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Drive by attacks in that context does not mean wireless. It means exactly what you think is not the case: That just by being in the Internet you are vulnerable. Exploits like http://www.computerworld.com/article/2488674/malware-vulnera... get patched in Windows 7+, but they stay as a gaping hole in your OS. Nothing you described helps just a bit against that.

> My version of Flash is a bit old and, that means that Flash never runs except when I explicitly permit it to run, and I only do that on no doubt fairly safe Web sites.

That does not help. There were flash-exploits for which the click to activate function of browsers were useless against.

> I have a copy of Office 2003 -- with lots of patches, and that's fine with me.

Office 2003 is not supported anymore as well and might contain equally big security bugs (I did not look that up). You open word documents with it, you might be infected.

If you want to stay on a secure system for years where the UI does not change, you will have to migrate to Linux with one of the custom Window Managers like Openbox.
For a competing anecdote, most of my friends who've read the books say they ended up skimming most of the Bombadil section and found it quite boring.

I suspect Bombadil is disproportionately popular among the people who like to critique what they read compared to the general public.
Not charging for all customer-to-customer or customer-to-cache traffic is pretty neutral. In cable networks, customer-to-customer traffic may increase congestion rather than reducing it, though.
But the U.S. builds some bases pretty close to China's coasts... To be fair, some of those island bases in Asia are used for the CIA torture program, so its purported purpose is probably not aggression towards China.
Are you able to succinctly definite that 'work' that you are referring to?
"In each case, Newman and Chiasson were several steps removed from the original leak, receiving the inside information only after it had been first relayed between at least two or three other people."
> Farming is a massive geonegineering experiment, but it was one that was run many thousands of years ago.

Industrial farming at scale is much newer than that. This is like claiming that GHG is from "many thousands of years ago" because people made wood fires back then.

> It has changed the entire planet, but the difference with our more recent GHG experiment is one of scale.

Yes, and if you asked me for a guess I'd say the scale of the farming "experiment" is much greater. I'm interested to hear reasons you believe the opposite is true, not just an assertion.

> We massively underestimate the effect that all these GHG will have.

We do? Are you saying that you understand the true future effect of one change to a very complex non-linear system?

> On top of this we are only about 10% of the way into the GHG experiment

Similar to the last point, but this should be followed by "according to [Researchers'] model" and not left as a plain assertion.

> the world will not be a pretty place once we get to 1200 ppm CO2.

Please name the model or whatever logical progression you are using to arrive at this idea, too.
> Quite significant that Bell Labs Unix alums don't want to put up with C any more and actively purge it from their tree?

Go is quite literally written by the people who invented C, wrote C, and made it what it is today. (Ken Thompson wrote one of the first commits to the language).

The reason for purging C from the Go toolchain is that it makes it harder for Go developers to contribute. Go developers already all know Go (by definition) - why make them use a language that they may not know as well in order to contribute back to the project?

Furthermore, mixing C code with Go code can cause performance issues if not done right. While you can expect the official project to "do it right", this still raises the bar for people who know Go and want to contribute, but don't know C as well.

And frankly, I don't think it's that significant to say that they don't want to write C anymore. C was a great language for its time, and it still is a great language in many ways. But it's almost half a century old; it would be more surprising if after almost 50 years they couldn't write a language that they prefer even more!
I believe my first exposure to Turtle was via a Logo cartridge for the C64.
Good heavens - 'ransom strips'[1] in software. I had no idea.

Best of luck with it all...

[1] http://www.rics.org/uk/knowledge/glossary/ransom-strips/
Avira always seems to be at the top of the charts on http://www.av-comparatives.org/. I have used it for years without issue.
OP here. I actually updated the blog to add another picture of the Foldy Quad vs. H Quad at 45 degree angle[1]. At 45 degree+ it does have a nice aerodynamic advantage. Of course, even cooler would be to encase the entire midsection into a ball, it could be like a tiny Death Star quad :)

As for the additional point of failure, I do agree, in a crash, the plastic bolts holding on the arms snap, but I think that adds a little more protection to the motors, the arms, and the ESCs. I never had the screws come off mid flight. It does take longer to recover from a crash though, but plastic screws are cheep.

[1] http://sdbr.net/img/foldy-2/fodly-v-hquad.jpg
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I wonder how they get those values, considering bandwidth limit parameters can vary depending on contracts even when it is happening to identical networks...

(Perhaps some UI allows users to to put this info, similar to Android settings?)
She's good! You should have her write all your copy.
Because in recent times building a base isn't used to justify ownership of all the surrounding sea's (and where that is done it's because we/they previously owned that island, like the Falklands).

