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> Good old fashioned organizing works.

It does. The "freedom of assembly" is very powerful, even if it doesn't get as much attention as the freedom
of speech or the press. Seeing that there are others that share your outrage is an amazing motivator, as it shows, in a very personal way, that you don't have to accomplish everything yourself. Even better, it becomes easier to get others to join in and help as the group grows. Many are reluctant to be a first-mover, but will join a group once they see they will have the support of allies.

Unfortunately, FVEY agencies are not stupid. Mapping relationships to find the focal points that start or enable this kind of social organizing so they can be disrupted is a very good strategy. Even just the phone call-record and COTRAVELER[1] are likely enough to be able to find the leaders/organizers among any particular group. If you add in a few of the other tools we've seen recently, it must have been trivial to create a modern variant of COINTELPRO. Compared to the FBI's efforts under Hoover, GCHQ's "JTRIG"[2] is probably a lot easier and far more effective.

So yes, I totally agree - good old-fashioned organizing is something we need, and we need it fast. More importantly, we need it as a sustained effort to focus on a couple key topics, and we might actually see some progress.

I am not sure this is possible as long as "most" people still have food and a roof over their head. Groups start to form and ideas start to spread, but these efforts inevitably get distracted[3] or sidetracked with off-topic political minutia or divide-and-conquer wedge issues. Unfortunately, I suspect that technology will make organizing people effectively impossible until this mess impacts them personally in big, obvious, painful and/or expensive ways.

Of course, I would absolutely love to be proven wrong sbout this entire topic...

[1] http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/how-the-nsa-is-t...

[2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/07/14/manipulating-o...

[3] For an example relevant to this crowd, see PHK's "PSYOPS For Nerds" regarding yet another useless and distracting "BSD vs GPL" argument.
just a noob question: why transport all the fuel, and not start from a cannon/catapult, something that make you start with some speed?

edit: it's not clear, I was talking about partially using a cannon, not about a complete ballistic launch.
>"people who know what a privacy policy is are few and far between"

>"people are actually angry about this"

So which is it? Do people care or not? Would the purpose of storming Best Buy be to inform the masses or to scare the management of LG?
> It does look easier than XSLT.

Not really. It may look more familiar if you can only think procedurally.
LOL you people really need to learn to read. or you are all a bunch of homophobes.

Where do i mention the destructive force or ANYTHING negative about gay people? Oh wait i didn't. .. fools
> I don't see anyone going to twitter with the initial intent of conversing with someone.

They're you're either blind or not looking very hard.

Twitter is a conversation platform. A shitty one perhaps, but one nontheless.
Twitter still rules the real-time news/information area. Communities like facebook/irc/forums are too closed for broadcasts like that. It has its purpose and it does it well. But you can also not use products you don't like.

I suspect some Twitter hate as he spent time very close to it in working there. This is expected, you work on a product you might see more of the bad than the good. Game developers don't always enjoy the game because they see what they had to cut, directors can't watch a movie without pointing out flaws, security forces can't walk into a building without checking for safety, or you worked at Olive Garden and might never want that ever, ever again.

When you work in it, you really get to know something, for better or worse.
Thanks

another issue

this - https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki
or
this? - https://github.com/wting/hackernews
I wonder if the treaty about nuclear weapons in higher atmosphere/space has something to do with it. A reactor is far from being a bomb, even if it explodes mid-air the explosion would essentially be hydrogen+oxygen (with maybe a high amount of radioactive plume, but not a proper nuclear detonation).
Think of this analogy: every person in the world flips a fair coin. Those who flip tail, stop flipping coins. Those who flip head, flip one more time, and so on.

In expectation, the overall number of heads and tails will be the same - if you look at the system from the outside, it's just a bunch of independent flips with fair coins, the decisions of the participants have no effect.
I mostly agree with the sentiment that this is hardly news-worthy. But I am sure it does a lot to the self confidence of this minority group (particularly children, as Cook pointed out), and that can only be a good thing.
About your last point: if you have a space elevator you can have a mass going down to balance for the mass going up, which reduces the energy needed merely to working against the friction on the cable and the connection point at the top. That's cheap.
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Good luck trying to convince people to merely get rid of their government. We need an alternative, and the mere lack of government is not it. It will be perceived as chaos, and few people actually want chaos.

