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> As far as the article's text reveals, it says his parents were responsive and not pushy: "Rungta is grateful to his parents and to MIT for being responsive to his needs every step of the way."

Sure, he will never say bad things about his parents, especially not in the media. He's from India! As I see it parents (in general) can bend things so that children do not want anything else than what their parents want. This is not to blame the parents - they probably don't know better.

From this story I can't tell what is the case. His parents are maybe the best ever, that not only want best for their kid, but actually let him find out what that is.

It's the same that ultra right or neo conservatives have more in common with ultra left or communists or ultra religious groups that go for political power. It's the extreme that makes them understand and appreciate eachother (or their cause) better.

It's not that they like or support eachother, but knowing how the other thinks makes a difference. For them it's much more difficult to understand how moderate left or right works and can be influenced. There's a good chance that they fear "moderate" people more than those on the opposite end of their thinking, simply because they don't understand them.

There is no front-end. Curl downloads similar to a commandline script. If necessary it can handle logins, but a (graphical) captcha won't work.

Closing borders isn't going to help if you have thousands of people who have no future and who are looking for revenge out of frustration. This is not to blame anyone, but it's more a matter of fact. Paris has seen many riots in the past years, where hundreds of cars have been destroyed by these people. It's not surprise that you can find some people in that group that are vulnerable or attracted to the tactics of IS.

There is: Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, even Firefox OS and Jolla...

That page doesn't explain it properly. Try this one:

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/theres-a-name-for-tha...

> Stanford linguistics professor Arnold Zwicky coined the former term in 2006 to describe the syndrome in which a concept or thing you just found out about suddenly seems to crop up everywhere. It’s caused, he wrote, by two psychological processes. The first, selective attention, kicks in when you’re struck by a new word, thing, or idea; after that, you unconsciously keep an eye out for it, and as a result find it surprisingly often. The second process, confirmation bias, reassures you that each sighting is further proof of your impression that the thing has gained overnight omnipresence.

> The considerably catchier sobriquet Baader-Meinhof phenomenon was invented in 1994 by a commenter on the St. Paul Pioneer Press’ online discussion board, who came up with it after hearing the name of the ultra-left-wing German terrorist group twice in 24 hours. The phrase became a meme on the newspaper’s boards, where it still pops up regularly, and has since spread to the wider Internet. It even has its own Facebook page. Got all that? Don’t worry. You’ll hear about it again soon.

Get legal insurance. I don't know if this is available in the US, but over here in the Netherlands it's really affordable for about $150-200 a year, including things regarding your home and car. I've had this for years without using it, but it's worth the money. This year I had to use it for the first time and the service is quite good up til now.

I seldom think about that. My father has glasses, thick ones. What I remember is that his eyes were much bigger when he had his glasses on. That may affect how other people see you. Then the frame changes your looks. German people and especially women have a specific taste for frames that doesn't make them look more sympathetic.

I've heard house mates talking when high on cannabis - while I was not high. They had incredible ideas and were really enthusiastic. The only problem was that it was impossible to make any sense of the ideas they expressed.

I had this moment when I moved out of my parents house to study. I still remember the moment clearly when I discovered that (some of) my thoughts were not strange, just different. I always thought that it was my fault, even though I never could ignore them.

It's like I have glasses, and most of the time I don't see them and I forget about them. That's a good thing I guess. Sometimes I wonder if I haven't forgot my glasses, while I am wearing them. Then I have to look for them, really look for the frame until I'm assured they are there. Stupid, but this is how it works over here! ;-)

Marshall McLuhan once said that the last thing a fish would ever notice in it’s habitat is the water. Likewise, the most obvious and powerful realities of our human culture seem to also be the most unrecognised.

http://stoweboyd.com/2013/07/12/marshall-mcluhan-once-said-t...

Here's the code that I used in Thunderbird. I make it small and light in color.

<div style="font-size: 10px; color: #666;">This message is signed using <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy">PGP</a>. Public key: <a href="https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xBE5D1E31ABCD1... ABCD1234</a> </div>

I see the link in the code is not closed properly, so you need to fix this.

That link has gone wild:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/fashion/gofundme-gone-wild...

