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When John Kerry called Snowden a coward and a traitor, Ellsberg wrote an article for the Guardian, "Snowden would not get a fair trial - and Kerry is wrong" [1], concluding:

"John Kerry's challenge to Snowden to return and face trial is either disingenuous or simply ignorant that current prosecutions under the Espionage Act allow no distinction whatever between a patriotic whistleblower and a spy. Either way, nothing excuses Kerry's slanderous and despicable characterizations of a young man who, in my opinion, has done more than anyone in or out of government in this century to demonstrate his patriotism, moral courage and loyalty to the oath of office the three of us swore: to support and defend the Constitution of the United States."

[1]: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/daniel-...
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This is a minor hassle compared to the fairly significant cost savings. When I was a teen/early 20s I'd spend something like $50-100 per record store visit. I'd go at least quarterly, buy music at concerts, etc. I'd easily spend $500 or more annually in 1990s/early 2000's money. Discs were $12-15 for a very long time, singles were economically stupid, and dealing with crap like scratched discs or skipping in the car was the norm. Now, I'm paying $120 annually, in 2015 dollars, and every single song of that 30m library is available on my phone, which seamlessly connects to my car and other devices. I can also listen via the under-rated google music web player.

I don't know any young person without Google Music or Spotify. They're popular for a reason and not because we don't understand economics.
> Instead of constructively addressing these issues

LOL. Tell me the last time our Congress have constructively addressed anything...
It's certainly playing with fire, but I've never heard of anyone getting sick after eating a 24 hour old burrito stored at room temperature. This is assuming that it's a not a super burrito (no cheese, no sour cream, no avocado)
It looks like the author obtained the results using the banners obtained by using a scanning tool. For distributions like Ubuntu LTS or RedHat/CentOS, security fixes are backported to older versions of applications like Apache or PHP. For example RHEL 6 bundles PHP 5.3, but backports relevant security fixes.
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If he wrote the books half a lifetime ago?

What's a reasonable time, then? 10 years? 20? From when it was published, or when it was written? It can take years for a manuscript to move through editing, and many of our beloved classics did terribly their first run or two.

Is it anymore fair should a publishing house go all 90's Star Wars on works their stable of authors wrote a few decades after first publication, with the authors not seeing a penny from them?

75 to, what, 150 years may indeed be too much, but the answer is not so clear as to what the alternative should be.
>You can't even turn it off in the case that you don't want to use WebRTC.

In Firefox, you can easily disable it:

1) Type 'about:config' in your address bar

2) Set 'media.peerconnection.enabled' value to 'false'. (The Default value is 'true')
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Why? I know one should avoid "god objects" but if the class does a lot, many lines are needed, surely?
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Yup!

https://imgur.com/c0fPnNS
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Looks like NSA and GCHQ have always had their fingers in every pie they could get to. If I were a customer of Crypto AG, I'd have freaked out on my sales contact a long time ago, and probably not have done business with them, but if I hadn't back then, I certainly would now.
I still haven't been sold on Docker. Why would an otherwise competent company that runs things just fine, ditch it all and adopt Docker? Just because it's the shiny new thing? What do we actually gain here in production?
I don't think it's true that you can't change how bitcoin works. I'm no expert, but as I understand it, if more than half the network agrees with you, you can change it.

I think the main problem with bitcoin is that it doesn't scale, because every transaction has to be approved by the entire network. More payments and a bigger network means the number of validations goes up quadratically.
Better to just disable it from the about:config menu in my opinion, no need for an extension.

To do this In Firefox:

1) Type 'about:config' in your address bar

2) Set 'media.peerconnection.enabled' value to 'false'. (The Default value is 'true')
Allright, now somebody please hook this into a game of 2048 and let the machines show us how it' s done.
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Like every other American company?
I would guess that the cost of running the business is higher than their personal expenses. Whatever the benefits of basic income, the idea isn't to subsidize a business.
We've officially hit peak "the Internet is terrible".

Whenever I see rants like this I immediately look for what the author's solution is. In this case it's "why hasn't someone come up with a solution yet?"

