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2013: A Perilous Year on the Internet
Mar 11, 2014 3:45 PM PT
Surfing the Internet last year was a dangerous proposition, and it isn't getting any safer. On average, 200 samples of malicious software were collected every minute by McAfee Labs, the company reported Monday in its threat report for the last quarter of 2013.
All kinds of Internet nastiness increased last year -- from ransomware and suspicious URLs to bogus digital certificates, master boot record attacks, and poisoned mobile apps, the firm said.
It was also the year that -- thanks to Target -- the malware problem was brought home to many civilians in the war against cybercrime.
"The fourth quarter of 2013 will be remembered as the period when cybercrime became real for more people than ever before," said Vincent Weafer, senior vice president for McAfee Labs.
"These cyber thefts occurred at a time when most people were focused on their holiday shopping and when the industry wanted people to feel secure and confident in their purchases," he noted.
"The impact of these attacks will be felt both at the kitchen table as well as the boardroom table," said Weafer.
Healthy Market for Mischief
The repercussions felt from last year's data breaches at Target and Nieman Marcus will be long lasting, the report predicts, and not just because they will lead to changes in security practices and lawsuits.
"The big lesson is that we face a healthy and growing cybercrime industry which played a key role in enabling and monetizing the results of these attacks," the report says.
"There's a healthy market out there, and it's not people making custom code to do stuff," said Adam Wosotowsky, a messaging data architect with McAfee and one of the report's authors.
"Criminals can get these packages, and they don't need a lot of computer knowledge to build their infections and Trojans," he told the E-Commerce Times. "After they're built, the underground market can be paid to distribute them."
While the cyberunderground may be healthy, the targets of its wares are less so, noted Michael Belton, head of the assessment team at Rapid7.
"Systems are less-protected than they should be because patches are not being deployed, monitoring systems are not being watched, and processes are just too unpredictable," he told the E-Commerce Times.
Malicious Certificates
There was a disturbing increase in the amount of malicious binaries containing valid certificates, McAfee also reported. Certificates are used to validate the author of a program and ensure that software hasn't been tampered with since the certificate was issued.
The threat of digitally signed malware is not only expanding ever more rapidly, but also becoming more complex, the report points out. During the last quarter of 2013, McAfee discovered more than 2.3 million new and unique malicious signed binaries -- a 52 percent increase over the prior quarter -- and for the year, 5.7 million malicious signed binaries -- more than three times the number found in 2012.
"Cybercriminals are looking for ways that they can gain trusted status," said Kevin Bocek, vice president of product marketing at Venafi.
"Whether I'm Edward Snowden or a member of a cybergang, I want to get trusted status, and I want to go undetected. That's what the use of digital certificates allows me to do," he explained.
"Cybercriminals are running wild," Bocek told the E-Commerce Times. "They are compromising certificates, and there is very little enterprises have done to prepare for this."
Wild, Wild Net
Mobile malware continued to climb in 2013, the McAfee report observes. The company collected some 2.47 million new mobile malware samples, growing its "zoo" of unique samples by 197 percent for the year.
While mobile malware continues to grow, smartphone users who walk the straight and narrow should not be too concerned about infections.
"If you're getting your apps from an official site -- the iTunes Store or Google Play -- then everything is pretty safe," said McAfee's Wosotowsky.
However, Web surfers have less cause to feel safe.
"Internet citizens today are like the intrepid settlers of the American West 200 years ago," Paco Hope, principal consultant with Cigital, told the E-Commerce Times. "We need to be vigilant, protect ourselves a bit more than we might if the law were protecting us, and encourage lawmakers to catch the next train out to the undiscovered country."
As for the war with cybercrime, there doesn't seem to be a clear winner yet.
"No one has won or lost the war, but battles waged every day have to still tilt toward attacker victory over the defenders," said Tom Bain, director of marketing and security strategy at CounterTack.
