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I believe this article was posted before the flurry of news in the last hour from various credible sources claiming "US government officials" have laid blame on North Korea.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/north-korea-behind-sony-ha...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/12/17/north-ko...
Indeed. Don't forget the currency is the won, not US dollars. Foreign currency in a communist country is most likely very hard to get (at least in East Germany it was).
I don't care if they are free or not. The point is that is technical feasible and they do exist.

Most commercial JVMs like IBM Websphere for Real Time, Aonix and JamaicaVM, just to cite three examples, do offer AOT compilation.

Java on IBM i mainframes is translated to the same bytecode used by C and C++ (yes I really mean bytecode not Assembly, IBM i has a kernel JIT).

Then you have RoboVM, CodenameOne, JikesRVM, SubstrateVM.

SubstrateVM is done by the same Oracle Labs working on Graal.

RoboVM is how LibGDX guys are targeting iOS.

And Oracle is changing the OpenJDK to eventually support AOT compilation.

http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/197

Currently the only free on that might suit you, in case you only care about UNIX environments is RoboVM.
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http://bgp.he.net/search?search%5Bsearch%5D=digital+ocean returns a list of Digital Ocean's ASes. An AS is a top-level chunk of the network, so you may assume that Digital Ocean operates seven technically independent networks with a total of about half a million IPv4 addresses.

By way of comparison: Before the strict IPv4 rationing regimes came into force, v4 addresses were being allocated at rate of about half a million per day.
> To your other point, I don't think anyone who has been following Linux security for any amount of time thinks that Spender or PaX are in need of proving themselves.

No major distro carries the patch, and the kernel devs don't want to merge it as it is.

A change in tactics is needed - make it easier for everyone to see how much better things with grsec are. The tweets are good, a summary of those tweets would be better.
I was actually looking for your code when I posted, but somehow forgot to refer to it in the end.

Good work!
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"We've been led to believe that they exist in a technological dark ages of sorts"

They have very publicly show capability to launch long to medium range ballistic missiles and they have an active nuclear weapons program. I'm not directing this at your entirely, but I'm surprised how many people thing don't believe they lack the technical capacity for computer warfare.
Even in "secure mode", your passphrase must be sent to backblaze's servers whenever you do a restore. They then have posession of decrypted version of your files for a while. This is unacceptable.

As brianwski wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8169040:

...[I]f you lose a file, you have to sign into the Backblaze website and provide your passphrase which is ONLY STORED IN RAM for a few seconds and your file is decrypted. Yes, you are now in a "vulnerable state" until you download then "delete" the restore at which point you are back to a secure state.
Maybe Russia with false flag. Or even China.

But Russia really really doesn't like us and has nothing to lose with trade, etc.
It's difficult to find articles written in Chinese, hosted on servers or social media and news sites in China that criticize China, yes.

Conversely, it's beyond easy to find articles written in English, hosted on US servers and social media and news sites in the US that criticize the US.

So the parent's point seems to stand.
As to point 2, here[1] is a fairly complete report musing on the technological and cyber warfare capabilities of the North Korean Military. Not that I think they did it, but they certainly might be capable.

[1] http://h30499.www3.hp.com/hpeb/attachments/hpeb/off-by-on-so...
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Were you truly surprised? Gawker and its affiliated publications are disgusting.
Nicole Perlroth has good tech journalist creds.

Why do you think that? I don't see any reason to believe that based on my albeit superficial search so far.. In fact though, I see oddly coincidental and potentially biased 'creds' in her LinkedIn profile, etc. ('Her 2014 Times profile of security blogger Brian Krebs has been optioned by Sony Pictures.' https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleperlroth ).

Genuinely curious though if she is unbiased or if maybe she should be checked against.
Patreon wasn't actually first. Gratipay (formerly Gittip) was around well before Patreon and "be a sponsor" via an ongoing monthly or annual membership is a concept that has existed for centuries. Online, Paypal has offered ongoing donations for years. Patreon is just the most prominent and so far successful of several dedicated platforms for the idea of ongoing sponsorship.

In the Snowdrift.coop review of hundreds of existing sites, they even list a handful of other subscription-style sites https://snowdrift.coop/p/snowdrift/w/en/othercrowdfunding#su... (most with no real success, but many of which were around before Patreon).
> #4. Doesn't the fact that the hack seems to be for retribution and not for personal gain precisely fit the motives of a propaganda-oriented country?

