Local application access!

I'm still trying to determine if this would be effective JavaScript Shell

You just have to be able to set an environment variable no matter who you are and you're root. It's just a question if FireFox has its own "environment" or relies on an under-privileged UNIX account.

From what I can tell, this is a wide-open window. Huge, huge, flaw.

Just tested this on my Mac in OS X -- grants root level access immediately.

Lost control of my keyboard twice this week.

Discovered the Mac's firewall was down. But couldn't find any history on the keyboard getting redirected to remote address.

I was ready to chalk it up to a bad driver update by Apple, but I should probably assume I've been rooted.

He hasn't committed a crime.

1. Apparently he wasn't trespassing.
2. Apparently the gun is legal
3. He was flying an R/C plane (below obstacles from what one can tell on the video)

If he shoots people or trespasses there's existing law. Flying a hobby project on private land with a gun or a container of fireworks may be ill-advised -- but you don't need to make another law because you feel threatened by the brave/stupid things people choose to do with their life and property.

I agree that Reddit may do what it wishes with its platform. I'm merely decrying another venue being swallowed by The Politically Correct Puppet Masters ®.

The attempt to censor a question to Jesse Jackson which Victoria refused to do -- resulted in her firing. Ellen Pao took the heat for making the brave stand to uphold politically correct standards and censorship and now Steve Huffman looks like he will continue on the road to sub-Reddit into 1984.

I care little for hosting illegal and exploitative content -- but it was nice to have a venue where controversial subjects could be broached and discussed. Huffman indicates such attempts at actual discussion in future will be met with shadow bans and censorship. The resulting product will allow the Reddit view of the world to be molded as MSNBC would have it -- just with cats.

But yes, entirely within their rights to do so.

As long those changes reflect the values of Jesse Jackson and Hillary Clinton.

Thank you, Reddit-man!

Here I was thinking he was attempting to abstract electricity and come up with his own implementation — an undeniable threat to the stability of the Commonwealth — but instead he's just a petty thief...

Ah well, wake me up when there's some real news, would you?

Apparently the NSA/FBI needed collect someone's encrypted data in the last year. Now that they have what they want, they are sewing it back up again.

Though with the NSA's purported computing capability and back doors it doesn't seem like they would need this -- unless some lesser player on the intelligence field got this in -- but then I'm positing corroboration with the OpenSSL folks, so it seems like only a government would be capable of coercing this kind of flaw. But with the underhanded C contest, maybe someone at OpenSSL would make a "mistake" for the right price.

I think you mean Fascism

Yeah, I don't care what modifier it uses -- on OS X it doesn't freaking work!

Sometimes it goes to the previous app and sometimes it goes to the next app, and sometimes it goes it some other app purely at random.

I think Microsoft must own the IP for the "sequential movement between apps by key-stroke combination" and Steve Jobs was too irate to pay Bill for anything. So they just put a randomize into the routine to avoid a lawsuit.

Simple, non-nonsense interface, reliable ALT+TAB (damn you OS X!), good package manager, with all the redundant filesystem management wizardry. Good support for GPUs and the latest OpenGL/DirectX as well.

All this changed when they gave the Obama the authority to enter into the TPP last week.

NZ law is now US law: and US law is now NZ law

The TPP enforces the laws of any given country in another country under the partnership.

While everyone in the US was diverted by the Charleston church massacre and the misdirected angst over the Confederate flag: the Senate gave the US president authority to enter into this agreement.

If you live in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Chile, Japan, the US or Canada: welcome to the pacific version of the EU!

From the summary:

NASA requires the private companies to certify their spaceships are okay for humans to fly in (even if they're only for cargo). Thus SpaceX and other private companies have to pass the certification that their rockets are theoretically safe for humans.

NASA plans to build an spaceship (that is only going to fly cargo) and actually is only a practice run for another mission -- but since it holds the private companies to this higher standard -- it feels obligated to certify it's own unmanned spaceship is human-certified too. But human-safe certifying is going to delay the project and cost all kinds of money when they're only going to use the spaceship once and its not for humans anyway.

So apparently NASA must decide between hypocrisy and cost savings.

Sorry about the double-post. Reddit is spoiling me -- forgot to include formatting..

From the summary: NASA requires the private companies to certify their spaceships are okay for humans to fly in (even if they're only for cargo). So SpaceX and other private companies have to pass the certification that their rockets are theoretically safe for humans. NASA plans to build an spaceship (that is only going to fly cargo) and actually is only a practice run for another mission -- but since it holds the private companies to this higher standard -- it feels obligated to certify it's own unmanned spaceship is human-certified too. But human-safe certifying is going to delay the project and cost all kinds of money when they're only going to use the spaceship once and its not for humans anyway. So apparently NASA must decide between hypocrisy and cost savings.