Creating an island out of thin air and then claiming the territory around it is 1 step short of Sealand.

That said no we aren't perfect and we did stuff like this as well but two wrongs in this case don't make a right, this is nothing but a very destabilising move.
"ridiculously well-served already with regards to delivering packages" ... is this the locker? If not, Im curious ! More plz!
> We grabbed a string out of CodeMirror, read it via tools.reader into persistent data structures, passed it into the ClojureScript analyzer, constructed an immutable AST, passed that AST to the compiler, and generated JavaScript source with inline source maps and eval'ed the result. All of this happened inside of your web browser.

This is just fantastic! As David himself mentions - this might not be extremely pragmatic but it sure as hell as cool. For me it means that I can get back to writing my web-based Clojure book without being dependent on Himera[0], which although great, is really hard to work with.

Awesome work by @swannodette and team!

[0] - https://himera.herokuapp.com/index.html
Can I call horseshit on HN again? The Strait of Malacca (which is close by) would be on par with the Panama Canal or Suez. The South China Sea is not a transit point for goods in the same manner, and is not as important.

When you look at China's claims in comparison with everyone else's claims, (especially Vietnam's), it does not look that outlandish, and everyone in the region effectively wants to be able to say "these are our waters you're passing through." The actors in this region are not as innocent as you would think they are.

http://pages.stolaf.edu/asiaforecast2014/portfolio/sino-viet...

You have to trace back to Japanese actions before WWII and look at the geopolitical insecurity of these countries in order to understand these motivations, and then recognize that China does what it does because it does not think that the powers-that-be will be able or willing to defend its economic interests in the future. The only reason why China seems scary is because it would appear as if it can actually build up and defend its claims, unlike everyone else, but even then, it doesn't have a blue water navy like the United States. They can't instigate an area denial attack on these claims without strangling their own economy either, so it's kind of a tempest in a teapot.
Just going on the record , I am not against systemd or redhat or Samsung . Even though my comment was hypothetically, it is good strategy for software company to hunt projects by recruiting main maintainer of project you can change project direction.

> and I'm very happy that they care about touch, thanks to them using the touchscreen on my new laptop has been a pleasure.

finally , after some years I met first person who use gnome touch . Honestly do you use it in your production system ? what is your system specification ? Do you encounter any lag when you using it heavily ? (in my spare time I have done android development on gnome 3+ , which was absolute nightmare , 50+ tab in chrome , VM , IDE , almost 6GB of my 8GB was used all the time , in this situation gnome 3 ridiculous _in my opinion_ animations was torture/painful for me. I changed it to xfce .

>at the moment there's no risk that the company will drag these projects where their maintainers don't want to go

This was not my point.
sounds reasonable.. thanks
Care to share why you think this is good?
I don't support SOPA. I do think that a law similar the the DMCA should continue to exist. However, I would like to see it amended to protect user rights to inspect and modify the software/hardware that they purchase. I would be interested to hear how the law could be structured to allow remixes (releasing a patched version of Skype, mixing a Taylor Swift video, etc.), but I think that gets more complicated.

I do think that it is reasonable to ask that people building automated tools also build automated tools to comply with the law. For example, Grooveshark ought to enforce not just individual DMCA requests against a particular entry in their database, but should be expected to use a content hash of some sort to avoid trivial circumvention of the law. This is technically trivial, and is not an onerous requirement. Google could easily apply similar tools, and to some extent they already do.

When those automated tools are not possible (for example, when running a Tor relay), the organization running the infrastructure should be absolved of all responsibilities related to data that passes through, but is not observable to them. This is a very logical outcome of the DMCA, because if traffic is not observable, no take down request can be reasonably made.

Lastly, I think that while the Google's and Reddit's of the world ought to have no legal responsibility to police truly harmful content -- ISIS videos, or /r/coontown -- they should, as good citizens of the web, do so anyway.
I'd say start with Babel-17. It's short, exciting, and dense with both lyricism and great ideas. The first book of his I read was Dhalgren though, and though I couldn't really break into it until the third try, once I did it was amazing, like no other book I've read before or since.
No, that's not at the correct level of abstraction. And even then - you may need that idle headroom for latency.
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I think the email in question starts on p3 of http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/files/library/2003Jangat...
I guess I should provide a fuller quote for context: "Whether disclosure is a breach of duty therefore depends in large part on the purpose of the disclosure. This standard was identified by the SEC itself in Cady, Roberts: a purpose of the securities laws was to eliminate 'use of inside information for personal advantage.' 40 S.E. C., at 912, n. 15. See n. 10, supra. Thus, the test is whether the insider personally will benefit, directly or indirectly, from his disclosure. Absent some personal gain, there has been no breach of duty to stockholders. And absent a breach by the insider, there is no derivative breach."

