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> Most people here, myself included, are too young to remember what the world looked like when other industries were regulated under rules similar to Title II. It's a 1970's style, "ask permission before you do anything" regulatory framework

Wheeler is not going in that direction. There's much more detail in the Ars article: http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/01/title-ii-for-interne...

An excerpt:

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Wheeler went in to a little more depth about the upcoming proposed rules, which he says will be circulated within the Commission on February 5 and voted on on February 26. The chairman—who formerly led cable and wireless industry trade groups—said that in the '90s he worked on the industry side as the FCC crafted section 332 of the Communications Act dealing with mobile services and he implied that the section informed the way the FCC has structured the proposed rules.

“It just so happens that 20 years ago I was the guy that negotiated on behalf of the wireless industry to establish Section 332," Wheeler said.

“Section 332 says that wireless should be regulated under Title II as a common carrier, except that the FCC is instructed to forbear from onerous provisions and inappropriate provisions of Title II, except for section 201 and 202, which is just and reasonable, and Section 208, which is consumer protection," he added.

Sections 201, 202, and 208 include requirements for reasonable rates and practices, a prohibition against unjust or unreasonable discrimination in rates and practices, and the establishment of a complaint process. Wireless voice—but not data—is regulated under Title II. The FCC could reclassify both fixed and wireless broadband as Title II if it so chooses.

”So I say to myself, 'ok there is a way to do Title II right, and sure there are many ways to do Title II that would thwart investment, but there are other ways to do Title II,'” Wheeler told Shapiro on stage. “We ought to take a look at how that fits together with consumer protection.”

Wheeler urged listeners to look at the wireless industry under Title II to see how the FCC might enforce it. “There is no need to file tariffs, there is no need to file all these informational activities,” Wheeler said. “The problem we had at that time [in the 90’s] was the wireless industry was having to go before state commissions to change rates.” Having the FCC approve all rate changes, Wheeler seemed to imply, is not what he wants. Obama has also said the FCC should not impose rate regulation.

”We’re gonna have rules that say—we're going to propose rules that say, 'no blocking, no throttling, no paid prioritization,' and that there is a yardstick against which behavior should be measured, and that yardstick was 'just and reasonable,'" he said.
You can't reasonably compare against the US which dominates the world financially and is 4% of the world population but has 25% of its wealth.
How is a bunch of disparate geographically disjointed retailers going to out-price one massive local Amazon warehouse doing a large volume of local deliveries? Plus I'm already paying prime, which is > $50 membership fee Jet is charging.
A lot of what we eat (steaks, chicken nuggetts, hamburger, bacon) is dissasociated with the source form of the meat. This should probably be the inroad. If people get used to the idea that they're ingesting insects anyhow, then maybe the rest gets easier?

I dunno..
Charlie Hebdo was going under. They'd already made a call for donation in November.

It's not Google directly. Google finance a fund for press innovation (IIRC, that was set up to settle some trial). This found decide to match the 250,000 euros donate by some french press association to arrive to a total of 500,000 euros. (Can't find the article I read this afternoon right now. I'll edit when I found the source.)

The money is needed to be able to print 1 million issues of Charlie Hebdo for next week instead of the usual 60,000. To publish, whatever happened/happens.
Does anyone know what the window manager is? I think it might the same one as the one Elementary OS uses, but it looks slightly different.
This is a classic non-denial denial:

"The claims that we have changed our policy on VPN are false"

Starting to crack down on VPN's may just be following their existing policy against VPN's. Nothing has changed, policy-wise.
I've read two responses to these events that nicely cover this question from what amount to opposite sides, although the distance between them is small:

1) Ross Douthat in the NYT, saying "In this sense, many of the Western voices criticizing the editors of Hebdo have had things exactly backward: Whether it’s the Obama White House or Time Magazine in the past or the Financial Times and (God help us) the Catholic League today, they’ve criticized the paper for provoking violence by being needlessly offensive and 'inflammatory' (Jay Carney’s phrase), when the reality is that it’s precisely the violence that justifies the inflammatory content." http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/the-blasphemy-we...

2) This piece by Juan Cole: "Al-Qaeda wants to mentally colonize French Muslims, but faces a wall of disinterest. But if it can get non-Muslim French to be beastly to ethnic Muslims on the grounds that they are Muslims, it can start creating a common political identity around grievance against discrimination." http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-sa...

While I appreciate what Cole is saying, I come down on Douthat's side. When people are being murdered for having an opinion the question of whether or not that opinion is in good taste or presented in a well-mannered way is... secondary.

