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mindstabon My heart is ok, but my eyes are bleeding

"Naming a length variable ‘payload’ is borderline sociopathic"

mindstabon NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

Evidence? And if so, pretty much what we expected and exactly why this behaviour is terrible

mindstabon A French labor agreement bans work emails after 6 PM

Anyone want to host their mission critical project with a team that has 7/5 support as opposed to 24/7?

mindstabon Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO

Did he ever say it was a mistake, did he ever apologize for it? no. he continually defended his right to do it and believe what he believes. That's about as far from a mistake as you can get.

mindstabon Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

Actually I'm quite ambivalent about it, I never used ubuntuOne. The problem is there is now precedent for this, and it's all secret. We can't know one way or the other about this or a ton of other stuff. It's more a comment that the NSA has thrown up a huge amount of uncertainty about a lot of things and you can now second guess so many things. And that sucks.

mindstabon Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

Maybe the NSA came for their files and they don't want to shill on their users but also got one of those security letters so they can't say anything about it. Maybe this is a heroic move for us against the US government and we'll never know. Might explain the hasty timetable too.

mindstabon Show HN: My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later

What is the music? is it an original creation? or a remix? because it reminds me very heavily of star control 2

mindstabon Facebook acquires Oculus VR

I read it as facebook wanting to leapfrog google hangouts and skype and become the first next gen video chat client/platform. Games is now a side secondary thing.

mindstabon Box files for $250M IPO on full-year revenue of $124M, net loss of $168M

gotta say it, one of the reasons Dropbox is king is good support for all platforms. Box still ignores Linux so it's a no go for me personally, and my work.

mindstabon On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla

"So I do not insist that anyone agree with me on a great many things, including political issues, and I refrain from putting my personal beliefs in others’ way in all matters Mozilla, JS, and Web. I hope for the same in return."

On the other hand, I will spend cash money of my very own to try and force the law to comply with my beliefs against others.

I always love bigots with one hand saying: "oh i have my beliefs but don't try and force them on others so please leave me alone" and with the other hand piling money on bigoted campaigns to keep rights from marginalized groups.

It's tiresome and disingenuous.

mindstabon Why Isn't the Fourth Amendment Classified as Top Secret?

I thought he was joking at first, as in satire that shows how silly the rest of the "secret laws" are (like NYC's classified FOI system).

mindstabon Two Factor Auth List

http://aws.amazon.com/iam/details/mfa/

amazon supports MFA, but the site seems to not know that...

mindstabon Looking at C++14

I was really excited about learning/using some of the new stuff coming in c++11 and so on until a new job introduced me to Go lang. Now it seems like all of that stuff and more, elegantly built in instead of bolted on. To be fair I think it has a big bent towards server apps and not all general purpose stuff so it only to me seems better for a subset of all c++ work. on the other hand, Mozilla's Rust also looks interesting. Does anyone else feel like c++ is finally starting to be replaced in different segments by more target newer more elegant languages?

mindstabon Flappy Bird Creator Dong Nguyen Speaks Out

he was affected by their addiction and its affects on their lives, which the difficultly played a part in the cycle of.

mindstabon GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide

Charlie Stross on the topic: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/02/rule-34-...

'For starters, it turns out that 3-11% of Yahoo! webcam traffic involves "undesirable nudity"'

"I am still trying to get my head around the implications that the British government's equivalent of the NSA probably holds the world's largest collection of pornographic videos, that the stash is probably contaminated with seriously illegal material, and their own personnel can in principle be charged and convicted of a strict liability offence if they try to do their job. "

mindstabon Apple is shutting down OpenNI

I bought a DepthSense 325 which is the chip behind the new Creative / Intel 3d cam coming out

http://www.softkinetic.com/en-us/products/depthsensecameras....

mindstabon Statement on Mt. Gox

A little regulation and over sight might have prevented all this. And with out it going forward all anyone can do is advise best practices, and then watch as some ignore them and also have their money stolen. Very wild west. Totally something I'll be staying well back from

mindstabon MtGox.com is offline

actually the latest banking disaster was largely due to a decade prior of deregulation, and the economies of other counties who came through it best had retained a lot of their regulation (Canada).

