It's a perfect metaphor when you're working for a company which produces crappy products and forces you to use them in front of customers.

Sales demos become the customer watching you eat dogfood.

I never regret quitting that place.

First, the government already seized that land. Any claims to that land by returned exiles will probably be met with the same attitude as claims by Canadians to lands that their Loyalist ancestors lost after the US Revolution.

Second, the land is probably now reserved for use by higher level Party members; they won't be moving.

Ah, but this is all up for negotiation as the U.S. holds the embargo, and many of the former landowners are powerful American political families. The land wasn't ceded to war, it was Cuban land before and Cuban land after.

It's just the cynic in me. The good news I guess is that Obama doesn't have to worry about re-election, so he can make political decisions which aren't in his self-interest.

Trick is what to do with all the big U.S. families with claims to beachfront resorts and casinos?

Kick the Cubans off the land and re-employ them as card dealers and prostitutes?

Yay freedom!

It's harder to live for a cause than die for one.

It's especially easy to die for a cause if you've never amounted to anything.. You can take some comfort in believing that you'll be remembered as a hero, and you don't have to take any responsibility for your actions.

It's hard to think of analogies which reflect the danger, the reputational damage and the material gain of this kind of betrayal. Murder doesn't have the element of reputational damage and material gain.

I mean, you signed a contract with the U.S., you were vetted, they did background checks, you had history together and built a battleship together, then you sold the schematics of that battleship.

If we're using human analogies, this is like selling the diary, identity information and naked photos of your overaccomplished olympian niece... and providing some genetic material to clone her.

There's no way to entrap somebody with that kind of betrayal. Regardless of money, they should actively protect and defend her from this kind of abuse. Out of a sense of decency and loyalty, protecting it even with their own life.

But really, analogies suck.

Somebody modded me down on it too...

I guess some people consider it okay to have a stepdad who has a problem with their stepson being a princess.

Poor kid.

Respect the kid, it's hard to be different.

Drama, music, public speaking. If the kid's gay, check out local programs for gay youth. Not even to enroll, just to know such things exist and he has a future.

Mostly agreed, but for some exceptions.... sports and finance are reported with obsessive detail, completeness and accuracy, sometimes when the story is good, sometimes when the story is bad. It's not quite limited to simple facts either, but packed with speculation and editorialization, predictions and rebuttals. Compare the coverage of sports and finance with the weather and traffic. You don't have a circle of pundits discussing the forecast, but they will discuss the sports score or the movement of AAPL.

Outside of those topics, it seems to be that people want to hear about failure and disaster. Even when reading about celebrities.

Not sure what the point is. The article is about money laundering, and describes how it's easier to launder digital currencies and how they're controversial because of this.

Bitcoin is at best pseudonymous, each wallet is a pseudonym with a very carefully documented and very public ledger. When the bitcoins are converted to or from hard currency, a trail of that transaction is likely recorded.

Because it's trivial to move over borders and easy to launder.

That's an excellent article, thanks.

The fix would require specific changes to the implementation and "...there's a high risk that this would also cause compatibility problems." IMHO, it would be highly misleading to call it an implementation problem that an unforseen encryption weakness could be mitigated with changes to the implementation.

I offer the above to be XKCD1318 compliant.

POODLE is not an implementation problem. It's a protocol problem.

https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA14-290A

"There is currently no fix for the vulnerability SSL 3.0 itself, as the issue is fundamental to the protocol"

It's an implementation problem if you're speaking abstractly about the application of crypto. But we're talking about "SSL", a protocol.

"Chapter 4 is particularly interesting in that the author notes that while the cryptography behind SSL and PKI is fundamentally secure,"

Post-POODLE, SSL has been shown fundamentally insecure.

TLS is fine as far as we know.

Went to a Python developers meetup. There were 2 women in a room of 100 people.

Went to an infosec meetup. There were 5% women in a room of 200 people.

Went to a Wordpress developers conference, there were 50% women in attendance of hundreds of people.

They're all tech jobs. Why are women choosing paths that earn less?

"I wonder what the conclusion of such an article would be?"

That this isn't a site for sociologists or experts in race or gender studies.

If we talked to sociolgists, race or gender study experts, they'd probably have a non-sensationalist, well researched and well reasoned approach to discussing sensitive issues. And they probably wouldn't be happy if people jumped on their communtiy forums and started talking about SATA drivers.