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A long time ago I worked in a guarded military vault with lots of safes - I've never seen one that would take more than an hour or two to break into. The idea is to slow an attacker down long enough that they can be detected and security can get on the scene to deal with them.

None of your examples would prevent an investigator from finding evidence, only delay them. Strong encryption enabled by default could slow down an investigation to the point where it would go on past the heat death of the universe.
RK3066 is an old battle tested design, there is nothing special about cheap hdmi sticks build around this SoC.
Does anyone use this for web scraping dynamic links created by javascript, pulled from dev tools "network" tab?
"It seems to me that all this programming would be easy" is a common thought, and almost always wrong. I am included in this category.
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Not shocked.
I've now been notified that there a bunch of fishy legal things about this project, it turns out the EULA is not the only issue.
Ok so it's only jailbroken devices, again.
This is really awesome! What motivated you to change it from what it was previously (a website to share hacks from hackathons)?
Assuming the real percentage is much lower, objects have already been lost (of 2T total in April 2013). But given the high write to read ratio, the owners may never discover this.
"somewhat true" implies not entirely true. Iv'e had chicken pox. It wasn't serious, but as you point out, that's not the whole picture.
> "The U.S. government and international organizations recently announced commitments to support these measures. As these measures are rapidly implemented and sustained, the higher projections presented in this report become very unlikely."

From the abstract of the report[0] you're citing. Essentially, it's rising exponentially (at smaller numbers) right now so of course if you extrapolate over long enough you're going to get a big scary number. The situation is bad, but we still haven't even engaged the outbreak with anything close to full force yet (a valid indictment on policy makers, not the situation). There's a difference between spreading caution and FUD, let's try and avoid the second.

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6303a1.htm?s_cid=... (cool read)
Johannesburg has a population of ~10 million (including connected urban areas) and is quite a long way from the affected areas.

OTOH, Lagos has a population of around 20 million and is within hundreds of kilometers of active cases. It's almost 10 times more densely populated than Johannesburg too (20,008/km2 vs 2,900/km2).
>Am I one of the minorities who believe that this hype about Ebola is more sensationalism and news than an actual pandemic we should be fearful for?

Well, besides media sensenationalism, the idea is that we should be fearful of a possible pandemic BEFORE it becomes a pandemic, and that that's how we take the measures and care we need to contain it. (Being fearful of something like that AFTER it becomes a pandemic goes without saying).

That said, in Nigeria there were abour 3,000 deaths and 6,000 cases. I wouldn't call that "fairly small". Plus stuff like that have a way of skyrocketing if they pass a certain threshold.

In Nigeria at least, they had very good reasons to be fearful, and with modern travel, a few stray travellers could have wiped out similar numbers in other places, or even more.
Oh well thanks for clearing that up then, I took a german class in high school but apparently not a very good one as i remembering them being extremely similar. Maybe my english ears lol
If you read the article you will see that they do it most likely cheaper than the prison can do:

JPay’s rapid rise stems in part from the generous deal it offers many prison systems. They pay nothing to have JPay take over handling financial transfers. And for every payment it accepts in these states — prisoners typically receive about one per month — the company sends between 50 cents and $2.50 back to the prison operator.

The government does have the power, and they most likely are outsourcing this part of their non core infrastructure like most other companies do, to save money.
The fundamental problem is that credit cards are built around a model where credit card numbers are theoretically supposed to be secret, but every random retailer has to have them to process transactions. If credit cards were electronic devices, like in Europe, rather than fancy pieces of paper with a number written on them, then fraud would drop, and retailers would be freed of a massive burden. But American banks aren't up to the task of creating that sort of infrastructure, so instead they blame it on whichever poor retailer happened to have its computers broken into.
At least we have http://gfycat.com/ now. WebM for those who can, original gif for those who can't.
Question to all who suggested "Ban all flights from countries with Ebola" (myself included): Do we now ban flights from the US?

I'm only half joking.
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My company in San Francisco does public trainings on our product and we're wondering if there are any recommendations for places to host trainings for about 10-15 students at a time. Good WiFi, power outlets for students' laptops, and an overhead projector will be needed.
While I'd give them a whirl on their lower tier, their pricing for their largest instance (16384 MB/4 vCPU/200 GB/7 TB, $160 for Linux) isn't that competitive.

(non-affiliated plug) I've been using http://RunAbove.com for something this large, and it's an absolute steal. They're backed by OVH.

Versus a similarly-specced DigitalOcean node for $240 (2.5x RunAbove the cost), we were seeing a performance increase of 35% on our high-volume API.

