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Every other JavaEE application server is better than WebSphere.
and thats a hidden GPS - I own a 2004 ford that apparently has this and there is no navigation interface in the vehicle.
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I disagree fully with his assertions. Technology stack will make or break a company.

You're going to have pick new technologies, changes are happening. Are you going to roll a one page app with just JQuery? Of course not. Are you going build a 100TB datawarehouse on top of mysql? Are you going to build your infrastructure off bare metal server? Even source control has changed. How many people still use SVN?

Most important takeway from the article is keep things simple. Picking a complex technology for a simple problem will cause you pain. Both in the development environment and also in production.
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The right to property implies the right to also defend that property. I'm what stops my neighbor from taking my stuff, not the government.

Looking back at history, strong governments have been THE source of oppression and limitations of freedoms.
Or more. Serious gamers replace their GPU roughly every year.
Whoa yikes, the main page says "What's your struggle?" and then includes "General Anxiety" and "Panic Attacks."

o_O

I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice, but I strongly suggest you talk to an attorney who is experienced with the FDA's regulatory approach right now.

Claims that a product helps treat anxiety are regulated. Claims that a product is based on CBT (or any therapy) are even stronger warning signs.

This does not look like a grey area to me at all.
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I have seen this card in person....so I can vouch for it. It is not vaporware :)
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From memory windows binary format supposedly contains a compilation timestamp, but I've never developed for windows. And I know ELF doesn't contain a timestamp.

You can blame the compiler random number seed for much non-determinism. I googled for this and found at good explanation at:

http://blog.mindfab.net/2013/12/on-way-to-deterministic-bina...

The summary is anonymous namespaces actually have a name, that being a big integer, and they're all distinct so each has a different one and gcc just picks a psuedorandom number for each anon namespace. They're anonymous to you, but not to the compiler LOL crazy but true. Some folklore that once every 50 trillion years (maybe less often) linking two compiled files will fail at runtime not compile time because two namespaces randomly were assigned the same number so they "crossed the streams".

Supposedly everyone knows some versions of GCC sometimes pick specific optimizations pseudorandomly. This is one of those "everyone knows and nobody has evidence" things. I'd welcome a link to actual evidence, like to actual code that sometimes compiles differently based on phase of moon or whatever. If I were more bored I'd make a github project specifically to manipulate gcc for fun, sounds amusing.

If you're compiling up static libraries, AR is just a generic, although crude and ancient, file archiver and therefore contains timestamps as explained in the link below. I don't think that's necessary for static library operation its just an artifact of the file format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ar_%28Unix%29

There is also a funny failure mode where two systems with somewhat different libraries (perhaps one upgraded after the other, or a security patch, or got owned), when compiling a statically linked binary with the same code and compiler will obviously have different static linked result. This is of the same class as optimizations getting a little too personal for your specific CPU family such that two generic amd64 intel boxes are not quite so identical as you'd think in both optimizations and runtimes. (oh edited to add what if your virtualization is funky such that GCC didn't think a certain instruction set was present in the virtual image, so bare metal compiles would have different optimizations than images running on the same bare metal, although this is totally theoretical and probably doesn't exist in reality)
It's virtualizing the key, which lets you do some more fancy stuff than a physical key. Namely revoking and adding access without requiring key duplication or changing the locks.
For immediate actions, maybe also set 'UseDNS no' in /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restart any public-facing ssh servers.
Congratulations on your privileged life.
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You can embed nsqd (in Go): https://gist.github.com/joshrotenberg/ad49d39dbee8b48789d9

That said, for a larger deployment you'd still probably want to run the lookupd as well, at which point, at least for a typical architecture, running nsqd standalone is probably fine. Embedding is darn handy for testing, though.
I think that the finger-prick scanners from Gattaca are the future. We already have them in the form of diabetes scanners. They could look for matching genetic material to identify the user, and generate a hash based on the average amounts of hormones in the body, for example. It would only produce the correct hash if you felt 'normal', so a flood of fear hormones or an abundance of drugs would make it throw an invalid hash.
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Yup, and I'm rooting for them.
Given that you've used Germany as an example, I'd recommend this german podcast to you which explains the legal surroundings in great detail: http://alternativlos.org/25/
> You can also use email or SMS to give access to a particular lock, so your friends and family can always get in without needing a key. Have a babysitter or a cleaner who comes by regularly? You’ll soon be able to give permission to individuals for specific portions of the day.

