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> If the banks didn't open fraudulent accounts, they wouldn't put incorrect information on credit reports and there wouldn't be any unknown debt.

Well. Sure. But that's the point. That's why it's called identity theft. Someone has acquired the information about you needed to effectively pretend to be you.

For example, say I convince the police that you committed murder. As a result they arrest you and put you in jail. By your logic, you're not a victim in this scenario because if the police didn't get fooled into arresting you nothing would have happened.

I think almost any reasonable person would agree that you were a victim in the above scenario. Regardless whether a third party bears some level of responsibility or was used as an instrument in that victimization.
Just to add, an arrest warrant against her for aiding Iran terrorists that attacked Argentina.

If embik thinks he does not know what those people think, I guess he should turn that into a certainty from now on.
The impressive thing is that some IC manufacturer can design, manufacture, and sell all that capability in one IC for a few dollars. That's an incredible achievement. Soldering it onto a breakout board, not so much. There have been lots of little boards in that price range or lower. If you go to hardware conferences, you probably have a few free breakout boards given out at company booths.

As for the $40 version with keyboard and screen, you can beat that price on Amazon.[1] There are several tablets under $40 now, and by $50 or so, they're not that bad. That's what those low-cost SOIC chips are made for, after all.

The tablet/phone industry is desperately trying to prop computer prices up. The industry would like a price point around $500 for tablets. But it's not working.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Android-Allwinner-Cameras-Capacitive-S...
There are a lot of examples in the US of the government harrasing citizens who report vulnerabilities. The DMCA is typically used to justify this behavior.

I'm not sure what the appropriate conclusion is here.
You need to be careful with those limits 'lest you end up ensuring your kid never learns to do anything else with the computer than playing games. Exploring and tinkering takes time. A kid won't start doing that if he/she knows he has only an hour a day tops, nor you can really do anything creative on such short time blocks.
In my dying breath though, I would laugh that because everyone was so busy chasing the next Big Shiny, we lost sight of the big shiny which would lead to our [premature but inevitable] extinction.
If you don't have shared mutable state or shared resources, then you don't really have concurrency. Concurrency is actually defined as this problem, as opposed to parallelism which is just about splitting up work.
On the other hand, "just one more level" x10 is an issue in round & level style games.
I don't think you even understand the concept of in-band and out-of-band, that's not a function of the encoding. And I've written protocols aplenty in the days when not everything ran on top of HTTP, high speed serial links, with and without virtual circuits (so mux-demux) and a whole slew of others.

Just to make sure you are on the same page as the rest of us here: in-band and out-of-band is a way to distinguish sending meta information about the data stream through the same channel as the original data. You need an escape mechanism for that, so control characters and such.

Out-of-band signalling indicates that all meta information about the data stream travels through a different (virtual) circuit, in which case there can never be confusion about whether a given chunk is data or meta info.
The simplest option I'm aware of is to point CloudFlare to your load balancer, and have it handle removal of failed backend nodes.

The only big downside is that on AWS you can't have an elastic IP associated with an elastic load balancer, so you either have to run your own HA haproxy/nginx/whatever cluster in EC2 in order to have a single IP to point CloudFlare to.

If you can live with a subdomain you can point that cname to an ELB.

Alternatively, CloudFlare's API is pretty reasonable, so you could home-brew health checks that de-register dead nodes from CloudFlare. Even a simple nagios check handler could do that.
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It seems what AT&T are trying to do is stop losing money to subsidizing phones since other carriers (T-mobile, for example) are doing this. If this is the case then why not just discontinue the subsidization of phones at the $199, $299, etc. price points and just allow you to buy it at 0% interest if you agree to a 2-year contract. They still get their customer locked in for 2 years and they recover the full cost of the phone and the customer most likely stays loyal since they aren't feeling ripped off. Otherwise, what is keeping them from jumping ship to another carrier if the waters are muddied enough that the phone and the plan become commodities?
Someone has acquired the information about you needed to effectively pretend to be you.

This low bar is set by the banks!

I'm not saying that innocent third parties that the banks and financial system harass are not victims, I'm saying that the central role of the bank in the crime makes it more reasonable to describe it as bank fraud.

The murder analogy sort of breaks down, the dead guy (which I see as analogous to the bank) can't do a whole lot to push the consequences of you murdering him onto me. A bank that opens a fraudulent account can (and in fact, this is the major source of the problems for those that are impersonated).
Exactly. The title is misleading because it implies we're talking about open source products that eventually became closed source (this happens, it's annoying, and it's their prerogative). Instead it's upset that people use licenses that aren't the GPL.