And that's on non-tuned Postgres/Rails4/Redis Docker containers.
As I've pointed out in another comment on the thread, I've never come across a safe that couldn't be drilled in a few hours, and that's without any government intervention to compromise their integrity. Strong encryption is an entirely different beast.
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I learned everything I know about design by constantly sharing screenshots in the ##design freenode irc channel. This feedback driven learning means a lot to me personally.
No wonder their stuff is so messed up, it's all fear all the time.
This is true, but it is still reasonable to discuss current infection rates.

As you note, we still haven't even engaged the outbreak with anything close to full force yet. Until we see the effects of that engagement it makes complete sense to look at what is happening right now, not what countermeasures might or might not achieve.
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A private room? Lucky to get a bed in the hallway in some of these hospitals.
Anything produced by multiple people in a restrictive time period will be spaghetti code. Hackathon's aren't about producing quality code.
Sorry, I will spread complacency like yourself... that will make it all go away.
The price of an open computing platform is that you spend time learning to maintain it.

The price of not having to learn is that you give up control to someone else. A manufacturer. An IT department.
I personally think http://mediacru.sh is a better choice. Free and open source. I'm not sure if it display a .gif if the user doesn't have HTML5 video compatibility.
Just to play devils advocate, depending on what you are doing working smarter might be less productive than working dumber for longer hours.
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First, somebody from Liberia probably isn't infected. As bad as things are over there, it's still <1% of the population. (For now.)

Second, if they're well enough to be on the plane, even if they're infected, they're probably not going to be spreading that infection. By the time an ebola patient becomes contagious, they're usually not well enough to travel.

And on top of all that, if they're actually contagious, I'd be worried about fomites generated while they're vomiting. Which they'd be doing in the lavatory.

So in the general case, I don't think I'd be too worried about sitting next to them. (And if they're actually sick enough to be vomiting, I'd recommend being somewhere other than the lavatory.)
I have to ask, how notorious? Is this a documented effect (on Reddit, not in general) or just the noise that people on the site are repeating much like any other meme?

I think there have been some incidents which were dangerous and notorious. In particular, the misidentification of the Boston Bomber was one case that attracted mainstream attention[1].

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/reddit-regrets-role-in-online-witch...
Loved this quote:

...this is exacerbated by the existence of this term "growth hacks"... whenever you hear anybody talk about "growth hacks", just mentally translate it... to "bullshit".
>while these are extremely valid requirements for a commercial product, plan 9 is very much not one. it is a research operating system

People on this site have advocated using Plan 9 as an ordinary operating system, e.g., for work and for communication over the internet.

Readers like me have listened to these advocates, causing us to waste our time installing and exploring Plan 9.

I just want to warn people.
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except for that one monkey that bit him and then ran into the woods.
I spent way too long reading this comment. What was the pun? I don't get it.
How about encasing something in 20ft of reinforced concrete and then sinking it to the bottom of the ocean?

Strong encryption may be tougher to break but I disagree that it's entirely different. It's merely a quantitative difference. It's a standard principle that the police can break into whatever they can if they have a warrant, but they can't force you to make things easy for them ahead of time.
>Can you expand on how the TOS solves this

I meant the opposite. They have free reign to censor content.
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This is a great point. There is a demand for violence. It's counter-intuituve and non-PC but people pay good money to see it. It has nothing to do with redit, IMHO its more of a media phenomena. Look at the middle east.
My observation is, the younger generation is being treated to believe that spaghetti code is all it takes to make something work, and this means the true art of software development such as design patterns, architecture etc. might be forgotten. A reason I personally don't attend hackathons is because they push me towards 'writing a lot of crap' code. I am wondering if other people have had the same thoughts about hackathons and the hackathon movement in all.
Why does 'your' AUP contain the same errors present in an AUP written in 2007?

https://web.archive.org/web/20141001003619/http://www.pslhos...

Edit: Jesus the more I dig into this the more worried I become about what the hell kind of business you're running. Assuming you're on the only one to use the `mp99e99` handle with any regularity, I'm greatly concerned.
What is the difference between describing something as extreme group think, and describing it as a circle jerk? How does one differentiate between this being a valid description, and an unwillingness to accept that one's position is the unpopular one?
The CNBC article was put up before the CDC press conference (and seems maybe a little slapped together).

arrrg is pointing you at a more recent article that obviates the need to parse up the CNBC article, in the video the director of the CDC states that the lab tests have confirmed it is Ebola.
> Your right.

His right what?

