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> Microsoft should immediately update their OEM agreements to ban all manipulation of root certificates for computers sold at retail.

You realize that Microsoft is forbidden from doing this by their consent decree, and that their argument at the time to the DOJ was that it would restrict them from stopping bad actors.

I say this not to defend Microsoft, just to state the facts. They were bullies and frankly got off with a slap on the wrist.

But it's an important lesson in the NN pseudo-debate. I am not a fan of NN because I do agree, no matter how constructed, it will retard innovation and have negative loopholes like this snapfish one on the PC. But the carriers are abusive and have been proven plenty of times to be untrustworthy so I don't know any better option.

Here's a description of the relevant part of the consent decree from a 2003 compliance memo:

Section III.H of the Consent Decree requires Microsoft to allow end users and OEMs to enable or remove access to all middleware products ­ including web browsers, e-mail clients, and media players ­ through a readily accessible, centralized mechanism. This mechanism must also allow end users and OEMs to specify a non-Microsoft middleware product as the default middleware product to be launched in place of the corresponding Microsoft middleware product. In order to comply with Section III.H, Microsoft created the "Set Program Access & Defaults" ("SPA&D") utility and included it in Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.
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And #2 never works: people who try that soon find that they're too worn out to climb anything fun, they're stuck in the mountains, and they don't like being there any more.
Sure, and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that he's not a jackass and perhaps just phrased things in a way that set off an alarm in my head. If I really thought he was a total git, I wouldn't have responded at all.

However on the off-chance that some of that is leaking into interviews or cover letters, it's probably worth remediation.
> We were creating a world where the smartest way to survive is to be bland

Perhaps many parents are now teaching their kids this. There's probably also many teaching their kids to attack first, by stripping away the privacy of their targets and smearing them.
> We even mix Megabloks and Duplo with our Legos.

Is there any way/adapter to connect Duplo (or Lego) on top of Megabloks?
I sometimes manage to usefully mix them but always feel it'd be more useful the other way around if Megabloks could provide large-scale structure with Duplo providing fine(r) detail on top... Though I might be biased by having tons of Megabloks and not that much Duplo.

[There is of course the kludge of hanging a protruding duplo under:

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but it's flimsy and requires too much overhead.]
Matasano crypto challenge? Prove that you're talented.

Credentials are not skills. If you've been in IT for 15 years you have skills.

Go to meetups. Be yourself, but try to be pleasant and helpful. It's who you know + how you can help them.
Right, but the original meaning of "woman" is "a female human", whereas "female" is an adjective or a noun for one of the biological sexes (the one that produces ova in sexual reproduction). Including trans-women in the definition of "woman" is a modernistic redefinition of the word, so people are totally justified if they use the word with its original meaning. Maybe we should make up a new word for the new meaning?
Why engineers build crappy products
No, nor at 45, 55, or 65.

The biggest advantages early-twenty-somethings have over later age groups is a higher risk tolerance and a lack of obligations getting in the way of putting in unlimited time at the office.

The latter is a little dubious, since the data shows that productivity tends to fall after about 40 hours of work a week and to drop off a cliff after 50. Sometimes you gotta crunch, but if you're crunching all the time something is wrong. I consider that a sign of poor planning or "work hygiene."

The former does matter, but it can be overcome by compensating with better planning and by leveraging superior experience. You can compensate for lower risk tolerance by working to de-risk the venture as early as possible as much as you can.
Nope. The founder of http://magnetis.com.br spent most of his life working in a bank and in a fund. Money wasn't a problem, but he was unhappy. He's got a management background, and never programmed until his late thirties. He then learned Ruby, found a few partners and created this app to track the performance of investment funds. During my internship in the company, he took part as CEO and developer. So, if you have enough dedication, you can completely change your life regardless of age.
The videos in this course are not playing to completion. They all seem to end abruptly, often times mid-topic and even mid-sentence.

Maybe it's something I did incorrectly?
They claim sub 1ms response times when connect d directly via USB.
You're totally on-point here. My resume is a disaster because I'm bad at writing them. I think I just filled in the blanks on an old Word template the first time I made one. Lets just say that I haven't gotten better at it.

I do get contacted for interviews and solicited for resumes on a semi-regular basis. I interview well and am quite easy to deal with on an interpersonal level.

Thing is, there seems to always be another person out there who gets in after several weeks of consideration due to a number of reasons (relocation, having no professional experience and another candidate may have done an internship, etc.)

