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> Writing a new token will make a lot of noise in the system

Simply doing a hash of the token won't get you the desired "noise" in the system. That is, you need to do something else besides what you have said here. For example, writing a new token, whether produced by an attacker or a legitimate user, will produce the same some "noise", no? Unclear how, when the attacker owns your database and any triggers, you are going to tell if it is an attacker.

Similarly, the single obvious elegant line of code is not going to deter an attacker. Oh, I imagine that there are attackers that enjoy the beauty of code in a hacked system and put it on pastebin, possibly slowing them down.

And what are the chances if the attacker is that deep into your system, that they aren't reading the tokens before they are hashed?

The downside that I see, and I would flag this scheme, is that it doesn't provide the protection that the developer is led to believe.
> To say nothing of the fact that it's still cheaper to just find a decent discount on the print edition and access the web version via that account

I thought I had found a clever trick when I called them and asked them to stop physical delivery ( as will they do if you're going on an extended trip, for example ). The next week they also suspended my digital access...

I tried to explain to them that I didn't actually want the paper copy but it didn't register with them. When it came to renew, I let the subscription lapse because it felt so wasteful to be throwing the magazine straight from the letterbox into the recycling bin. And I wasn't prepared to pay more to go without the paper!
> It does not have S3 power mode, that is no suspend to RAM but only Microsoft Connected Standby (AKA Intel IntantGo)

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying. Another thing to look for if/when buying new hardware then (lack of s3/and or instantGo support arriving in Linux)

> I starting setting hybernate up but I needed it encrypted and it seemed like too much trouble

Not sure what you mean here. You'll need the encryption key on startup, of course (but you need that on a full boot anyway). Perhaps look into putting the/a copy of the key on an usb stick?

Unless Ubuntu has been been messing with the cryptsetup/luks boot/initrd-magic as found in Debian, it should "just work".

Works fine on my Thinkpad -- I generally just do "s2disk" from the command-line (I did look into getting S3+S1 to work -- that is first s2ram and disk, then after a while turn off, awakening from disk rather than ram -- that was a bit more of a hassle to get working -- and in the end I rarely need it anyway).

Fwiw I use the "hibernate" package along with a fully encrypted (except /boot) system, using cryptsetup/luks.

[edit: Tangentially related:

http://www.oxygenimpaired.com/ubuntu-with-grub2-luks-encrypt...

(note the bit about preparing the usb key with the encryption key is in a linked post)

I'm not sure I see much value in having the key be some random part of a randomzied usb stick... but it mentions most of the things required to mount encrypted partitions -- and the keyscript-option.

Also, be wary of Dragons when systemd comes around:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618862
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Samsung is a huge multi-billion (maybe even trillion) dollar company of which Electronics is only one division and you think it should be broken up because a (non-flagship) Samsung Gear Live watch wouldn't pair with (non-flagship) Samsung Galaxy Tab that was so forgettable, you couldn't remember the name of it at the start of your blog post? You do realise that's incredibly ridiculous right?
Postgres at least will store rows roughly in insert order. So whether you're using integers or UUIDs for primary keys won't affect on-disk layout.

When scanning the index, the database will be traversing it in btree order, anyway, so as long as the values are comparable, ints or UUIDs shouldn't matter much.
You don't buy beats for the sound, you buy beats to signal your tribal membership. People go to extraordinary lengths to join groups and send this membership signal. It's almost instinctual and done without a lot of thinking and good marketers know how to leverage this.

It's dumb, but it is what it is, and people wrap an awful lot of their identity up in their chosen tribe rather than just being themselves.
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Seems pretty cool. The only thing that annoys me is that blank lines are not preserved, even though I click on them.
That's quite a different response from the Google perspective. They make it seem like they came to the mutual decision to remove the CA, not that they kicked out CNNIC.
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Funny thing is that Cuba already has its own "airbnb" called "casa particulares", it's definitely a great way to travel! :)
I still wouldn't by them, since I dislike looking like a tool, and in every category there is a better option, but take a look at these measurements for the Studios:
http://www.head-fi.org/products/beats-studio-over-ear-headph...

It was once fashionable to wear them, now its fashionable to hate them. Truth is, they have gotten better - a lot.
I suppose that my negative reaction is mostly because, generally, calls for more math in learning a subject results in additional semesters of calculus or differential equations, which would be of doubtful use in my experience developing software.

