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> "Latest stable version: 0.13.2"

Does that mean that they suggest I can use this in production (since it's "stable") or that I can't, since it's not at version 1 yet?

I know that the LibreOffice team is short on manpower, but I still find it puzzling that they do not treat reproducible crashes as release-blocking bugs. Instead, there are a lot of such bug reports untouched, potentially waiting to be exploited by bad people. (I reported 2 such bugs myself, neither has been fixed yet I think)

Technically I love new plans in this space.

However, it seems that this requires a lot of people using it to be useful (network effect)? Is there a plan for getting this used by people?

Yeah, because 2 years in prison is a completely reasonable sentence for researching the background of police officers or politicians, i.e. looking into corruption. And 10 years of prison for being at a protest is hardly extreme as well. Or prison for wearing head protection when the police is shooting at you.

Plausible deniability is not intended to protect you; it is intended to protect the data. If you know that giving up the key (or all the keys) will not make them stop torturing you (as you cannot prove that you have given them all the keys), there's no incentive to give up any keys in the first place.

At least that was Julian Assange's vision when he invented the Rubberhose filesystem[1] in 1997.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29

What? I don't use any Google services besides Youtube, and for that there are many alternatives that are technically equivalent. I have zero issues living my day-to-day digital life.

In what way exactly are they a decade ahead?

I took a screenshot of the GIMP on 256 DPI: http://i.imgur.com/2GpqyND.png (XFCE4)

"The agency, he says, had tracked a high-value target in South Asia for over a decade before learn­ing that he had once applied for a green card—making him, under NSA rules, a “US person.” “As soon we discovered that,” Ledgett says, “we dropped collection on him under our Executive Order 12333 authority and canceled 14 years of reports.”"

Does anyone know more about this? Does that mean I can send in a form and instantly be a "US person" to the NSA, even without intention of actually getting a green card?

Note that the setting mentioned there (Xft -> DPI) is the same as the one in my screenshot, found at Appearance -> Fonts.

Ah yes, I see. I just tried it out, here's GIMP with a 256 DPI:

http://i.imgur.com/2GpqyND.png

The title-bar size is configured in pixels, so that could be fixed easily by the user, but icons, both in the GIMP and in the native window don't resize well. It seems the DPI scaling is only applied to text, and only text-containing elements are scaled accordingly.

I haven't used any retina screens, but I use scaling in XFCE for my 27" 2560x1440 monitor and for a 14" 1920x1080 laptop screen, and it works without any issues on both of those.

What are the native issues with retina (in Gnome 3, for example)? Are there GUI elements that don't scale along?

Many desktop environments can do scaling well enough, in my experience. Not sure about Unity, the Ubuntu default.

Edit: for non-retina screens (i.e. it's fine on my 14" 1920x1080 laptop.) For retina (not this laptop), it might not be ideal yet. I took a screenshot (XFCE4) with very high DPI, and you can see some GUI elements don't scale: http://i.imgur.com/2GpqyND.png

What's the battery life like?

IBM and the Holocaust, to see how the rise of technology made the holocaust possible, and for the duality between business and ethics.

Link to the actual page, instead of the blogspam version: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/203471/why-do...

I was as skeptical as you are. But then I read the original article. The attackers here specify the ciphertext, and they craft a specific one for every bit they want to extract from the private key.

The ability to craft a ciphertext of ~1 second per bit makes it plausible they are able to force the difference between a 0 and a 1 to be large enough to be heard. Still surprising, but plausible.

Here's a suitable webcam cover kit from the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-camera-cover-set

When I moved away from catch-all, I analyzed my emails from the past 5 years to find all the email addresses I used (grep on my Maildir to find To: *, and then uniq) and then simply added ~15 forwarders. Haven't missed anything I cared about since.

I would personally choose more professional looking screenshots: currently the first two have pictures from Lord of the Rings and the Big Bang Theory (and character names from the BBT...), and the second two have memes.

Unions and strikes, clearly.

For the US, pretty much anything is covered under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

The word "collecting" means something different in NSA vocabulary than it does in our vocabulary: to them, it is defined as "specifically looking at". Gather/store and collect are completely different things, to them...

It allows for them to make such statements to people who don't know their definition, and later claim they did not lie.

Even if that would be OK, I haven't heard of "capital punishment by drone" as execution method yet. (And add to that "also include anyone he happens to be with at the moment of execution because terrorism")

This one has English commentary: http://english.cntv.cn/live/

And the linked "Reasons to open-source this toolkit" at http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/front-end/blog....

You mean the open-source community edition that actually exists?

> If you are focused on creating something, none of these "threats" would matter.

I suspect many of those who care about such things care about creating a better society, a better world.

Why do I, after several years of people complaining, still have to log in to unsubscribe from your however many different types of emails?

And even logging in after clicking "Unsubscribe" doesn't unsubscribe you: you then have to go to options and find whatever caused the email yourself.

For a company that puts members first, that seems very member unfriendly. But it does mean more emails to users, which no doubt increases some metrics.

People should start choosing better nicknames! There's a reason I chose this one.

I suspect the walls in between the "separate entrances" force the wind moving semi-perpendicular to those walls into the entrance as well. Removing them would lose wind.