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Like so much "innovation" coming out of the tech community, mobile payments is a solution in search of a problem. Mobile payments are not faster, safer, or more convenient than the existing system.

I understand the potential payoff for a tech company makes the development of such a redundant technology worth the risk; it's still a shty idea.
The power and authority of the state emanates from the people, don't let your government convince you otherwise. If enough enough people woke this morning deciding their government was no longer legitimate those in power would be gone by night fall.
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If you prefer another set of examples, iOS, Android, Arduino, HTML 5.

For me POSIX is a kind of unofficial C runtime.

Now with systems moving beyond C, POSIX matters much less.
I bought into this type of hyperbole a few years ago when some Node frameworks were picking up steam (Sails and Meteor mostly). After six months of being reminded of what a less mature ecosystem does for productivity, I came back to Rails with a new sense of gratitude.
Facebook launched against extant MySpace, which had tremendous initial advantage.

My point isn't that Ello will clobber FB. That's not the stated goal of its founders. But a modest initial community can grow. The selection of the early adopter class is far more important than its size.
Archiving SourceForge is indeed important. Just recently I needed it to hook up a printer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print/files/usbtb%20-%2...
"Because of the ongoing pursuit of Hollywood"

A better analogy is obviously the best hollywood movie is the one with the most and fanciest special effects.

Unfortunately 95% of the population doesn't want to watch a special effects demo reel, not even for free. And the analogy is the same problem with graphics, true the demoscene subculture is fascinated with graphics and its very technologically impressive, but 95% of the population responds with "meh".

(edited to add, the truly unfortunate part is the 5% of the population who want special effects reels is financially successful enough to completely prevent all advancement of the art other than the local maxima of special effects, so the 95% of the population who can't stand it are stuck, and are unserved by the monopoly / ogliopoly. The situation with games isn't as bad and the "casuals" are making huge piles of cash for non-3d developers, and the goal of the AAA studios and their journalist hangers on is to create and insert enough blocks in the marketplace to eliminate casual from competition and keep "gaming" a stereotypical pure 3-d WW2 FPS sequel experience, and the problem is technology has pretty much topped out eliminating "better graphics" as a marketing weapon)
3.70–3.80 for a Döner, that’s about on par with a Big Mac, though it will probably leave you feeling less hungry (a single Döner probably has less calories than a Big Mac and fries but more than a Big Mac).
> Windows Server takes most of the profit in the web server market. SQL Server does very well even with PostgreSQL and MySQL being given away for free. They compete with free as in beer offerings and keep making a ton of money.

Sales network is something entirely different than technical capabilities. Especially, when half of Microsoft is sales force.

Yes, there are companies using Microsoft products and Microsoft is getting paid very well for that. However, these companies are not on forefront of computing and are not considered to be top companies in the area of cutting edge development.

Show me some cutting edge company/startup in the IT sector that is using Microsoft products and is not a statistical error. There is a reason for that.
Indeed, for example in the UK it'd be race/gender/religion as things you cannot discriminate against. However in my experience Americans say things like "interfering with the rights guaranteed by the constitution" so I wondered if that argument held for something similar to anti-discrimination
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During the dot.com bubble I interviewed a number of people who had dropped out of college to jump into work. In general they did not have any trouble finding work. However when the bubble burst and the job market crashed dramatically, those same people were unreasonably discriminated against as there were plenty of 'degreed' people to fill positions so the folks without at least a bachelors degree were having a hard time. I know of at least two people who went back to school to finish their degrees (one essentially having redo their entire bachelor's program because their previous credits would not transfer). My takeaway from that experience was that during boom times it doesn't matter, but during lean times it does.
Respectfully, that doesn't apply to regulated industries.
You might wanna have a look at our post about moving our office for a month to an island in Thailand http://blog.mobilejazz.com/working-remotely-from-a-tropical-... which gives you a bit more insights on how "running a business on the beach" actually looks in reality.
The problem is that there is no clear definition of "the public good".

The current system isn't perfect, but it's more empowering to the common person than incentivizing anyone who has access to any information to sell it to the highest bidder, or to make unilateral decisions that affect everyone in society. At least I get to vote for someone I trust to make the right decisions.

There are plenty of people, especially in red states, who have complete faith in elected and appointed officials to decide what information should be public and what should be private. The personal beliefs of any given government employee aren't any more valid than anyone else's. I don't want to live in a society where any one person gets to decide what's in the public good and what isn't.

