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but what are the chances of finding a good vintage of scotch to go with all of this breaded goodness they are going to be having up there?

Alcohol is definitely going to space. Ballantine's zero-gravity glass is made in cooperation with something called the Open Space Agency, which also has a design for an automated Dobsonian telescope. Ardbeg is going to space. And a vacuum still is an old science-fiction trope.

I've said it before, but these companies need to be sued into the ground. It's the only way things will ever change.

Online users brush aside weightist comment

Not me. What a douche.

Full destruction of the company is the only way to stop these kinds of stupid things from happening. Plaintext passwords are negligent, have been known to be negligent for longer than the internet has existed.

Of course, the legal solution of punishing the guy who did it is already available, if you can find him, and if he lives in a country with laws friendly to that sort of thing.

Time for a license to get on the internet, eh? You need to pass a test about keeping your system patched.

And for those companies releasing IoT products with open FTP ports, may they die in a fire.

If you find a vulnerability, companies must be exposed loudly and embarrassingly as possible. That (or legal threats) are the only things that can stop them. Remember, there are companies out there that still don't hash passwords.

One major flaw in your theory here. When everyone these days gets hacked, it's not really embarrassing for anyone to admit it's happened.

It's kind of like admitting you've had diarrhea before. Big fucking deal. So has the other 99.9% of the human race.

If you find a vulnerability, companies must be exposed loudly and embarrassingly as possible. That (or legal threats) are the only things that can stop them.

Remember, there are companies out there that still don't hash passwords.

I'll just assume you know a developer who disagrees with that statement, who thinks, "every project has a bug list that grows and grows."

Here are some resources to help your friend:
Jim Shore talks about how to manage the process aspects.
Kate Thompson talks about changes developers can make to get no bugs
And if you prefer blogs, there are blogs

Your friend needs to get his dev skills up to date.

This is how it should be. Organizations need to embarrassed and publicly shamed for having lousy security. Otherwise they will never fix it (see also: linkedin, yahoo, verizon, etc). If they don't fix their security, terrorists win.

Damn right. The Obama administration is so dead-set on protecting Clinton that they went back in time to the dawn of the entire common law system to invent some nonsense about criminal wrongdoing being matters of intent and harm.

I get you're valiantly trying to be sarcastic here, but yes, that is part of the problem. Gross negligence in handling of US classified information is a felony which doesn't require intent.

I expect goobers on Twitter and Facebook to throw around the term "gross negligence", but I expect better on Slashdot. Really, arguing for gross negligence in infosec is virtually unwinnable, since it's an absolute. When ACME car company knows their airbags catch on fire but don't do a recall, resulting in deaths, then their complete and knowing lack of action caused harm that they are liable for.

Yet another "You can't prove it" excuse from the Clinton apologists. And "absolute"? Unlike gross negligence, murder is genuinely absolute yet despite that people do it all the time and routinely get caught too.

When a handful of emails are incidentally sent to a secured and private system, despite obvious and consistent intent to avoid them ending up there, you have established neither complete negligence nor the harm that negligence is intended to address.

Not even remotely the scenario here. First, it's the lion's share of Clinton's email. Second, there was no attempt to avoid having classified information on this server, including classified information that Clinton did not have the authority to declassify. Nothing was ever done nor appropriate parties informed about the presence of classified documents on a server not authorized to have them. Third, security on her email server was very amateur. We have in this story posts on Reddit asking what to do about server issues. We have people who thought turning the server off was an appropriate response to an intrusion attempt.

There's plenty more where that came from.

Snopes story questioned: https://medium.com/@amuse/why-...

Cisco needs to pick up their game. They need to be embarrassed harshly and completely, so they learn to not do this again.

Holly mother of god DUDE! WTF is wrong with you?? Don't you know if we don't IaTT right fucking now, we might as well start slinging clubs and dancing around the campfire again. CHRIST! What the actual FUCK is wrong with you?!? IoT, dude it's the fucking Internet of THINGS. Fucking THINGS ON THE INTERNET!!!

The biggest news in Java 8, obviously, are lambdas, but they also fit together with functional interfaces and java.util.stream.Stream to really change the way you build stuff in Java.

I'm absolutely loving, after making use of Java 8 streams, just how clean, succinct and compact a lot of my new code has become.

Oh -- and yes -- Java now has monads:

public String getLastFour(Optional employee) {
return employee.flatMap(employee -> employee.getPrimaryAddress())
.flatMap(address -> address.getZipCode())
.flatMap(zip -> zip.getLastFour())
.orElseThrow(() -> new FMLException("Missing data"));

}

See here

(Now if only they borrowed a bit more heavily from Scala or even C#: stuff like a Try monad, tuples and tuple destructuring and proper pattern matching (like C# is getting) would be awesome. Although given the glacial pace of standardization in Java-land, I'm not holding my breath.)

