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If those books were from the British Library, then they're available for free online from the British Library

you're replying to the author, and maintainer, of spiped.

it's mentioned in the article that microfilm is digitised

and you've just conflated anti-semitism and calls to boycott Israel, which I would certainly class as intellectually dishonest.

wikipedia describes the situation here [0], but i think in general "literate" has a specific meaning here, that you need to know x amount of characters. Some cursory googling leads me to believe the rate for urban dwellers is 2000 characters, but for rural it's only 1500. According to a UNESCO study a few years ago, "11% of the world’s 800 million illiterate adults live in China."

I know it's comparing apples to oranges, but some of my friends in Hong Kong are perfectly fluent in Cantonese and Mandarin but really, really struggle with reading and writing.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Written_Chinese#Literacy

memory is has been getting better over the years, thanks to the memshrink project though. https://www.areweslimyet.com/

But, no? I don't understand how you could possibly draw that conclusion. The "WMD" ISIS have discovered were decommissioned WMD from the 90s. They aren't capable of being deployed.

2.0 should maybe work, 3 probably never :(

http://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1748

in the sense that there is a personal ceiling for you, yes.

but if you've never trained at elite level, then you can almost certainly improve it up to your (personal) ceiling.

oh, she was asking for it! well, that changes everything.

Yes, I have the 2013 model of the X1 carbon and it's about perfect for me (running Debian). But I have no idea why they ruined the keyboard on the latest model.

Feel free to not trust it, but it does indicate whether the message to be send will be encrypted or not: in the current version, a padlock will be locked or unlocked on the send button. If you receive an unencrypted message from another text secure user, it automatically detects the other party is using text secure and offers to initiate key exchange.

The billing criticism is fair and warranted; currently if your sending over SMS, the first message can only contain 60 chars due to protocol overhead, so you often end up with short messages costing multiple SMS.

There is a way to verify keys (manually!) but no indication that you have verified them.

"Yet in the slides for his talk[1] under theories he writes..."

I think you may have misunderstood. He is at this point theorising why the service is enabled outside of developer mode, not why it exists at all.

I dunno, it's hard not find something to agree with, particularly the rather tone deaf "let them eat soylent".

I regularly read the Guardian, and it seems they are very tech positive in general, it's just the SV culture they (and it has to be said, many people outside of SV) find distasteful.

few days late, but thought I'd share my anecdote. several years ago now, I was on a road trip through the largest island of Japan, Honshu, and was staying at a cheap roadside motel in the middle of nowhere. My girlfriend was having a shower, and I walked out of the room without the keycard as you needed it to operate the lights etc in the room. off I went to grab a few cold drinks from the vending machine, and then suddenly realised I had no idea what room number or even what floor our room was on. Despite what she says, my girlfriend is fluent in Japanese and I'd always relied on her to do all the hard work, and spent maybe 3 months picking up a bit of the language a few years previously.

Well, I had no choice but to go to the front desk and explain the situation using the full range of my vocabulary. As a few people have already mentioned, native Japanese speakers tend to treat you with a mix of awe and pity when you clearly can't speak the language but nonetheless attempt it. But exactly as the article described, I concentrated on saying what I could, not what was necessarily correct. I actually surprised myself, and my girlfriend when I eventually returned to the room and explained why the cold drinks were now tepid.

Written by Max Blumenthal though, who I don't think you can correctly describe as a "Jew-hater".

I submitted it because it was interesting, but also referenced the role technology had played in the manipulation of the story.

I feel i should point out that will not use an index.

DELETE FROM Table WHERE CreateDate < DATEADD(year, -2, getdate())

I completely agree he shouldn't have been running this service in the first place. I also agree it's a bit late to find some principles when you've been happily complying with these requests in the past.

But! The period you describe as him stonewalling the DOJ, he claims he was talking to them every day while trying to find competent legal representation.

Now, this sounds like something I would want to do if the nature of the request were different from the previous ones. (whether it was technically different or just the fact he had a personal interest in the account as you suggest doesn't really matter, just that for whatever reason it wasn't to be handled in the previous manner)

I certainly believe it was difficult for him to find good representation when he was under a gag order.

So I have some limited sympathy here; the DOJ are forcing him to move to their timeline, and he's scrambling to find good lawyers.

I think we can say he was happy to sell out users or that he was fraudulently labelling his service as secure, while acknowledging the fact that he was trying to seek legal advice at the same time.

That Marc Twight article appears in the recently published book "Training for the new alpinism" by Steve House. Seriously recommended.

i did an experiment where my raw & converted jpegs ended up compressed by about 12% overall, if that's any help.

this is similar to the case brought in the UK against CDWOW http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6471863.stm

Isn't free trade and globalisation great (as long as you're a multi-billion dollar corporation)

A point that was made in the article

It's been a long time since i've written any asm, but I just did this. You're almost correct; 0x3866 contains 2 pieces of information, 38 and 66. so you should end up with 0x6638

> Furthermore, the case in question is hardly an example of poorly managed outsourcing. G4S were, by all accounts, the most suitable firm for the Olympics security contract. That said, it is a largely unprecedented event, and not unsurprisingly they underestimated the task, and couldn't get enough staff trained in time.

Yes, it's not as though this event happens every 4 years...

In fact, G4S managed to spectacularly mess up the security of the recent Jubilee celebrations, as was widely reported. When you add that to the utter mismanagement or the (despicable) asylum detention centres, and on and on... they're as qualified to provide services in the same way Capita are qualified to provide IT consultancy.

But on the poorly managed part, Teresa May claimed the contract was routinely monitored. and yet this is still a surprise to her, 3 weeks from the start of the event!

cool. but this seems fundamentally similar to the Chan/Var style of parallelism in haskell?

there's a (superficially) similar problem in MS SQL Server/Windows Server. You can fix that by setting "lock pages in memory"

good for you, and yes i agree totally. something about making it public forces you to take a tiny step forward. my first push to github here, for the record http://github/com/irv/tarsnap-backup

another vote for tarsnap - can't complain really. i knocked up a simple Haskell app to manage the process (I'm learning Haskell, so comments and suggestions welcome) if you're interested @ http://github.com/irv/tarsnap-backup

I can recommend the book "Moving On", which discusses a participatory economy, which was quite interesting to me personally. although it does (as you would expect) bog down with committees!

By the way, the shortest and most succinct laymen's description of anarchism came from a crimethinc flier i saw, possibly this one [low res PDF] http://thecloud.crimethinc.com/pdfs/fighting_for_our_lives_l...