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The problem with such drones, is distance. Let's say Iran decides to take that approach. Then the question is: how far can they push those armed drones out from their operating bases. The answer is: not very far.

So no, drones saturating defenses isn't a serious threat to nations or regional strength, only to very specific targets that are nearby (eg an aircraft carrier & crew dumb enough to park off the coast of Iran, after they acquire such drone technology, and assuming the US has developed no defense for such).
I once wrote a plugin for OwnCloud for work. But before running OwnCloud on a server I would first like to see an audit and/or analysis of the code. I read some code of IIRC version 5 or 6, which made me skeptical.

Maybe it's better now.
Another way to look at those bases is to think of them as already captive American troops. You can project power all you want but if your runway has been bombed you're not going anywhere. Having your troops stationed the world over is both an advantage and a disadvantage, it allows your enemies to strike you the world over rather than just on your own soil.

See: USS Cole, Ein al-Asad and so on.

As for the US's ability to strike perpetually at foreign targets: that's limited to those targets that the US does not depend on in any economic capacity and only holds true as long as oil flows.
35, and I get my preliminary overnight monitor on Monday. I usually sleep 6 hours, waking up every 90 minutes to check on the world, but I find it really hard to get out of bed.

I recorded myself using snorecycle. Yeah, so, my snoring gets progressively louder, until I stop breathing and wake myself up. :( It's only taken my wife three years to convince me.
I doubt it. There is a ton of war-weariness these days, and expensive military projects aren't very popular. Especially considering the utter fiasco that is the F-35 program, I really doubt the public is in the mental or emotional state to support another pricey project.
WhatsApp is a closed-source proprietary app owned by Facebook. Metadata is owned and kept by them, and normal chat data is also theirs. They claim they have started using the textsecure encryption mechanisms on their apps, but this appears to only be true for the most-recent Andriod app. So there is a high probability some or all of your messages are either not encrypted or encrypted with a key that you do not have. For these messages the police or other government agency could retrieve via a warrant or other means. Whatsapp uses a subscription model and they can decide to change the terms or costs at any time, or discontinue the product. They are not very transparant and take a long time to implement changes / fixes that they promise will be implemented. The app has a very large user base in many markets.

Signal is a free open-source iOS app from whispersystems, licensed under the GPL. It's counterpart on Andriod is testsecure/redphone, which will eventually be reimplemented and rebranded as Signal for Andriod. It is secure by default, all messages are encrypted using private keys of the participants... whisper does not have they keys (so they can not turn the keys or content over to anyone). You can audit this since it is an open source app, and if you would like to fix a bug or work on a feature you can do that as well. It does not have nearly as big of a user base as WhatsApp, and needs some love before usability/features/bugginess are on-par which whatsapp (shouldn't be too hard to match as WhatsApp itself is not very feature rich and often quite buggy itself). Signal has taken it's time in development (Textsecure for iOS was 'on track' to be released in summer of 2013)...

You can also make secure phone calls with Signal/Redphone, but not WhatsApp.
Google tried this when they introduced RenderScript, but they dropped support for graphics calculations on the second release and steered it into a way to use C99 with GPU capabilities, without having to drop into the NDK.
I'd love to use Signal, but are you required to grant it permission to access your contacts?

I loaded it up and declined to let it access my contacts, but unfortunately it seems like it won't let me attempt to send any messages. I just get a screen that always says "None of your contacts have Signal!"

From what I understand, the reason it wants access to my contacts is to make it easier for me to find out which of my friends already use Signal or TextSecure. But none of my friends use these apps, and my goal is to get them to start. Unfortunately they'll refuse to use it if I have to tell them "Well, you'll need to let Signal upload all of your contacts to their server."

I was hoping for the ability to send a message by typing in a phone number directly. Does anyone know if this is possible? If not, would it be possible to add this feature?

Maybe it could work like this: You tap "new message" and then type in a phone number, just like how regular text messages normally work. Then when you're finished typing in the phone number, the app checks with Signal's server to find out whether that number uses Signal. If that number doesn't use Signal, then the app pops up a message saying "Your friend doesn't seem to be using Signal."

That way I can ask my friends to install Signal and send me a message. When they load up the app for the first time and Signal asks to access their contacts, they can click "no" and then type in my phone number directly.