Before you say it, because were this the other way round, I'd say it: It has much less to do with 'me' than it does with a combination of my geographical location, and being a semi-self employed consultant/contractor/whatever they call it anymore, as opposed to having had a regular day job for the last few years.
[edit due to being a n00b on how to post here]
http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/sync/struct.Arc.html
Or buy an 800 touch pc.
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We changed the url from http://phys.org/news/2015-02-oregon-pipeline-electricity.htm..., which points to this. If anyone can suggest a substantive article on the subject that isn't a press release, we can change it again.
Thanks a lot. Bookmarked. I really appreciate the response to the OP from you and everyone else. I didn't expect it to get noticed at all.
A fair justice system is by necessity complex, and a complex system necessarily requires guidance from an expert.
Working remotely from a house with 5 kids in Florida.

Developers are working remotely abroad.

I work probably around 60 hours/week, but it is hard to say exactly since work and fun intertwine.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/...
Filmmaking is all an illusion. Go back to any heyday of films and you'll spot plenty of issues with effects. Even when I was younger movies like Indiana Jones had obvious rear screen projection. I didn't know what it was, but I knew it just looked off. And for whatever number of seconds I was thinking about it, I certainly wasn't immersed in the movie for those scenes.

Hate digital effects. Watch indie dramas.

CGI characters are kinda of dumb, although I have to say that Pirates of the Caribbean movies did them really well for the time. If you hate CGI and desire some catharsis, definitely watch the red letter media reviews of star wars.
As much as I don't like Clojure on top of the JVM, I don't think you can say that the man who created the 3rd seriously successful dialect of Lisp made a big mistake/

I count "mainline Lisp", which ended with Common Lisp, and Scheme as the other two; others might count Autodesk's and Gnu Emacs' embedded Lisps.

Clojure is even showing signs of becoming mainstream in a way no Lisp has been since mainline Lisp through sometime in the '80s, not counting Scheme's niches in language research and (temporary? one) education. Or perhaps even better.
Bullshit.

There's no lack of reporting, TV channels feed on these breaking news daily.

People are aware there's police executions, and they really don't care. The population is fed up with crime. There are news anchors cheering on live TV on footages of robbers dying on shootouts.

What will bring justice to Rio is stopping the hypocrisy of attributing the complete failure on crime control to some external factor, like the media.
Cool! I will give that a go. The rest of the site is pretty geared around annotated assembler from the compiler but I've been meaning to add objdump like support for a while (if only to see things like opcode lengths for I-cache observations). This may be the excuse to support that for both GNU and Plan 9 output.
Another interesting take on Stalin's affairs with the world of words is told in "The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book" http://www.amazon.com/The-Zhivago-Affair-Kremlin-Forbidden/d...
Is the audio in this driving anyone else crazy? The guy with the accent is so loud compared to Sam I had to stop listening.
Your use of an imagined ignorant politician wielding the phrase 'scientific consensus' in the affirmative as a disagreeable act seems odd to me. It is generally the 'skeptic' ignorantly asserting 'there is no consensus' which brings focus to the concept in that debate:

"The skeptic attitude to consensus usually starts with “there is no consensus”. That’s wrong, and they usually retreat from it to “but consensus science is meaningless”, and/or “consensus has nothing to do with science”. The latter is largely true but irrelevant. The existence of the consensus doesn’t do a lot to determine what science is done; it doesn’t prevent contrary lines being explored. But the consensus view does come into the tricky interface between science and policy, and science and the media." [1]

> they assert that results about medical science are distorted by financial pressures, etc.

I'm not sure what you mean here? Much science conducted is so distorted by financial pressure that it isn't scientific. Consider how an entire area of research in the pharmaceutical industry should probably just be binned [2].

Considering this, it is more essential than ever in considering the individuals carrying out the research. As long as we have weak and corrupted regulatory systems there will be a continued distrust of any industry-sponsored research, and in many areas that's the research that dominates.

Until there's a global change in how research is funded and conducted there seems little hope of trusting that the output is very scientific.

[1] http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2004/12/just-w...

[2] http://www.badscience.net/books/bad-pharma/
What utter nonsense. Is seeming guilty the same as guilt now? The comment makes a point of using the word seem and citing that all interpretation is based on the article.
"by Kernighan and Pike."