You can chant it from the highest mountain I still won't buy the claim that Human's Caused this. Sure I'll buy the generic argument that Climate has "changed", but if you think CO2 does that to evaporation then you're tweaking.

Just because you don't know what they're doing doesn't mean they aren't... I was just looking at this article which points out that Apple's R&D has gone up many times over since Job's passed on...

https://medium.com/beyond-devi...

Apple has a VERY long view of their devices, and the incremental improvements and developments you see in their products today are only glimpses of what I believe will come down the line.

This is what happens when you DO have full documentation going to the UK.

https://medium.com/@rachelnabo...

The UK might actually be worse.

https://medium.com/@rachelnabo...

You had to pull out salty as your flavor huh? Maybe you should just get up and walk away from the internet for awhile.

Here's a fucking NEWSFLASH for you - people are human beings with opinions, and senses of humor. Gawker media is made of many, many of these entities, who may or may not all agree with each other.

They didn't write some elaborate article pontificating on the merits of bullying, as a news organization. One person made an unfunny joke in a whiny tweet, and the #Gamergate crowd apparently had skin thickness measuring in the sub-microns. FFS. Grow up. Everyone involved in this sucks, all around, and are a bunch of fucking crybaby drama queens. I shudder to imagine the epic meltdown when someone fucks up your Taco Bell order.

Oh they didn't? You should go back and re-read some of their stuff. If you think bullying in any form even joking is such a light hearted topic to simply say people should be bullied because they're calling out your serious ethical misconduct, well you're just a shitty human being like many of the writers for Gawker. One can't forget either the parts where they simply lied. You know much like how all those people who claimed harassment, really didn't get any harassment from GG. 3rd party trolls yep. But GG? Then again, perhaps you can come up with the point why someone who is using their work account(on twitter) and is expressing that viewpoint shouldn't be held up to said standard that bullying is bad.

Yeah all those people at all those organizations had a reason. They were writing clickbait to draw in the views, it didn't work. And it even backfired. As one can see with all of those advertisers having decided to say "fuck it, we're not renewing/continuing to advertise with them." Who knew? Actions have consequences. Isn't that what you'd say if Gawker had said(to paraphrase) "the tape of a 5yr old(or older) being raped is acceptable to post and is in the interest of the public."

If you want to talk about hypocrisy - how about the attempts to crucify some NY dumbass over a tweet, while meanwhile, the #Gamergate crowd was saying and doing some pretty horrific shit, in a lot of the places that they had an online presence. Can you really fucking bring up "bullying" with a straight face, when women were literally receiving deaththreats for the injurious crime of having unpopular opinions, and wanting to voice those in a public place? If you're so against "bullying" in games journalism why wasn't that the focus of your goddamn campaign? I imagine you have some BS definition of "Gamergate" that does the No True Scotsman's shuffle to distance yourself from those folks, and some token "hey guys...chill out" forum post, but seriously - fuck that. You can't remove those parts of your "movement" for being too extreme, and then condemn something like Gawker media, as a whole, without, yourself, being pretty big fucking hypocrites. I'd put the onus of responsibility on YOU to explain why so many terrible fucking people flocked to your banner, and said and did some pretty terrible things in your name - on your forums, in your comment sections, and so on.

If you believe that, you deserve to be lied to. And you deserve the yellow press that gawker has been printing. Since it's been going on for nearly 2 years at this point and there has been 0 actual cases of anyone in GG proven to have done this. None, you go digging back through the sources of those claims? No proof. No proof offered. No police complaints, no one arrested, not a single person even charged that belongs to GG. But there are cases of anti-GG doxing people, there are cases of people calling in bomb threats against GG, in multiple cases at multiple meetups, and at the SPJ conference. There was a case just last couple of weeks of prominent anti-GG members attempting to dox someone. It doesn't get any clearer then that bit of reality.

I know, reality hurts.

"gained enough control of the culture to appear to be the majority voice"

Wouldn't you say that it's more like the above or maybe how The Most Intolerant Wins, by Taleb?

https://medium.com/@nickf4rr/h...

A first hand description of a harassment campaign he initiated.

https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/...

A first hand account of him ignoring the safe word during sex, which most would consider rape.

#freemilo

Or maybe not, since he appears to quite enjoy the current situation.

Disclaimer: I had never before even heard of this "Milo" (or of the author of that article, for that matter). But maybe that's because I'm not on Twitter.