Yes, it could just be US agencies filling the anti-NK propanganda machine via ridicule.
Glad to see a shoutout to Radim Rehurek and gensim. The library is really a joy to work with.
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I see call centers more as for people who need a job rather than for people who are good at sales. Having worked inbound sales a decade ago, I was on the lower end of the stats board regularly but they continued to keep me on. Although one example, it told me they didn't much care about the lower end people as long as they had higher end closers. A bit like VCs, they invested in many, as long as they got a few hits, here and there.

On a side note, living in Portugal, it was odd to learn that call center jobs are the de-facto go-to job for foreigners and the jobless. Overwhelmingly so.
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I believe Terminal.app handles mouse events differently, so the standard tmux config doesn't work right. Maybe see if https://bitheap.org/mouseterm/ improves matters for you.
Really? Not a month has passed since the hack and the US officials already declared they are sure it was North Korea, using very weak evidence?

This smells as fishy as it gets.
Or even the US? Who gains most from this?
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I think your facts must be confused. Capitulation to Germany would have resulted in every single minority in the entirety of Eurooe being exterminated. Capitulating to Germany (and therefore Japan) would have resulted in all of China becoming the Rape of Nanking.
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That is the thing with RoR.

There were frameworks before it that offered similar functionality, but since the web was growing up only a few developers got to see them.
No. This is bad advice, do not do this; it comes up every time there's a problem with a hash algorithm. The equivalent number of bits in a hashing algorithm designed as such (e.g. sha-384) will be substantially more secure than sha256+md5.
Upon browsing a few of these threads tonight, I've realized there is no worse reading than a bunch of tech enthusiasts armchairing about geopolitics. I'm out!
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It's a call center but nobody seem on the phone on those pictures.

I worked at the (former) Dublin PayPal call center and it was cubicles but certainly not "hell". Maybe I prefer sitting in a good desktop chair with two monitors rather than dozen of "cool" but less comfortable places ?

But sure, great pictures, interesting design.
I've been suggesting a move towards HTTPS only (for security) with SPDY/HTTP2 support.. for my own usage, 2/3 of the clients support SPDY... so having more resources from the initial domain is a better win.. with PUSH resources for CSS/JS with initial connection it gets better still.

If ES6 (including modules) were supported in browser, it would be pretty awesome as an addition to SPDY... I think we're reasonably 5-6 years off before any broadly available sites can really use it, but it's cool. Similar compared to Web Sockets a few years back.

Given that a lot of interactive data is now pushed to dedicated API services, and images are offloaded for CDN, it's far easier to deliver CSS and JS with the markup on the same deployment(s).
Since when does it take more than a month to find the origin of an attack? We've seen the capabilities of the NSA, and I'd bet they've already made grounds infiltrating NK computer networks in the past. If the perpetrator was sloppy (e.g. forgetting to use a VPN once or something), it would make it even easier.
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It's Object Oriented - they build the modules separately and plugged them into to the Framework (ship).
I use a Retina Display MacBook Pro, presently running Mavericks, with Xcode.

I own, but don't use a whole lot, a Core Quad Xeon workstation with 16 GB of FD-DIMM and a 2.5 TB AMCC 3ware hardware RAID, as well as a Blue and White G3 Macintosh, and a dual 133 MHz BeBox.

I prefer to use my MacBook Pro as it enables me to work from WiFi spots, for the most part cafes, as well as some all-night restaurants. I am self-employed; being able to work from a cafe enables me to be around other people during my workday, as otherwise consulting can get very lonely.
I've followed the Freenet Project for some years at its early stages, and I have to say that it has come indeed a long way. It's also been positively affected from more CPUs, RAM, and the general computer speed advances in recent years. The ecosystem has also stabilized (jSite, SONE, etc. as mentioned in the article). I personally like what has happened in the Freenet user interface and the ability to choose between levels of connection security/trust over speed (read about that on the site).
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Developers often make special exceptions for iPhones that they won't make for e.g. linux users.
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Well, I did pretty much the same thing, but ignored LinkedIn -- she did an interview with Krebs, but I also saw a series of other tech-related articles with a security focus. At the least, I didn't see an obvious political bias.

I also try to be careful not to dig too deeply into the backgrounds of people writing articles I disagree with. Seems like a dishonest thing to do.
NK does plenty to fuel the anti-NK propaganda machine by itself. It doesn't need the US's support.
This isn't really true. Take for example the Harvard Study on Chinese Censorship "Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation" by King, Gary, Pan, and Roberts (http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/experiment_0.pdf).