[1] http://www.ugu.com/unixcards/Brian_Kernighan.jpg

[2] http://www.ugu.com/unixcards/Rob_Pike.jpg
I went to the same places and paid $5 for 7 days prepaid 3G. Got 10-20mbps at least.
Yeah, it's great - but it's important to note that, despite the un-carrier moves, you only get that free data roaming with a post-paid plan. If you are on prepay and paying the exact same amount for the same service within the US, you'll still get charged the extortionate data prices when you roam (although you won't get a massive bill, it'll just stop when your credit runs out in a few seconds).
You're conflating a lot of things here.

* Astropad does have pressure sensitivity via the supported pens.
* Astropad does provide a visible screen like a cintiq at a much lower cost.

How can you clame it "doesn't come close to a desicated graphics tablet" when you obviously haven't tried it in the preferred setup of iPad + pressure sensitive pen? I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying ita speculation at this point.
"Teenager checking Facebook in Antigua runs up £9,000 phone bill": http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2353904/teenager-ch...

"Woman hit with £12k holiday phone bill for downloading BBC sitcom": http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/517556/12k-holiday-phone-bi...

"VC’s mobile phone bill sets alarm bells ringing": http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/vcs-mobile-ph...

"Alberta PC leadership hopeful Thomas Lukaszuk dialed up $20,000 in data roaming charges on 2012 international trip": http://www.calgarysun.com/2014/08/25/alberta-pc-leadership-h...

"Holidaymaker faced eviction after phone giant Orange took almost £1,000 from her bank account for bill she racked up by checking her emails in Thailand": http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716750/Holidaymaker...

"'Orange billed me £1,477 for £48 worth of data'": http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/household...

"Arnaldo Brown’s million-dollar phone bill due to ‘roaming’": http://loopjamaica.com/2014/10/30/latest-jamaica-news-arnald...
The need for stuff like Docker is an admission that OS privilege isolation and resource management is woefully inadequate.
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I know that tptacek used to hire people who did well on http://cryptopals.com/. He is no longer with that company, but you can look around for an opportunity like that as a way to get your foot in the door.
It could very well be that they only charge by intervals of 30$/GB; meaning the minimum that they are willing to charge is 30$ but he could have used up to one gig.

It's common enough for U.S. Carriers to do this.

No comment on whether that's a fair price.
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What does it mean to be an expert? The cartel-aspect is that it's not good enough to know the relevant law (it's not any harder to read legal documents than manuals) or to be able to emphasize it's relevance and logical coherence relative to the case.

This is precisely the kind of mystical nonsense notion that I was referring to. In their view a qualified defense must be made by a lawyer precisely for the sake of it being made by a lawyer, and for preserving the power-structure of the institution.
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Well, if he has no money at all then he definitely will qualify for legal aid:

https://www.gov.uk/criminal-legal-aid-means-testing

[Edit: I got this wrong - this is a civil case!]
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First of all, unless you are a co-founder of a bootstrapped startup, you should ask yourself some very hard questions if you are asked to do without pay or take a pay cut unless your pay is extremely high to begin with.

Having done half a dozen plus startups, I've had to deal with low pay once, and that was a startup I did at 19, four of us co-founded an ISP and got about $50k funding from a guy almost as clueless as we were. Since then I've been able to demand, and get, market rate salaries on top of options or outright shares past initial periods of working on the project evenings etc. The startups I've been part of have in fact been more stable when it comes to paying on time.

There are cases where taking salary cuts are ok and justified to make a startup work, but there better be a lot of equity in there.

As for being able to reduce burn, I spend about 50% of my after tax income normally. Less at the moment due to some consulting. This is with a child and a mortgage. While i's true I spend more than I did at 20 (I'm 39 now), inflation adjusted the difference is small, and my income also allows me to build up a buffer which means I'm far better able to deal with loss of income today than I was then. It also means that I can live off 4-5 days of consulting a month in a crisis.

While I'm sure you're right for a lot of people, there are plenty of us for whom our 30's or 40's have brought a huge increase in financial flexibility.
That's for criminal trial. His petition is not a criminal trial. He's trying to use civil law to get his equipment back.

The civil rules are much stricter. https://www.gov.uk/civil-legal-aid-means-testing
What year was this published? My usual tricks for putting dates on things have failed.
HTTP/2 doesn't actually require TLS (it got removed because of too many people pushing for it not being required for things like home routers and the like), though none of the major browser vendors intend on supporting HTTP/2 without it.
Pixelation is expected and by design. We are optimized for displaying high quality still images.