It's also one of the only projects I've ever seen to use the Affero GPL.
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I played it on PC years back (and when I thought the game making $30M was an insane amount of success). But shitty graphics support prevented me from running it on my laptops and I gave up. Yet I can still remember the large things I built, the houses and bridges and staying up all night.

Now my girls are 7 & 8, and for the last year they've been building these huge things in creative. They're in love with Stampy (on YouTube... Annoying voice but he shows some neat tricks). This week they took vacations, and I agreed to play survival with them. (I must admit, it does scare me just a bit; the rush to setup before nightfall and the sound that something is nearby.)

Well... Every night we've stayed up until 1am or so (kids are lightweights) playing Minecraft. Coordinating expeditions, streamlining resource usage, building sky palaces. It's a blast and my one daughter told my wife how much she enjoyed it and was so happy I did this. Now it's probably because I'm a terrible father and don't spend enough time with them, but they really enjoy this time. And they tell stories, laughing, about how the time a creeper blew me up, or when they accidentally attacked something or whatever. It's some serious "together" time. (And I can't imagine am easier way of being a decent parent.)

I'm gonna install it on their laptops (I was lazy and used 360) and I'm hoping there's servers aimed for littler kids. Just because teenage boys seem to be real dicks online. (It's not language, we swear a fair amount while playing, I'd just like to increase the chance of them making real friends vs endless griefers.) There's gotta be other parents like me that'd be willing to run a private, verified identity, server, eh?
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Hey HN,

When doing side work, do you offer hosting as part of your services? If so, howuch do you charge annually and how do you calculate it? I have a few side jobs that I host. I charged flat rate since they were simple websites that didn't need anything other than static content. However now I'm considering charging for hosting and domain renewal, since I'm eating those costs annually. I use the VPS for hosting my own projects, but I'd like to recoup the costs of the domain and at least some of the hosting costs. I'm new to side work and freelancing, so I'm trying to figure out how everyone else is handling it.
Actually, the semitones aren't spaced evenly here. The white notes on a piano keyboard are spaced evenly, and then the black notes are half-way between the white ones. So it's rather like conventional notation in that respect (the notes of the diatonic scale are equally spaced, as long as you're in the right key) but since it doesn't have a notion of key signature you can't arrange for that to remain true in (say) F minor.

This preference for some keys over others is pretty much built into the piano keyboard too, and the notation is specifically intended for keyboard music, so it's not obviously crazy. But it certainly doesn't have the property that the semitones are equally spaced.
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As a counterpoint, I don't know anyone who thinks she has any business running reddit. She has shown time and time again that she doesn't understand the reddit community, or even internet culture.
This should not be a debate about licenses but about business models. Contributing Open Source code (whatever reasonable license) is giving a huge chunk of the value of that code to the world at large (#). But the methods available to sustain oneself and family as a developer are limited if one is not selling proprietary licenses. Donations are pants, crippleware is ugly all round and selling service and consultancy is twice the effort. So it's hard to see sustainable open source as an easy one.

(#) ok mostly the rich western world but that is changing.
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And desperation return to Greece. I really don't understand Varoufakis any more, he's contradicting himself twice weekly and seems to be hell bent on destroying any chance that Greece will be able to do what needs doing. Such a pity, it will take a long time to sort this mess out and the current government of Greece will (as those before them) likely have nothing to do with that.

6 months from being on a path to recovery to being on a near-certain bank-run on Monday...

I've never seen such a mess, even Italy in the worst days was better than this.
> I think you're just trying to intellectualize your preference.

I don't quite understand what you mean. Do you mean rationalize?

I don't think I'm rationalizing. I think I'm just trying to explain a nice spot in the license design space that's difficult to codify and enforce legally, and that might drive someone to use GPL instead of BSD even if they don't want copyleft.

> You want downstream derivers to contribute back. That's all you have to say.

Well, it's more subtle than that. If their contribution is only useful in the context of their proprietary system, or if it fundamentally changes the character of the software, I don't much care. But if it's useful to the core project (e.g. bug fixes and performance improvements, tertiary but useful feature additions, etc.) then I think those contributions should make it back into the original project (or at least be open-sourced).

I don't want all users to contribute back as the cost of use. I just want them to contribute back when the change isn't either massive or irrelevant to the core project.

But that's so difficult to state in a legally binding way that I end up using the GPL, even though copyleft isn't exactly what I want.

> People who make a proprietary fork of my code are ethically as clean as anyone who gives me a PR, and they are also as ethically clean as you, in this specific sort of scenario.