mindstabon WhatsApp is down

this is a bit weird. it should be unrealted and way too soon for microsoft to get their hands on it and two data points a pattern does not make, however: fairly reliable skype had a big outage the WEEK microsoft bought them and now WhatsApp is having a big outage days after Microsoft bought them. Best case it's a poor omen.

mindstabon Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows

you can remove it already, and it's about the first thing I don on all my new computers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7282659

mindstabon Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows

Already right now you can remove Unity's global menu, it just takes some work

$ sudo apt-get autoremove appmenu-gtk appmenu-gtk3 appmenu-qt firefox-globalmenu

mindstabon Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows

"But even for people who liked the design, it has grown more problematic over time with the proliferation of bigger monitors"

Yes, this.

I think in everyone's rush for "convergence" they just forgot about the desktop. I think the final winning solution will be more the Ubuntu/Canonical approach (and that they are a bit ahead of Windows now) in that we will have both options available and with a bit more time, you can easily choose from "interface profiles"

On a big multiscreen desktop, I love and have for a long time loved, "in app menus" and Focus-Follow-Mouse. But on my 10" netbook? I'm actually pretty happy with global menu and click-focus because usually I'm just alt-tabing between full screen apps.

Different situations call for different solutions. The real winner will be the solution that provides all options and the flexibility to seamlessly move between them, and as I said, I think Ubuntu is much closer. Windows with their entire new set of "Metro" apps and bigger "classic desktop"/metro separation I think has gone down the wrong path.

mindstabon Silk Road 2 Hacked, All Bitcoins Stolen

... and things like this do to a point hilight why there is a lot of regulation around money and trying to create a new "freer" currency is actually really dangerous. I'm pretty sure his operating practice of keeping all the money in one place would be against regulations. Also usually there are big security standards. And finally high transaction fees do in some part support insurance so when my/your visa is stolen or what ever, the bank can just refund me, and take it out of its insurance. Because storing a lot of money for a lot of people is a big deal, but its a well looked at deal, and trying to start from scratch ignoring all of that... well... you just end up with people loosing money in ways that would never happen otherwise. :/

mindstabon ICE/ISEE-3 to return to an Earth no longer capable of speaking to it

This seems like a good place for a kickstarter?

mindstabon AltSlashdot

It's weird, I switched over to reading slashdot through an RSS reader (desktop app, then Google Reader, now NewsBlur) like 7 or 8 years ago. Mixed in with everything else the content is still decent and original and different enough I appreciate it. I haven't been on the actual site in ages. At a glance it looks acceptable.

mindstabon Why does Apple continue killing bitcoin apps?

there's a lot more "governance" when it comes to money transfer apps than say, games

mindstabon Verisign seizes .com domain registered via foreign Registrar on behalf of US

Maybe ICAAN's strategy of making loads of TLDs is their best attempt at a way around this, maybe they hope that eventually most of the TLDs being used won't be hosted in the jurisdiction of and controlled by any one governmental organization. Simply make the now slightly broken .com irrelevant.

mindstabon Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to Drink

I think the headline reads a bit differently. Mexico, in tapping its own deep aquifers is proving it's possible and desirable, is now saying to the US "watch it, that water of yours you are polluting? you might actually want/need to drink from it, and sooner than you'd think"

mindstabon State of The Union address minute by minute on Twitter

The CBC had a great re-imagining of the speech

"The state of the union speech Barack Obama would never give"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/the-state-of-the-union-speech-b...

mindstabon OUYA Founding Team Member And VP Of Product Development Departs

More software is slowly making it's way onto it. I only own a Wii and the Ouya and my friends have actually enjoyed some of the multiplayer games (Bomb Squad and Tower Fall). It's getting used several times a month when they come over. They are simple but fun games, kind of retro, not overly complicated like games of now.