In other words, even if we don't want rulers we still need rules. We need a system. Actually, we will have a system, anyway. even "no system" is a system. It's just not clear how it would actually work at the moment (possibilities ranges from "Libertarian Utopia" to "mob rule", including "gang rule" and "local warlords").
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I think the long isolation by the Danish and Swedish state of Svartholm has been inhumane.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-04/18/social-animal...
I watched the same video a few days ago and I also felt like people were trying to solve the wrong problem, why do we stick to pre-historic tools ?
We all should just do what you just did:
1. Send a message in a bottle to the people who needs to solve their own problem by drawning themselves in an endless pain of solving old tools problems..
2. Embrace new technologies which offer new possibilities to solve real life problems that will eventually lead us to new problems that children of the people from 1. will try to solve by insane and overcomplicated hacks...

ps: whilst my fr-english is quite bad to read, I noticed you have a typo in your last sentence: "but I also don’t love the idea of people having to learn such an inSane and archaic system."
To be fair, that is a false equivalency. 15,000+ Americans die a year from AIDS. 700 die from childbirth. AIDS is 20x the bigger killer than childbirth.
And that things are?
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Sorry I misunderstood the "society" stuff. I still don't understand this: "his vote can't be explained away just by saying "well, it's a product of the society he lived in"' I read this as saying that because his "Mozilla society" predominantly support gay marriage (presumably), he can't claim his opposition is a "product of society." He is a member of several societies with probably conflicting values in some areas though, any of which could oppose marriage equality, so I don't see why he should be constrained to choose Mozilla's. I've probably read the wrong thing from that quote.

Oops, the comments about inactivity weren't based on any assumptions about your position on whether he "deserved it" or whatever. For lack of a better place, I'll elaborate, but again I'm not talking about you. :) I'm wondering why so many other people can accept neutrality from anyone, when they simultaneously talk about how absolutely evil it was that people were actually stripped of existing rights (since gay marriage was legal in California before Prop 8.) I don't think it's fair to elevate it almost to the degree of re-enslaving Africans or something, and then not hold anyone accountable who did nothing. If it's not so evil that inaction is acceptable, than don't hammer so hard on anyone who took a legal action you didn't like.
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The whole QE program MUST be inflationary. It don't make any rational sense that a government could just purchase trillions of dollars worth of it's own debt with synthetic money and not have some inflationary impact (your initial fear). So what then? How is that massive force just being absorbed with no consequence? I don't know, I don't think anyone knows. I could speculate. It's likely that in a global economy China's artificially devalued currency allows us to print money without real inflationary consequences for us? Could be the dollar has become the de facto world currency and with this much wider circulation the system can absorb much more inflationary pressure than previously thought. Could be that this system is controlled more by behavioral economics than economics. Maybe people just believe a dollar is worth about X and that's very sticky until it isn't. This last idea is the scariest. Our government is just like a big bank. The value of the dollar is subjective and I believe serious inflation won't come in an incremental fashion, it will come in a black swan tidal wave. I could be wrong and I seriously hope I am!! I just don't think it's prudent to say, well we all thought (rationally and rightly) QE was going to cause inflation because it's so obviously an aggressively inflationary policy... then since it didn't we just turn the page and say oh well... glad that didn't blow up the dollar. We need to understand why that didn't have an effect.
Yes. Unfortunately, this is an area that has become a zero sum game. Encryption needs to happen by default in every communication. It goes beyond that, entire systems and cryptographic constructs need to be overhauled in the wake of the NIST / NSA revelations.
Starting with TLS, particularly TLS that relies on commercial certificate vendors to function.
It's a total clusterfuck.
Yes, exactly a procedural step back from XSLT. In certain situations (most of them are that) you don't want to bother with XSLT. You just want to add attribute to the node, in a few lines of code.
Good testing scheme
There's a command line tool called q, which allows performing SQL-like queries directly on text files, basically treating text as data and auto detecting column types.

http://harelba.github.io/q/
Not just difficult, but verbose. XML/DOM manipulations are very verbose, especially in Java. Xembly make them very simple and compact.
I think it would be more accurate to say that people vastly underestimate how they actually value their own privacy.

Remember the Holocaust? Well, one thing that helped was an initially mostly harmless ethnic census conducted by Napoleon. Then the Nazi got hold of that data, and used it. Oops. Not that you or your descendants actually risk being put down in the gaz chamber because you turn on your TV, but there's a whole range of nasty stuff that can happen between nothing and summary execution.
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The TV looks like a Samsung.
XML is not difficult to work with though.
This one is pretty good and it's free, but it's Russian – https://pdd.yandex.ru/

The user interface for end clients actually has an option for both English and Russian.

If you worry about "weird foreign website", don't, this is Yandex, a large, famous, public company http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex
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Implement it in any other language and send a pull request :) The implementation is very simple, can be done in just a few hours.
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As with laptop webcams, it probably not so much that it's always on, but that it can be turned on at any time without you knowing.
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Thanks!