I'm only making this jab because, like another user pointed out, there's an unprofessional amount of grammatical and typographical errors in your copy.

I respect you guys, and one of my friends has a bunch of cages with Atlantic. But not everyone has that connection or the wherewithal.
Because the penalty is backloaded but the expense is frontloaded--and the beancounters are only concerned about the frontloaded expenses.

How much did it cost the guy who made this decision? Zero. All the cost and blame falls on the person who came after who has to clean it up.
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This is coming. Chip-and-pin are slated to start rolling out in the US in 2015.
Man, I miss those days!
Love the new pivot. A place to ask for feedback is gonna be great.
The CFR (case fatality rate) in this outbreak is actually closer to 71% once adjusted for time between case onset and resolution.

It only looks like 50% at first glance because people are catching the disease so quickly that the number of deaths hasn't had time to catch up.

Source: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1411100
What's the symbol type for, and is Lua incapable of expressing it?
Is that unexpected though? Or even a necessarily negative thing? I don't think so - especially in the case of a political ideology discussion forum like /r/libertarian, most of the people who went there to seek it out and subscribe to it, more likely than not, share those beliefs.
I don't know if I'm alone on this one, but I thought his presentation was a bit scattered. Not taking away from him in any way, but his examples were not effectively backing up the points he was making.

You could even see him hesitating and questioning his own statements in his head a few times.
NPR's Planet Money had a podcast that tried to understand the difficulties of fundraising for a situation like the Ebola outbreak:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/09/26/351515481/episode-...

The tl;dr is that people donate a lot more when they can tangibly understand that a disaster has happened and they make an emotional connection to the disaster (e.g. 9/11, Haitian Earthquake, etc).

When donors are asked to contribute money to prevent something, the emotional connection is a lot harder to make and funds are a lot harder to raise.
Why is your current company not allowed to know? Are you working on it during company hours? Does your contract forbid this?
It's the new version of the OS that powers a huge majority of the desktops and laptops on the planet. And, even if you don't do anything Microsoft, it's likely a majority of the visitors to your website use it as well.

It also represents an interesting take on the convergence of mouse, keyboard, and touch as opposed to trying to force touch interactions on everyone.
Did they bring back DOS?
Maybe morally, but in practical terms that's not really contradiction. People on The Internet are thoroughly desensitized to the moral impact of things like that. Almost no one complains when we laugh at violent comedies, despite the fact that we all know murder is bad. There are a few more noises about Game of Thrones, but it's still extremely popular. Why are a few racist/sexist/etc jokes on r/funny any different? If you want to throw those out, you pretty much also have to throw out the other 95% of popular culture that derives entertainment from bad behavior. Of course that's what we fundamentalist Christians have been saying for about a millennium, but of course no one listened.
There are 130,000,000 people (40%+ outside the USA) using it every month.

One can't honestly or realistically generalize 130,000,000 people other than to say they have an internet connection and are literate.

As I said, there are half a million communities and the way it works (which sadly is lost on a lot of people -- our fault) is that one subscribes to communities (or unsubscribes) based on taste and interest. If someone doesn't want to hear from r/politics on an issue, unsubscribing (unfollows to use twitter's nomenclature) is exactly what one does.

Again, I'll point out that one can't generalize a platform with 130M people. One needn't look further than r/religion, r/christianity, r/conservative, r/islam, r/Judaism (I could go on) to find those communities.

I challenge anyone to actually use reddit for a week, subscribing to communities with content that most resonates with them (unsubscribing from the ones that don't) and not have a positive front page experience.

Have you done this?
In 2012, malaria caused an estimated 207 million clinical episodes, and 627,000 deaths.

Source: CDC.gov
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At the point when /r/AdviceAnimals was removed from the defaults, it was basically "racist statement on top of Unpopular Opinion Puffin" all the time. People started referring to it as the "White Man's Birden".

I was surprised to find that out, too. Reasonable people unsubscribe from the worst defaults, and don't find out what the unreasonable people who are left there are up to.
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What if moderators had control of how posts are ranked in their subreddits? I think that would result in some very interesting subreddit specific ranking algorithms.
Plan 9 performs work and enables communication over the internet. It is possible that installing any operating system other than the ones you currently use would be a waste of your time, in case they require you to learn them.
Finish. I am also a grad student and your not the only one with experiences like this. Those ideas actually sound interesting. Get the degree.
Anyone else notice that all the responses to this parent in favour of these hours is using what looks to be their real name or last name and also seem to be written in the form of a humblebrag?

Sometimes I wonder if people are self censoring their comments on here in order to build a professional network or get hired.