Scathing criticism is regularly posted about the Chinese government and is not subject to any censorship. There are a few key areas that are censored: notably relations with Tibet and historical political uprisings.
I guess you and I have completely different definitions of terrorism. I wouldn't say that actual terror is necessary. Just fear. And I have exactly the opposite reaction about warfare. I think that the terror of proper war is on an entirely different level, in most ways worse, in fewer ways not as bad. Someone being attacked in a war can't give in to a political threat and make the danger go away. It's entirely different. A state can perform terrorism but it's not by dropping bombs on every city they can reach.

Civilians in a time of war aren't exactly targets but they're not 100% innocent either. It's complicated. Children don't make choices but they are affected by the choices of their guardians. It would be nice to say that any civilian casualties in war are unacceptable but that's clearly not how humans work.
This is an article reporting on government officials' claims that the attack comes from NK. The credentials of the reporters (especially their "tech journalist" credentials) hardly matter. The NYTimes isn't endorsing this position, it's just reporting that government officials say it, and it'd be pretty stupid of the NYTimes to just make it up. I don't understand why you suspect a conspiracy, especially based on such little info.

With regard to point 2, remember that this is the country that built a nuclear weapon and launched an object into orbit (with some dramatic difficulties on the way). If the NK government wants to get something done, especially something militaristically, they do it.
I find Win + Left/Right (makes the program use left or right half of screen, Win+Up for fullscreen) the best news in Win7+.
This saves so much time and makes me hate all programs that do not support it fully.
Maybe Sony wasn't scared of real-world terrorist attacks on theaters but of some informations that the hackers might disclose to the world.
Who knows what kind of dirty laundry ended up in the hackers' hands.

Did the hackers mention "the interview" before the press started speculating on the attack being from NK?

For all I know, they could be playing with the fears expressed by the medias after the hack went public. If that's the case, they're probably having a hell of a time posing as NK supporters terrorizing Americans.
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Bu the US is completely unaffected by this attack. If I was a hypothetical Russian, wanting to run a hypothetical false flag operation to piss off the US, I'd probably target something slightly more vital than some random movie studio.
Kind of. They periodically do despicable things (buying a stolen iPhone comes to mind), but there's enough of a lull inbetween that I sort of forget their true nature.

I have to keep reading it for gems like this one: http://gawker.com/my-14-hour-search-for-the-end-of-tgi-frida...

I don't really think their other sites are disgusting; gizmodo, io9, jalopnik and kotaku are pretty straightforward bloggy-newsy sites.
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Planning a trip? You know how difficult it may get to find hotel and destination when you have a fixed budget.

Flybreak.com solves this by combining available flights with hotels. Example 2 Adults and 1 child want to travel in March for 5 days with 1000$ fixed budget. Where can they go?
Thanks,

I'm glad to learn gitHub rephrased their offer from "free for open source" to "free for public projects", it's more straightforward.

You might want to create a LICENSE.md, or to make the following sentence stand out in your README, right now it's buried in the middle of a paragraph: "I will keep use of the plug-in free for non-commercial and personal use."
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I hope the FCC sees this or has tools to detect these manipulations.
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> What is fascinating to me was seeing how passionate he was on a product like it was his life goal while talking, and a few years later totally focused on another completely different thing.
> It is impressive to me since I am having hard time to let go my little hobby projects and start another one, while he is doing it on much higher level with the same passion. Respect on that.

He's the world's greatest used car salesman.
Here is the cached version of the linked article at the bottom of the post.

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...
I just don't buy it. It was a far-fetched scenario in the first place. 99% of the time if they didn't steal money it's just some people doing it for the lulz. Of course they'll pretend to be North Korean. That's the funniest explanation.
Honestly, since I tried Amethyst [0] no other tiling WM for OS X has come close.

[0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
I'd be interested to see this, or a link to a guide someplace.
Great! Like everyone else here I thank you for Skeleton. 1.0 is what basicly taught me CSS!

Working on a project using 2.0 already! Love the percentage based grid I just wish there was a way to adjust the gutter width.

Thanks again.

Brian
> But for certain usage patterns, that doesn't get you a lot. Even if you're popping up disposable shell windows left and right, you might also do that within screen/tmux, where the window manager doesn't come into play at all (or have some drop-down quake-like console).

