Except, if you read even the summary, you'll discover that they're taking half of estimated spending money, not half of your income.

Let's not be naive - the working poor don't have any "spending money" - they have high debt and have to figure out which bills to pay this month and if it's going to be beans or Ramen tonight.

I doubt the working poor pay no fines, so @SuperKendall is right on this one. If somebody can show that this is, in fact, not true, then by all means prove the Finns to be enlightened (the article does not do that). Until then it's fair to assume that nothing is unusual here and that low-level-crime prosecution is universally used to keep the lower classes down.

Can you really call something with the performance of a high-end desktop PC (or maybe a dual-processor workstation) a "super computer cluster"?

Hey, some CS nerd had $4500 left in his budget for the year, and the PR dept at GCHQ was desparate for *anything* that didn't involve destroying the security of the UK people.

You don't do something unless you have plans to use it

I suppose if people start snipping the cables to the camera, Hertz will have trouble proving damages.

If step 1 is not kill all the current warlords and government leaders it will fail.

The CIA fully agrees - history has shown that strategy always works...

Though it's a fair point that their focus should be on the means of communication rather than on implementing a curriculum. If the people have affordable 'net and there are classes in their language that they can gain immediate benefit from, everything else will sort itself out. Parents will ensure that their children learn the long-term benefit stuff (say every study on poor, rural education ever).

So, no outright bans, despite what the clickbait title would like you to believe:

Sometimes, those experiences and issues involve violence and graphic images of public interest or concern, such as human rights abuses or acts of terrorism. In many instances, when people share this type of content, they are condemning it or raising awareness about it. We remove graphic images when they are shared for sadistic pleasure or to celebrate or glorify violence.

Many of my friends regularly post pictures of some nation state having blown the shit out of some children or some wedding party, and those don't get taken down. If they did, they'd probably all leave, and really what these guidelines are about is maximizing ad sales.

I'm more concerned with Facebook's choice to impose Puritanism's soft-ban on depictions of the human body, which is a religious preference (one absent of logic, IMO) straight out of the Victorian era. More people would be upset if they were imposing other religious filters.

Why not ban depictions of Muhammad? That'll offend more people than boobs.

What is there that are so important to protect that propels them to do all these???

Power. Same as every failed government for the past seven thousand years.

2. Ron Wyden, as a senator, knows things that Edward Snowden doesn't know, but he can't tell us the things that he knows because they are classified.

Of course he can - he just chooses not to risk the possible consequences of doing so.

Snowden made news because he still believes in "our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honors" - which is all but absent in our society. This is what they mean by "a society gets the government it deserves."

of course there's no chafing - the body has spent years building a keratin layer on the glans to protect the normally-sensitive skin from chafing.

we should work to get the rest of our infrastructure away from being addicted to having a synchronized time base in the first place?

There are thousands of other uses for accurate clocks on computers besides NFSv4.

2 might be the right default, but shouldn't we at least allow acpi_version= on the kernel cmdline for people who want to take advantage of the feature spread between 2 and 5?

Not everybody has broken Dell crap, right?

Why bother with a security audit of the whole OpenSSL as-is, right here, right now, when the LibreSSL fork has been doing a lot of work

Presumably the audit was bid fixed-cost. Presumably these guys already built into the cost that they are going to build upon the work the LibreSSL team has done (it would be stupid not to).

LibreSSL is a great project, but they ripped out portability along the way. A fair argument can be made that it's easier to add portability back after all the crap is ripped out, but fixing OpenSSL and leaving portability intact is another valid strategy. That's far more work, but these guys were hired to do it (well,the first step of it) and somebody thinks it's valuable enough that they threw money at the problem.

There's plenty of appreciation to be spread around here for all the teams working to secure our communications.

Yep. And the unqualified claim that "it's not a 'working transmission'" is every bit as incorrect as the claim that "Man 3D Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission For Toyota Engines."

