somebehemoth

All of what you write can be true without contradicting or minimizing the effectiveness of well documented foreign influence. These issues are not at all mutually exclusive. I was responding to the claim that foreign influence was "minuscule" in comparison to local issues. You cannot quantify the effect of foreign influence until all the facts are known.

I agree completely. My original comment was in regard to the commenter's opinion on the "minuscule" effect of well documented foreign influence. There can be significant and effective foreign influence in addition to other more local reasons the election had the result we are living with. They are not mutually exclusive

If well documented manipulation of social media by foreign governments had a "minuscule" effect on the election, what are the "far more probable explanations" you speak of?

Who says you have to upload your code directly to the deployment directory? Upload files, switch symlink. Done. You are talking about a deployment technique that has nothing to do with PHP.

My understanding is that it would not due to the different app signing certificate. This would be a new application unless Apple or Google signs the app using certificate forgery or similar.

This is basically how it works in the US too. You are punished for not submitting to the test by revocation of your license and also, the refusal to submit can be used against you to help establish you were DWI.

This is a good point. Using Rb with subshell and pipeline would be the best of both worlds?

I believe I understand your point: police themselves are unlikely to initiate a SWAT raid based on the Venmo transaction comment.

However, I don't believe you are sincerely trying to understand my point: If probably cause can be established by, "hearsay information provided by others", Then the Venmo transaction information could result in someone being SWATed by a well intending citizen or a malicious person.

Therefore, the availability of this information on Venmo can be a contributing factor to someone having the police called on them (and the police responding). I am not sure where the hole in this logic is?

Not true:

"SPOKANE, Wash. - SWAT raided a Spokane home on heroin warrant. It happened just before 11 am Friday morning at a duplex home on the corner of 4th and Altamont. Details were not immediately known but authorities on scene say they were serving a warrant related to heroin."

http://www.khq.com/story/21437261/swat-situation

How do police obtaining a warrant? In part by establishing probable cause. How is probable cause determined in the US:

"Probable cause can be based on either direct observation by the police officer, or on hearsay information provided by others."

People are able to send SWAT teams to houses as a prank. Someone malicious who is stalking another person could use this information to justify their "prank".

What about do-gooders? Someone sees a transaction marked "for drugs" and they call the police because they think they are helping. This already happens to a lot of people holding cookouts, selling lemonade, cutting grass, and more.

Hardly "nobody".

John Oliver hosts a late night talk show and he is primarily a comedian. He is not a journalist so your commentary on journalism seems misplaced on this point.

Except they actually did:

"The president picked a number for the wall, and I accepted it,” Schumer recalled in the midst of the shutdown. He had agreed to a significant sum of money for the wall—reported to be $20 billion, ... The White House ultimately rejected the offer, and later that night, Senate Democrats withheld their votes for a stopgap spending bill."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/democra...

Many or most are heavily armed in addition to their side arm. Shotguns, tazers, batons, pepper spray, etc.

http://www.policehow.com/police-gear-equipment.php

I would be shocked to find many young people with such intricate knowledge of the inner workings of phone systems. This is not something taught in school so I don't know what age has to do with it.

I am interested in your assertion that private gun ownership has deterred foreign invasion. Can you provide a citation? I would think that the trillions spent on defense over the course of decades would have the largest deterrent effect.

90% according to whom?

> Really?

For me, for 3 years, yes. For you, clearly the answer is no. Everyone is different and that is great.

OP stated:

> That touchid on back is a huge fail from UX perspective.

This is a matter of opinion that was stated as fact. I've used both styles of phone (simultaneously) where the fingerprint sensor is on the thumb/home button v. on the back for a few years now. I prefer the sensor on the back. I am not alone in this opinion. Therefore, it is not a "huge UX fail". That is the point I was trying to make.

I have both an S7 Edge (fingerprint reader on home button) and I've had 2 Nexus devices (6P and Pixel) with reader on back. I find the fingerprint sensor on the back to be far more user friendly than the awkward thumb button option. As others have said it is a natural location for your finger when holding the phone. Your use case is valid (phone is on flat surface), but the vast majority of people hold their phones during use rather than lay on flat surface.*

*citation needed, but I sincerely doubt this is hard to believe.

You will need more citations to prove that point. Same publication, more recently published, "Two Types of Diversity Training That Really Work".

"For one, a recent meta-analysis of over 40 years of diversity training evaluations showed that diversity training can work, especially when it targets awareness and skill development and occurs over a significant period of time."

https://hbr.org/2017/07/two-types-of-diversity-training-that...

This is a cool idea. I hope you do this and I happen upon it one day.

Buses and trains carry a lot more people per trip so the use of Uber pool does not negate the greenhouse gas argument. Uber pool will pollute more than other forms of mass transportation. Uber pool is only a subset of Uber users too.

He was interviewed in the embassy by Swedish prosecutors[1][2][3][4].

1 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/julian-assange-poli...

2 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-ecuador-sweden-assange-idU...

3 http://www.smh.com.au/world/swedish-prosecutor-ingrid-isgren...

4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...

I have learned a lot about OAuth from: Mastering OAuth 2.0 by Charles Bihis.

This is a good point. My assumption is that Google's algorithms have less bias than Google's employees. To me this is better than allowing fake news to spread.

I don't know a lot about the service, but two of the three experts are not students. The third is a PhD student which I hold in a higher regard in terms of knowledge than a typical undergrad college student. If they identify accurately I'd think it matters even less. Also, only $1 so you get what you pay for?

If you have completely sanitized data what is the problem with object serialization? Thank you.

Yes for some use cases. On my keyboard setup it is significantly faster to type four common characters than to think about and type two ^ between substitutions.

^ substitution is more precise and I think it is an under appreciated tool, but I don't think that negates the usefulness of thefuck.

CyberFlare looks interesting, thank you for sharing. If anyone knows of similar tools or a guide on using CyberFlare I would greatly appreciate the information.

Via precedent set by protecting phone calls:

"For decades, in both Republican and Democratic administrations, federal rules have protected the privacy of the information in a telephone call. In 2016, the F.C.C., which I led as chairman under President Barack Obama, extended those same protections to the internet."

VPN is a solution but requires trust in VPN provider. OpenVPN on a VPS can help. Also, consider DNS traffic can leak information, but I've not read of a fool proof way to fully protect DNS queries.