I guess it's the other side of the coin to the greater internet fuckwad theory; the just-happens-to-be-awesome named commenter.
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Even if I did want to share something with all my contacts on Gmail, the other challenge is that Gmail considers EVERYONE you have ever emailed a "contact". That's hundreds and hundreds of people, old mailing lists, etc. etc. that are on there. It's not a "contact list", it's a list of everyone I have ever contacted.
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No, no, it has to be taken very seriously before it spreads. This is the kind of thing that could completely upend the entire planet if not taken seriously. What would happen if the entire world had to self quarantine for three to four weeks and all transportation grounded for the same period of time. No, this is a huge deal.

I have long believed that some kind of bacteria or virus is going to take out all or a huge chunk of humanity at one point or another. Evolution is a heartless SOB. We could very well be one or two random mutations away from losing half the planet's human population. And, BTW, the mutations in question don't have to attack us. Imagine losing half the worldwide crops, cattle or fish.

Don't get me wrong, I don't lose any sleep over this and don't have a garage full of gas masks and HAZMAT materials. When/if it happens that stuff is likely to be absolutely useless.

I wonder if that's what might finally make the religious "get it". You go ahead and pray to your powerless imaginary intelligent creator. I'll choose science thank you.
Impossible to know, quite possible to have a reasonable guess.
That is because no approved treatment is available for ebola if zmap is effective it will be level 2 like malaria soon enough.
I wonder how this would effect future users who behave like unidan did.
Interesting, it's like the Green Bay Packers stock sale but in reverse.
California gets ~10% of their water from the Colorado River System. They'll be getting less as more states use their full allocation and the surplus that California has been getting dries up. There is ongoing battling about distributing the water more fairly but that only delays the issues that Las Vegas faces with current population growth. The city has done quite a bit to provide incentive to residents to conserve water with things like tax credits for xeriscaping their properties instead of having lawns. They'll have to do quite a bit more to either curb the growth or find other sources of water.

As far as the distribution of the Colorado River Systems water goes, that's a mess that dates back to 1922.
See also--android spyware app targeting Occupy Central protesters:

https://code4hk.hackpad.com/Fake-Code4HK-Mobile-App-HQXXrylI...

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1594667/fake-occu...
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I don't see why it's such a big deal for law enforcement investigators. They'll still be able to force Apple and Google to send trojan clients to targets, as happened with Hushmail, won't they?
What I mean is, SIS automatically assumes inter-race altercations are racially motivated. They do this because the gangs prevent inter-race altercations that have to do with drugs, money, pride, etc. The gangs have a "justice system" and handle that stuff without getting the cops involved as much as possible.

So, if somethings brews up, it's usually without gang sanction and racially motivated.
Still quite significant with older reports indicating more than a third of all Chinese iPhones are jailbroken:

http://technode.com/2011/05/03/around-35-percent-of-ios-devi...

If you can trojan one in three iphones that's a hell of a severe security issue.
Maybe the advice is don't call the police unless you absolutely have to. Now you might ask, well who calls the police just for fun or when they don't need them. Well when there is a family dispute I heard once a parent would call the police to "talk some sense" into their child who is throwing a tantrum. Then police come and child in a hysterical state swats at them with a spoon and gets shot and killed on the spot.

You might see neighbours across the street being loud, call the police and they come to your house instead and shoot your dog.

So by no means call if you have but know how to interact with them.
All English pronouns are nonstandard, different from each other, and different from nouns. You can bother to learn it or not, you're choice. I mean your choice. Yer?
I just looked and there's a "Chinese Army Drill" photoshop on the front page. The picture itself is one thing but things have contexts and given that this exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_fire_drill
you gotta wonder where the artist is coming from.
That's probably fair. I should have not been so ham-fisted. I think you could probably eliminate the gun angle entirely to a game like this, but it's wholly necessary if the players opt to engage in responsible play like (presumably) paintball folks or airsoft people do (knows very little about either).
You can keep coming up with analogies that are increasingly more difficult for the cops to get into, but ultimately it's just an exercise in sophistry. Only when people begin commonly storing their belongings inside 20ft of reinforced concrete at the bottom of the ocean will it become analogous to seeking a warrant to gain access to their phone.
Well something like S3 with $0.10/month seems like a good alternative.
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If the best you can say about your site is that it's not as bad as youtube comments you've got problems.
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Speculation that the person had a hunch they were about to get sick and figured, "what the heck, might as well get to the US where they'll save me... it's kinda glum here in Liberia anyways?"