If you think the system should be changed so that anyone who has access to classified information can make it public on a whim, then vote for people who will implement that as policy. I don't agree with that idea, but it's a valid political belief and it's at least worthy of debate. But it isn't up to me, you or any other individual to make the final decision. Everyone should get a vote.
> It also changes WikiLeaks from observer and passive receiver of information to actor, instigator.

I think WikiLeaks has only ever seemed passive and neutral to people who agree with its agenda
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Awesome! I have committed this sin myself. :(
looks like idtech in the vid. Hope they have kept working on it since rage. I'd perhaps argue even that idtech 5 is behind the times compared to things like unreal 4.
I was running SSH from Microsoft on my Windows XP boxes, years ago, thanks to SFU (later SUA).

Then Microsoft killed it.
it's still up to the person though. It's an incentive not an imperative.
Plenty of other bugs on the Linux client to make up for it.
OpenBSD are OpenSSH's developers, and this is the OpenBSD Journal's website. It's entirely appropriate for either party to the deal to announce it, or be linked on HN.
I presume that you have to work with crappy internet connections in exotic places, how do you deal with it?
It's interesting because, at Redokun, we switched away from Hipchat and migrated to Slack only because it worked much better on our slow/crappy connection.
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I haven't planned it but why not. I don't really know how to do it though.
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From the front page of our/Psiphon's website:

> Psiphon is designed to provide you with open access to online content. Psiphon does not increase your online privacy, and should not be considered or used as an online security tool.

We help people access the open Internet. Our benchmark for success is whether or not our users can get to the content they want. If you need anonymity, use Tor.

> it sends plain text (!!) over an encrypted connection

It sends whatever you choose to send over it. If you send plain text, Psiphon routes plain text. If you send encrypted content, Psiphon routes encrypted content.
How are people controlling Windows servers remotely without SSH? Remote desktop only?
If you've never spent a solid week on a couch reading a book, I highly recommend doing so at least once in your life.
The CCF used to be called the "Junior Division of the Officers Training Corp" - but I think they renamed it to try and remove the association of public (i.e. private) school -> posh -> officer.
Update: I checked it out again. It's improved a tiny bit, but still isn't good UI design at all. All those tiny icons that expand with a mouse hover - annoying and not accessible. I still can't easily find several things I can easily do on Facebook (despite Facebook's terrible UI and menu options). Not usable for someone used to Facebook or Google+.
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Actually, for the life of me, I struggle anytime I login to Ello and have to hunt for how to logout. The half page banner (some translucent stuff to scroll through) of whatever on top doesn't make things easier to know about either. The whole UI is completely unintuitive, quite bland and too minimalistic to figure things out. So I stopped checking it several months ago. The privacy part is very nice and very welcome, because of which I had a lot of hope on the platform. But Ello was (or probably still is) nowhere close to Facebook or Google+ in terms of UI and usability. Try pushing a novice user from either of the big platforms into Ello and watch the person struggle. One's social graph being in some other walled garden is just one piece of the problem in trying to move users to something else. But that something else needs to be an intuitive and viable alternative in the first place.

P.S.: I'm not a tech newbie.

P.P.S.: I try to push people I know to better (if not the best) platforms and services when it comes to privacy.
I agree with you on pretty much everything. However, I think it's worth noting that Wikileaks isn't actually the one paying $100,000, in that way the title is misleading IMO. What Wikileaks is doing is holding a funding goal of $100,000, with the funding currently around $35,000. So, while it was Wikileaks' idea, ultimately it's the general public (Or, at-least, a few people who would like this to be leaked) who are offering this money as a bounty. So I wouldn't consider it exactly the same as Wikileaks just flat-out offering $100,000 - This bounty won't happen unless there are a decent amount of people which support this decision and fund it. It still does change the dynamic like you've said though.
WikiLeaks is getting into the lobbying game, not a bribe, a lobby. You can't tell me companies don't do this same thing to politicians.

It would be something for someone to actually get prosecuted for releasing a bill/law that will affect us all. What message would that send?

When releasing a bill in Congress is illegal, I think we have seriously lost it. Bills throughout the process should be public at all times once our representatives are going over it for sure.
>> "Apple isn't doing anything really great to enhance user privacy in absolutes - all they are doing is having all your data and not letting anyone else benefit from it - right now."

1. iMessage and FaceTime data is encrypted.

2. Having my data and not letting anyone else benefit from it is 100x better than what most tech companies are doing. Also they don't have 'all' my data. They take what they need to improve my experience. Other companies hoover up everything they can because they need it to sell.

>> "They are still, by default recording all your search queries on OS X."

To improve the spotlight user experience. They're not selling my data and I can easily disable it.

>> "They sure as hell will - that's why they are collecting the data in first place."

