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> There's a third choice - don't buy the games that violate your privacy and don't play them. You've pointed out great ways to support developers that don't violate privacy (GOG.com, Kickstarter) - why not stick only to these? Unless, your urge to play a video game is bigger than your integrity.

I support these options when they are available. But when you have a certain taste for specific niche of games, sometimes there is no alternative. Kickstarter has managed to bring back the classic top down, turn based party RPGs, which is fantastic, but I haven't seen any developer try to bring genres like RPG sandbox (ala Skyrim) or grid based, turn based dungeon crawlers (MMXL, which has one of the most annoying DRM, is the first game to be released in the genre in decades) to Kickstarter yet.

Sure, I'm making a dent on my integrity by buying these games but I don't see it as a great evil as long as we're still able to fight against privacy-invading schemes. If that option was no longer there, I would stop playing these games. I also feel that the developers deserve the support, they aren't responsible for the publishers requirements. I don't wish for them to go out of business, I'm optimistic that the growing success of Kickstarter and gog as a platform might change their mind in the long term, I don't think it's all black & white where we either support kickstarter or support DRM published games.

I'll remind you that many of the current great kickstarter developers come from a classic DRM supporting background. Obsidian, for example. Their last RPG, Fallout New Vegas, depended on Steam as their DRM. They saw the success of kickstarter, started their own project on it (Pillars of Eternity), succeeded in crowdfunding it and might end up relying more often on crowdfunding their games in the future. Pillars of Eternity will be DRM-free.

Now the question is, do you think it would've been better if no one had bought their games before? You think it would have been better if they had gone out of business? I do not believe so. PoE exists today because Obsidian could afford to build itself as a studio and recruit some of the best developers of the genre.

Showing support for crowdfunding, buying games on gog.com will help these developers free themselves from the shackles of the bad publishers. Boycotting developers that are still kept in shackles will not do anything but destroy their livelihood. Particularly as publishers are very likely to blame piracy when the games don't sell well.

The fact that a lot of pre-established developers are turning to crowdfunding bodes well for the future in my mind.
Wasn't it Belkin that got caught doing MITM shenanigans with HTTP connections in their routers some years ago as well?

http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2003/11/07/belkin-...
So what's wrong with passing the phone around?

Now I have to ask everyone to pull out their phones.

"Mine is in my purse, let me go grab it"
"I left mine in the car, oops"
"My battery is dead"

Then I have to text/email them the link.

"I didn't get the link"
"I have no service here"

Whereas, passing a phone literally takes a millisecond.
Example: https://github.com/the-domains/the-grid
One thing I cannot tell is that Monday my Belkin n600 router started crapping out intermittently every few minutes. I would unplug and plug in the router again, and it would work until it went down next.

Was I actually affected by this issue?

The description of this issue makes it seem like the routers were completely unable to make a connection vs. the intermittent behavior I experienced so I'm really confused.

I reflashed by firmware at Belkin's advice later that day and it seemed to resolve the issue, but this can't just be coincidence...
As I understand it, you can fclose(stdin) without issue on almost all POSIX systems.
There is also this research on the IETF standard for "lawful intercept" in routers:

Exploiting Lawful Intercept to Wiretap the Internet

https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-dc-10/Cross_Tom/Bl...
Unlike everybody else, when it's Microsoft, iOS app comes the last.
> Online communities create their own standards. Reddit's standards exclude some groups of people. That's a weird choice to make - in the name of freedom of expression we're going to create an environment that is ridiculously hostile to large numbers of people to make sure they can't express their opinions.

Who's being excluded by reddit's standards? Aside from egregious racists who become nuisances to others, and/or child porn distributors (both good exclusions, IMO), it seems like a free-for-all. You want to create a subreddit reflecting your odd interests, go ahead!
Fission was supposed to be "too cheap to meter."

This seems to be getting way ahead of itself. Seems like they should look to hit important milestones like producing more energy from the reaction than is required to sustain it, before they start worrying about producing electricity for pennies per kilowatt-hour. Walk before you run, and all that.
Can you imagine standing next to "one of the oldest figurative depictions in the world, if not the oldest one?"

The philosopher Walter Benjamin spoke of certain artworks having "aura." That one practically glows.
Would you say more about opaque cards? I haven't heard the term before, and I'm curious how they work.
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> If you borrow money for any reason with the understanding that you'll pay it back, but you secretly intend to keep it all along, then you are doing something wrong (morally if not legally).

We are in complete agreement then. To do otherwise would be, in my opinion, fraud.
What happens when they blame strong cryptography for the next gut-wrenching tragedy involving innocent kids and a bombing / school shooting / kidnapping / pedophile?