This is great timing. I like how the LUX researchers' conceptual description of WIMPs sounds exactly like neutrinos: https://medium.com/starts-with...

This is an example of the type of thing commercial rentals are inspected for that AirBNB homes are not:

https://medium.com/matter/livi...

The claim that the hacker is Russian also seems to be very weak and is being made to fit an agenda.

So says the author of this post. And what he says makes sense to me.

I hope a scandal breaks out forcing the game to close down. Nintendo should be ashamed of themselves. Anyone who "plays" this game deserves to get shot like a nigger

LINK: https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-pain-you-feel-is-capitalism-dying-5cdbe06a936c#.6dgklsj9c

Not to completely dis Softway, the OpenNT guys. Walli and team were a big part of getting POSIX and ISO reconciled in the 90's.

Here's a recent recounting, from the man who made it happen:

Now, six years later, what if you could properly port all of your business-critical UNIX applications to Windows NT and have them behave with absolute fidelity? And by port, I mean type “make” at the command line and fiddle a bit in an afternoon, not rewrite the application over months of time to Win32. What if you no longer had to buy and maintain outrageously priced hardware from the UNIX system vendors, but could buy PC-class hardware? Microsoft was on an explosive growth curve and Windows NT was a proper operating system. Linux was still very much in its infancy and a long way from being proven. The UNIX Systems Labs v. Berkeley Software Design lawsuit had put a chill over the BSD community.

https://medium.com/@stephenrwalli/running-linux-apps-on-windows-and-other-stupid-human-tricks-part-i-acbf5a474532#.o7vb5eph9

No. There Is No Effective Fiduciary Duty to Maximize Profits
https://medium.com/bull-market...

I realise what you are saying is effectively believed to be true by millions, but its little more than a cultural myth. I'm writing in the hope people starting new companies don't behave in the crass manner you describe.

Right on everything, except the globalisation attack.

The problem isn't globalisation. It would've been entirely possible for the entire population to profit from globalisation. If the 1% hadn't decided that they'd rather have all that nice money to themselves.

Here is a pretty good writeup with some graphs:

https://medium.com/@jamesallwo...

38,000 sites is nearly one-third of surge's entire business..

BUT this is not the first time this happened... in january, ALL OF SURGE'S SITES got knocked offline over a single DMCA 'trademark' takedown.

i did not realize DMCA was actually DMCTA. the takedown notices are out of hand, regardless of "legitimacy" of the claim. this is a civil matter it belongs in courts, where a judge and jury decide whether there is actual infringement or not (trademark is even murkier and more complex than copyright and 'fair use').. and not be decided by automated robots and web crawlers and geeks in tshirts that never see the sun shine.

But none of those things make a gun an "assault weapon", which is defined as "a rapid-fire, magazine-fed automatic rifle designed for infantry use". It is not automatic, which is defined as a single-pull-multiple-fire gun. It is semi-automatic, you must pull the trigger per shot. So are most pistols, including those pink ones designed to look so much less dangerous (but aren't).

Suggested reading: https://medium.com/@jonst0kes/why-i-need-an-ar-15-832e05ae801c#.fql7xrb9x

If the AR-15 were a weapon that’s suitable only for indiscriminate, spray-n-pray mass slaughter, then it wouldn’t be so popular with police. There is no conceivable circumstance in which a police officer—not even a SWAT team member—would need to mow down hordes of people.

The AR-15 is less a model of rifle than it is an open-source, modular weapons platform that can be customized for a whole range of applications, from small pest control to taking out 500-pound feral hogs to urban combat. Everything about an individual AR-15 can be changed with aftermarket parts—the caliber of ammunition, recoil, range, weight, length, hold and grip, and on and on.

People buy these because it's cheaper to buy one gun and change parts out for a few different needs, than to buy a few guns.

Okay, so we have the emails, right?

That would be a negatory. The State Department has already recovered copies email from other parties that were not turned by Clinton. So we know we didn't receive all the emails.

So...... I don't get it. What's the scandal? That she had her own email server? I have my own email server and it's super convenient. I have a few actually. I use some of them to aggregate others. Wow, how handy.

Let's go over a few of the problems in no particular order. First, she has committed multiple felonies, such as not correcting the situation for several years or notifying state department staff to the ongoing problems in order to correct them, enabling the transfer of classified information to unauthorized parties, and instructing staff to strip classified headers off of classified documents.

Then there's the obvious reason for doing so, in order to withhold emails from both public records and FOIA requests, successfully I might add. If intent can be demonstrated in court, these would also become felonies.