No. The data the collect is to improve the user experience. They have no need to sell it - they're the biggest company on the planet.

>> "As much as it sounds harsh there isn't really such a thing as 100% privacy."

There never has been but there is a big difference between what Apple offers privacy wise and what Google or Facebook offer.
Apple and Google both collect user data and send it to the cloud. Why does the degree matter? If it's a matter of principle, don't collect user data at all! Since Apple are collecting data anyway, I guess the reason is not principle.

IMO, the why doesn't affect personal privacy. Pure motives don't count for anything when user data falls into the hands of 3rd parties (through hacks, leaks, or divorce lawyers).

> - 91% of Apple's income is from hardware.

> - More that 90% of Google's income is from advertising.

So, in a nutshell - it's not the collection of data that is bad, but advertising? That's BS. The collection of personal data itself is inherently bad, motives be damned. Apple is no snow-flake as Tim would have you think, they also want to gain a competitive edge from aggregating and mining user data.
How they discovered it:

> The vessels were detected after Louveau developed a method to mount a mouse’s meninges – the membranes covering the brain – on a single slide so that they could be examined as a whole. “It was fairly easy, actually,” he said. “There was one trick: We fixed the meninges within the skullcap, so that the tissue is secured in its physiological condition, and then we dissected it."

Can someone explain what it means to fix the meninges to the skullcap? Do they mean they attached it to the skull bone? How then do they mount a curved bone to a slide?
Actually, that's not exactly true.

You cannot legally manufacture a firearm intended for sale without having an appropriate FFL (and ITAR certification, etc.)

You can absolutely manufacture a firearm for your own use, and then at a later date, sell that firearm.
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Yeah, once I realized I can pay in many places by just waving a card with a microchip, it really can't get much easier than that. Certainly beats fumbling with a smartphone or even cash.
How long have you been using SourceForge?

I remember a time when it was a fantastic resource, that it was one of the primary places to get FOSS - my earliest bookmarked link is for AFPL Ghostscript from 2004. IIRC I started using it around 1999 when I first installed Linux. There was Freshmeat too but that IME had far fewer of the major projects. Searching SourceForge was the best way to find projects for a particular need at the time.

The last FOSS project I downloaded there that isn't available elsewhere was last month.
"One very small part of our business does serve advertisers, and that’s iAd. We built an advertising network because some app developers depend on that business model, and we want to support them as well as a free iTunes Radio service. iAd sticks to the same privacy policy that applies to every other Apple product. It doesn’t get data from Health and HomeKit, Maps, Siri, iMessage, your call history, or any iCloud service like Contacts or Mail, and you can always just opt out altogether."

https://www.apple.com/privacy/
Remote Desktop and/or PowerShell Remoting. The latter is a bitch to set up but once it's there it's every bit as flexible as SSH.
The reward for solving a block is 25 bitcoins, but the fees, which are added to that, are usually less than 1 bitcoin. Fees are only a few percent of miners' income, and the miners have several factors to weigh up when they decide how many transactions to put in a block

- The risk of making orphan blocks. A larger block may take slightly longer to propagate across the network, and that slightly increases the chance that another miner will generate a valid block during that delay and propagate it faster. When that happens, the first miner misses out on the block reward and fees, about $5500 today

- A miner could put no transactions in a block, and still get the 25 bitcoin block reward, but if they do that, they are hurting confidence in the bitcoin network, and devaluing their investment into hardware and skills and the value of bitcoins they own. If you drag the chart left to see the history at https://tradeblock.com/blockchain then you may see some miners who put zero transactions in a block or very few transactions, but it is not so common

Orphan blocks are an important issue in the debate about block size increases which the article linked to is discussing. Increasing the block size is likely to increase the rate of orphaned blocks, though there are proposals that might mitigate that risk.

The ratio of fees to block reward is likely to change in future, influenced by many factors including block size, and there are many competing theories about what will happen as that ratio changes, which run the gamut from doom to success. The block reward is automatically cut in half every 4 years, and the long term plan for bitcoin seems to be based on the fees increasing in value to eventually replace the block reward
Actually in many places in the world (e.g. Middle East, Asia and Africa) you've crappy landline Internet connection, but if you use your phone you get 4G/LTE with high-speed and relatively low latency.
I doubt it. John Carmack said[0]:

> "The megatexture direction [in id Tech 5] has some big wins, but it's also fairly restrictive on certain types of games," he said. "It would be a completely unacceptable engine to do [Bethesda's Elder Scrolls V:] Skyrim in, where you've got the whole world, walking across these huge areas."

[0]: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/35125/E3_ids_Carmack_Will...

