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The percentage of people who would take that route is very small, I'm afraid. There are countless little insults and grievances that simply get shrugged off as the cost of living in society. It shouldn't be that way, but the punishment for bravery is just too severe.

"You don’t fit in with our culture"

I've seen similar sentiment in many other places in tech, applied to ageism, sexism etc. Maybe I'm naïve, but I fail to see this in any way other than discrimination by proxy.

I don't know the setting in Chrome or IE, but in Firefox :

  Options > Privacy tab > "Always use private browsing mode"

Added bonus: It keeps you from being tracked by other sites.

In this context, I meant craft = spacecraft. Our current space launch technology relies on extremely volatile and dangerous fuel. Until that changes, a self destruct will be found in all large launch vehicles[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_vehicle

That's true. What you spend in time and effort, you do gain in less ambiguous legal protections.

I'll add that you do get to control the features you're presented with and your privacy is better shielded from commercial interests. The benefits are many compared to the relative inconvenience and cost.

This is in no way a guarantee against surveillance or even compromise, really. We already know blanket persistent monitoring exists so all communication is already collected between your hosted services and any others outside your network. All unencrypted data is analysed in near-real-time and encrypted data is stored for later analysis.

If you're interesting enough to state actors, there's not much you can do.

The shuttle had its own variant although that was manual, not automatic http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/space/nasa/4262479

I believe it doesn't matter what the craft is, there is always some manner of self-destruct to ensure a larger population isn't threatened by debris from an exploding rocket.

Living conditions don't need to be poor. Think of it as a hyper-realistic Second Life. There's a reason Sims are popular too.

If anyone is curious, mSQL - short for "Mini SQL" - still has a home at http://www.hughes.com.au/products/msql

I see another avenue for this. "Reality simulation" - not virtual reality - will, I think, be something to explore. Especially with something like Oculus down the line, there would be a market for it. Why surround yourself with your humdrum home when you can live in a much better one with better surroundings. Watch TV virtually. Read a book virtually or even take a nap on your virtual sofa in front of a magnificent view while on your "real" bed surrounded by boring walls you don't see.

This is a key point. Detection by human is fairly limited as they only use their own, easily fooled, eyes and a detection pen, which can be fooled if starch-free paper was used by the counterfeiter [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfeit_banknote_detection...

What were some of the challenges of carrying out these tests? And I imagine procuring the machine may have been an issue if the manufacturers knew you were exposing their shortfalls.

They would have used their own machine in a controlled setting to ensure it's the machine they're testing, not the temperament of the TSA agents

  ...the University of Michigan, and Johns Hopkins plans to reveal their own results 
  from months of testing that same model of scanner

Clay is quite a hardy material and the relatively small size of the bottles may have helped to protect them from ocean currents and debris that have destroyed larger containers http://www.livescience.com/47382-shipwreck-alcohol-bottle-di...

It was probably blown up there by "uplifting air currents" according to : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2728979/Never...

We have to keep in mind that, even at that altitude, there are still air molecules. They're extremely sparse, but just enough that the drag they induce on the ISS and its large surface area of solar panels make periodic boosting necessary.

Try opening existing files. It's a treasure trove!

The best way to know is to look at the code itself. https://github.com/wolfgarbe/symspell/blob/master/symspell.c...

Good point. VPN would have been an obvious target. Medical services especially need to share data with healthcare providers to ensure clients get the appropriate treatment and that usually involves secure connections between locations.

That says they used a vulnerability in a "Juniper device"; probably a router/firewall appliance. There have been quite a few vulnerabilities[1] in their Junos line[2], but any or all of these ones seems likely[3]

[1] http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-874/y...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junos

[3] http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-3816/

http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-3412/

http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-3411/

http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2014-0615/

The flaw, as I understand it, was as much a result of their development and patch acceptance process as much as budgetary constraints.

There were many complaints before and since of how difficult it is to get bugs patched and especially their idiosyncratic approach to development. In essence, they duplicated OS functionality even when unnecessary and had a large swath of code that was fundamentally redundant and/or broken.

There are a large number of medical systems that still require XP as well. Many of those proprietary systems and programs were specifically built for it and changes are both expensive and drastic. Both frowned upon by hospital administration.

It's an extremely difficult thing to do from a design and engineering perspective. The majority of office suites available are good, but different and "quirky" enough that the flow isn't seamless. The same goes for design applications and many other utilities that people use every day.

At the end of the day, any OS that requires some command-line at any point has failed to appeal to the mass market. Instead of Windows, Linux would be better off mimicking Mac as it tries to be as unobtrusive as possible while still leaving the command-line power intact.

Linux needs to escape the Uncanny Valley of general purpose computing to become more mainstream.

This is crowdsourced motivation and behavioural change, plus optional electric shock :

  Willpower isn't enough. Habit change requires accountability. 
  You won't have to make the journey alone - Pavlok helps you find a partner 
  or join a team of your friends. 

  Social support and pressure will keep you on track. When you hit a bump in 
  the road, they'll motivate you to keep going. Or, they'll punish you.
  
  Choose your level of commitment. Pavlok can reward you when you achieve 
  your goals. Earn prizes and even money when you complete your daily task. 

  But be warned: if you fail, you’ll face penalties. Pay a fine, lose access 
  to your phone, or even suffer an electric shock…at the hands of your friends.

I strongly disagree with the electric shock in particular. The group pressure tactic strikes me as particularly counter-productive as, I assume, these changes have been set so as you would be improving your life; not be threatened into changing by embarrassment and peer pressure.

Changes in habit are what counselors, life coaches and motivational instructors are for. The impersonal app-based, "hyper-reminder-motivator", seems threatening to me and thoroughly de-motivational and ultimately inhumane.

There's some gameplay on YouTube of the 95 version for those who never played it. It's CTF on hovercars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVeFEBCwXy0

They had access to quite interesting cryptography tools as well, such as a cipher disks : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher_disk

And see : http://slclip.wikispaces.com/Cryptology+during+the+US+war+of...

There's an interesting article by Lee Taylor on civil war codes and encryption too http://chesapeakesignals.com/encrypt.htm

While useful for communication, recording via smartphone is still a tricky affair.

This was listed on HN recently, and as soon as it becomes available, it may be a more viable option for recording video than a smartphone camera or even a GoPro http://www.polaroid.com/cube

It also has no bright screen to draw attention to itself and the small form factor makes it easier to mount in clothing and, if you have enough time to do so, the MicroSD card is easy to remove and conceal/transfer if you need to hand over the camera.

It's a fascinating problem. It makes me wonder, without zero, what paths mathematics would have taken. There have been civilisations that used math extensively without zero and I hope Ithkuil-fluent mathematicians some day would continue exploring this.

If anyone wants to hear what Ithkuil sounds like : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Ithkuil_...

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil

There are multiple layers to the onion that is Anonymous. It's conceivable that she's familiar with only a few of those.

Good luck! :-)

BTW, this is Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/show . Note, there are guidelines, but as far as I can see your site follows them already so I wouldn't worry too much about them. If you add a new feature, it might help to draw attention to that in the future, but don't create a new "Show HN". On a side note, it may be useful to keep a blog on the side about site news, feature updates etc...