really care beyond the legislated need to care? Are these companies making a loss?

It certainly sounds like Home Depot just thought that it wouldn't happen to them and so they could cheap it out - not pay for intrusion detection, not pay to have systems scanned for known vulnerabilities (I'm reading between the lines of the OP article a bit here), not paying for security updates like current anti-virus.
"Software is people who aren't there" - Jaron Lanier.
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> "Obviously, you only need Facebook, Google, and Buzzfeed. Why are you paying for that shitty internet you don't need?"

For me, the value in Google, and partly in Facebook, is primarily in other sites they link to. Am I an exception? Or is the point, you might need those others occasionally, but you only need the main few to be fast?
It does sound like a Home Depot's management may have failed to practice due care in protecting their customers credit card data. That will be perceived as a failure of corporate governance and expose the company to charges of negligence. I'm surprised they let it go on this long. It seems like there will be a material effect on the companies operations now...
What happens in the US will eventually affect the rest of the world.
Assuming your talking about the US with your question (since the article is), than in the US it really is _that_ expensive.

The main reason it's "easy" in France (and UK, and other places) is that the big name's network are required by law to let you use the end point. That exists in the US on the phone lines (legacy telephone regulations). But not on anything else (no cable or fiber).

So unless you want to pour all of your time and energy into offering flaky, slow, unreliable internet over 100-year-old copper lines, with speeds below 6mb and minor outages daily, your out of luck re-using any lines in the US.

That difference alone suddenly makes it not remotely easy or cheap.

To deploy internet at a reasonable price, you have to start an entire fiber construction company, and local political lobbying firm, simultaneously, just to get a single customer.

We're talking a barrier to entry of at least 1 to 2 million dollars, to wire a neighborhood, just to get your first customer signed up. Customers who've been conditioned to pay no more than $80/month for internet access.

That cost is actually not expensive compared to typical municipal projects. But it's way more than you'll ever get funding for, to chase, unless you are already extremely wealthy from some other business / family history / etc.

Venture firms would rather fund one thousand new Instagrams than pour money into anything remotely resembling a utility business.

The main way around that cost barrier is to deploy "bad" technology, like wireless. That can be done on a shoestring budget. It works really well in places where there is zero density (rural, exurbs). But it's not the future, it's legacy deployment, with legacy problems and legacy speeds. The nicest microwave radios you can buy only barely match the speeds and reliability of the cheapest fiber deployment.

So, if your in any sort of reasonably-sized city, you'd be stupid to not roll out fiber from the start. And to do that, your looking at millions of dollars of cost.

No one will ever fund that. (I've tried -- countless times). Typically, only selfie-sharing iPhone apps can generate investment like that.

This is why most people in the US are pushing for "common carrier". Because no one here believes a honest business will ever deploy a modern network on any large scale, so the best we can hope for is an upgrade from 100-year-old phone lines, to 40-year-old cable lines.
If you do ever compare the crime rates, remember to subtract all the victimless crimes. In fact, total up all the police time and resources wasted on those victimless crimes and consider that as a very strong negative even if it causes the number of "crimes" to tick up by one.
It's amazing to hear all the stories of people with disabilities taking advantage of the iPhone's fantastic accessibility features. There really is no excuse for not putting in the extra effort to make these devices usable for everyone.

This was a famous blog post about 4 years ago of a blind iPhone user's first experiences, it's a fantastic read: http://blog.austinseraphin.com/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with...

Around the same time, I heard other stories of Apple devs who were forced to test the iPhone with physical restraints like boxing gloves and blindfolds to ensure they could do just about everything a fully able bodied person could. I can't find any related articles now, I wonder if anyone else could confirm or deny this?
You need to realize packet filtering is not without costs. Nor is negotiating with most companies. Finally, you can't get blood out of stone. Altogether meaning -- the ISPs will go after the largest of traffic producers with a threat of pay or be throttled. Some evidence, beyond what Netflix says for eg. https://twitter.com/msonnabaum/status/504073659124703232 suggests something like this is already happening. But I can't see Verizon putting up an online shop saying "Buy X TB of VIP traffic for your domain". In the long run -- perhaps even that will happen. And then? And the you will pay...
I think people are still underestimating the complexity and raw hard work involved in making these visuals scale.

I also think it's inevitable in the long run, but developing them properly still has similar complexity as building IDE plugins except now having the IDE replaced with a 'language plus some form of IDE.'

LightTable really seemed to be on the right track there, but from what I can tell it has fallen prey to the curse of Lisp with Chris seemingly moving on to an even more awesome language project instead of putting in the hard (and probably quite boring) work to get visual augmentation to the masses.
> I mean, I stick around for the few people and one community that isn't on Facebook. But G+ is a huge planned subdivision built in a desert, all the roads built but no houses, with a few people camped out around a fire going "WELL THERE'S LOTS OF PEOPLE AROUND THIS FIRE."

It can be (there's a Linux fire and an RPG fire, for example). The fundamental problem for me, as another long-time user, is that they started right ("G+ is Facebook you can control sanely") that then progressed into so many of the things people hate about Facebook (trying to ram it into places you didn't want it, the real names policy, and so on). Once they eroded the perception that G+ was a privacy-enhanced Facebook, it was a dead man walking.
I get frustrated with advice like this - there have been periods where I've gone to the gym 5 times a week and had it have no affect on my emotional state whatsoever.

Moderate Depression is literally a different disease from severe depression. Don't assume what helps one will have the slightest affect on the other.

On the women thing - I lost huge amounts of weight after a massive diet and exercise regime and it... made no difference at all. I'm 5'5" therefore an untouchable as far as they're concerned (just google around on male height + dating if you don't believe me, I'm tired of arguing as to why this is the case people tend not to want to believe it.)

I think this side of things would make a difference with women, however, if you have no obvious flaws so for normal dudes it's applicable. But don't think it will necessarily have an impact on the depression. Severe depressives should see their doctor and try to get outside help.
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Is this a question about Internet Neutrality or internet neutrality?

e.g. ISPs like CBS or AOL?
God yes, it's so refreshing to hear someone that actually gets it :)
If it follows the timeline of the Crystal Cove prototype, I'd guess... 8 months.
I looked at the code for bb-sync(). I just used cp and touch. Would be cool if it checked for rsync and used it.