Granted, Elder Scrolls and Fallout are very different, but they aren't something that id would have done.
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It's a publicity stunt. The goal is to raise awareness for the shady nature of this trade deal, and hopefully get someone to step up and release the rest of the documents. So far it's been going well - this article was written the Washington Post, and it raises awareness of TPP. What remains to be seen is whether someone will step up.
I wonder why the downvotes, it's actually a quite thought provoking question.
Are you saying all software used by RIAs has do be vetted and audited by FINRA or a CRCP? I don't believe this to be true.

We don't offer advice, only code.

Could you point me to a few custodians or broker/dealers that provide portfolio management & rebalancing software for free? We haven't found any, but def don't have the same experience as you, so maybe we're just missing something.
I don't think that young people today agree that this is a bad thing. I can see where someone who grew up with the older systems and older games would be nostalgic towards them (I'm turning 50 this year) and find the new to be unnecessary and gratuitous.
Brave Move. Still not sure what the reactions by the U.S. government will be. behind the door agreements in politics are bad for everyone everywhere.
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It's always good to have, no matter what, and it would be extremely easy to just say you don't have it if it was a negative or worthless.

The problem is - opportunity cost.
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Example? All the examples I can think of work the other way: Horrors that industry lobbyists want that sell out the people.
My point is that you can't simply use historical data and events to justify data and behaviors half a decade later because the market is completely and utterly different.

Unlike the Facebook/Myspace era, social networks are a dime a dozen, with most receiving a little traction and news articles, and then dying soon after. You could use the same arguments you've presented for the inevitable "success" of Google+, and look what happened there.
great article but hardly a book review!
This is another reason Ars Technica is my go-to tech source — it's produced an audience that policymakers want to address.
> When the ssh access to internet is available from office, it is really easy to have uncensored internet with only portable applications (putty and chrome):

That's clearly not a solution for 99.9% of people who live in regions of the world that heavily censor access to the Internet. And it fails completely during sensitive times (such as an Iranian election a few years ago) when the censors block SSH, and then resort to whitelisting plaintext HTTP.

But you're not wrong, and SSH tunnels are a fundamental building block of our technology.
Is that strange? Flash is out, HTML5 replaces it; you'll need the same amount of code (and assets) to get the same result as with Flash. I don't think there was anything specific to Flash that made it that much bigger than the same thing in modern web technologies.
Maybe I'm wrong (and please correct me if I am) but I thought the agreement was being done in secret until it's completed at which point it will go to the legislature of all of the nations involved. Since it's being "fast-tracked" that means congress can't add or remove things from the bill but can vote on it and it will be fully accessible publicly.

They certainly shouldn't be doing the writing of this thing in secret and we should be able to comment on it now but it will be fully available before being voted on so $100,000 seems a bit much to getting it a few months early. Again, as far as I understand everything so please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Classic kettle and pot
> Apple needs to publish a POS-side Human Interface Guideline (to compliment the iOS side).

I see, you never worked with POS terminal software or vendors. I would already be happy if they got the VISA DCC exchange rate correct, or don't lose transactions, or do brand recognition correctly, or …
As always, it depends on the state, but it's not true that you can never sell a gun that you've made. You can't make them with the intent of selling them without the proper paperwork, but you could make one for yourself, then later decide to sell it. Check the ATF FAQs for more info.
I think the grandparent chose the wrong end of the stick with relating this to "famous" people, which, in turn, threw you off.

Sure, you can register an account in my name, but there are quite a number of people who will not be fooled: people who actually know me. People who know me in real life can tell whether an account is real or not, because they can tell whether I post about things I do, whether I post pictures that are...well, me.

In that case, they can be reasonably sure that the account in question is, in fact, my account. If I attach my GPG key to this account, they can thus also reasonably assume that the GPG key belongs to the account that belongs to me. This essentially gets you the online equivalent of a key-sharing party.
Hilarious twist option Obama gives WikiLeaks and everyone else the trade deal details, and claims the 100k. He could then just put it back into the government where 100k will not even be noticed, donate to some charity in some sort of PR stunt, or whatever as I am sure there are both better and more entertaining options.
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I agree. It uses the term "tech" in the article and fails to mention everything that isn't graphics related. Even if you decide as a game maker to forgo 3D for whatever reason, you still have REAL technical limitations when it comes to the game mechanics. Physics, AI, and Feature X can cost just as much processing power as some fancy 3D graphics, regardless of whether it is realtime or not. Major game makers already know this fact, and that is why optimization of the tech isn't optional: not doing so means there is a lot less you can actually do.