There is a fiduciary duty of care, though that has mostly to with care in the execution of corporate policies and transactions. I do not know how that has been interpreted in the context of information security.

The reasoning of Dirks seems to be that the relevant duty is the duty of loyalty, because the purpose of the law is to eliminate the "use of insider information for personal gain." So while copying sensitive information into a USB may breach one's duty of care, it's not a breach of the duty of loyalty and not within the scope of the law.
There are some services out there that have a model I really like. You deliver packages to your mailbox with them, and, when you're ready they deliver it to you in roughly an hour window. e.g. Parcel, Doorman
Looked at from a different light, if we had more things like this, on by default, it could force ISPs to remove their caps, or at least raise them significantly.

I'd really like to know if the current caps, low as they are, are there for a very good technical reason, or if it's just to protect existing old media outlets. It certainly feel like the later here in Canada.
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The whole design is a ripoff of Laravel.
You don't have to be an asshole
I get it guys. Learning new things is cool. Being really good at what you do is cool.

But please, if someone has a genuine question or problem (especially if you work with them), take some time out of your day to stop being a 1337 h4x0r long enough to be helpful. Or, if you don't have time, just say you don't have time.

Not everyone was working with that API for the last 8 hours like you. Not everyone has the 5, 10, 15 years experience you do. Why does everyone feel like they need to bleed 1337ness from their pores? I'd appreciate it so much more if instead of saying "look what I can do" we started saying "look how easy this is".

But hey, I'm just the dumb engineer you have to help out.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ghost-Fleet-Novel-Next-World/dp/0544...

Read that last week, it's a about a future war between the US and the Chinese, it's bordering on sci-fi but interesting nonetheless and a good read.

Interestingly it posits a future where the US economy is in major trouble as the reason why the US Navy has been severely downsized, they had to do that since the current US Navy vs the current PLA Navy while horrific wouldn't be remotely a fair fight.
NYC employees cost ~$107,000/year [1]. They probably calculated that it take about 6 people months of labor to manually transcribe the data into an Excel spreadsheet (e.g. six people for a month, or whatever).

[1] Or did, on average, a few years ago. Regardless, this is close enough for our purposes. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/nyregion/09salaries.html?_...
Possibly not if they're solar or hybrid powered, fuel efficient, and have large enough fuel stores. A plane recently flew around the entirety of the earth without stopping so it's certainly conceivable to fly half way around the planet and back again.
The release notes mention the new Go compiler is about 2x slower than the old C based one. It also mentions there's ongoing work to improve this. I wonder if there are any estimates on how close to the original performance they think they can get. Do they expect to reach parity by, say, 1.6 or will it always be slower?

For my tiny hobby projects, compile times aren't an issue at all so I'm asking purely out of curiosity.
Why on earth isn't LAN only the default.
How about adding features back to customize the browing experience? Mozilla was always about built inside customizations.

Stop copying Chrome! Because of your actions i am using now Vivaldi! But... If you ever decide to support power users again with something which does NOT require add-on installation and includes more advanced UI customization, i MAY be perhaps reconsidering my decision.

But not one single minute earlier!

Btw. I even know some professionals who are running PC shops who have abandoned Firefox and are refusing to install it on client's computers! Because of Australis, because of Pocket, Chat, Social Media, DRM, handling of the Brendan Eich case!

Please.... bring at least back the option to combine address bar and tabs! or an optional add-on bar.

But most important, stop copying Chrome and stop only serving the simple users. Because in the end it has been the advertising and support of Power users which did push you to the heights during Firefox versions 20-24! This group earns to get back a certain respect from you, and right now you are constantly asskicking that user group for no real sense making reason!

Time to abandon your recent minimalist and design centered way of thinking and time to go back to your roots... to a more customizable and unique experience which you served the user base in the past.

Mozilla right now is on a very terrible road. If you do not want it to become even more terrible, you really have to go back a big part of the way!
Microsoft has been working on something like that for years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background_Intelligent_Transfe...
> To suggest wages in general have stagnated isn't true

This is false.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/09/incomes

http://www.epi.org/publication/charting-wage-stagnation/

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/10/09/for-most-wor...

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/09/17/223374331/the-s...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/31/w...
I agree. Also another benefit is that people interested in Go and not in C can now contribute to compiler itself.
Because supposed western superiority which can never be reached by red bears in ushankas or pandas with bamboo sticks. Except when its Larry and Sergei/etc..., but thats different because those are visionaries fleeing repressive regimes ^^. Nevermind that Bush and Clinton dynasties, amongst the others are ruling the US, and have killed millions (Bush in Iraq) with no mandate from the UN. Read "House of Bush, house of Saud" for details.