He should not complain about users with asinine demands. Let them make those demands. Either ignore them, or explain the situation and ask for a reasonable fee.

I've been using GPG since a while now, to sign my outgoing mail. I don't encrypt it as I don't know anyone who uses GPG. I'm still happy to use it, to get used to it, and to see alternative uses. Signing is in my view a big improvement, to make sure nobody has messed with the messages. I always use HTML, so the receiver gets an attachment with the signing hash in it, and no strange text in the mail. I use a signature with a link to my public key and a link to the PGP page on Wikipedia. Everybody can read my mail, and if they want they can validate it.

Given the fact that https://protonmail.com is still offline after several days of attacks, will secure mail ever get a chance?

He can only blame himself. He should explain his situation, and ask for a reasonable amount to fix bugs or implement requests. And reasonable is not minimal wage, it's proper payment for the work he does. If the user doesn't like it, then they can ask someone else to fix it.

Now all we need is some E to celebrate!

Upgrade the laptop with an SSD if you haven't already. If you do that at the same time when you switch to Linux, it will boost her experience and trust.

I'm thinking about this as well. My mother uses Windows 7 with Firefox, Thunderbird for mail, LibreOffice and Windows Photo Gallery. I think Ubuntu LTS with the Unity desktop is the best choice. Mint is an option.

In my experience Fedora/Centos is much more work installing applications. That may be my lack of experience with using Centos for desktop. If it's only about the browser, it won't matter much, and then your experience is leading.

I have a Lenovo laptop with 2GB RAM and Ubuntu 14.04 installed on SSD. It stalls many times. You need 4GB RAM. It will work on that laptop, but with issues, probably the same issues she has now. Better buy a new cheap laptop and make sure it has at least 4GB RAM.

Be careful with UEFI - it can cause many headaches when you want to install Linux. It took me more than a month to get it working.

Last tip: Try to find a laptop that has a proven record to work with Linux. Not all laptops qualify, have a modified motherboard or graphics card etc. The old laptop can be tested with a live stick.

I suppose he refers to information collected with the Signal app alone. The thing is that all information that is sent via Google is encrypted, so it's not of much use. I only wonder how the connection between two clients is setup, and if Google gets to know which Google user talks to which other Google user.

> That's excellent. Installing and using GPG (or GPGTools or GPG Keychain or whatever it's name is) on OS X is awful.

I don't understand what's so difficult here. The biggest problem is understanding how PGP works, and having to type a password now and then. I use it all the time, to sign - not encrypt - my mail.

I just installed Signal, and the list of permissions is endless!

> While I can appreciate that the unlimited service is not provided so that users can store dozens of TB (which may be within the terms and conditions, but is certainly not reasonable)

If it's within the terms and conditions, it's reasonable.

If Microsoft promotes unlimited upload, then it should have no limit. If it is not reasonable, then do not promote it.

This is pure marketing. Only a tiny percentage of users does this, and the rest uses less than 1TB. Still you can market that unlimited upload. If that would be unreasonable, then do not promote it.

But then maybe too many users start to upload many terabytes, and then it starts to costs money, and then the promotion budget gets cut, and suddenly they realize it's not going to get better. A new manager steps in, cuts out the stupid idea and there you are, another stupid marketing failure.

This is the problem with Microsoft - you cannot trust them with their offers. First they offer 15GB free space, then they limit it to 5GB. Like many of their online services, they make mistakes and offer something that in the end is not profitable (enough). Then they offend their users and prove they are not to be trusted in the long run. Google is jumping up and down with joy.

Time and again, they make this mistake. They change names for their services continuously. They should keep all old users on 15GB or whatever was offered, and new users take the 5GB account. That is the correct way to handle this.

That's a setting in the browser, not the system.

The credit score service doesn't know, but FB does.

Can you imagine that FB sells this information anywhere in the near future? I bet they can make great profiles of you, and compared to a big pile of people with similar profiles, the bank can see what profiles predict risk.

> "every one of us is rushing back to the typewriter with more questions than answers"

Those were the times...

Now see how that VW worked that out with their diesel trick.

If they do stuff like that, they will probably deny that they did it. Having had access to your phone, they can look for information that can be used to find other leads, that will be strong enough for a court order.