From the article. Particularly useful for: AirBnB hosts, people with roommates, friends/family visiting, etc.
In my opinion trash talk is part of the game, part of the fun I'd even say. Part of the reason I still play Heroes of Newerth sometimes is to have the undiluted experience of arguing, or fighting trolls, and other various degenerate behaviours. Hell, even Michael Jordan commented on the importance of such behaviour in basketball.

More generally, however, this makes me a little scared. Feels like eventually it will get to the point where the machine learning engine will be able to recognize if I'm having bad thoughts and serve "quick punishment".
I'd think the first order of business would be to get tax compliance up. It wasn't very high to begin with, but since the new year tax revenue has collapsed completely.

Ref: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/01/the...
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That along with: "Many of you use Direct Messages to reach the people and brands you’re only connected to on Twitter."

So the blog post's target audience seems to be their own users (you experience/use), but spoken in advertiser-speak. It's a not so subtle reminder that the user is the product.
I'd be living a lot more privileged life if I thought the government owed me privacy.
^^^ much of the above is not true
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But who will ever again trust an US company with private group communication after they put so much effort into converting into a salafist-stalinist-stasi-like surveillance state and after such a long time of the Snowden revelations there is still no real sign of the US people, the companies and the communities are able to get rid of their mentally distorted secret dictators?

It is such a shame. A nation that was the synonym for freedom is now the world role model for how a postmodern dictatorship looks like. Please, all you freedomlovers, finally wake up and change it, I do not see any sane alternative than reverting USA back to a free country...
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The site (ibtimes) is full of malware and spammy ads. Beware!
I don't see where your claim of data manipulation comes from, people have clearly answered the question you were wondering about.

The answer being yes, according to reputable sources, Chomsky would have that liberty of critique in many other countries and in several countries it would appear that he would have more.
I have a KwikSet Kevo, and it's been a huge convenience for me when returning home. I'm typically carrying several bags/waterbottle/misc items, and just tapping my lock rather than digging for a specific key is way easier, especially with hands full.
This is pretty useful! I think the UX needs a little bit of work, but I can see thing becoming a very useful tool.
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Separate wifi component would be great. There needs to be something plugged in all the time. Will you be replacing the crowdfunded one with a better one? (I don't even mind replacing the deadbolt.)

Edit: also I love you guys. You've done a great job keeping people up to date, handling support requests (my emails get answered in hours). I think you'll get there. Just frustrated with the product.
Thank you, it's not always clear when a reboot is needed after an update. I do it with kernel updates but wouldn't have in this case until I read your comment and ran the command to check.

If would be nice if package managers would let us know when this is necessary, I expect that might be a hard thing to get right though.
I asked a friend and she gave me this explanation:

"It's not compassionate to remind transgender people that they're a minority that often has trouble "passing" and face extreme violence bc of that...if you were a trans woman in the audience who'd been beat up for not being able to pass as cis, how would it make you feel to have that treated like a joke"

Seems reasonable. I retract my previous comment.
Hacking is not the only way to spy on an enemy, especially terrorists or criminals. If such a group is sophisticated enough to evade all but the most sophisticated, ultra-secret bleeding edge attacks, maybe it's time to resort to conventional means. Luckily most such groups aren't. They just began using encryption.

The alternative to offensive hacking is to include backdoors in the encryption technology used by everyone. I think that this is causing more harm than good.
> First, there is no way that there is "no way such a thing can happen" on SO. SO has moderators who are human.

I agree. It may be possible, but highly unlikely. However I am yet to witness such thing happen on SO or read someone's experience on the same. I agree, SO has different problems with moderation, but mostly they are related to community, not personal level.

Regarding edit, yes mods also delete questions/answers on SO. But they are still visible to high rep users and you can still talk about it on meta to reinstate. No such system on Quora, afaik.
Debian security advisory: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534554/30/0/threaded
To answer the title: it's never OK to manipulate users. Let's look no further than the dictionary to see why.

Here is the OED definition (3rd entry):

manipulate: To manage, control, or influence in a subtle, devious, or underhand manner.

It's sad people are seriously talking about human experimentation like it's a noble thing. Regardless of the fact that it's using bits and bytes, these are peole's minds being experimented on. Since nobody signed up for taking part in the experiment, this PhD should lose his credentials for performing immoral experiments. Instead he is praised because we euphemize it as "A/B teting" and most people don't know that these experiments are immoral.

Even the article accidentally lets it slip that these experiments are immoral. The article mentions that when Mr. Lin was receiving his PhD he had a team of students as test subjects. My guess would be that these students signed waivers and acknowledged that they would be part of an experiment (hence "test subject"). What Mr. Lin is doing now is using gamers as test subjects without their consent.