It seems like many people won't be comfortable letting Signal upload all of their contacts, so unless there's some way to call or send a message by typing in a phone number directly, those people won't start using Signal. I'll have a hard time convincing my friends to use it without this.
If your window manager is not able to manage your windows to your liking, you might want to fix it? Arguably creating a new window per tab is the correct thing to do. This allows your window manager to do its job. It is also more flexible, for example you can use something like tabbed (http://tools.suckless.org/tabbed/) to group multiple applications into a tab-like interface.

As for the editor case, in dwm/dvtm lingo each editor instance (or filename?) would get its own (dynamic?) tag. Therefore you can easily switch to a view which only contains your editor related windows.

Again if your navigation among tmux windows is slow/cumbersome you might want to improve that instead of duplicating the functionality at another layer.
I think too many people here are focusing on consumer electronics and in your example i found what I expect the French law is also about: white appliances.

We actually don't buy fridges and dishwashers expecting them to last 3-5 years (or at least we shouldn't). But many of these things have a lifespan far shorter than we expect given today's automated manufacturing and quality control and that everyone involved should be a specialist (design, engineering etc).

These types of household appliances should be better. But I also think that in Europe recycling of appliances is now a political issue big enough to warrant a "what are we going to do with all of these mobile phones?" law.
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I'm a cynic, but don't get me wrong, I'd be delighted if Vulkan or OpenCL 2.1 show up in OS X 10.11.

Khronos is a funny beast, a bit like the United Nations. Just because these companies are all part of it doesn't mean they actually like each other and want to cooperate!

Apple has famously lagged far behind with their implementation of OpenGL. They only support OpenGL 4.1, the spec for which was released in 2010 [1].

Their developer tools are also pretty lacking on the desktop, and because they keep their drivers closed, external vendors can't do much to help. (Apple write their own drivers for Intel, NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, and even the engineers at those companies have little insight to what goes on behind Apple's closed doors.)

Perhaps this new, streamlined Vulkan API will be easier and more attractive for Apple to implement.

We live in hope...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL#OpenGL_4.1
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And cars. Let's not forget about fault finding a car requires a considerable investment in diagnostics gear.
Not a single data point in this theory. The reason you sometimes wake up just before the alarm (at least I wake up before my alarm because I actually check the time) is because of conditioning. Our biological clock is pretty accurate. An example of that, in university I could easily sleep on the week ends till noon. Now that i've been working for many years and waking up regularly at the same time during the week, I wake up naturally around the same time during the week end (unless I went out late the day before of course).
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Wait some years when bitcoin is $10K and Dropbox is $0 and we'll talk again.
I'd imagine that it can't be too hard on Amazon's side to predict whether a product receives a lot of fake reviews or not. Just checking if the reviewer has other reviews would be a simple first step to grab the low-hanging fruit.

Amazon is a huge search engine. They should act like one and prevent attempts of gaming the system.
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It doesn't just magically work, someone still has to write the drivers & user space libraries.

Apple would also then have to support three graphics APIs, vintage OpenGL, Metal (on iOS) and Vulkan (on iOS and OS X?), across four hardware platforms (AMD, NVIDIA, Intel, Imagination on ARM).
America is unlikely to be dumb enough to fight a war in China and Russia, but a proxy war with China and/or Russia is likely. Russia had some key victories with really simple mass produced blanket bombing kit, simple tanks, ak47s, etc (there to be good at putting old crap together to build your solution: находчиво (nahohdchihvy)).
Oh, I see, didn't realize that.
That is a pity because I would very much like for cross platform gaming to become much more of a thing and Vulkan does seem likely to be a big milestone in that, esp. considering Valve's involvement.
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Hi,

I'm on the look out for a task tracking tool.

1. It should be able to work with just the duration of the task with the starttime and endtime of the task being optional.
2. I should be able to indicate which task depends on which.
3. After summing the expected duration of all tasks, it should give an estimate on when the tasks will be over.
4. It should have a gantt chart to show the flow of tasks. If I change the expected duration of one task, the following tasks should be changed accordingly.

The problem I'm trying to solve is this. I working alone at home on a project. I have a sequence of tasks to do before the project can be launched. Some tasks take more time than I expected (the data scrubbing has been throwing up one surprise after the other :) ) and now I'm losing track of how long I have to go. It would be good to be able to track the tasks I do.
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I've never once paid by Paywave, even though I think I have it on all my cards. I don't know if it's a European thing but despite all the tech being installed it just hasn't seen much adoption - I know no-one who uses it. We're still firmly chip and pin.