May I ask: given the freemium model here, what features or services would make you more likely to sign up for a paid account? I'm looking for ways to add more value to the professional side of things.
Okay. In this scenario where you accelerate upward then turn 90 degrees and accelerate horizontally, are you talking about this being powered by a rocket or by a track?
You are correct, but if you can turn it on by voice, then it constantly has to be listening when plugged in. The problem isn't that it accepts voice commands. It's that the microphone data is processed remotely, and there is no way to control when it listens.
At least he didn't make the popular mistake of basing every type on strings.
> it's all speculation on this point as to what or why he did it, because the man himself hasn't said anything on the matter--mostly because of the gay hate brigade rallied against him.

When the controversy broke he was literally asked what his views on SSM were, and he didn't give an answer. That strongly implies he doesn't think SSM should be legal.
If your distributed object code includes a library that is under the LGPL, then you must also make the source of that LGPL library available on request, and users should be able to change that LGPL library in your project with their modified version of that LGPL library. So, if I remember well, you can either (a) use dynamic linking so that the user can replace your version of the LGPL library with their modified version, or you can (b) provide object code that can be linked with their modified version of the LGPL library.
If there was no jail time, then everyone would try to do that (What could be the worst scenario - just losing all your stolen money). That wouldn't work.
Good stuff, there's definitely a value in "local search", where local stands for "your own stuff". Pinboard can be used in a similar way (the paid version), but the difference is that's FTS only for pinned things.

Shameless plug, I'm attempting to do something similar specifically for science, but make those local results also available globally using a distributed network based on WebRTC. It's also a browser extension, which detects if you're on a page of a scientific article. If you are, it takes the body of the article and indexes it, by putting its contents into a DHT. You can then use the extension to search through this distributed network.
For those interested, the post back from June is available here: http://juretriglav.si/an-open-distributed-search-engine-for-... with the source code here: https://github.com/ScholarNinja/extension
The project will get a lot more love soon, as it turned out it was a bit too early back then because WebRTC implementations were buggy (since fixed in Chrome, but e.g. it resulted in 100% CPU usage in Chrome after a short while, gigabytes of memory used).

Anyway, best of luck making Fetching.io sustainable, flippyhead!
a patch was released for OS X versions below 10.10 only, so I would assume it should be applied to OS X 10.10: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6495
Many in the heterosexual community really dislike gay people.
i do - my comment was about security team attitudes
This is also wildly dependent on the test in question and what 1SD is equal to. 3+ SD is generally accepted as "genius" and not all tests have the same SD.
Wow. As a non-American I hadn't seen these ads before. They're pretty much the definition of FUD.

And the one with the mother is especially insane. Wouldn't want your kids to be taught facts that are uncomfortable to you, eh? What do you know, if your kids knew homosexuality was a thing they might like it and fall from grace.
What a delightful and extremely useful piece of software! I had a plan to build a smart bookmarking service (like pinboard on steroids), but I think this is what I was actually thinking of. Great work!

PS: If you ever decide to open source it I'd be happy to contribute.
And Apple is more dangerous than Google in this regard?
but it is one way out

Is it really? When has it happened before?
Which is why I unplugged the microphone and webcam on mine (Lenovo X201).
Edit: I can't read
Maybe it works for sociopaths?
>The trouble is that "worse society" is defined by the preferences of the speaker, not the aggregate preferences of everyone in society including the thousands (millions?) of users contently using Twitter in ways the speaker dislikes.

Yeah, and what's the issue with that?

The very idea behind a "society" is that its members take certain decisions about whats OK and what's not. Not everybody has to agree, but everybody can try to convince society for what he thinks it's best or what should be stopped.

That "millions are doing it" is also not an argument. 2/3 of Americans did smoke, and yet it's now banned in most public places and looked down upon. Thousands of businesses did "seggregation" too.

What Alex does is start a discussion and voice his dislike and wish for X to stop. He doesn't rule over anybody, and doesn't force people to stop X with violence.

So I see no problem there.
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When I am terrified of something I just bought, I return it.
I think a better solution to the problem of the cop's recording going missing is to automatically find the cop guilty of everything he's accused of when that happens, without a trial. That'll stop that problem right quick.
How about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi... ?
I would assume that the patch has already been applied to the shipping final version of 10.10.0; installing system packages designed for older OSX releases sounds dangerous.
They've also added support for Docker, contributed code to Linux and are including a package manager in Windows 10. The world is turning upside down :)
And yet, you've got Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, a pretty modern book. Of course, that's from the UK, which may have the more classical interpretation of half-blood.

Bloodlines sound more like something from royal families and the aristocracy, of which we still have a select few in NL. Baronesses and whatnot. Kinda posh.
if video but not audio surveillance freaks you out, a little piece of black electrical tape goes a long way. that includes your phone's front-facing camera..
Unlike homosexuals, religious groups do actually try to recruit people (especially children), mind you.

