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For a harbinger of what's to come, look into what's happening in Romania with their Rosia Montana gold mine.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-09-11/paulson-ba... http://www.miningfacts.org/Blog/Mining-News/Canadian-Miner-P...

Basically a Canadian company will most likely sue the Romanian government for refusing to allow an open pit gold mine. They won't do this in a Romanian court.

Just like we saw with Greece, sovereign nations are no longer all that sovereign. Treaties like TPP, and TTIP will further remove decision making capabilities from sovereign states. It's kinda crazy.

It's not out yet, but you might want to check out "Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe", by Bamberger and Mulligan.

Seriously, as a Dutch/American dual citize I'm debating moving back to the NL simply for this reason. From what I can tell I would pay close to a quarter in NL for better insurance than in the USA. The US is a complete ripoff.

> the more extreme the weather anomaly, the less likely it is to be caused by human-induced (anthropogenic) global warming.

I'm not an expert in this field by any measure. However, this assumption goes against everything I've read from people who are experts.

There's still a very active community of Supcom Forged Alliance Forever players. If you want to watch some great gameplay check out Gyle's channel on Youtube.

Why does every article about Portland make it into some magical incredibly different place. Does water not run downhill in Portland, OR?

I spend a fair amount of time in Portland and it's incredibly similar to most American cities. All this exceptionalist serves only to stroke egos and generate clicks.

As an American who immigrated to The Netherlands I would like to know of this mythical country in the world with a working immigration system. AFAICT they're all rather broken.

US immigration might be broken in different ways than some other countries, but from the many stories I've heard of friends moving all over the world, they all pretty much suck.

We should recognize that the constitution still allows slavery as a punishment for crime. This is as much about slave labor, as it is about the prison industry receiving money from the public purse.

13th amendment "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

Good general overview of prison labor: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor...

More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction. http://vltp.net/casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows/

The slave market: http://www.unicor.gov/

You can even get slave labor to operate your call center: http://www.unicor.gov/services/contact_helpdesk/

I don't know why the EFF is praising ICANN for not becoming the Internet's trademark enforcer. Every new gTLD must deal with the Trademark Clearinghouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark_Clearinghouse

You might just try contacting the biggest union near you and asking. They typically know plenty of labor lawyers. It can't hurt.

Having read "The Computer and the Brain" by von Neumann. I would argue some key aspects of the von Neuman architecture are a computer's ability to store a program in memory, and have it fetched to run on the CPU. Another important aspect is a program counter(PC), and IO devices attached to the CPU via a bus.

The concepts that I would categorize as the von Neumann architecture are incredibly basic. Equating his plan for computer design with a difference between storing program/data vs. just program misses the mark. Von Neumann wasn't at all concerned with this difference.

Take this quote from "The Computer and the Brain": "Large digital machines are made up of 'active' organs and of organs serving memory functions-I will include among the latter the 'input' and 'output' organs.."

You can see how basic his thinking is by today's standards, and why Dijkstra later criticized him, and other American computer scientists for anthropomorphizing machines. He talks about 'an organ serving a memory function', he doesn't even talk about main memory because that word isn't in use yet.

You're interpreting von Neumann from a modern context. You don't understand just how basic and fundamental his ideas were.

Any argument at this point will require a level of speculation that makes me uncomfortable. I'm against the TTIP on principle, simply because I cannot read it. That's the only information I need to be against it, nothing else is germane to my stance.

Given that, I feel little need to read up on it, or learn about how it might be terrible. Until I can read it, I don't want to hear speculation about what might be in it.

Good general overview of prison labor: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/04/04/prison-labor...

More detailed account of prison labor in Nevada regarding casinos and construction. http://vltp.net/casinos-prison-labor-strange-bedfellows/

The slave market: http://www.unicor.gov/

You can even get slave labor to operate your call center: http://www.unicor.gov/services/contact_helpdesk/

We can't engage in any nuanced conversation of the TPP because we don't know what's in it. Given that, I find no reason to be anything but completely against it.

They're not outliers. Go to almost any large American city and there is a poor area where most of the black people live, and a better off area where most of the white people live. That's America.

Is anyone else dissatisfied with the amount of information we get in many sec bug reports? Almost everytime I read a CVE or other vulnerability I find myself with more questions than answers. There's so little information given.

Is telnet on by default? Is this device normally plugged into a network, for how long? How common is this device? Has it been on the market for long?

Without this kind of information it's very difficult to assess risk, or otherwise form an opinion.

I'm reminded of the old 'competitors' to the Internet that existed in the early 1990's. Remember Prodigy, or AoL?

It really depends on what your bottleneck is. If your bottle neck is already CPU, then TLS is not that big of a deal. If, OTOH, your bottleneck is disk, then implementing TLS can create substantial overhead.

It's an ISP. Am I missing something?

Both the original and this retort forget to consider that different users have different needs. Security is never going to be a 'one size fits all' kind of arrangement. Different users will find differing levels of utility in Tor routers.

This article is not that good, nor is the intended audience those unfamiliar with Foucault's work.

Foucault wrote about many different things. Mostly he was interested in the evolution of power and politics through western civilization. If you're interested in Foucault there are much better places to start than this article.

1) SSL and TLS are basically the same thing. We just changed the name when we reached SSLv4. TLSv1 == SSLv4

2) TBL is concerned that changing the URI by appending an 's' to 'http' it breaks web links. He considers it a mistake made 20 years ago to indicate the use of encryption in the URI prefix.

This scenario:

1) Resource located at 'http'

2) Operator in charge of resource enforces HTTPS

3) Link from #1 no longer works because URI is now 'https'

Let's all take a moment to lament the sorry state of man pages in Linux.

On the one hand it's nice that developers are using more libraries and writing less from scratch. On the other hand dependencies are out of control. The one thing that really bothers me is code that depends on a particular IDE. That shit drives me up the wall.

I find the simplicity of HN a real plus on mobile. It's much easier to read on my iPhone than many 'mobile friendly' websites.

To me it would just seem more intuitive to have time go from down-->up. These signs seem to do the exact opposite.

There are all kinds of predictions flying around on how the introduction of new gTLDs is going to effect the economics of older TLDs. No one knows what's going to happen.

And let's not forget the prison system, which is basically legalized slavery.

This history misses many important board games. If this topic interests you check out Tom Vasel's board gaming channel on YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/user/thedicetower/search?query=best+...

These guys seem to know more about board gaming then anyone I've ever encountered. And I've been playing board games for ~30 years.

I stand somewhat corrected. It looks like Vox Populi has created a class they're calling "Sunrise Premium Names" and will price discriminate even after the sunrise period ends.

http://domainincite.com/18246-halt-perverted-sucks-shakedown... "Sunrise Premium names will always cost $2,500, even after sunrise, when registered by the trademark owner."

This is basically without precedent, so it will be interesting to see how this shakes out.