So I personally think that "escalating" by making more fun of murderous nutjobs is a pretty good move to make, even if it will be offensive to some less murderous people, because making fun of and belittling hateful murderers is more important to me just now than not giving offense: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1704

That said, I'm just as happy for Google to stay on the side of good taste. There are sound business reasons for doing so, and they have absolutely no obligation to piss off 20% of the world's population, even granted that almost 100% of that 20% are as peaceful as anyone else. It shouldn't be fear that stops them, but good business sense.
There is a fair bit known about the Mayans because of their writing (and a lot of that survived because it was carved into stone). But the N. American peoples did not have writing, and their lifestyle did not leave behind much for archeologists.
I too wear BTE's with glasses and most people are surprised when I tell them I wear hearing aids. They cannot see them.

This is especially true of modern "Receiver In The Ear" (RITE) models where instead of a tube carrying sound, you have a very thin wire going into your ear canal.
I am not sure where you are getting your info on the US but it would be extremely difficult to enact a policy of censorship. It is political suicide to even suggest it and would need a constitutional amendment.
If you don't know who Tom Hall is, I highly recommend the book Masters of Doom. It's definitely a fun read.
I wish Apple would add a SASS/CSS compiler into XCode for native UI. I know there are a couple side projects for this but if it were baked in it could really take off.

Besides the potential of sharing across platforms, it would be one less system for layout and styles that had to be learned.
Congress is way ahead of you EFF:

http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/228945-top-house-dem...

It's also interesting to see how American media is reacting to this attack, in a manner that's completely opposite of how the French media reacted, or other journalists in other countries.

Just like with the Sony threat, Americans seem ready to holds their hands up at any threat now:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2015/01/0...

The best way to hurt the terrorists is not to kill them. They want to die for their cause. It's to show that you are not afraid of them. Terrorist attacks are meant to create "terror" in populations, so the population or its government react a certain way.

The US gov/population is reacting exactly the wrong way to terror attacks. France or Norway (that massacre a couple of years back) reacted the right way. Being "scared of offending the terrorists" is exactly what the terrorists are going for, and if it works once, why not try it again when something else offends them?
Mounds, burials, artifacts (but mostly ephemeral e.g. bone and skin), some surviving culture.
> But Gnutella, Bittorrent, and Freenet are all ephemeral.

and

> A consensus database ...

Yup. If the database isn't ephemeral, it can't be a consensus database. If it's the consensus that certain data should disappear, then it should disappear. If you force retention, it's no longer a consensus database.
You should blog about it. Write a simple article, post it everywhere. Submit it to hardware review sites like Anandtech, they might get interested. They definitely jumped on the recent EVO 840 issue.
The thing is - almost everyone lacks any sort of critical thinking skills. You see this everyday with all types of stuff that's why these things spread... Perhaps humans are just bad at critical thinking and skepticism or it is cultural. I'm leaning towards the former.
Another advantage of having the microphones (yes, there can be more than one!) near the ear itself is for DSP. Many hearing aids use multiple microphones to selectively amplify sounds from the direction you are facing. I think this would work best with microphones near the ear, or at least in a known position.
Idea: pipe stdout and stderr through a text-to-speech program. Programs with noisy logs would be running around screaming like lunatics.
i'm trying to wrap my head around this, but im leaning towards engineering vegetables with high protein... or enhancing nut production.
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My Macbook Pro Retina 13" comes with a 28 W TDP processor which the slides you cite promise at end of Jan.

http://ark.intel.com/products/75990/Intel-Core-i5-4258U-Proc...

Hopeful to see rMBR 13" soon thereafter.
No, it is a waste as a schoolchild to spend years and years studying Native Americans at the expense of everything else, when literally everything we know about them can be learned fairly quickly. There simply isn't that much information there.

Having also been a schoolchild in the 90s, I assume the same material was simply being repeated over and over and over. The American school system is busted like that.
Jet sounds pretty disingenuous to me.

"We're basically not making a dime on any of the transactions."
- If that's how you really feel then take the word basically out. You are making money off transactions but you would very much like to give the impression you aren't.

Their example of "How Jet Works" involves supposedly wholesale prices that somehow get magically discounted and a shipping arrangement that somehow magically works that, if you pay with a debit card, saves you $6 off your contrived amazon order...

Then it goes into a story about the guy who's starting jet and how he is and always has been a money hungry, cut-throat business man looking to make millions and then sell. Nothing about his "bio" sounds very consumer focused.

Exerpt from the site:
"Refer friends to boost your Insider rank. The more friends you refer, the more perks you unlock."