Pedophiles (or more specifically: child pornographers) routinely use strong cryptography and effectively nobody cares.
For a second I thought it would be some kind of editor vim style but Microsoft made. But no, just an other photo app. Can you still generate any revenue out of this kind of app in 2014? I feel like the market is pretty dense already, between dropbox, instagram, flickr ... plenty of apps already in the landscape, why an other?
I have to imagine that this is part of a larger plan to rope people into an MS ecosystem by getting folks to use useful utilities one at a time. I can think of another company that did this a few years back with disparate utilities: Google. Recall gmail, Picasa, Reader, Maps, etc. Standalone in the early 2000s and now if you use one, you likely use them all.

Also, a pretty unsubtle rebranding campaign: "Made with love by Microsoft Research FUSE Labs"??
This is a strange piece of writing. Two things stand out in particular:

First, it paints Von Braun as a visionary hero doing what it took to survive during the war, under pain of death. Von Braun's moral position was much more problematic than this. The best you can say about his stance during the war is that he was not an ideologue, but an opportunist. Holding him up as an example of moral courage is a perversion of history. "I aim at the stars (but sometimes I hit London)." There are excellent biographies of Von Braun that go into rich detail about his conduct during the war.

Second, the article argues that Korolev and Von Braun somehow manipulated their respective countries into funding their dreams of human spaceflight. Given the obvious military applications of rockets that could launch large payloads into orbit, and the huge advantage this technology would give any nuclear power over its rivals, the suggestion that human space flight would not have happened in the 1960's without these dreamers is fantasy.

Military planners at this stage of the Cold War were thinking seriously about armed space stations (and the Soviet Union in fact built one). Moreover, questions of who could put a human being in orbit first, and who could put people on the moon, were universally recognized as prestigious technological achievements with immense propaganda value.
Depends. I've personally been to small claims court and seen what appeared to be a staff attorney for Capital One suing dozens of people for overdue balances.

I'm pretty sure the big gyms that have in-house collections. I would imagine people signing a year contract and then changing their mind and trying to get out of it happens quite often.
Might want to close this up a bit, can just change the number at the end and grab emails for everyone that signed up:

http://beta.whatthedeploy.com/users/1

User
Name: Chris Vannoy
Email: chris@chrisvannoy.com
I'm well aware of that, the question is why don't they? I found it a neat aspect that an long-lived bug with a long-lived PR is in a long-lived VCS.
Nice that all of your friends are always in the same room with you.
I'm not sure if I really have a better suggestion but possibly letting people define a login form post & the ability to store a session ID might work better.

For example, have a form like this:
http://www.hurl.it/

Have the Destination labeled as the login form, then store the resulting cookie.

I'm not sure if you are setup in a way that is practical, tho.
It's by Microsoft Research. Not everything they make is meant to be a direct revenue driver.
What interests me in companies similar to GitHub is how the organisational politics reflects the code (or coding process)

I assume if I knew more about fluid dynamics one could make some decent correlations between blockages, eddies, and viscosity and middle management sign offs, manual testing and IM channels.

I guess I am looking for justification that a flat collegiate structure produces higher quality long term code.And some idea how to persuade people to adopt such a format - open, free flowing discussion about code and a data driven "prove it not say it with authority" seems to conflict with hierarchies.

Or maybe I am just fed up with organisational politics. :-)

If a githuber is on could they comment on how design decisions and business decisions are taken ?
>People associate licensing an ebook with buying a treebook //

People don't just associate it. Companies offer e-books for sale. Amazon says "Kindle Purchase" and give a price for the e-book: that's a subtle sort of fraud if they really mean you can "Kindle license" and to offer a "licensing fee" rather than a price.

Companies want people to think they are purchasing stuff because otherwise people would be reluctant to "buy". Unfortunately the largest companies have been able to play this fraud long enough to establish the system; only now are people realising that what they thought they had bought doesn't technically belong to them and the rights they thought they had are not in place. Like I said, it's a subtle fraud.

What's more egregious is that the copyright deal has been corrupted. With DRM companies are saying their work will not enter the public domain eventually - that means they've failed to uphold their end of the copyright deal ... why then are the demos upholding their end, there is no compulsion to if the contract has already been broken.

There is no protection for works which have been crippled so they can not enter the public domain; the contract has gone. It would be good if the legal system could come in line with the reality of this situation.
This is definitely something I've wondered about before. Links to some decent references are below. Basically, the idea seems to be that giving patent rights to grant recipients gives them an incentive to develop and commercialize ideas that will benefit the public. Taking a concept from the lab to the marketplace is often a non-trivial affair, and patent rights are a way to drive that process.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh%E2%80%93Dole_Act

[2] http://www.mofo.com/resources/news/2002/10/the-governments-p...
I really don't like playing "what's the real price" games.
Yes, I know this, and in a throwaway little program where you are sure you are the last one to ever touch stdin (because you're calling exit right there in the loop, for instance) it is okay.
Analysis: Wireless data caps more about profit than congestion
Totally creepy and unacceptable that a private piece of equipment can be affected remotely. What's not to say that many routers (and the devices attached to them) couldn't be attacked if (or now when with this information coming to light) Belkin was compromised by an external party?
Roost (YC S14) Is Hiring a Senior Java Developer in New York City
Roost:

- Is the leading SaaS provider of web push notifications.

