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In his MIT talk he mentioned that the facility will be able to hold up to 100 years worth of information. I am not sure if it was for Americans or just the sum total of everyone.

Did you read the article?

"However, critics were skeptical of the reassurances, because large quantities of internet data is represented by music and video sharing, or large file transfers – content which is easy to identify and dismiss without entering it into systems. Therefore, the NSA could be picking up a much larger percentage of internet traffic that contains communications and browsing activity.

Journalism professor and internet commentator Jeff Jarvis noted: "[By] very rough, beer-soaked-napkin numbers, the NSA's 1.6% of net traffic would be half of the communication on the net. That's one helluva lot of 'touching'."

The only thing that I know off that might be similar is the Freedombox.

https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/

"TPP organizers are going to incredible lengths to lock citizens out of these negotiations—when talks recently took place in Vancouver, Canada’s trade ministry instituted what amounted to a media blackout, even refusing to tell journalists in which part of town the talks were taking place. TPP documents are top secret—unless you’re one of just 600 big industry lobbyists invited to take part."

[1] http://www.straight.com/news/402631/big-medias-push-extreme-...

Apparently even government MPs (Canada) do not have access to the documents, but 600 lobbyists do. Wow can it be any more underhanded.

"To Mr. Lazaridis, a life-long tinkerer who had built an oscilloscope and computer while in high school, the iPhone was a device that broke all the rules. The operating system alone took up 700 megabytes of memory, and the device used two processors. The entire BlackBerry ran on one processor and used 32 MB. Unlike the BlackBerry, the iPhone had a fully Internet-capable browser. That meant it would strain the networks of wireless companies like AT&T Inc., something those carriers hadn’t previously allowed. RIM by contrast used a rudimentary browser that limited data usage."

“I said, ‘How did they get AT&T to allow [that]?’ Mr. Lazaridis recalled in the interview at his Waterloo office. “ ‘It’s going to collapse the network.’ And in fact, some time later it did.”

You have to give them at least a little bit of forgiveness for having to deal with AT&T/Verizon for so many years. I guess the constraints by their partners never allowed them to innovate.

I think people are really underestimating where things like perception computing are going. Something Intel is also invested in.

But maybe people start looking at which jobs require using a computer to get essential work done vs. not needing one and therefore not using it. If people really think that entire generations of people are not going to need computers to do work are seriously mistaken, especially in BRIC/developing countries. I don't think the question really is are PC dying, the question should what the hell can I do with the ~$1000 machine other than look at cat pictures. We can thank Microsoft mostly for that. Seriously I think people really underestimate how turned off the entire industry is from Windows 8, especially when they need to upgrade the only reasonable choice is Apple.

Remember Apple is the only company that is actually increasing sales to laptops(MBA models). Clearly there is a market it's just not being served by current parties.

I guess what I really mean was exponential increase in gains.

"These solar cells are used in concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), a technology which achieves more than twice the efficiency of conventional PV power plants in sun-rich locations. The terrestrial use of so-called III-V multi-junction solar cells, which originally came from space technology, has prevailed to realize highest efficiencies for the conversion of sunlight to electricity. In this multi-junction solar cell, several cells made out of different III-V semiconductor materials are stacked on top of each other. The single subcells absorb different wavelength ranges of the solar spectrum."

If that isn't a reason to be investing in Space, I don't know what is.

"This world record increasing our efficiency level by more than 1 point in less than 4 months..."

I think we may start to see Moore's Law starting to be applied to Solar Cells. Which actually reminds of a chart on the waves of innovation[1] on the Stanford Tech Entrepreneurship course where we are now seeing the tail of IT and computing and beginning of renewable technologies. The same thing can be said about energy density of batteries(According to Tesla batteries).

[1] Page 5 https://d2d6mu5qcvgbk5.cloudfront.net/documents/original/69b...

You must watch this movie.

It's pretty eye opening what Google and Facebook have automatically gotten us to agree to with their privacy policies. And from the movie show a pretty lacking responsibility to the users who give up their data not knowing what's happening to it.

I can't believe no one looks at Guantanomo Bay and giving free reign to secretly killed supposedly accused people of crimes may/may not have committed without any recourse.