The nice thing about human communication is that it doesn't need to be explicit and precise in every modicum of phrase. Context is plenty sufficient for normal humans. If somebody said "it's not a working transmission" on a story about "Man Prints a Working 5-Speed Transmission For Toyota Engines" it's absolutely qualified - by the context of the conversation to mean "it's not a working transmission for Toyota Engines".

Please don't try to destroy the effectiveness of communication by treating other humans like untrained neural nets. Work needs to be done on both ends of the conversation for maximum throughput.

Exactly this. I have done percussion, and the cowbell (you're right there) is similar but the hi-hat work is not the same at all. So even the percussion line is not even identical.

When you're learning percussion, you drill books of STANDARD PERCUSSION LINES! The rhythms are *standardized*. This is worse than copyrighting QuickSort!

Jesus, next time just copyright chord progressions and have a government judge kill off music once and for all! Guess what? All blocks of code flying by on a screen on a movie *look the same* to a non-programmer. But they're clearly not to an expert, which is all that actually matters.

First they came for the syncopation, but I did not care for I was not a drummer.

the supposed mineral riches are mostly high priced specialty materials and not the boring metals like iron and aluminum

Huh? The moon has gigatons of common metals and many of the areas are especially aluminum rich (and titanium to a lesser degree).

The idea is to refine those and launch them to a useful orbit for much less cost than trying to throw them out of Earth's gravity well. Whether that's Earth geosync or a LaGrange point, or something else, the challenges are along the lines of having enough utility stock (for doing the Bayer Process, e.g.) - there's plenty of sunlight to make the needed electricity.

The moon process will likely be different than the Earth process, in the end. For instance, all that oxygen that needs to be liberated from AL(2)0(3) can be stored for useful purposes. Even if at first you're storing the separated aluminum for future use, it might still be the best way to make oxygen for those fussy humans to breathe, if you look at the long-term cost/benefit. I seem to recall the University of AZ had a whole system worked out in the 90's and demonstrated using near-analogues to moon rock in big vacuum chamber. Undoubtedly a 2015 plan involves several generations of 3D printers that can eventually be used to print more moon base.

But, yeah, having a H3-H2 reactor would make it much more efficient, but solar or RTG will have to do in the short-term. It's quite the bootstrapping problem. Once you have a major factory complex up and running for safe habitation and flexible manufacturing, you're ready to set the AI's out building more structures night and day, and that's when you get polynomial expansion.

Barring government interference, I fully expect to see moon habitation visible from Earth in my lifetime (the NIMBYs will complain that it should be on the dark side).

Not really. Running Metasploit doesn't require any programming skills. Writing your own tools, on the other hand, would.

Yeah, pen testing, per se, can be scripted. It's what you do about it next that's usually part of the service.

The other day I found a security problem due to the way the linux and BSD kernels handle ARP in different circumstances, and the interaction there created an attack surface. If the guy doesn't know much about networks, he's going to have a hard time of getting into the nitty-gritty.

There are good reasons to invest the time into making a career switch. Being great at network security isn't just something that gets bolted on (though plenty of training outfits will throw you a cert if you pay them for a two week class).

His best option may well be to pass up the opportunity, if this isn't his passion.

I mean, the only security they seemed to be interested in was keeping the emails out of the hands of people with subpoenas, FOIA requests and such.

Plus, it's in her house, so she gets 4th Amendment protections as well, which is pretty smart.

But Qualsys's SSL scan grade is relevant to a server open to the public. Looking at the generated report, the main problem, in a situation where the client software is highly controllable and very likely hand-configured, is the lack of perfect-forward-secrecy ciphersuites. And that only helps prevent future attacks, not past ones (she's "retired" at the moment).

If somebody wanted to attack this system, attacking TLS would not be the way to do it - the configuration is good enough to make so many other vectors much cheaper attacks. I see the engineer used GoDaddy as the SSL vendor. This doesn't speak well for the budget of the project which has implications for the degree of configuration hardening that was done, which is especially crucial for a Windows machine.