Gay parents would likely be fine with their children being heterosexual.
No. Government needs to have laws against this. We can't leave it up to ignorant and fickle consumers. This is a failure of the system of law, thus government. Consumer action is no substitute. Voting with wallets is not equal in anyway to voting. And never should be. We shouldn't be trying to herd consumers to punish companies, we should be asking governments to do their job.
Relatively few people run gateway devices with the ability to do what you're describing, but pcap is an open format and there are existing utilities for dumping (tcpdump/wireshark) and visualization (https://www.sans.org/security-resources/idfaq/visualize_data...).
But this is not a problem of the platform, but of how users are using the platform. I rarely have conversations on twitter (i.e. most are just a couple of replies long at most) but I occasionally have a 20+ post. If you hit proper reply, it works. If you don't, it doesn't (or does really badly), but this is a user fault, not a platform fault.
At least Nintendo is still Nintendo.

Sega is just yet another app and game publisher. As a kid from the 80's remembering the Sega vs. Nintendo wars, this is a sad state of affairs.

If you own the platform, you can really push your IPs. I don't think that Halo, which in my opinion was a rather generic shooter when it was first released, could have become this multi-billion dollar franchise without the help of MS.
And the answer is simple: The local ISPs in the US are granted a monopoly by the local government, given special privileges, and given free money. These 3 issues make it hard for new competitors to enter the market.
'Preposterous'? Really? It's - what - 6 years since Prop 8 went through; evidently a debate on this matter was not preposterous to Californians then. And it's only 18 years since DOMA, which made this tortuous state-by-state guerrilla war necessary. And it's only 28 years since homosexuality was removed from the DSM. That's just the States - see elsewhere in this thread re India; in Britain we had Section 28 on the books until recently, and got equal marriage (sort of) last year.

The trouble with declaring something, as an individual in a HN thread, beyond the bounds of reasonable discussion is that it does not actually make it so - the bounds of reasonable discussion are set by what people in general are prepared to reasonably discuss. The obvious takeaway from the Eich affair - the best corporate diversity record in the world will not stop individuals from holding to the beliefs that they do. They will just hold them more quietly.

Finally - Eich being drilled out of the CEO position is not directly a suppression of his free speech or whatever; he is not being sent to jail for his views. The board of a company has the right to ditch a CEO for being 'embarrassing'. The trouble is that this is not somehow a radical blow for gay rights: indeed, closeted gay people not too long ago would find their positions untenable for exactly the same reason if their sexuality was discovered (it was embarrassing, etc).

In order to get to a situation where they could go about their business relatively unmolested, gay people had to fight against, among other things, exactly this sort of kneejerk corporate small-c conservatism. The progress we've made on this issue was not made one non-profit CEO at a time; nor was it through individual gays having great individual 'role models' (sorry Tim), but through prolonged political fights. I have little sympathy for Eich in this matter, but the idea that his being Mozilla CEO was a serious obstacle to gay rights was risible, and remains so.
Not humanely???
Except that his first words in the post are "About seven months ago, I abruptly quit Twitter.", so that's just utter BS.

I may be biased because Alex Gaynor is a prominent member of the Django community and one of the pillars of what made it so elitist and hostile to contributions. But then again, I hate twitter too.
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I like this alot, would anyone be keen to collaborate on a simple ruby gem to implement this 'tombstone' method?
Vast portions of code that makes it usable are missing; as someone above stated, Aqua is missing as well as core items like disk image mounting etc.

I tried many years ago to use Darwin in the "haha I can run Mac OSX but not actually buy a Mac" sort of idea - it was an exercise in hard work (as I hadn't a clue what I was doing) and what I did managed to get to boot wasn't massively useful for "real" work (a CLI with no windowing layer) like development etc. or anything you do day to day.

Quite interesting nonetheless, but not massively useful.
The article is shallow and points out the obvious characteristics of Twitter. It's a waste of time to read.
I have read your comments on this thread. Seems like you found a nice way to disguise your Anti-Hindu venting by packaging it as something barely relevant to this thread.
Very nice progress made from the original topic:

Tim Cook says I'm gay -> it's difficult to be Gay in India -> It's not just Indian Muslims who are Anti-Gay, and by the way Indian (or is it Hindu?) society has lot of other faults -> Hindu rulers had fought wars, and some other thing about Hinduism is dishonest
Thanks very much, good to know. I will take a look at it.

Thanks.
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Not so much a solution or even a workaround, more of a way to take a stand.
Whether intentional or not, Rubin's earlier initiative vacuuming up many of the interesting robot companies into Google, would seem to create great new opportunities for new robotics startups.
blu-tack works fine on the laptop too.