I don't know what the answer is. I will admit I do consume a lot of free (as in beer) content on the Internet all the time. When I realized BuzzFeed was just clickbait years ago I ... stopped going there. You have that option.
Even if both sides use machines, that doesn't make it any worse than both sides using humans, on the contrary. But as I said, the wider consequences are a different matter.
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The security question (it's possible to break out of containers) isn't solved, and the workaround (use VMs) eliminates many of the advantages of containers and adds a massive burden.
Perhaps, but I ignore it for long enough until it rears its head again and I feel disappointed, like now...
Could we at-least use non-lethal weapons on humans ?
The security question (it's possible to break out of contains) isn't solved, and the workaround (use VMs) eliminates many of the advantages of containers and adds a massive burden.
@yodon - yep, surprised us too at first. But MS had a very strong hackathon sponsorship campaign last season (mentors, prizes, etc.) and that really does move the needle.
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"change half the network" doesn't meet any definition of democratic access to power that I am familiar with.

People don't need to do a turn on a garbage collection route to vote on how their municipal garbage service is run.
Are those cultivated genetically different than wild varieties? Because as far as I can tell, sugar content is wildly affected by photosynthesis, which varies wildly by farm vs wild conditions. I have even more strong doubts that artificial selection is the cause of this.
A couple of comments. Sorry you were let go, but that is just business, they need people with more experience and likely learned the hard way that they can't pay lower prices for less experience and expect things to work out. That really isn't a reflection on you or your abilities so much as it is on them for bad planning. So don't look at this as you failed them as much as they failed you and likely others.

As for what you do next. Take a few days and chill and have some fun, spend a little time brushing up your resume and start sending them out. There are a lot of positions available. Remember this, when you are applying for jobs you are selling yourself and what you can do for the company. So many times I interview developers and they don't realize that they need to sell themselves. I am not talking about being a sleazy used car salesman, but recognizing you have to tell people what you are capable of and be able to back it up with mastery of some set of skills.

Last point, you mentioned you are to early to have specialized. I totally disagree with this approach but others may have different opinions. I think you should specialize in a couple of key areas, generally for someone with 1-2 years experience I expect them to know a single language quite well, have a little knowledge of others and be able to do some data queries in SQL (or the database they have been using) etc. I want new hires to have some depth not as much breadth, it is important to get a wide span of knowledge, but it is even more important to go deep in a couple of areas. You have plenty of time to master multiple skills, but focus first as it makes you more valuable. For a web dev, I'd expect decent JS, css, and whatever their front end language is to be fairly mastered in terms of syntax and core coding. I wouldn't expect advanced topics like concurrency or nuances of debugging yet (unless they have been heavily mentored).

Good luck, you should have plenty of runway depending on where you are at in the country, and whether you are willing to relocate.
At the existing rate of consumption, you most certainly have to. At around 9 billion chicken, and 10 billion land animals in total raised and killed annually in the USA alone, the happy grazing cow, etc. is just a fantasy of an infinitesimally small number of people.
This is an infuriating response. They never own up to their own wrong doing, make very strong accusations.... which, I suppose we're suppose to take as truth because they're the authority?

Then they call for him to come back, and act like a fair trial is even possible.

I don't think there's anything Obama can do short of a complete pardon to fix this.

If we want a real resolution, I think we'll need wait until after 2016.
I'd expect the honey pots to require at least consent before incriminating someone. Successfully incriminating people based on an action that the "damaged" party forced them to do without even their consentiment is a bit too much to expect.

But then, I'm not completely insane. Laws often are.
> Users always talk that they would love to pay. The problem is, they never do.

Perhaps there are other reasons than not willing to. Say, for example, in Germany credit cards are not that common (other methods, like SEPA direct debit are used). Or they are in principle willing to pay, but not for the product that is offered (say, because of DRM or watermarks). Or they would pay, but don't trust their credit card number to some small, dubious website. Or they would pay, but are afraid of some hidden usage terms for the website that implies some kind of subscription (and thus future payments) that you don't want.

TLDR: There are lots of other reasons that can explain, why people would love to pay, but don't.
Relatedly:

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The pervasive surveillance activities of the government are one thing; one could kind of expect it in the absence of law or a constitution.

But it's not just that.

The deliberate activities to undermine, weaken, and even ban encryption and the very foundations for secure communications is just plain dirty. It's clear that the thrust of these programs was never the best interest of the public, but furtherance of espionage and surveillance.