If this were any other industry, or if the experiments targeted a physical (as opposed to mental) part of the body, I think people would be more angry at the callousness of these so-called scientists. Heck, what if GE or Monsanto came out with a glowing article stating the benefits of A/B testing on farmers' mental states and their crops?

edit: added definition

edit 2: To explain why I get so outraged when I see articles like this... receiving my Bachelor of Science meant that I had to understand the right and wrong way to conduct experiments. And experimenting on humans is the most cumbersome because, to be honest, you can really screw someone up if you aren't careful. Even the most innocuous experiments can lead to bad outcomes for the test subjects, so one doesn't simply jump to human trials until you can conclusively argue that it won't damage another person.
MIPS is I believe planned first. Check out Netgate (company behind Pfsense), they already have development boards with MIPS.

Bigger upcoming feature is bhyve hypervisor on Pfsense :D
Patches are coming, apparently the vuln was to be announced at 7PM CET, but the French Qualys RP violated the embargo on a mailing list 3 hours too early.

Debian packages are already out for Wheezie. Waiting for Squeeze.
> Given the existence of standards, there's not a lot of
> room for innovative behavior.

This is incorrect. Servo, with its goal of being fanatically concurrent, is forging new ground in discovering exactly where the HTML specs both admit concurrency and where they unintentionally demand serial behavior. Browsers of its ilk, regardless of adoption, will be instrumental in informing future standards such that they are not accidentally hostile to concurrency and parallelism, thereby clearing the way for widely-adopted engines to implement such optimizations at their leisure.
Is it necessary to shelter children from porn? As a child of the internet in a time when porn filters didn't even exist and most of the sites on the internet were mainly porn sites I find that argument without legs.

Don't get me wrong you're well withing your right as a parent to postpone the issue as long as you like but is it really as necessary as most people tend to think?
I had a bluetooth deadbolt. I was able to give my friend a virtual key when he came to visit as I didn't have a spare for the deadbolt.

The key was encrypted based on a username and password and I could revoke it at will. It filled a need for the time he stayed at my place and worked great.
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They do. They have lots of documents and guidance on best practice for security. As for code, they started the SELinux project. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced_Linux
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I doubt 20 kids would be enough to qualify. Most people of my grand parent's generation had around 20 kids. It used to be the norm.
I think the timing was accidental due to leaking. The coordinated release became uncoordinated.
I am less worried about the government agencies as a whole having my data, I am more worried about so random person who works there taking a dislike to an individual, and making their life hell with the access they have.
This is a bad thing?
You can't, like, own data, maaan.
So far I haven't used much manual code review, but I do use static code analysis to find possible bugs once in a while.

Up until recently a big pain point for me was finding code which could block within a time constrained function (aka realtime safety). There weren't any tools out there, so I ended up making one with llvm named stoat[1] (originally static function property verification, sfpv). It's hard to say if this tool would really have wider usefulness as it essentially is just checking function attributes on the transitive closure of the callgraph, but it works for me.

[1] https://github.com/fundamental/stoat
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That's clever, thanks. Implemented.

Another useful heuristic is to check if the client is coming in from a public Tor exit. YMMV depending on the nature of goods being sold, but in our case not a single legit purchase came in this way and nearly all fraudulent purchases were through Tor.
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This is vastly mentality problem and consequences that comes with it. Simple fact is, southern european countries have laid back attitude which is nice to enjoy and so on, but doesn't perform well and has more drawbacks in long term, as we can see. The st had to hit the fan hard, and it did for people to wake up.

What do you expect - full pardon on all mistakes? It won't happen next time, we promise? You know, one of life's lessons is - you pay for all your mistakes, and youth is no excuse for them. Sometimes, in a very hard way.

We all have crappy politicians in one or other way, but guess what - unless vote was rigged, they were elected by majority. I do agree with notion that in democracy nation has leaders that it deserves, exceptions will even out in broader average (either location or time based).

One generic example - when there was massive tax evasion, people should have outsted it's government for closing an eye on it. They didn't. Now they face consequences for what every sane moral person must have felt is wrong.
You can check to see if any running process are using any stale libraries pretty easily:

sudo lsof | grep lib | grep DEL

You can then either reload those processes manually, or just bounce the box if that's easier.
> Maybe not what you want them to see, but hardly a strong argument for installing a nation-wide censorship network.

I couldn't agree more. What ever happened to just good parenting? Or put another way -- parenting responsibility.

If I did something my parents didn't want me to do, there were consequences at home. Even if it meant they changed the computer's password and/or took the keyboard to work with them.
I supported the current version of Lockitron, and cancelled my order after waiting over a year. I'm glad I did, based on the reviews and sheer unhappiness with the product.

