kylemaxwell

If only there were other places to locate web sites on the Internet...

If that were the case, then programmers would have fantastic documentation skills. And yet, by and large that's not the case.

No - the grandparent did not engage in any attack. It provided context.

Yes, what we need for a better future society are more lawyers and accountants. Because that's what wrong with today: too many people making cool shit and not enough people counting beans or drawing up contracts.

Sure, if you want commercial grade security. Given the current state of such things and tbe risks associated with the POTUS that would be only a half step above doing nothing at all.

If I had to guess, the difference is that you picked this up early on and don't have any other habits to "unlearn".

That's a fairly imprecise and inaccurate statement. Lots of governments in the US are still functioning (i.e. state and local), many of which are represented there. And even then, the administration is only partly shut down at the moment, even if it IS a pretty big part.

We've not actually descended into anarchy here at the moment.

On what do you base that latter assertion?

So on one hand, we have the execution of a warrant or subpoena that is narrowly written, specific and reasonable, based on probable cause, and signed by a judge.

On the other hand, we have recently seen much greater evidence about the wholesale surveillance of society under secret law and apparently not accountable in any practical sense to oversight.

The first is normal and appropriate and well within the bounds of civil liberties guaranteed by Fourth Amendment. The second is highly problematic - but one doesn't necessarily lead to the other. Our civil liberties and civil rights have always been subject to appropriate exceptions. The problem is when those exceptions become so broad as to render the freedoms ineffective, not that they exist at all.

If you have code and it kind of runs, it's ready for public exposure. You never know when somebody will make a suggestion, give you a pointer to improve your code, or even send in a patch.

Not "silly" per se, but I think that concern is overblown. I write bad code and release all of it that I can, because we don't get better in a vacuum. Also, what's terrible code to you is likely highly useful to somebody else.

Those are very different questions. Do you already know a language? Is it Java (the closest thing to "native" Android seems to have)? If not, is it Java-like, or is the toolchain available for Android (e.g. Python)?

I don't think there's an easy, one-size-fits-all answer to this question.

Not at all what I expected. But this feels like the very definition of a power law problem: the few people out of the human population who fly regularly have so much more impact than the rest combined.

Not sure why a book needs crowdfunding: what costs need to be covered that prevent an author from just writing it?

As much as the science behind this is interesting, the writing / explanation here is a little bit juvenile. I guess the writer wanted to trump the already-Star-Wars-ed explanation on phys.org[1]. There has to be a better intermediate explanation between these and the actual paper itself.

[1]: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.ht...

I think referring to hex RGB values as "hex codes" confuses those of us who tend to think of hex in non-web contexts: ASCII, opcodes, network packets, etc.

If only their resolution were better...

Great to see somebody talking more about the ins and outs of open access research. (Dr Leek is also one of the instructors in the data analysis courses on Coursera, FWIW.)

I wish there were a more informative page about this rather than just the Eventbrite signup.

Yes, but I have observed multiple times that many engineers, including crypto and even infosec folks, don't really understand or even think about traffic analysis as a threat vector. I want to chalk this up to a lack of thinking about systems (in the classic sense, not in the jargon for "computer" sense), but I'm not entirely sure.

Even so - the real question is whether the risk of the NSA (or some other well-funded highly-capable actor) having access to vulnerabilities in your system is greater or less than the risks of other actors exploiting the vulnerabilities in your system that the tools would prevent.

In other words: what's worse, the NSA having the ability to bypass SELinux, or everybody being able to exploit things that SELinux would have protected?

the GP said "incompetent enough"

So, you don't really own a Chromecast. Google lets you use it, as long as you use it the way they approve. Sounds more like a lease than a purchase.

Perhaps even more true in the case of Panama.

Bill Gates is retired.

Can't get easier than Wordpress.com (which supports code snippets), but GitHub pages are relatively easy, too.

So don't upvote it.

It already has.

He apologized and recanted:

http://www.seattlebikeblog.com/2013/03/04/rep-orcutt-says-bi...

Wonder if Unit 61398 will have anybody there...