Third, there are the numerous red flags which indicate something shifty was going on such as not cooperating with investigations while simultaneously claiming to do so, setting up the private server well before asking State Department IT staff for PDAs with email options (whose alleged lack of options were the official excuse for why she set the email server), the IT techie has pleaded the fifth and keeps doing so despite being offered limited immunity from prosecution, their solutions to hacking attempts (such as turning off the server for a few minutes), and the backup people she eventually hired who decided they needed to create a paper trail to protect themselves from criminal charges.

Apple has been accused of doing this sort of things many, many many many many times. Even before OS X ("macOS") and iOS, I also remember all kinds of features back in System 7/8/9 that started off as 3rd party extensions/programs but were pretty much fucked when Apple added something nearly identical.

I'm trying to think of a few examples where overnight a web site would be like "well, a clone of our app is basically in the new release of OS X...so we're out of business now." Can anyone with a better memory offer some examples?

Bernie was the first to "compromise" data on DNC servers. Did we already forget just how bad some of the DNC data is protected?
https://medium.com/@AmyKDacey/...

That sounds entirely reasonable.

BRB.

It's reasonable for gawker, and threat'sand doxing are okay with feminists too. Along with getting people fired because reasons.

Yeah sure looks like a lot of caring there. Ruining people, making sure that they can no longer find work. Let's hope you never run into that kind of caring.

This is the problem the world seems to be overlooking. The absurd assumption is that we'll willingly give our most personal data away; we've evolved to a bizarro state where we must hand over our content to strangers in order for it to be useful to us. Email is just one example but it's the same across all vectors of your personal data corpus, including social, messaging, video, files, etc., etc., etc.... not to mention the "data exhaust" from your browsing, GPS, and commercial interactions.

The only solution is to organize every person's data according to the PERSON WHO OWNS IT, not sprayed across myriad services, each with its own repository. Those are subject to all sorts of abuse, from corporations, governments, and criminals.

It's time to change the data model to one that empowers human beings, not the institutions that have turned the digital screws on us since the beginning of the Internet. Here's my take on the opportunity:
https://medium.com/@arthurfont...

Does anybody here agree this could work? Or, more appropriately, could it be made to work based on the transformative value it delivers?

Seriously, what kind of sadistic fucks come up with these idiotic schemes?

UXtards: https://medium.com/@eshan/the-rise-of-the-ux-torturer-7fba47ba6f22

UI: User Interface. The user interfaces with the computer in order to get the computer to do the user's bidding.
UX: User eXperience: The marketing people want to monetize the user. Make the user click on the buttons that make the marketing people money. Hide all the options that don't make money beneath a hamburger menu or a registry edit, and then accuse the user of incompetence for failing to discover them. Meanwhile, 90% of the userbase falls for the dark pattern and marketing makes its bonus.

Microsoft's UX team knows exactly what it's doing here; they're only backtracking here because they got called out for going too far over the line.

$20 to get a blank one, or $5 to get one with a Tide logo or whatever on it but you can just hack it.
https://medium.com/@edwardbenson/how-i-hacked-amazon-s-5-wifi-button-to-track-baby-data-794214b0bdd8

Of course, these days it's all a mish-mash and a binary can be somewhere - dynamics in /sbin, statics in /bin, executables in /opt and /var, etc.

Which is one reason why Fedora and company are simplifying things by shoving everything in /usr. Unix was not originally designed to have different executables in different places, Thompson and Ritchie simply ran out of disk space, and in the era of small disks it was a sensible enough partitioning scheme. With the BSDs and commercial Unixes, it also makes more sense to distinguish between binaries supplied by the vendor and user-provided binaries, but Linux is more along the lines of "ship it all, and let root sort it out." So certain things have changed in the last forty years that make the rigid hierarchy less important.

I worry about the transition though. Technically, it's easy to just make /bin a symlink to /usr/bin. However, it was probably technically easy to have NTFS pretend to have 8.3 filenames when it needed to, as well. I feel like this was an object lesson in the dangers of "soft deprecation". Similarly, bitcoin seems to be having a lot of issues because of the developers' unwillingness to make breaking changes. Both of these things make me extremely skeptical of the long-term value of backwards compatibility. Are symlinks setting up the wrong user expectations? Probably not, but it still might be best to fail hard and quickly.

I found a great article that complains about just that, entitled: The rise of the UX torturer:

https://medium.com/@eshan/the-...

Now he argues that it is done to generate profit, I agree in some cases. In the vast majority however it is a "follow the leader down the cliff" problem.
They all see chrome doing it and want to do it too.