Put in google images "Grozny, Chechnya or Tibet" and see new modern cities. Now put "Baghdad, Iraq or Kabul, Afganistan". See the difference? Vast majority of burgers can't.
Yup, it's a copy http://i.imgur.com/0B3qCRS.png
Good to momentum is still growing with the arm64 port, I remember a year ago it was looking like it may never happen.

https://twitter.com/maver/status/496376555237806080

but in Feb the story changed and with this release it's well on it's way to a full port.

https://twitter.com/davecheney/status/567621293109821440
When I first heard of statmuse I had your same question, best I could come up with is "Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases"[1]. If anyone knows more about this I'd be curious to hear about it.

[1]http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol8/p73-li.pdf

Edit:

Since this got brought up again I've been searching around a little more and found c-phrase, which looks similar.

https://code.google.com/p/c-phrase/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWio8bHq4wQ
I'm just happy that other people are as fascinated by Tom Bombadil as I've always been.
But we operate by 2 sets of mutually exclusive rule sets.

One rule, printed on signs, says the maximum speed is 45 MPH.

One rule, stored only in tribal knowledge, says the maximum speed is 54 MPH.

We choose which rule to obey to optimize our state - increase desired effects while decreasing undesired effects. We will obey the 2nd rule most of the time, as it decreases our travel time to our destination.

We will obey the first rule selectively, as it will generally increase our travel time, but will reduce interaction with Law Enforcement individuals, which can both increase our travel time (as they process a traffic stop paperwork) and possibly incur a monetary penalty, which is also undesired.

So do we program self-driving cars to evaluate the proximity of LEO and change rulesets appropriately?
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"Duty" in this context refers to corporate fiduciary duties. There is a "duty of care" but mere negligence (and usually even gross negligence, without something more) does not violate that duty. The conclusion of the Supreme Court in Dirks is that information is leaked in violation of some duty if and only if it has been leaked for personal gain.

Newman follows from that assumption: breach of duty requires personal gain, so you cannot know duty has been breached unless you know there was personal gain. If you don't know there was personal gain, you can't tell simple negligent disclosure apart from breach of duty. And if you don't know about the violation of the duty, you can't be held liable for violating it derivatively as a tipee.
I heard mention of single core and Im, afraid its already too late. Projects that start single core and get advanced enough are very difficult to convert, if not impossible without a total rewrite.
OK, thanks. My wife has just bought a cheap Nokia 103 (she's used Nokias for ages) and I was surprised that it had Bluetooth. It showed up on the laptop I was using at the time, but I couldn't find any way to connect to it. (They didn't pair.)

I checked and it did have Bluetooth on the Nokia 103 menu.
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Shame [Wittgenstein] doesn't get more recognition for his great work in logic.

Which great work in logic did W. produce?

He is known for some inchoate criticisms, e.g. he doesn't like Cantor's diagonal proof, but none of his criticisms have -- as far as I'm aware, lead anywhere interesting in logic.
Init has no idea of the screen brightness.. that 's just another thing the author pull out from his back-passage. a separate service systemd-backlight@.service(8) saves and restores the backlight state, because firmware does not remember it or if it does, it is buggy.
As a Gentoo user we're gonna have terrible dependency problems for the next few years. Specifically VLC and Qt.

Somebody at Redmond is laughing at the OSS community for failing to provide functionality that comes out of the box on the latest Windows systems.
> I wonder if there are any estimates on how close to the original performance they think they can get. Do they expect to reach parity by, say, 1.6 or will it always be slower?

I imagine that's just a side-effect of rewriting the entire compiler; I'd expect the next versions to improve on the speed.

Though in the meantime, if compilation time is an issue, you can always try gccgo. On my larger projects, it's slightly faster than gc 1.5. YMMV, obviously.
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That does not solve it. A little technical response to your comment. The linked wikipedia page describes how TCP detects appropriate and safe bandwidth to use for transmission using 2 main techniques:
1. Detection of how long it takes to receive a round trip ACK message
2. Detection of dropped packets

Neither of those mechanisms guarantee that the client bandwidth has negligible effect on upstream data links or the bandwidth of other clients sharing those connections. The detection mechanisms are completely self focused on achieving the highest rate of transmission possible and correcting any changes to network reliability over time. They cannot create a reliable picture of overall bandwidth or the exact impact on other clients.
Yeah but the rule isn't "if this doesn't happen everything is fine", rather "if this happens, something's probably wrong".