If the founders of Lockitron think that I will be fooled again by a new product, they're sorely mistaken. I'd rather support a lock that has been out in the field for longer with a company that has proven they can deliver a real product, like the August lock for sale at Apple stores.
Sure. Some people might just get mad enough to do so.
Correct me when I'm wrong, but are those two not economists who gave a flying fuck about empiricism?
... "facts" with any certainty are thin on the ground, there's only inferences...

In support of that, lifting right from the article,

Former CIA Director Michael Hayden once
famously said, “If it is a fact, it ain’t intelligence.”
I'm not fully though my morning bootup process and so not really ready to grok this but, can anyone give a quick summary of why gethostbyname() needs to hit the heap at all, let alone with a realloc call? There's a maximum hostname length, and it's not huge. Also: isn't this function just saying "yes" or "no" to a candidate hostname? Can't it just say "no" if the hostname is super long?
Looks pretty good .. but I had some hiccups that I haven't quite debugged yet. It appears that the <video> object needs to be instantiated somewhere earlier than the (in my case bowser'ified) icecomm script .. and it was kind of hit and miss between me on Chrome/OSX, my buddy on Chrome/OSX and my other buddy on Chrome/Linux whether we could get the Linux-guy into our session .. I'll chalk it up to a loose and fast hack at trying to make this work on our site, but .. generally .. its freaking awesome! Felt like the intro to the Brady Bunch when we got some connections, lol ..

EDIT: doesn't work with Safari on OSX, it seems .. dunno why, maybe autoplay=true is not valid? I'm not a web guy, though, so could also just be PEBCAK.
My guess is that their product is supplying the fallback TURN/STUN for WebRTC connections, and some multi-person call algorithms.

WebRTC is by no means Chrome only (see: http://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2014/10/16/test-the-n...).

They may currently only have tested on chrome browsers (maybe someone tried it once in FF and something broke so they didn't bother).
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After a few tests it seems to work with Windows/Linux while running chrome only. I had issues with FF/Opera/Saf/IE.
Looks like this was still supposed to be embargoed. I feel sorry for the maintainers who now have to deal with this getting leaked...
I really don't want to explain it a third time, so let me just ask you a question instead: How do you lead the edge on offensive abilities without keeping vulnerabilities/bugs secret? Let me rephrase that: How do you lead the edge on offensive abilities without weakening the security of the people who are paying your salary; the very same people you swore an oath to protect? Please explain to me how that is possible on a technical level. If you can't, or you still don't really understand what I'm talking about, that's fine. Just ask.

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I'm gonna explain it a third time. (Looks like you don't want to talk to me.)

Having offensive abilities means having one or more remote exploits ready to use. Having remote exploits ready to use means sitting on undisclosed vulnerabilities. Sitting on undisclosed vulnerabilities means weakening the security of the people you're supposed to protect.

It's quite simple, really. You can't remotely attack a computer without remote exploits. I only count remote attacks as "cyber warfare".
Even if it was used for launching nukes. Do you want the president to play a game for 5 minutes to give consent? It's unrealistic.
By conflating the "state of computing" with the "state of the Valley," the author just spreads Valley-centrism.

To the decline or marginalization of hacker culture within tech: Computers and tablets today are proprietary and very complex, unfortunately. Also, there's lots of money to be made in tech now -- but of course there is! (Good old high-paying jobs I mean, not freshly-funded founders trying to rip you off.) An essay on this topic might examine how we can keep hacking alive, or change the world as hackers rather than as entrepreneurs. What aren't we doing with today's hardware that we could be? Also, there are thriving hacker and maker communities if that's your thing.
> How hard is opening a classic lock with a key?

In addition to the other use cases that folks have replied: You are young now, but you will find there are older people whose hands do not work quite so well. Keys, bottles, and a host of other items that you take for granted with well-working hands become serious obstacles to daily living.

[I should add that arthritis can hit even young people.]
Then you have a very limited view of history. Crime, theft and murder used to be extremely more common.

You may be able to defend yourself against your neighbor. What about women and children? What about against multiple aggressors, or ones with better weapons? Turns out, without an effective police force, liberties are distributed a lot less equally...

Steve Pinker explained in a TED talk that hunter/gatherer societies are a lot more violent than modern societies. For example these groups have to launch preemptive attacks against neighbors if only for fear of the other group striking first.
Last I checked, iOS's third-party app policies forbid the implementation of anything akin to a JIT compiler, and even third-party usage of the standard WebView component disables the Nitro JIT. I'm not an iOS dev though, I have no idea if there's been any progress in this space recently.