Right. But I think it's reasonable to differentiate between "being a good member of the community" and "fulfilling legal obligations". I realize not everyone agrees, which is why I use GPL...
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It scares the heck out of me when idiots behind me driving within two car length of me at over 65 MpH...

Drive here long enough, and you won't even notice those guys. After all what are they really going to do to you? They're going to pass you when the road straightens out so they can see what's coming in the other lane. Let them pass, but at all times pay enough attention to what's in front of you that you'll never need to "stop suddenly". A rear-end accident is always the trailing driver's fault, but the leading driver could always have avoided it by paying more attention to the road, and slowing down when conditions warrant, before it's necessary to suddenly stop. [EDIT: of course there are exceptions, like a friend of mine who had been stopped at a red light for 30 seconds when he got blasted from behind by some blind person...]
Speech - communication - is not that much different from physical force

Spoken by someone who has clearly never been in a fight.
> There's gotta be other parents like me that'd be willing to run a private, verified identity, server, eh?

I'm sure there are. By the way, isn't this basically how football clubs, etc. get formed? :).
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Agreed, Allwinner doesn't put much effort into device drivers on Linux, especially graphics.
Feels like the author doesn't want to admit gaming addiction is real. So because Minecraft is a 'good' game, you can't get addicted to it? bollocks

I grew up playing (and becoming addicted to) MUDs, which are, from an outside perspective, quite good for you. They promote reading, high imagination, social interactions, a sense of accomplishment, etc. and there are MUDs which focus on or require player building (MOOs/LPs etc).

What did my addiction to MUDs get me? Bad grades in school, and no 'real life' experience. I had no idea how to take care of myself, which would cause me issues later in life when I did start forming RL relationships. And while my online social ability was amazing, in real life I could barely talk to people (I believe there could be a lot written about this very subject). I didn't make friends, much less girlfriends. All I cared about was getting through the school day so I can could get home and play MUDs. The one thing it did give me was programming, since I became so interested in them I began programming them.
Good point. I think all the handwringing over computer games is society saying "This stuff is kind of new, maybe we should be cautious." Happens every time technology advances, particularly when kids are the users.

The thing that is particularly bad in our age is that we're demonizing many realms of experience with the language of addiction. It's stupid. I hope we get over it.
Nice recipe! It works only for ebay though... Is there a general one that works for other pages?
If your friend is the Patrick Kelly who contributed the comment quoted below at http://www.cringely.com/2015/04/15/where-the-money-is-or-was... , his words should get more circulation

"""

“Identity theft” is a lie. There is no such thing as “identity theft”, it’s all fraud. The term “identity theft” was created to put the burden back on the consumer, away from financial institutions. The actual problem is that the cost of actually verifying identity is higher than financial institutions want to bear. Most of the cost would be in missed loan opportunities. Financial institutions don’t want to bear the cost of verifying identity so they experience fraud (surprise!) and then tell us that somehow we have to protect our identity. It’s insane.

If it was legally required that you appear in a bank with an ID to get a loan or a credit card, imagine what would happen to “identity theft”. There’s nothing wrong with filing electronically, but how about having people come to the post office, with ID and a thumb drive, show ID and sign a log, then file from there?

"""
Reddit's biggest mistake was to raise $50 million at a $250 million valuation. They are now a profit-seeking enterprise that goes against the grain of what the site is all about. This is the beginning of the end.
> And the games were both what taught me English...

I've heard this from a lot of people. It's probably the most understated advantage of online gaming among students from non-English-speaking countries.
I don't think the author was trying to go for anything metaphysical there.
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I'm just starting on that game (ThinkPad T440p didn't have the gpu to run it...X250 does). But I run Windows as host OS to avoid drivers and battery issues. Do you know if the game will be OK inside VirtualBox or VMware? (Yes I could just try it but commenting is easier.) Will I not hit RAM issues if I don't install visual mods? (It renders shitty enough already; don't need to slow it down more.)
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There are several bugs in the system reported by local engineers, like being able to add multiple votes to a sigle voter's RFID chip.

This is a scandal and a complete failure at several levels, not only for the local city goverment but for respected institutions like the University of Buenos Aires which got paid to audit the system.

And this is all happening in the same day as the America Cup (Copa America) Final between Chile and Argentina, so people are numb to most of this news.
Oof logistics. I have about a dozen nonfunctional satellites in orbit because I forgot to extend antennas before dropping them into orbit while using RemoteTech.
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Yeah but I also want to allow "super massive change that fundamentally changes the character/utility of the system"

Basically, don't repackage my stuff with a stupid extra feature or some crapware or a few bug fixed. But feel free to build something new using it.

(edit: I should also mention I use LGPL. But even the definition of linking can get hairy, because sometimes interop requires small changes that aren't directly linking.)
That doesn't really contradict what duaneb said.