From a business's perspective though, Bitcoin is immeasurably easier. No approval needed, just buy a £100 android tablet and off you go. Funds available immediately. Compare that to going down the bank and grovelling for them to let you take cards. Obviously it's not close to an alternative yet, but it's an easier flow.
Well for one thing, the term "idea" isn't very well defined. If you are talking about something like Elon Musks Hyperloop, I can see that it might be worth money. But someone else might consider "Uber for dog walkers" an idea. And it is to some extent, but how would you know before you buy? No worries, you say, you'll just make a clause that says that you only pay for an idea if you execute it? Right, but then you are looking to buy an idea without knowing anything about it, and if you hear it but don't like it, you have now exposed yourself to the anger of the idea-guy if you ever go on to do something related.

I have once upset an acquaintance because he felt that I stole his idea. After that incident, I have actually started to ask people not to tell me their ideas unless they are cool with me possibly using them some day. Otherwise, I just risk making enemies with very little upside.
I think he's reffering to mantle at WWDC.
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some differences:

- consume and produce .net libraries (everything c# can do except NullReferenceException)

- type providers, explore and use an api, strogly typed but easier than dynamic (example http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dsyme/archive/2013/01/30/twelve-type... or http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/Freebase.html or http://fsharp.github.io/FSharp.Data/library/CsvProvider.html)

- computation expression, easier to create like attempt/maybe and some builtin like async/query

- concurrency and async (battle tested multicore/threading/async using .net runtime)

- light syntax as default, like python (whitespace). ocaml like syntax can be used but is not idiomatic

- .net runtime and mono, really good vm

- overloading operators (operators are function), so + instead of multiple function like + and +.

try it

- user groups list http://c4fsharp.net/groups.html

- browser http://www.tryfsharp.org/

- more info fsharp.org

- open source http://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp (vs stuff) or http://github.com/fsharp/fsharp (cross plat)
I've had nothing but bad experiences with Amazon re-sellers and I avoid them completely.
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Not that I am aware of. Sometimes you can find positions for trainees and working students in the link I mentioned above. You can ask HR at jobs@suse.com.
Original article rather than the above repaste:
http://www.e-siber.com/guvenlik/dropbox-accesses-all-the-fil...

And the Reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2xrpgx/dropbox_...
I think he's reffering to metal at WWDC. That's the only thing I can think of as being relevant that month.
I know that HN is not a help desk, but I have noticed DropboxOriginal eating a lot of my CPU (on OS X), when I am writing files to folders which are NOT under (official) control of Dropbox (or at least: out Dropbox folder, not synchronized). Any ways to block this behavior on OS X?

Security aside, it is really annoying for scripts which modify a lot of files.
It is pretty common on Windows and Mac OS X worlds, but it seems not so in GNU/Linux.
> the company offers a protective case with the completion of a review

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2ZIC24LFDBD1D/ref=cm_srch_res_...

> comes with a FREE case if i write a review!

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1JNOKKTR5XM7B/ref=cm_srch_res_...

> there is a slip that comes with the item offering a case free giveaway all you do is review your purchase and rated then copy the review and send it in email with your order number n in seven days u will get your case I did it n nothing so far only a email asking for screenshot did it n still nothing anyone else is having the same issue

http://www.amazon.com/review/RI65M4YHQAC8N/ref=cm_srch_res_r...
Did you even read through the whole article?
qBittorent is quite nice.

Ninite offers it instead of uTorrent .Not sure why they still offer eMule though.
Go tooling is excellent. Above anything else IMHO. Sadly the language itself is not so good.
Wasn't war always about stealing people's stuff or preventing your stuff from being stolen? I mean, my country had independence wars every generation for 800 years, but they were all about not getting our potatoes robbed.
> Firmware updates must be signed. Firmware updates should be signed by the manufacturers so that we can be sure we are installing ...

... NSA provided backdoors and are prevented from writing our own firmware to run on our own systems.
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Given the apparent desire to have GET-like requests with bodies that have meaning to the server, would there be any downside to introducing a new method for that purpose, lets say... QUERY?

So for example: QUERY example.com/api/thing ('{"thing_id": 00335}'::json)
The coming war on general computation (2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

The coming civil war over general purpose computing (2012):

http://boingboing.net/2012/08/23/civilwar.html
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In Windows, even with a filter limiting which directories to process, a FileSystemWatcher object has to examine each event and decide whether or not to call the event handler or let it pass without action. That means it would have to read the file information and compare it against the filters that have been defined.

These actions will show up as at least 4 or 5 entries in Process Monitor (and maybe more, I'm not sure off the top of my head). This also means that applications monitoring for file access will catch each time this happens.