> then you're using math every time you write any code at all, whether it's ensuring you don't write any cyclic dependencies, making sure you correctly handle all return values, or making sure an algorithm doesn't require quadratic time or worse before you implement it. You need math if you want to know that your custom comparators won't cause a sort routine to blow up, to recognize certain possible sources of bugs in unsafe languages, and most of all to recognize and assess the validity of potential optimizations.

For the most part, I view this as simple bookkeeping. Probably I've been doing this for too long and have just internalized it.
> Of course, I also worry about ARC or NaCL or Dart (what's with Google these days?)

That's fairly typical of Google to have 2 or more of everything. Inbox and Gmail, Chromebooks and Android are prime examples.

Ars Technica has a write-up on it that lists more: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/10/googles-product-stra...
yeah, I am sure this is the answer. No doubt.
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The area of severe damage and less instant fatality is maybe twice as wide.

Outside of that there's another ring of significant damage, but the probability of survival increases (as long as you're not near a window when the shockwave hits.)

The map also doesn't show fall out or the effects of a possible firestorms.
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> certain types of music - music listened to by young people

Can I feel old now? Where's my lawn?

> People aren't buying the headphones for the sound quality, they're buying it for everything else.

I find this worrying, really. Are we so desperate to consume that we're willing to buy shit just for sake of buying?
Just to give another data point closer to price an Atom N2800 (which kimsufi offers with ssd for the same monthly price) gets around 1100, so competitive but not world changingly so.

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench3/search?dir=desc&q=...
Best for DJs perhaps. But certainly no the best headphone for sound reproduction / comfort.

But thats the thing, there is no best headphone.

Best for DJs
Best for producers
Best for listening
Best comfort when wearing for 8 hours a day
Best for travelling with
Best for bass
Best neutral sound
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Are there any recommendations for headphones that's aren't balanced? I'm not a studio engineer and prefer the heavy bass honestly
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It's not for the sake of buying; it's for the sake of showing them off. Like we did with jewelry for millennia.
Ah that would explain it. That's a pretty misleading claim then. So I guess ARMs are still pretty slow and Amazon is not all that terrible after all performance-wise. That also makes more sense intuition-wise.
I completely agree. The typical Beats buyer who just want nice looking headphones that sound kickin'. Shame on their competitors for failing to understand their audience.

(And personally I wouldn't put much stock in what the audiophiles think. The homoeopathy-grade "facts" and "truths" which pervade much of the audiophile world are in my opinion far more contemptible.)
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It might negatively affect performance, yes.

Performance shouldn't affect the decision to make it default, however. That would be premature optimization.

The only good reason I can think of for not making it default would be backwards compatibility.
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https://letsencrypt.com will be offering free certificates this year and will hopefully completely transform the SSL business. Given that extended validation certificates have little if any consumer value, letsencrypt could quickly take over the whole SSL world.
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Site looks good, but they do need better editors. There's a glaring typo before you even get past the first page:

"Deploy dedicated SSD servers with constant and predictable performances (sic) in 44 seconds."

More typos as you scroll down.
This looks really well designed. Would be useful for our marketing team.
I think the thing everyone is forgetting is that if it isn't state sponsored/approved then why hasn't it been turned off (as far as I am aware the attack is still ongoing).

If it was a hack, surely China Unicom should have fixed it by now?
I find the Beats-bashing to be very suspect.

It's funny how a hobby (hi-fi, audiophile, whatever you want to call it) dominated by white men just happens to get so incensed over something marketed by and to the urban crowd.

Why aren't we angry about every other thing that's endorsed by celebrities? Why this one in particular? I don't think the folks behind Activia yogurt "played everybody for a fool" or "had us over a barrel from the beginning" because they hired Jamie Lee Curtie as a spokesperson. They certainly didn't spend their budget on inventing a better tasting yogurt or one with different cultures in it, that's for sure.

"Sound quality" is not a great reason to pick on Beats. Most headphones and speakers (under $1000 or so) aren't even trying to sound neutral; they're intentionally boosting certain frequencies and suppressing others. Beats headphones are obviously massively boosting the bass, but this isn't any less "accurate" than, say, your average Grado headphones and many enthusiasts (myself included) really enjoy those things.

Marco Arment had the perfect analogy, I think.

"Beats did to headphones what Starbucks did to coffee:
while they’re not the best, they’re a huge upgrade from
what most people were using before, and they’ve
dramatically increased the market and mainstream
acceptability of spending $200–400 on full-sized
headphones and wearing them in public."