But what is absolutely beyond the pale is the the deliberate construction of a wall secrecy with full cooperation of secret courts hidden behind a wall of lies with minimal oversight. This is not the functioning of a government that is trying to balance the rights of its citizens against security. It's a blatant attempt to construct an inner institution alien to democracy and alien to every single principle the United States was founded upon.

The endless prosecution of whistleblowers is one more thing. It's shown the government as a cabal who will use every weapon in its arsenal to fight those who would do anything to expose how corrupt and self-serving it's become.

Don't tell us to trust you. Why should we? We have no mechanisms to control or even influence this behemoth anymore.

Do they really think that Snowden would have made even a dent holding a sign in front the of White House or appearing on a news program? Seriously? Do they really think he would have _ever_ faced a trial by a jury of his peers?
When I moved to NYC I ended up using a broker. We saw like 10 apartments in an afternoon. I ended up liking one and had it by the end of the week. As it happened, before it was generally advertised and while it was still being renovated.

It turned out, the broker was working for the apartment owner, not for me. Once I had signed paperwork, I discovered that the renovations were done: the apartment was going to be as I had seen it, not as it was promised to me by the broker. No stainless steel appliances, no reflooring in the kitchen. I had read the lease carefully and thought of this possibility, but I thought, like you, that the broker was working for me.

As is, the incentives don't encourage brokers to work for renters: their only incentive is to place as many people in as little time as possible. Next time I shop for an apartment I'll do so with a real estate lawyer on call. If you have to have a lawyer to make sure someone provides service properly, maybe they aren't really providing you a service.
> all

Considering your emphasis, that's a bold claim. Simple to disprove with a single counter-example: Bittorrent does not communicate your internal IP to do its job
Like most, I originally assumed that because batteries have poor specific energy compared to fossil fuels, there was no point in considering them for aircraft.

But Musk's assertion has made me reconsider. Has anyone here done the math? What I think he's talking about is NOT a conventional plane with a battery simply replacing the gas tank, but instead essentially a flying battery, where 90% of the plane's mass is battery.

This sounds ridiculous at first, but when you consider how cheap electricity is compared to jet fuel, as well as the other benefits the OP mentioned, there might be something to it (for short-haul flights.)
Peanut oil can be somewhat nutty, but it's a very, very mild tasting oil. Precisely on that account, peanut oil is actually great on salads too, because it's not as overpowering as olive oil can be. No idea about avocado oil.
Through a system of billing specifically set up to make the production company end up deep in the red while the big "studio" rakes in the profits. AKA Hollywood accounting.

The system is rotten to the core, and copyright as a concept has been broken since the day someone could drop a couple of 100s on the table and walk out the door with the digital equivalent of a printing press.

Copyright basically hinges on the act of copying being a laborious process, involving large machinery and man-hours.

This because such requirements make all acts of copying for profit activities, to recoup the costs of the copying.

But when producing one additional copy is a case of ctrl-c ctrl-v, calculating the cost heads into "angels on the head of a pin" territory.
Maybe we have too much expectation that you can make money directly doing creative works? People talk about entitlement of users, but this should work both way - when building a small app you shouldn't feel entitled to make a lot of money off it. That people may not want to buy your offerings at the price you want them to buy is the basic feature of a free market.

On the other hand, I believe we need to have a serious conversation about business models. Things like spamming with ads, massive tracking and micropayments should not be encouraged. Ponzi schemes are profitable too, and so is slave labour, and there are various forms of these and other business models that are legal but still shunned by the society. And just like those, chunking up your games into million paid DLCs, abusing gullible parents or turning the entire Internet into an ad cesspoool should not be things a self-respecting, moral person would consider doing.
This, a thousand times. I'm on CentOS 6 and have switched to docker for some services that don't easily run on that OS. However, I found out the hard way that docker isn't supported on CentOS 6, by having some crashes when building containers (due to bugs in devicemapper). Painful.

I really wish RH had found the time to fix RHEL 6 and support docker.

RHEL 7/CentOS 7 is a big step for many. RHEL 6 isn't even near EOL and many people (including myself) wanted to get more mileage out of CentOS 6.
One thing is certain about the petition process, It has proven to be ineffectual and a complete farce unless it is about "Star Wars day" or "pardoning" a turkey in November.
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For comparison, see "Python Language Moratorium". I think its outcome was positive.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3003/
Trulia and Zillow both have Looking for Rent options. I wonder why would landlords go and try the other thing? Cheaper fees?
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Thanks for that. Yes, I was concerned with "specific energy" (energy per kg, not per m^3).
What are other companies going to think of my situation?