- Is currently handling over 500M requests / month and that will also continue to grow. Scale and speed are incredibly important to us and any experience there is greatly appreciated.

- Has just left the YC S14 batch and are moving into the next phase of product development. We currently have ~1M subscribers across 2k+ sites and are growing at 5-10% weekly.

We’re looking for a senior Java engineer who:

- Has experience with AWS cloud technologies

- Takes scaling incredibly seriously.

- Experience with NoSQL databases at large scale.

- Experience in and willing to help with ops.

Benefits:

-Flex vacation policy

-Manhattan offices

-Health care

-Autonomy to create awesome products

Email casey@goroost.com with resume to start the conversation.
It could be easier, but it is an opinionated piece of software. Their main focus is budgeting one month out (this and next month). However, for calculating the amount to allocate each month for a longterm goal they do have a convenient tool. Once you enter a value (say $4800 for easy math), type '/12<enter>' and it'll replace $4800 with $400. Then once you have income to start budgeting next month you can copy that over.
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I've never considered Tor as a beacon of security, I believe it to be anonymity. If this is secure stuff, you probably want to VPN into a known good host using a hardware token device. Since this is a work thing, they should most likely host the VPN device in their server room with appropriate access to their file servers and intranet.

I've seen several variants of secure laptops. First one is no boot on the disk at all, just a full disk encryption and a bootable CD.

The alternative is generally just full disk encryption.

If you have a super secure laptop that your post leads me to believe you want, you don't want to write to USB ever. This is how data leaks if you ever have the laptop stolen. Instead, enable read-only on the USB ports (you can do this in Windows via regedit, haven't had to do a Linux laptop).

For traveling with secure devices, simply don't travel with the assembled device. Ship the laptop ahead of you, and only travel with the hard drive, which has the sensitive data. The laptop sans drive is mostly useless, and you're acting as the physical courier for the data. The Dell business laptops that only need 1 or 2 screws removed to take out the hard-drive work well for this.

Also use a SSD for FDE, it's just too painful on 5400 rpm.
It leaves you in control of the "show". If you have a series of pictures, for example, you pick when to move to the next photo, and can narrate as you do. You don't have to think about them flipping beyond the photos you wanted to share. They don't have to figure out how to work your phone.

It's certainly easier to pass around a phone, of course, but I can see the flaws.

This is a place where NFC would really be a step up though. Tap-to-share-screen, instead of having to find contacts and numbers and sending texts.
That one where you click on the curly braces to auto-de-minify is awesome!
I hope he doesn't. He seemed like genuinely wanting to help Yahoo against attack and probably copied FBI as a courtsey.
The things you mention do not count as benefits. I already addressed the education issues above. Things like public defenders are not restricted to the citizenry, a tourist who is arrested is entitled to a public defender same as anyone else.For clarity by 'benefit' I am talking specifically about transfer payments, I'm sorry for not making that clearer.
Thanks for the literature. I've actually already read it, and, though Orin Kerr is certainly a smart guy, I think he's wrong. (IAAL, by the way. Sorry you hate me.) I'm not sure what more there is to say, though, if you're not willing to actually defend your view.

I'll just finish with this though: not even the article you sent me suggests that CFAA will ever be struck down on vagueness grounds. Rather, he thinks that the void-for-vagueness doctrine will create some outer limit on courts' interpretation of the statute. These are what I referred to as the inevitable fringe cases. Note, though, that this article was written four years ago, and I've seen no indication that the trend he has identified has continued to develop in any significant way.
While the conspiracy theories are fun, what actually was happening was that the router pinged a heartbeat server they had to detect whether it was connected to the internet, and when it wasn't, it would shut off the dns resolver so browsers would get the "internet is not connected" error messages, rather than some other random one.
The bible calls for a debt jubilee - forgiveness of all debts - every seven years. No such thing has happened in hundreds of years. So who acting immorally, again?
Bank of America also has disposable numbers for their credit cards, one reason I still keep my card with them. You just pick how long the number is active for (min 1 month) and it spits out 16 digits. I use it for all my online transactions.
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Maybe the way to present that to laypeople is to say, "If law enforcement can unlock a child predator's stuff and look through it, then they can also unlock your stuff and look through it. All of it."