I think many here anyway can agree that Guantanomo Bay needs to be shutdown, but obviously won't be. What if later down the line we need to decide that the power has gotten out of control(if it hasn't already) and needs to be shut down. But can't because the terrorists win.

"The owners in this country know the truth, it's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it." - George Carlin.

Exactly, anything that scales up to large, especially to fast ends up becoming an inefficient and uncontrollable behemoth. Take a look at any corporation(ie. Microsoft, HP, IBM) or governments(USG, China vs. Canada, Poland, Finland) or media (News, MTV, Cable) where large entities cannot function efficiently and only get worse as they become larger.

The only thing that works is some sort of self-organizing nature that similar to the way biological organisms form, which then end up creating neuron/brain like structures which form higher intelligence. Take a look at the universe, there is an interesting talk on how the Internet is starting to show that phenomenon, it's appearing more and more like a brain and may be starting to show some signs intelligence.

Take a look at this post from LinuxCon2013(it's not about Linux).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6425227

They also do a lot of hiring of interns from universities. Namely the one I go to, and unfortunately I know some of them and they are terrible engineers. I don't know how much that could hurt the company, but it has to cost them something. Even though they get tax breaks for those interns.

From the gist of the incredible difficult to decipher training manual there are 4 systems. Overview of network topology is here: http://i.imgur.com/gzw6nAT.png

1) ADMF-Client & Infection GUI

These seem to be HP Compaq computers, running Windows 7 Ultimate, FinFlyISP GUI and a XMPP client(which runs over TLS and is secure). This is a tool for LEA to use which interfaces with the ADMF backend for managing infections, selection of infection methods, realtime status info and management of all components.

2) ADMF - Central Administration Function

This is the backend which all the LEA terminals in 1 connect to. These are HP DL380 G6 Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz servers running hardened Debian(by Dreamlab best practices). It is a core component of their infrastructure and communicates in realtime with all their other component systems. It stores the configuration and initiation of infections. Realtime exchange of info and states(target coming online, being infected, etc.) Contains RFC XMPP used for secure encrypted communications.

3) Network Data processing component (iProxy/NDP01/NDP02)

Infections are remotely activated by ADMF in 2 via the GUI. Each NDP is bridged with 10GB/s fiber bypass module. Incase of hardware/logical failures this module switches automatically to by-pass mode. Thus traffic will never be interrupted. ATTENTION this is highly dynamic bridge, do not change any configuration manually. NDP has been specially configured for his network, any changes are tightly coordinated with Dreamlab.

4) Radius Probe(RP01/RP02)

Realtime monitoring of AAA processes which include:

1. Targets coming online

2. Receiving IP Addresses

3. Changing IP Addresses

4. Going offline

Recording of RADIUS authentications and accounting dialogues. Being always up to date of target IP RP sends info to ADMF, the ADMF provisions the NDP. Running same hardware/OS as 3. The RPs have bidirectional connection with broadband remote access server(BRAS) [1] which are what connect to the global internet from a ISPs network. BRAS aggregrates user sessions from access network. This is where ISPs can inject policy management and QOS. Aggregrates DSLAM connections from locally dispersed in an ISP area network.

Communications Visualized

The slide explains that communication of all components always is initiated towards the ADMF.

http://i.imgur.com/qOQfVYd.png

Use Cases

1. GUI->ADMF [Infect a target]

2. ADMF->Radius prove [Start monitoring/set a trap on target]

3. Radius->ADMF->NDP/iProxy [Handover of IP]

4. iProxy->NDP [iProxy requests NDP to analyse datastream on IP and "interesting" traffic]

5. NDP->iProxy [Handover traffic matching request]

6. iProxy [changes traffic and modifies data by adding infection parts]

7. iProxy->NDP [iProxy sends modified traffic data to NDP]

8. NDP Reinject [NDP recalculates checksums/resequences TCP/IP packets and reinjects traffic into the stream]

9. Target infection done [Data successfully sent to target]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_Remote_Access_Server

I want to learn Vim, but I cannot even dream to remember even the most primitive commands.

One of the most craziest things from the talk is how researchers were able to take millions of random images put them into a perception algorithm that would try to find a pattern in all the images and it created a very ironic and interesting image, inferring that the collective Internet has some intelligence.

http://youtu.be/j0fkrJgmQxs?t=27m2s

Why don't you leave Canada, go live in Arizona or Utah.