While the changes brought by Beats and Starbucks haven't been entirely positive, even if you don't like them, they've definitely expanded the market. The net effect of Beats is that there are TONS of great headphones on the market now, more than there were ten years ago. For a guy like me who's a fan of that stuff that's good news even though I'm not a Beats customer.
Exactly. They both focus on design and marketing, on giving users more conspicuousness in their 'conspicuous consumption'. If you want people to know that you pay a lot for coffee, then coffee in a generic white cup is missing a key feature.
> I just don't understand purchasing headphones as a fashion statement.

It's not necessarily a statement. Look: I write music. I like music with a good quality. When I buy speakers, I look for reviews on GearSlutz and aim at the best and most transparent ones. The same goes for headphones.

But at the same time, from the aesthetics standpoint, these headphones look hideous. In fact, most of professional audio monitors and headphones look ugly, in my opinion. I have a pair of AKG K77 headphones on right now, and another pair of heavy, bulky, closed AKG monitors at home. They sound great. But they're UGLY.

And if I wasn't that much into sound quality, I would definitely buy Dr Dre's phones instead. Sound quality is not something any person can perceive easily, and see value in; but the visual aesthetics is something that you can actually see with your eyes.
> People need cheap affordable housing

That's not going to get rid of homelessness. People with severe and enduring mental illness, or addiction, might need support to stay in their cheap affordable housing.
The claim about leading JIT does seem a bit ridiculous, given JIT manufactoring grew out of the Toyata Production System[1] which encompases Kaizen, Kanban and similar.

All of which was pioneered decades before Tesla existed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Production_System
I just don't understand purchasing headphones as a fashion statement.

Do you understand why anybody buys anything for the way it looks or is it just headphones? It's no different from people wanting nice looking shoes, bags, sunglasses, jackets etc. Lots of people care about their appearance, and say what you want about Beats, but they certainly look better than the HD 280s. And realistically I bet you no one using beats headphones would get a better listening experience by changing headphones.
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> I find this worrying, really. Are we so desperate to consume that we're willing to buy shit just for sake of buying?

There's no need to worry, this isn't a sign that society is going downhill. Buying Beats for something other than sound as the primary purpose is no different than buying something purely for fashion sake, which is a centuries old human practice.

This comment reminds me of how every generation finds the next generation's actions worrying.

edit: Grandpa Simpson nailed it: "I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it, and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0wTtiJygY
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I had a support ticked open with Apple for long enough that they gave me a store credit to buy something. The amount was just enough to get a Beats Pill XL Bluetooth speaker, so I got one.

Wow, the thing changed my relationship with my music library. There are so many more occasions that I can listen to music just because of the convenience of being able to place the speaker wherever I am. Good build quality, great battery life, and I am happy with the sound quality.

I tried the free trial of the music streaming service, and it is a cut above the others. I decided to wait for what it becomes post-acquisition, though.

I had no prejudices about Beats prior to this. I don't understand the hate.
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Well it seems this patent is only there for defensive purposes.
> I just don't understand purchasing headphones as a fashion statement.

Take something mastered for MP3; then badly rip it to MP3; then play it on a phone or other low cost MP3 player, while you're on a bus or subway.

Most people just can't tell the difference.
This is where links that have a hash would be useful.

(I.e. "This links points to this file - if you already have the file with this hash use it instead")
Which React patents exactly?
How about Mithril?

In any case, I think it's cool to use the Virtual DOM when you need, but React and Mithril forcing you to re-render EVERYTHING every time is a bit too heavy-handed.
There are some good articles that go into a bit more depth on this, specifically on Putin's perceptions of such (or at least his rhetoric to that effect). Here's one from the Jan 31 Economist:

http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21641278-russian-presid...
As a german who works for a german university, i would like to point out that studying is actually not totally free.

Here at the University of applied sciences in Münster, you would have to pay a total 235€ every six month, consisting of a social contribution of 85.44€ and a student body contribution of 145.75€, for which you will get a ticket for free travel by bus or by train inside North Rhine-Westphalia for the whole six month. Some people in here just register because of that ticket. :D

To study in germany, you normally just need to prove that you have a specific amount of money to survive, pay for a flat, food and health insurance. And thats it.

As the website stated, we need skilled immigrants, because with a birth rate of just 1.3 childs per woman, the germans are slowly dying out, not to mention that our society is getting older and older like the one in japan. Attracting foreign students with a nearly free college is a great and very cheap way of getting highly skilled workers, its makes perfect sense.
Yes, though there's some debate as to how often this actually matters. A surprisingly large number of the general web public comes in with a completely cold cache.
> I just don't understand purchasing headphones
> as a fashion statement. I read it as "I want
> you to know I like popular brands over high
> quality and my own listening experience".