If a large change occurs on your Mac screen and we are unable to keep up, we show pixelated content. This is a signal that we don't have the full screen in yet, and that the screen image is loading. Astropad is honest, when the image is clear, you are assured what you see is the actual content, artifact free.

Sending high image quality over WiFi is really challenging. Ever wonder why we don't have wireless TVs? or Wireless computer displays? It's really really hard to do.
Sorry for all the edits, I'm still getting the hang of the formatting in commenting and posting. I didn't expect a response like this. I appreciate everyone who took the time to comment!
I find Richards considerably less sympathetic after reading this. My memory of that incident was that everyone involved regretted that it escalated to the point of people losing their jobs, but she shows no regret about the fact that her posts led to someone losing his job here.

It really seems to me that both employers are the real bad guys in that incident. In both cases, the most that should have happened to anyone was a reprimand.
> Because I believe morally the correct thing to do is not the thing that reduces poverty quickest in the short term, but reduces it the most in the long term.

I completely agree with this. It's my take on the evidence that immigrants tend to have little effect on wages of native workers on average (except possibly at the bottom of the education distribution), and huge benefits for the immigrants themselves. (As you say, economics is not zero-sum). You just hear more from the small concentrated group of people who are displaced than you do from the large diffuse group who have new customers.

In the other direction, if "brain drain" from poor countries to rich countries was keeping the former poor, then restrictions might be justified to keep skilled workers from leaving. But no one seems to really believe this: restrictions are almost always on immigration, not on emigration.

> Altering major aspects of that system should not be taken lightly

Absolutely. I don't advocate totally open borders tomorrow, but it seems to me that they could be much more open than they currently are without any drastic consequences.
The message I got from it was that Hacker News is tired of hearing about it, which is a bad sign indeed.

Yet another message was sent by downvoting my comment, which I interpret to be because they thought I meant that nobody wants to hear about this anymore.

And that WAS what I was saying, but I wasn't saying it was justified.

Anyway...lots of messaging going on here.
Some advice (again, assuming you go this route; not saying you must/should):

1. Try to find a not-too-expensive, non-flagship state school ($5-9k / semester for a full course load is a good ballpark. You can bring that down a lot by doing gen eds at a community college and then registering for 1/2 or 3/4 loads for the semesters you're enrolled at the uni. Most state schools let you pay by credit hour and are good about accepting Community college credit, but make sure you get a commitment from the uni that they'll accept any CC course you take.)

2. Get in touch with an admissions person and request a one-on-one.

a. Make sure they know you're an "adult learner" and, if you can't arrange your other obligations to take day-time courses, figure out if there are evening sections of every course you'll need to graduate.

b. Inquire about scholarships, grants, and subsidized loans. Talk with your family and figure out what you feel like you're able to afford. Be frank with the admissions person about financial realities.

c. Request a one-on-one with a faculty member from the CS department. Many teaching-oriented schools will entertain this, but don't be surprised if you get turned down. If you get a meeting, start off with general questions about the faculty's expertise in security (actually this doesn't matter so much because you ultimately want a job rather than a research position, but technical stuff is a good way to break the ice). Then ask that faculty member about what the department does to help place students in internships/jobs. As an added bonus, in general, faculty are more likely to give you a good sense of the quality of the school than admissions people (who are, after all, salesmen).

3. Don't be afraid or too proud to avail yourself of free tutoring etc., and try to be a participant in the department's community (e.g., attend official department events whenever possible. In general, be seen and excel.

4. Once in CS courses at the uni, be sure to stand out and that your profs know about your interest in security and prior IT experience (great way to get leads passed your way).

Other advice regarding finances:

1. If you have to take out loans, make sure they're subsidized. Make sure that increase in lifetime earning balances out the full cost including interest. As a good rule of thumb, the total is approximately the cost of a new, low-end car. I.e., limit yourself to the amount of debt you would put into a consumable. Rationale: education has far better pay-offs than a car, but more risk.

2. If you can xfer courses from a community college, do all those before enrolling at the uni. In the mean time you might find a good job (at which point you can choose to attend the uni or not).

3. Make sure your family is 100% on board and that you're confident you will finish the degree or get a job out of it. Be aware that, esp. if you're working during school, the time commitments and stress are going to take a toll on personal relationships.
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The announcement post [0] looks nice, but maybe the landing page could use a bit more information than just the login and register fields?

[0] http://blog.jrmiller.co/ballistic-finance/