Yeah, no thanks. Costco is consumer focused, amazon is consumer focused, this is money focused and the businessweek piece is a complete puff job.
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Given that it's -9F out where I am right now, I'm very skeptical.
Why not just let the animals pasture and eat grass instead of feeding them grain? Factory farms are the big problem.
well what about space applications, or any other place with very controlled or strenuous to maintain conditions? Does it preclude mittens made of the same material, full body suits and the like?

Also, why do people keep looking up when we got a whole world under us?
Limit hold'em is popular, and can be found in almost every card room as well as online.

HU limit is probably only online, and theres a fair amount of bots prevalent in the games already today.

> The article also mentions that it's opponent was another bot that was also playing a very strong strategy. That suggests it's not really able to adapt to individual play, which is essential to being at profitable at all but the lowest levels of poker.

The computer bots attempt to play Game Theory Optimal - meaning it plays an (optimal) strategy that does not lose overall, regardless of stake/opponent. Against another GTO player, it will breakeven - otherwise it will be profitable. That is the holy grail of poker (and any game). If you are not playing GTO, there are leaks/mistakes in your game that can be exploited.

Check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHcrsMPQtgo , a poker theory course that talks about solving a simplified poker limit game
You also want to keep a lot of things above freezing, like water pipes.

Pets also tend to want at least that much warmth.
I agree with the comments below, both on not wanting the inside of a house to be cold, and being worried that the degradation of nanowires would prove in some way to be catastrophic to either human health or the environment or both. Even the breakdown of synthetic fabrics is causing environmental damage that is poorly understood right now. Silver could prove even more problematic to certain life forms.

That said, I'm not sure why this wouldn't just be used in the the insulation of a house directly? If we could drastically improve the insulation of a house without causing a major vapor retention problem, that would do wonders. Of course, glass is a major problem with good insulation, but I wonder if this material could be made into a partially transparent insulating layer that could be applied to glass temporarily?
Thank you for saying this. I agree. I don't agree with violence against the Westboro Baptist Church for the "God Hates F*s" protests at military funerals, but if they were attacked I'm not going to go so far as to say, "I am the WBC". It's a false dichotomy set up by people with an agenda.

All one needs to do is enter "Charlie Hebdo" in Google Image Search. It is offensive stuff, and pushes beyond the limits (at least my limits) of parody/common decency. I would be ashamed to publish it or have my name on the masthead. I am against violence. I am for freedom of expression. It does not follow that I am for Charlie Hebdo.
I suspect that the national market for legal cannabis is likely maybe ~$25 billion.

Cannabis is inexpensive to produce. Easy to stores and ship. The price will be driven more by taxation than production costs.

It just seems like too small a market for venture capital.
Saying that Amazon is an e-commerce provider is like saying Microsoft is a hardware company because it sells (good) keyboards. Amazon is positioned to become the biggest distributor of computing power to leverage you to sell a good that Amazon's army of distribution centers and local courier agreements can get to you in as little as a few hours.

Yet-Another-Hyperbole-Filled-Buying-Club is not something I believe Bezos would be scared of. If anyone should be scared, it should be UPS, FedEx, and the USPS. Amazon is much more likely to be coming for them.
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There are constant and ongoing efforts by groups and individuals to restrict the freedom of speech in America as practiced by others. Timely examples are the "ag-gag" bills being pushed by corporations and the servants in the government to cover-up the abuse of animals at corporate facilities:

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/campaigns/factory_farmin...

There are many other efforts like this but aimed at all sorts of "causes."
The SS will absolutely go to town on anyone who brought unwarranted attention to the President's children and deservedly so.

In Europe, another sacred cow is the holocaust. Again, I see no valid reason for making that protected speech. The holocaust was a terrible crime.

Religions, however, in my opinion are fair game. And that's what this is all really about.
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Google is not donating to Charlie Hebdo. A fund not managed by Google that Google has to pay into as a result of being fined by the French government is giving the money to help ensure the continuation of its publication.

From article: "The press innovation fund was set up in February 2013 to settle the dispute between Google and the French government over whether the internet group should pay to display news content in its search results. Financed but not managed by Google, that money will go to support the survival of the weekly."
Love these tricks
I went to the website. Signed up for the insider thing. It said "Share <link> with your friends to be top 100,000 to get access". BYE!

Really? Their strategy to starting a business is making a pyramid scheme?
I'm working on multiple ideas. haven't cracked the 1000/month yet, but have put together a common repo I use as a starting point for all my projects. It recently got featured on the Google Developers Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_7zdqz01sk&list=PL2fzhe-bAE...
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Ollydbg run traces and in a plain text format. I'm constrained by my target application only working on older versions of windows, so I can't easily insert a compression step in the log generation or switch to a more compact binary representation.