Are your shoes and the rest of your clothing chosen strictly for their functional ability, with zero regard for fashion? If you have a car, what about that? Is your home painted in the cheapest and most durable paint, with zero regard for appearance? What about your laptop bag?

Beats aren't to my taste, although neither are $150 basketball shoes or a lot of other things. I get it, though.
> It's just an outflow of currency, which is not particularly harmful to countries printing their own currency.

However, Germany - and other € countries - are not printing their own currency.
I agree it's dumb, but the important thing to realise is that pretty much everyone is falling for it pretty much all the time.

It's hard to argue that this same motivation isn't driving sales of iPhones over Android and vice versa. Or Canon versus Nikon. Nike versus Adidas. Harvard versus Stanford. Obama versus (!Obama). Ford versus Toyota. We can rationalise many of these decisions, but so can the people who bought the other thing.
Is this April fool joke? Or are you guys really taking this whole Chinese government theory seriously? If you were leading a 1.6bn populated country how much you would care about a programmer's code site?

To give all those conspiracy theorists a clear picture, what really happened is merely the scale of problem you have never worked on or dreamed to be working on outside China.

This happened year ago when a Chinese state funded train ticket booking website accidentally deployed to production with a opensourced Javascript vendor file still linked to github. And first day that site went live, 30 billion visitors tried to secure a ticket for coming Chinese New Year, when took down github for a good while. Yes it was a DDOS attack from China, by train ticket buyers.

Last November, Chinese online c2c marketplace TaoBao.com, saw 16.7bn transactions in one day, with more than 1 billion CNY settled in a minute. If any of the web dev responsible for even a small promotion page left a link of cool jquery plugin from GitHub, you could have written another holy crap evil government attack post here.
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I learned that as Toyotism.

EDIT: Another therm for that is "Lean manufacturing" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_manufacturing
The comparison with Mac seems really spurious. Apple, at its best, redesigns hardware and software to find whole new ways of interacting intuitively with really very complicated computing devices. That is not comparable to making some headphones which are bass heavy.

Beats is like Apple, but with its objective value stripped out. i.e. just the fashion and marketing without any of the engineering excellence and innovation.
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MS is in bed with China. Google isn't. Microsoft is allowed to stay in China, Google was kicked out.
Imho beats headphones don't sound good. The bass is ridiculously overpowered and distorts nearly constantly.

Now, tastes are different, and you might want exactly this experience with that distorted bass.

If you create both the music and the speaker, like Dre does, and you wanted that experience, the right approach would have been to add such a distorted bass to your track during mixing/mastering, and then create headphones that faithfully output this signal.

This would ensure that you could enjoy Dre's tracks with that distorted bass on all your music equipment, like with your home hifi system, and if you used the beats headphones with other music, it would also output that other music truthfully.

So it becomes a bit of a standards issue. It's as if a very popular computer displays brand made displays where pixels that are 100% white will flicker wildly, but the displays brand was created by a guy known for his lowpoly wireframe art style, and this particular style looks great on those displays. So that combination might be fine, but you cannot use the displays to faithfully assess other images, really.
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>>have officially entered the era of a weaponized internet.

Nope, the State department has yet to respond.
> If they let this slide - it'll pretty much be open season for root trusted MITM certs to anyone with a few kilo or mega bucks to spare.

It's too late. TrustWave got a pass when they did the exact same thing. The message has been sent, there are no repercussions for willfully abusing your CA status. Only incompetence will be punished (DigiNotar).

The CA system is broken. We will never find any authority that everyone in the world agrees to trust.
There may still be too much emphasis on 4-year college requirements for most vocations in the US. Mediocre students are being pushed towards college, where they may or may not graduate, and end up with debt even with federal and state subsidies. Worst case is not finishing and having tons of debt with nothing to show for it. These same people would be much better off with a 2-year vocational degree, and a job market in greater need of those skills than your community college IT or business degree will find.

I've heard the German educational system steers students in these directions early in high school. When I was in high school, we used to have vocational and college prep paths, but they've since ditched that in an effort to "leave no child behind." Now we have a glut of students graduating from community college in a market with low demand for their degrees.

Let's admit that except for being able to transfer those credits to a college of higher prestige, and being granted the same degree from there, community college is of little value. In my area, I can tell you for a fact that the same science and math courses vary greatly in difficulty between the private engineering school I attended, and the local state school. Full-time students knew of this loophole, and took some of these harder classes down the road at the state school.
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