Have you read the Charter of Rights of Freedom, you know that law the entire country including Quebec is suppose to follow. I mean your to busy undermining the values of the country so you can have your own crappy value system. Why don't you people go live somewhere else like France where this sorta thing is so popular and productive.

Doesn't seem like the rest of Canada agrees with you. And I'd argue letting Quebec do whatever the fuck they want is the reason this is an issue in the first place.

Cognitive dissonance to the max.

Why though?

I mean I am an Indian who emigrated here, athiest now.

But honestly what difference does it make. Do we want to live in a society where we have to concious about what religious symbol offended who.

I find incredibly hypocritical that Quebec doesn't want a "Canadian" identity, they want their own. Yet they will prevent you from having our own identity. Since when was the state responsible for culture and identity. I thought that was for the people.....

Unfortuately people are very risk averse here, and like many VCs(according to PG) they don't exactly understand the tech their investing in. I guess SV or the US in general have investor class that can take risks.

Personally for political reasons I will stay in Canada, but finding investors for my startup is going to be difficult.

Lucikly Intel will save the day for me.(fingers crossed).

Some things I have been able to dig up.

In his final report to Parliament, commissioner Robert Decary says some of the spying at Communications Security Establishment Canada may have affected Canadians in the past year. However, thanks to poor record-keeping, Mr. Decary – a retired judge who has been the agency’s independent watchdog since 2010 – said he can’t be sure.[1]

CSEC is forbidden from intentionally collecting or analyzing information from Canadian citizens in Canada or abroad. However, the National Defence Act allows the defence minister to give CSEC written ministerial authorization to intercept private communications unintentionally while collecting foreign-signals intelligence.[1]

Doesn't this contradict with the Canadian Privacy Act?

Yet, while Mr. Binney compliments the surveillance acumen of Communications Security Establishment Canada, he also urged the Canadian public to scrutinize CSEC – especially given its long-standing close ties to the NSA. “They have integrated reps,” he said, referring to how the agencies swap personnel. He pointed out that they also share technology, such as a very powerful, recently revealed Internet-surveillance tool, code-named “XKeyscore.” “CSEC does not direct its activities at Canadians and is prohibited by law from doing so,” its chief, John Forster, said in a rare public statement. Yet, records recently obtained by The Globe show that CSEC has been developing its own secretive programs to “incidentally” monitor at least some Canadian telecommunications traffic.[2]

Some of Mr. Snowden’s leaks speak to the NSA’s close relationship with CSEC – suggesting, for example, that the two agencies teamed up to spy on foreign diplomats at a 2009 G20 meeting in London, and may have also been in cahoots to install a back door to spy on encrypted messages on the Internet in 2006.[2]

At the time, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment ran the standards process for the international organization, but classified documents describe how ultimately the N.S.A. seized control. “After some behind-the-scenes finessing with the head of the Canadian national delegation and with C.S.E., the stage was set for N.S.A. to submit a rewrite of the draft,” the memo notes. “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor.”[3]

So CSEC was being coerced by NSA and completely gave up control. Although I can respect the apparent "restraint" Canadian government has, but clearly system can be abused and will stay way under the radar compared to NSA and GHCQ. [1]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/watchdog-says-s... [2]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/beware-of-data-spy... [3]http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announce