There's a specific language to hiring and firing. Make sure you get it right. They'll think it's quite bad if you say you were fired. Fired very specifically means you were told to leave for some sort of misconduct. You weren't fired - you were either layed-off or you were made redundant.
The tool used was our own scanner and it differentiates between package versions and 'upstream' versions. So when saying an older PHP version, it is about the upstream version, not the package version. There were many hosters that hadn't installed the latest security releases of e.g. RedHat, but I only included when they were on an unsupported release.
You could easily download a few chunks from the clients to verify that they are sharing copyrighted works without ever uploading anything to them.
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I find comments like this to be sorta akin to putting your fingers in your ears and screaming "lalalalala I can't hear you!".

Whenever people say "free" in the context of information exchange, my belief is that they fundamentally misunderstand the nature of information. Information is a proxy for power, and the power comes from asymmetry. If everyone has a level playing field from an information access perspective, you cease to have functioning markets of exchange. The essential point of business is information arbitrage (I know something you don't know so I can buy low and sell high) and free access to information is antithetical to that view.

In short, everyone remembers the first half of that quote: "information wants to be free..." but conveniently forgets the second part: "... But information also wants to be expensive".

There is no "free exchange of information". It is always subsidized by the rich and powerful (no part of the internet's infrastructure is "free" and therefore any "free" exchange of information is a form of charity).

That is to say, it's hard for me to tell people to give up the information which is, in effect, their livelihood.
Maybe Google should do product placement in movies like Apple does:
http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-product-placements-in-t...

* Apple's marketing chief, Phil Schiller, said that "One of Apple's employees works closely with Hollywood on so-called product placement so its gadgets are used in movies and television shows.
Very few ML experts on that list I'm sure.
But at the same time, I'm rather against autonomous weapon systems. Yet not as naive to think that modern armies will ignore the benefits of machine intelligence.

If you think about it, the US has not even ratified the Nuclear weapons testing ban treaty. I doubt it will ever consider an AI weapons ban.
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Strong second for Evans blog. I love that blog.
>It's a stream-oriented format. There are no file-global offsets or lengths. There are some relative lengths and offsets, but they're going to be 8 or 16 bit values. Most of the tests you're suggesting don't look particularly useful.

I don't think that streaming vs file is relevant. The deflate algorithm (stream) may have no global knowledge of the eventual file size but the gzip file format does.

Anyways, even with a cursory google search, we can find a compression bug related to file sizes:

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6419239

As for an example of streaming bugs, zlib's creator Mark Adler reported that Microsoft coded its deflate implementation incorrectly.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/11435898

The lesson is that re-implementing even well-known algorithms such as zlib/gzip/pkzip is not trivial.
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There are many ways to support content creators who distribute via the web, such as Flattr ( https://flattr.com ) and Google Contributor (as nandhp mentioned). Patreon is becoming popular too ( https://www.patreon.com ).

As for music, my personal favourite site is Bandcamp, aside from having an interesting mix of music I believe it has a model that's good for artists and fans alike ( https://bandcamp.com ).
The articles you cite doesn't really disprove my comment.

> But what about the lending organizations on the ground—should they close up shop? Karlan says no. They're doing exactly what they promised to investors: making money and creating some good while they’re at it. For instance, the studies also found that, in Mexico, microcredit helped women pay off their debts.

Besides my main point is that yes things suck, but we can always find ways to either fix it or make it suck less and less over time. I'm not stuck on any particular solution.
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On these points, what are you comparing Docker to? Using bridged networking, you have pretty much the exact same situation with Docker as without. And just because you're running processes with Docker doesn't mean you have to keep up with dozens of tools for automatic clustering and whatnot. If you want to just start your processes manually, or with Ansible or Makefiles or whatever, you can do that.
>This sounds cool, but why would we want to do that? We’ve done without for years. More importantly, end users have done without for years, and are quite used to a slight delay when they load another page.

People were used to dying of typhoid, too.
TL;DR It's too damn complicated if you're not Google/Twitter/Netflix. Most people would be fine just deploying OS packages and keeping their stacks as simple as possible.