Unfortunately, whoever wrote that article does not seem to understand Window's internals, or how to determine what consists of bad or dangerous activity.

It should also be noted that Dropbox runs in the context of your own user account. It does not run as a service or elevated user, so it will only have access to the files you have access to (and that you have access to without requiring elevation).

I'm not going to claim to be a security expert, but I don't see anything that would suggest a security risk on Dropbox's part. Further, if a company has data important enough that they need to run DLP software on individual computers, they should not be allowing software such as Dropbox anyway.
Harm in this context has to be defined legally, not intuitively. If what you are claiming is the case, then there would never be a penalty for breaking a contract, other than not having to fulfill your side of the bargain. But there are tons of ways in which breaking a contract could harm you.

Let's take your example, using airline tickets. Imagine you are the purchaser of the tickets, and I am the airline you purchased them from.

You might miss the opportunity to book another flight at a cheaper price, since you relied on my promise of a flight, and now you must rebook.

You might miss your opportunity to travel at all, or must now change your travel plans, because all of the flights are overbooked.

You might have budgeted very carefully, and purchased hotel reservations and a car rental, and now I have cancelled your flight and you cannot afford more expensive tickets because you already purchased a hotel and car, and you are over budget.

All of these are reasonable scenarios that I would have encountered traveling, if an airline refused to honor its reservation. This is why contracts have to be honored, and the penalty for breaking a contract is typically more than "you just don't have to honor your side of the contract".
WTF US, why do you need/want to build this? Do people support this?
They dont have to steal the bitcoins

Collecting "metadata" such as Address X stored on Computer Y on ip address Z could be worth quite alot to likes of NSA who I am sure have plenty of incentive to monitor crypto-currencies and would either pay Dropbox to do it or alternatively bang them over the head with a hammer and make them their bitches in order to collect all sorts of juicy "metadata" on millions of people world wide.

Hell access to so much information could make for quite a political tool, remember that general in washington who was kicked out because he was having an affair and somehow his private communications via gmail drafts became public. What would prevent an opportunistic dictator from gaining absolute control over political landscape of a country if this dictator has access/control to an organization such as NSA?

Americans get up in arms over their right to be armed all the time, but they ignore (or do not realize?) that without privacy and secure communications they would never be able to organize a resistance to a totalitarian government which is better armed and could potentially (already does?) monitor everything and everyone on a scale that would make Orwell blush and spin in his grave.
This explains the first part (Dropbox accessing the files), but not the second part (synchronous network activity).
> When server to server encryption became mandatory on most XMPP servers, those contacts were simply cut off. Gone.

Same situation here. Would love to keep using the DDG XMPP servers for all IM. Sadly only 2 (two) contacts remain since the TLS clampdown last year. The account is still enabled in Pidgin/Finch (in tmux on rpi), hoping for some reversal in XMPP's fortunes!

Feel free to add me as a contact there: [this username]@dukgo.com
What do you mean by "ripoff"? F# is not OCaml, but it indeed is closely related. They share some syntax and basic language features like tail call optimization, records and variants or pattern matching. On the other hand F# object system is completely different from OCaml's as it needs to work with other .NET languages. F# introduces active patterns and operator overloading which is absent from OCaml. OCaml features a very sophisticated module system, which in turn is absent from F#.

In short, F# and OCaml are similar but distinct languages. Both are interesting and worth looking into, each in its own right.
There are different levels of information, with the last being the actual file contents. I doubt dropbox would sync file contents from unrelated files (that would be the biggest security scandal ever), but there are multiple levels of metadata that you may or may not expect Dropbox to upload. If something is uploaded after you create a file in a separate directory, I'm guessing it's one of two things

1) metadata such as a timestamp when all files in the synced folder were found up to date.
2) metadata about the non-synced file changes, such as timestamps, checksums or etc.

While 2 isn't an upload of the file contents, it's still bad enough. I wouldn't expect Dropbox to upload any data OR metadata related to my unsynced files at all.
Maybe there isn't a spec yet, but it seems there are demos running through vulkan: http://blog.imgtec.com/powervr/trying-out-the-new-vulkan-gra...
HMAC won't save you if the application is public (and therefore available to scrapers. If a search engine or other bot can get a link to the page from another page in the app just as any interactive user would, it can also get a link with a correct HMAC token just as any interactive user would.
What you are talking about is not an "idea", but a "plan".
Tried downloading the PDF and man... fuck everything about that intrusive piece of shit website.