In his final report to Parliament, commissioner Robert Decary says some of the spying at Communications Security Establishment Canada may have affected Canadians in the past year. However, thanks to poor record-keeping, Mr. Decary – a retired judge who has been the agency’s independent watchdog since 2010 – said he can’t be sure.[1] CSEC is forbidden from intentionally collecting or analyzing information from Canadian citizens in Canada or abroad. However, the National Defence Act allows the defence minister to give CSEC written ministerial authorization to intercept private communications unintentionally while collecting foreign-signals intelligence.[1] Doesn't this contradict with the Canadian Privacy Act? Yet, while Mr. Binney compliments the surveillance acumen of Communications Security Establishment Canada, he also urged the Canadian public to scrutinize CSEC – especially given its long-standing close ties to the NSA. “They have integrated reps,” he said, referring to how the agencies swap personnel. He pointed out that they also share technology, such as a very powerful, recently revealed Internet-surveillance tool, code-named “XKeyscore.” “CSEC does not direct its activities at Canadians and is prohibited by law from doing so,” its chief, John Forster, said in a rare public statement. Yet, records recently obtained by The Globe show that CSEC has been developing its own secretive programs to “incidentally” monitor at least some Canadian telecommunications traffic.[2] Some of Mr. Snowden’s leaks speak to the NSA’s close relationship with CSEC – suggesting, for example, that the two agencies teamed up to spy on foreign diplomats at a 2009 G20 meeting in London, and may have also been in cahoots to install a back door to spy on encrypted messages on the Internet in 2006.[2] At the time, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment ran the standards process for the international organization, but classified documents describe how ultimately the N.S.A. seized control. “After some behind-the-scenes finessing with the head of the Canadian national delegation and with C.S.E., the stage was set for N.S.A. to submit a rewrite of the draft,” the memo notes. “Eventually, N.S.A. became the sole editor.”[3] So CSEC was being coerced by NSA and completely gave up control. Although I can respect the apparent "restraint" Canadian government has, but clearly system can be abused and will stay way under the radar compared to NSA and GHCQ. [1]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/watchdog-says-s.... [2]http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/beware-of-data- [3]http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/government-announce

My only response is...so. So far it's nowhere near justified.

And I just get through reading some scary stuff about what Canadian spooks are doing. Had to dig for it, well since nobody cares about Canada.

Vala and Python code compiled to generated C code (gobject) seems like interesting option.

Plus all these generated systems are standard and thus you can have different languages linking each other.

I never really understood why people needed identities on the Internet.

I never had one, I mean I didn't have too many friends and wasn't very popular. I cannot say for sure how cyber-bullying affects people, well because maybe I just missed the era where elementary/highschool kids really engaged on the net.

I think I have spent more time on the Internet that anyone in a square mile, maybe more. But I opened a facebook account and I don't even have a profile picture. I never really found it interesting, because people are super boring.

As a Canadian, where I think beer has a more logical percentage ;) I agree.

I've been to Utah and see what kind of nonsense they do with beer.

It's kind of interesting. I typically expected a shallow world to actually have a decent taste in beauty. But when I look at many celebrities, I find a serious lack of physical attraction to any of them. Like sure there are actresses that I can respect and admire, but many of them lack any talent, or even modicum of depth.

And I always wonder, wherever I go I see young attractive women everywhere, and I go to a university where Liberal arts is the focus, so where are all the attractive actresses.

I haven't tried Rust, but what about considering Python for embedded targets?

Is it that the language won't fit, or us embedded people are just too masochistic to find something easier.

You can use something like py2llvm to compile using the same system that Rust uses and get fairly good performance. I am working on this project actually.

What happens when you compile your code into C, like how Vala is done, which now supports Python, Java and I think functional languages like Haskell and Clojure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QrGmA_RR4E

What happens when you can compile Python using LLVM for embedded targets like Cortex-M CPUs?

I like C as much as the next guy, but I know how deeply complex, verbose and difficult it can be to program and debug it.

I don't think Python is a craze, I think it's a fundamental philosophy to make a certain subset of computing more approachable and what is wrong with that.

I can do some very simple things in Python and it won't be overwhelming.

Just the building, linking, preprocessor process alone in C is what makes the language almost to difficult to use.

I definitely think they should add one for ROS(RobotOS) and Gazebo(simulation framework). They are starting to build communities in industry and academia with some of the smartest people you can find.

I agree, but I would agreed with you at the end of Season 1.

The whole show one bad cry away from being a zombie chick flick. The writing and scenes are just bad, unrealistic(if that quality means anything here, which I feel it does) and just so stupidly emotional.

Ugh, don't people want anything makes them think anymore, this whole mass market shit is catered for those with not so much critical thinking ability. Maybe I'm lacking some emotional intelligence, but wasting my attention on petty and shallow relationships and trying to delay the plot from continuing was acceptable during the Dragonball Z days but not now.

Take an amazing show like Burn Notice and apply that methodology to creating action, drama or what have you. If you look at the plot over the 8 seasons, you will notice for sure that the story cannot really top the first few seasons, but it doesn't matter. The execution of the show is what really matters, and a certain level sophistication, acting and chemistry is important.

These shows lack any direction or purpose and that's important.