I've started to notice I often have i3 open with an xterm running screen in which I'm running vim with multiple buffers. I should start using ctrl-alt-F* so I have 4 layers of context switching...
It seems like some components are missing, for example the gps and and microphone.
Clearly not very hard, if the entire trade show is conducted in RMB, euros, and usd.
In my personal opinion, only io9 and Jalopnik aren't tarnished by the Gawker Media tabloid brush. Truly, I despise Gawker; ethics are just not a part of their corporate ethos, and for any company that purports to be made up of "journalists" that's just crap. That said, now places I used to rely on for news have fallen to the same level, so I suppose I'm just a bit bitter at this point.
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How about it was somebody from, say, South Korea who was hired by the North?
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Sounds more like calculated BS to make a backwards country in the middle of nowhere sound like a credible threat to anything...

Then you have all the movies and tv series, which, without any hint of irony, show "spies" and the like from such countries, operating in the US (and with full teams and equipment), even infiltrating the secret agencies and such.

So you have uneducated people from rural fly-over country that cannot even pin-point Germany on the map, believe what they see in those series, not as an actual fact, but as something that could potentially happen or is credible. (Just imagine what the kind of people who think evolution is bad for school curriculum believe about foreign countries).

To convey the BS-detection levels a European feels, consider a report were Inuits are the major threat and Inuit operatives are preparing an attack on the US, hacking networks, and the like... Or maybe Mexico, or Canada... (This BS doesn't work as well when it's about a place you know, that you might have visited and that's close to home, right? Whereas anybody can imagine any kind of BS for some remote third world place with 1/1000 the resources).

(Of course there are people that watch non-ironic action movies were the President bare-handedly fights the bad guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Force_One_%28film%29#Plot !!! We might watch them for the special fx and action scenes in Europe, but we call them typical hollywood BS and use huge tons of irony about them).
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>Doesn't the fact that the hack seems to be for retribution and not for personal gain precisely fit the motives of a propaganda-oriented country? Would you expect a dictatorship that works on propaganda and political influence to really negotiate some sort of deal with Sony?

So, like US agencies pretending to be North Korea?
i was expecting more :)
I'm pretty rusty so excuse me if I'm spouting nonsense, but I think MRS (read register file) has a dependency on the value of Q (so q/add/sub/clear) and operations which OR a new value with Q (q/add/sub [do q |= 0 or q |= 1) have a dependency on operations which change the register file (MSR). Basically qadd and qusb commute on Q. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but I think this means that you just have to stall/predict when there's about to be a branch anyway. Please correct me/clarify if I'm wrong.
Awesome concept .. but the game is little tough :)
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Actually, it does absolutely nothing.

(Except maybe to its own people -- but that's their internal politics, not for foreigners to judge, especially since they are so selective about which countries they judge cough SA cough)
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The title really doesn't do it any justice, it's pretty hilarious. Not only that, also very educational.
After this, gamergate and the 'trader genius schoolboy with $72 million' people are going to have an even harder time distinguishing between reputable news outlets and the unverified junk people share on Facebook.
Or, you know, the entire trade show is:

a) for people in the higher echelons of the party that are paid more (and might still be expensive to them), e.g. a 1% of the population

b) BS organised to give the impression that they are not behind, while in reality nobody can afford those, and the buyers are "actors".
It's more like what's cheaper, diesel or gasoline? Well, it depends on your mileage and the prices...
Government can't place a policemen at the every doorstep of a house which owners failed to lock windows. With billions of funds available, Sony should have taken more steps to protect itself, the malware was quite primitive[1]. Especially, when you have so many enemies as Sony..

1. http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/12/state-sponsored-or-n...
Here's my over engineered setup:
https://github.com/jakeogh/gpgmda
It attempts to also store the metadata encrypted. Admittedly got a bit carried away trying to hide mtimes.
Yeah you have to predict - so just predict not taken, and treat JO as an uncommon trap. I think that works well in practice.
According to someone in the comments it doesn't have to scale - almost all of the call center work is subcontracted out to standard call centers with the usual sea of cubicles, awful working conditions, etc.
I think part of the problem is the meaning of 'like'. It conflates liking the 'thing' (band, store, café, etc.) with 'following' this thing. In some cases I'd love to follow a person or entity because I care about the updates, but in some cases I just want to 'like' something to show other people how unique I am (where 'I' is an younger version of myself).
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Framing the idea that ensuring private companies adhere to the status quo is somehow "bad" regulation which will destroy the fabric of the internet is really hilarious. While the decision hasn't been made yet, I would be absolutely amazed if pro-isp tiered rules are not implemented.
And I have done my work on this back around 1997/1998 as part of my diploma thesis.