The last sentence is important. A large number of people have some area(s) that they wouldn't particularly care to have law enforcement looking at closely, even if they aren't overtly criminal in any way.
I don't think it was a euphemism at all! I think that the author of the article had no sense that "secure golden key" is just an implementation detail of "back door". Which is the sort of misunderstanding of "how stuff actually works" that becomes dangerous when influencing and defining policy.

There is a good debate to be had here, but it really shouldn't contain the word "wizardry" anywhere.
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We are using the niche mainly because of SEO, client acquisition as well as user acquisition reasons. Exhibition stafff is also a very lucrative niche because germany is the biggest exhibition country in the world and trade fair hostesses actually earn pretty good money: about 13 € to 15 € per hour, which is about 16 to 19 $.

We had some customer requests in the hospitality market, mostly catering staff. So I guess this is the next market to enter. However nurses could be an interesting market as well, we are not totally sure yet.

Our vision for the longterm is, to be the "oDesk for onsite staffing". So everytime you are looking for a temporary worker that works onsite, you hopefully go to our online marketplace.
If your computer was using a combination of working DNS IPs and your Belkin router's IP, it's a plausible explanation for intermittent outages.

So if you had 8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, and 192.168.1.1, 1/3 DNS lookups would time out. Specifics are up to your operating system and lookup configuration, but you would almost certainly notice the problem, even if it was just minor annoyance. Lookups will usually be retried after a few seconds, so it might have just seemed like everything was extra laggy.
This is a solved problem.

Collections.reverse(myLinkedList);

Absent a demonstrated performance issue, there's no reason to even consider writing and tuning a new version. There's a debugged performant library. The first engineering tool is to apply is Google, not a whiteboard.
> They need to be careful what they advise. That advice could (and likely WILL) result in people getting taken to collections.

I previously worked at a web hosting company where people would pull this kind of thing. Generally we didn't bother with collections because it was often more hassle than it was worth (the biggest part of our cost was the support and anti-fraud process, not the actual service), but nonpayment would get accounts deactivated and blacklisted automatically, so they'd have to call in to us (and get recorded in our tracking system in case of repeat incidents) to pay and get things turned back on.

I had some sympathy for people dealing with accidental credit card expirations, but there was always a weird minority of people who would knowingly and sometimes repeatedly cancel cards or dispute payments and yet get angry at us for the audacity of turning off their websites.
Scalaz creator Tony Morris banned from scalaz GitHub org and IRC channel
Wow, no fun not ever.

To author: thanks for the reference to Coda Hale's Metrics talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czes-oa0yik
Woah, a little trip down memory lane... This post made me think of this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/american-challenge-a-sailing-s...

This was actually quite a reasonable sailing simulator if I remember correctly. Good enough that when I finally got a chance to sail for real a few years later, I knew what I needed to be doing in terms of positioning sails to obtain various points of sail. Of course, navigating without an overhead map being available, and knowing about ropes were two things that I still had to learn the old-fashioned way :)
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What you guys do is awesome. I'm interested in machine translation. I know python and NLTK. I have a grasp of statistics, I'm learning everyday more. Will I be able to design a domain-specific machine translation system with Watson?
There must be more context to that. CVS doesn't have change sets; just from looking at this log, we don't know what else may be related to this.

Maybe some important shell scripts hang in a loop because they expect head to report an unsuccessful termination status when a file doesn't exist. Maybe some situation exists where a privileged system script can be fooled into looping by an unprivileged user.

Here is the mailing list discussion:

https://www.mail-archive.com/misc@openbsd.org/msg132628.html

There is no report of any actual DDoS. Craig Skinner was really just testing tools on nonexistent files!

So the commit comment just follows from some general hypothesis that incorrect exit statuses from tools can be exploited in some way by attackers.
Not sure whether it is the right time to build it (how do you define that? Isn't it always the right time?)

With a startup (or more specifically, your product), timing can make or break you. Releasing a tablet in the '90s was too early, because there wasn't freely available WiFi or mobile broadband. There were electric cars before Tesla, but they didn't take off because battery technology wasn't good enough, and gas was too cheap.

It is a good question to ask yourself (because the VCs will). Why is now the perfect time to launch this startup, and not 2 years ago or 2 years from now?
This could be cool. But, other than the pretty gnarly security hole pointed out by spykiller... the site is purely errors for me.
> Recall gmail, Picasa, Reader, Maps, etc. Standalone in the early 2000s and now if you use one, you likely use them all.

I don't think I know anyone who uses 'them all' even from this small list. Of course, Reader doesn't even exist anymore. And I know no one who uses picasa as far as I know. People use gmail and maps, but not really as integrated components or because of their use of anything else in the google ecosystem.

I mean yes, I agree that this is a very google-ish strategy, but I also don't think it's really driven a lot of cross-app use. And when they tried to push G+ through that channel people screamed bloody murder at it.