(I'm currently looking into solutions like a custom filesystem driver, running a second VM and using internal networking to stream to a FUSE filesystem, or possibly even hooking the filesystem access of my debugger and inserting a compression step into WriteFile() calls)
The medical policy is a major component of the problem. What the drug companies have discovered is if they release a new antibiotic that the doctors put it on the shelf with the plan to only use the antibiotic in emergencies. Of course when this happens the drug company makes no money and so rightly concludes that antibiotic development is not profitable.

There have been lots of proposals to overcome this. My personal favourite is each country agrees to pay a straight cash bonus for each new antibiotic developed with a different valued bonus in proportion to the need. The drug companies would then not need to worry if the antibiotic was used or not and we would have on tap new antibiotics to use as resistance arises.
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It would be awesome to have lightweight, super reflective materials for socks, gloves, jackets, and base layers. But, eliminating indoor heating is clearly ridiculous. Although, reducing the thermostat several degrees while remaining comfortable is certainly a reachable goal.
They still only came under budget by half a MB. That stress they put into reducing it was very likely still entirely justified. It's like setting your alarm clock 10 minutes fast to hurry you out the door in the morning.

Taking credit for the last 2MB is a dick move for sure though.
I didn't say that, I just said that Americans use it. Anyway, this isn't particularly interesting.
Maybe they can use this money to speed up the turnaround time
Not to defend this practice, but I heard a story about a whole team who put in a sleep that would automatically shrink over the first 6 months it was in production.
People don't really care about fighting extremism, they just want to be right.

The whole things is just a charade. Not because we suddenly want to stand up for free speech and civil rights. But because we are so terribly afraid of being just as wrong as the extremists. That we would know of, if not instigated, the terrible faith of hundreds of thousands of muslims in the last decade and didn't really do anything about it.
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> As a former tenured professor

Key word "former"

Leaving Higher Education was the best decision I have made in the last 10 years.
Am I? See my other reply. And now I think you are the one trick pony, who thinks switching languages from the same paradigm is a challenge.
"these bugs, as a class"

It absolutely would not eliminate CVE-2014-3570 or many other of the cryptographic bugs that show up in OpenSSL and other TLS implementations.

This kind of axiomatic thinking that memory safety equals all safety almost resulted in Rust being less safe (IMO) than C in these other respects: the normal types in rust are all defined to overflow even though overflow is almost always a bug, and so you couldn't use static analysis on arbitrary rust codebases to warn you about these issues (where you can in C because signed overflow is undefined, so an analysis tool can always flag that as an error without it being a false positive). Fortunately, it sounds like Rust is moving to fix this ( http://discuss.rust-lang.org/t/a-tale-of-twos-complement/106... ), which is a big improvement.

But it's important to not be fuzzy about the risks. There is a well established link between safety equipment and risky behavior in driving and bicycling; (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation). I don't mean to suggest that better isn't better and we shouldn't use safer tools, but if our response to safer tools is to lower our vigilance, even the slightest, we may get worse results.
Yeah, I agree with what you're saying. As I get older, I get pretty depressed about certain aspects of the state of the world. I have three kids, and I want them to experience the wonderment and beauty of the world that I saw growing up.
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I have this mental image of a baked Peter Thiel and Elon Musk stumbling out of a crashed space-ship, on Mars.

"Duuuuuude. Whoa!"
"Seriously!"

It makes me happy.
I wonder if the reflective properties make it unsuitable for 4-season home insulation. During the summer months wouldn't that keep too much heat inside?
I was going to say the same thing. Cue the jokes about bringing down a system with a BFG. :)
> Can you imagine steaming and eating a two-pound cockroach? But that's basically what a lobster is.

Cockroaches are insects. Lobsters are not. There is a huge difference there.
You should be using secure random numbers (os.urandom()), not random numbers. The problem with what you're currently doing is that if an attacker generates enough of the sequence they can guess future members also (which could be a different user).

Also your code has a bug: What if generate_random_string returns the same result twice? You don't check for that.

A 20 digit long code with a 26 digit set likely IS secure enough. But why not just add 0-9 for funzies? It won't break compatibility, and expands the scope quite nicely.
This is perfect timing for me. I have a project which is online and has users, yet is languishing because I just don't have time. (http://think200.com - Test-driven app monitoring.)

I've been considering open-sourcing it and just hoping for the best. So this is a good alternative to investigate first.