Most of these are the largest subs because new users are subscribed to them by default. Default subs are just faceless crowds that don't have much of a community. You're defining "value" in terms of the aggregated number of eyeballs looking at ads, which I suppose is one measure, but the value of a site to a user is what it shows to them. They get this value from the subs that they choose to subscribe to.

For example, the sub that was directly affected was IAmA, a default sub which in its current celebrity-focused incarnation is no more a community than the audience of The Tonight Show is a community.
So ios devs, who supposedly need to write in a memory unsafe language because that's just better, don't understand the basic difference between pass by reference and pass by value.

Nice. What can possibly go wrong?

Looking forward to seeing the questions in the swift SO site.
Phones, the most compact DIY computer if they could be rooted. A while back I picked up the Alcatel C1 for $9 at the local frys. It had decent specs but could not be rooted despite being an android. :(

Windows phone is better in this category. Cheap and packed with features but not rootable. I really wish if someone could jailbreak Windows Phones. Christ, for the specs, the price of those Lumia's could get ridiculously low. Quad-core cpu, 5mp camera, IPS Touchscreen/GPS/Bluetooth/NFC/Proximity sensor etc in a compact size with backup battery and micro sd support for somewhere between $35-$50? [1][2]. Aghh never understood why these manufactures are too keen on locking down their phone. Wouldn't they get a bigger sales by opening them up?

[1]http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-Nokia-Lumia-530-Prepaid-S...

[2]http://www.bestbuy.com/site/boost-mobile-microsoft-lumia-635...
Good suggestions. Merging and something to prevent duplicates during submissing is definitely something we want to add
It comes down to equality. Values have "extensional equality" which means that values A and B are equal exactly and only when they look the same and can be used in the same way. On the other hand, most people are used to "referential equality" which is more strict. It lets me distinguish "your copy" of A from "my copy" of A via their names.

Without referential equality things like mutation fail to have any sense, but programs are in general simpler.
That's because society as a whole isn't mentally capable of assigning more than one salient feature to an event.
> I grew up playing (and becoming addicted to) MUDs, which are, from an outside perspective, quite good for you

From an outside perspective? In my experience, it's only the people playing MMOs that tout the benefits :)
I just went through this "fun" several months ago. I was and still am livid. The rate increase for the 2 year contract is a horrible tactic used by them to increase the bottom line.

What I did was simply call and threaten to leave. They offered me over $400 in credits. During that call I found out I can get my normal line price by simply paying off my phones early. Note I had the 2 year contract when I upgraded. The plan was to pay them off once I went through my credit after 3 months and switch to cricket. When the time came I paid off my phones (2 phones at about $350 a piece + tax). When I called to pay them off the lady had to get a manager approval because she didn't know how to do it.
Long story short I am not yet with cricket, because I can't find a cheap tablet only option (I travel a lot).
This and other billing practices really put piss me off about att (combined billing)
> This seems to be further confirmation that the ONLY safe way to use bitcoin is to use a full blockchain wallet such as Bitcoin Core

This statement is false. Not all lightweight wallets (wallets that function without needing to download the blockchain) are SPV wallets. Some lightweight wallets use blockchain APIs (and therefore are immune to this problem)

Downloading the full blockhain is not the only way to secure bitcoin.
> "I want to apologize for how we handled the transition yesterday,"

This is a great display of distancing language.

1. The "I" becomes "we".

2. Use of "apologize" over "sorry".

3. Specifies the mistake as one of "handling".

4. Refers to abrupt firing as a "transition".
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Addiction isn't defined by the "pleasure source" (drug, game, shopping) and doesn't require criminal or financially draining effects. Addiction is being so obsessed with an activity that it consumes one's life and he/she neglects other priorities in pursuit of its pleasure.
That is exactly what I thought. "Stream" is the subject line. You mail to a group on some sort of listserve, which gives you a long-term history and a URL to give new people.

This exists in rather decent form in Google Groups already -- there is Google Groups for Business (with a Google Apps account) that gives you a great web interface as well as email interface all just for your company.
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Worse, physical. The author is claiming that body exists to serve the mind, and as no needs of own. Nutrition and exercise/atrophy and vitamin D production give the lie to the claim that playing outside is equivalent to playing minecraft.
Monads aren't nouns. When you build a state transformer you can choose whether or not to recognize that it is a monad (or maybe strong profunctor, depends upon your design) but it always just IS one.
He is an expert in Game Theory and he is probably playing а game no one understands... That's quite sad - they have good food and nice beaches. I've always enjoyed going there :|