I'm not sure why Disney is seen as a hated agent of the left by the crazy end of the right, but it's not about the Marvel movies.

Wait, I thought Disney was a hated enemy of the left. I'm confused. Won't someone please tell me what is acceptable and who I should hate?

This has nothing to do with Greece or any ISMs The world is changing and we are all going to have to adapt

Here's some more food for thought

https://medium.com/basic-incom...

The references I got all say "rape is down since the introduction of porn on the web" Which either means that porn doesn't cause rape, or there is some incredibly powerful confounding effect from somewhere else that not only counters porn's rapewaves but completely overpowers them, so even though porno mind-control rays are ordering men to go violate 16 year old girls with baseball bats, they are being held back by some greater force.

Pornography is rampant and extremely harmful to one's psyche and seriously impacts the life of those obsessed with it.

Impacts them how exactly? The leading claim I've seen for this is that men are somehow having trouble "settling" for "normal" girls. Funny thing is, though, we've got a massive research project going on right now where people are shown pictures and profiles of people of all kinds where they can be "liked" or not. That research has shown the top 78% of women on Tinder are "liking" the top 20% of men.. I guess women must be getting mass "erototoxin" poisoning from all that manly pornography just laying around. Oddly, all the research seems to be about "how hard it is for a guy to get a girl" I can't find any similar statistics analysis that shows how hard it is for an average girl to get a guy, though apparently men swipe right 48% of the time, which likely means the female 5's out there have a match just waiting for them, if they'll settle.

For ages and generations an artist (writer, composer, singer, dancer, painter, what have you) had to be either independently wealthy or have a rich sponsor to create.

Cheap replication (coupled with strong copyrights and intellectual property laws) have helped, but it still requires a strong business acumen in addition to artistic talent for an artist to prosper.

If, indeed, computers and robots take up more of the drudgery in the next industrial revolution, the creative jobs may proliferate... And I don't mean simply people majoring in Arts, who then "sell out" to earn more — the actual artists. People, who want to be musicians today, but are (mediocre) programmers instead, because music does not pay... Maybe, it will?

Supposedly, AIs will be able to create art too, but I suspect, people will eventually treat such creations — deservingly or not — the way art-reproductions are treated today.

(To spoil the impression this post may have created in your mind, I'll point out, that this all may happen just as the people pushed to STEM by government enter the workforce...)

I work a few blocks from the proposed HQ site and there are construction cranes in all directions, & there is plenty of demand for office space in Fort Point and excellent freeway access due to Big Dig exit at convention center. We already have enough Internet of Things meetups believe it or not.

Muckrock and the Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism tried to raise $1700 demanded by the mayor's office for reproducing the GE emails. But who needs emails when the charm offensive has begun? BINJ did a five-part series on the scheme.

These crony style one-off deals are always terrible economics. The "free market" certainly will fill that space very soon. There is no lack of demand, instead tons of local money already develops this area. In Jan 2015 a parking ramp in Fort Point sold for $56 million or $106,500 per spot!

As noted above many in the population are furious #MakeGEpay protesting in the freeze of last weekend's clipper. (Mayor Walsh was elected with 52% on 38% turnout). The schools are facing a $50 million shortfall, students walked out just a few days ago partially protesting this.

In this deal they don't have to pay regular taxes, instead they get to muck around in the local school system with all the purse strings attached as the press release makes clear. Instead of letting the city get normal tax revenue and the School Board allocate money for programs GE gets to basically do what it likes, as the press release clearly specifies.

Sen. Sanders said they are "destroying the moral fabric" of the USA. Boston Magazine reported in January:

"GE isn't exactly a shining model of corporate conduct. The company is one of most notorious abusers of offshore tax havens, with $119 billion stashed away across 18 overseas locations as of 2015. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders once named GE the nation's top corporate tax avoider. From 2002 to 2011, GE eliminated a fifth of its U.S. workforce while its offshore profits multiplied sixfold to $92 billion."

Do you really think that some of these Beacon Hill luminaries haven't been looking forward to a taste of that offshore $119,000,000,000?? The centralization of decisionmaking in the schools, by withholding program revenue, is unfolding in parallel to this incredible offshore tax scam. Maybe they want Ft Point Channel access to float in barges of cash, why not? I am disappointed none of this important info is in the story summary.

go tell that to the Chinese who manipulated their currency to flood the market and drive out American competition like Solyndra

Trump will :-) Some people disagree with him (and you), but he'll tell them nonetheless.

There was a Medium post by the author, they stated they gained a steamworks account via a different exploit (which has also been fixed), which they haven't published. https://medium.com/swlh/watch-...