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In the good old days of the Soviet Union, we could "read between the lines", because the censorship system was not very effective, and the journalists were pissed off. But we still failed horribly at understanding what the world looked like west of the border, and imagined capitalism was some lesser form of paradise, and were quite surprised when we had to start living it.
Personally, I am weary of reading people who I know try to manipulate me. I always suspect if they try hard enough and long enough, they may succeed. What is your method, and does it work?
You don't have to look further than Twitter for examples of all of the above.
> Trump's claim was analyzed. Independent experts were consulted. It's obvious why the ruling went against him.
> I don't think distinguishing between hyperbole and lies is Politifact's problem. It's simply calling a lie a lie.
When I was growing up in the Eastern Bloc, we looked up to the U.S. for their people's ability to think critically and to have their own informed political opinions. I am horrified at your implying that you outsource your thinking. We used to say, "experts were consulted", "it's obvious", "the ruling went against him". That's totalitarian language, describing a totalitarian concept. Why would you throw away your freedom of thought, willingly to boot?
Let me invite you to analyse that statement by Mr Trump and its analysis by Politfact and my comment above. What is your opinion? Can you give good arguments for it, and anticipate counter-arguments against it?
[1] https://www.fcc.gov/media/program-content-regulations [47 CFR 76.205] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/47/76.205
Fact-checking cannot provide the kind of metric you talk about for rhetorical devices that are not drily descriptive, such as irony, hyperbole, allusion, etc. It helps that the readers have a way to look up the facts if they don't know them, but the analyses need to be read critically, same as the original statements. It's no good if you distrust one set of people and uncritically trust another. On what basis? You don't trust the politician, that's good. You don't trust some media, that's also good. But whoever in the media you choose, don't trust them blindly, they are just normal people, not superheroes.
Take, for example, this statement: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/... There is no clear-cut right or wrong. Same-day voter registration puts a pressure on the bureaucracy to be more forgiving and less thorough; that's a fact. But is that driven by the political elements who benefit from illegals voting, and do people on either side actually believe that it has an effect? That's not a factual question, that's a question for a political debate. Mr Trump's hyperbole captures this with a surprising pith.
[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3270538/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_w...
Chrome OS uses TPM heavily[1], and iOS has the Security Enclave. The standard TPM API is PKCS#11, so any hardware that speaks it can be used with any software that speaks it.
Problem with TPM is that the whole hardware and software stack needs to be secure, which in practice means it needs to be designed top-down with awareness of the TPM, and audited. The secrets must not be cached, written to file system, kept in memory, leaked over network. There are implementations such as Trousers[2], but it's more or less just a proof of concept; it may provide additional security, but most likely you're just using a very complex lock, and leaving the key under the mat.
[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usa... [2] http://trousers.sourceforge.net/man/tpmtoken_setpasswd.1.htm...
It's just one role, but multiple users.
Best practice is to avoid storing secrets in plaintext, or sharing secrets between users/roles. Yours isn't an argument in favour of git, it is an argument against btrfs.
(I don't have any problem with storing passwords in that way, I'm just pointing out why it's not the best practice.)
⇒ One-size-fits-all never fits all. Getting rid of tiers is naïve and misguided. Even if just for anchoring and the illusion of choice in face of terrible choices, tiers are a necessity. Sales will suffer, customer satisfaction will suffer.
⇒ I don't care if existing private customers pay the same or less. The price points should have been retained, and customers let to switch to a lower tier if they wished. Capturing consumer surplus leads to increased revenue. Github needs that money; the more money they throw away foolishly, the closer they are to bankruptcy.
⇒ "Starting today"?! At least current developer plans have been grandfathered in, with a 12-month notice period. Still, if an org has been in the process of planning a move to Github, they will have to re-evaluate.
Github has been such a great platform. A major stumble like this, I'm worried they may not be with us for much longer.
But don't pretend there is some objective measure of "unbiased" that for example The Guardian or BBC pass and other outlets don't. That is the same mindset any gatekeeper has: to bring the best news to the readers, where "best" is of course subjective. Be it with an algorithm or directly, Facebook editorializes — heavily, it would appear.
[0] http://www.theunion.com/opinion/7699648-113/democracy-majori...
They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition be just, the British constitution is nothing more nor less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government’s being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend. An empire is a despotism, and an emperor a despot, bound by no law or limitation but his own will; it is a stretch of tyranny beyond absolute monarchy. -- Novanglus, February 6, 1775
The opposite of republic is not monarchy, it is tyranny. The only way out of tyranny for the U.S. is, by definition, to restore the rule of law, which the GP seems to clamour for.
The commies at Guarniad of course don't rely on savings for their retirement, so they don't see it that way.
codepoint -> encoding in UTF-8
U+022F -> C8 AF
U+042F -> D0 AF
U+062F -> D8 AF
Remember, UTF-8 is self-synchronising: when you pick up at a random point within a stream, there is no ambiguity as to whether you are in the middle of a sequence or not. Valid lower codepoints appearing in the encoding of higher codepoints would violate this property.This is not the smoking gun; there are innocuous readings of that instruction. They were likely using secure channel to transmit nonclasified information — which is something she should be praised for, given how little of what she was up to can be described as good practice.
The thread in the printout you link is about "TPs" (presumably Talking Points?). Unlikely to be classified.
The problem with video snapshots is that everybody is so freaking good. We're spoiled by every random tube site doing image recognition and automatically A/B testing frames from videos and serving the most popular. Big budgets are spent on promoting movies and TV. So a lay analysis like this cannot possibly begin to scratch the surface.