That will change as defenders begin to leverage the attacker's methods and technologies against them to prevent data compromise, he told the E-Commerce Times. "Then companies can start to turn that fight around."


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Kathmandu jumps on higher sales
UPDATE 12.55pm: Clothing and camping equipment store Kathmandu has surprised the market with a dramatic jump in sales, in a positive sign for retailers approaching Christmas.
The Australasian company posted a 19.5 per cent boost in sales ($66.9 million) from its 126 stores for the 15 weeks to November 11, compared to the same period last year.
Same-store or comparable sales - excluding new stores - grew by 14.3 per cent during the period (13.6 per cent excluding currency movements) compared with 7.6 per cent in the same period last year.
The company's shares shot up on the news, increasing by eight cents, or 5.93 per cent, to $1.43 shortly before the close of trade.
They are up 10 per cent for the year.
There is cautious talk of an improvement in Australia's long-struggling retail sector following months of weak results, with Country Road and Myer having both posted positive trading updates yesterday.
The Westpac/Melbourne Institute's monthly index of consumer confidence this week showed that for the first time since February consumers were more optimistic than pessimistic about the economy.
CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian said that if those results were sustained over the new few weeks it would provide a degree of support for Christmas retail spending.
Kathmandu chief executive Peter Halkett said at the company's annual general meeting in Sydney that the latest trading update was ahead of expectations, especially in Australia, and came despite difficult trading conditions.
He repeated his pessimistic view first publicly shared in September - while announcing a $27.87 million annual net profit - that he thought the current tough trading climate was the "new normal".
City Index Group's chief market analyst Peter Esho said Kathmandu was reporting far stronger same-store sales growth than any other listed apparel retailers, including Premier Investments, owners of Just Jeans and others.
In an address to shareholders, Kathmandu chairman James Strong said the results had to be viewed with caution, with economic conditions globally likely to inhibit discretionary consumer spending for some time.
While Kathmandu's latest sales increase was strong, the 15 weeks to this week are the least important part of the year representing only 16 per cent of its sales mix in 2011.
The crucial Christmas and post-Christmas sales are worth 26 per cent and the Easter and winter sales 58 per cent.
Mr Strong told shareholders that Kathmandu's vertically integrated brand gave it total control over how it developed and distributed products.
That helped it better compete compared to other retailers hurt by international online retailing, he said.
"There is no change to our view that the Kathmandu brand has genuine potential to be a significant global presence in the outdoor travel and adventure market," Mr Strong said.
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In the US, the word "Latino" is used often, regardless of accuracy, as shorthand for a region's dominant Latino population. In the southwest it usually means "Mexican," in the northeast it means "Puerto Rican" and in Florida, "Cuban." Indeed, those are the three largest populations of Latino-Americanos in the country, although it goes without saying that there are many less-recognized groups of Latinos. Each have their own distinct culture, history, and place in America. This entry is about Colombians, who at an estimated 730,510 currently living in the US, make up the seventh largest Latino population, and the largest population of South-American immigrants in the country.
The country of Colombia is home to at least 85 indigenous nations, including the Muisca, Quimbaya, Tairona, Wayuu, Arhuacos, Kuna, Paez, Tucano, Guahibo, Cauca, Guajira and Guainia. The main population of European immigrants to Colombia were from Spain. Basques, Italians, Germans, the French, Swiss, Poles and Russians also migrated in large numbers. Smaller but significant numbers of European immigrants include Belgians, Lithuanians, Dutch, British, Portugese and Croatians in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1825 til 1851 the Spaniards forcibly brought uncounted numbers of slaves from West Africa. Syrians and Lebanese arrived from the Levant. Today, 58% of Colombians self-identify as mestizo, 20% as white, 14% as mulatto, 4% as black, 3% as zambo, and 1% as Native.


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Ed Morrissey has a fabulous post on price fixing as a remedy to something costing you too much.
Fixing prices does not lower costs. … "Costs" are borne by providers, who get reimbursed by either consumers (in a rational market) or by third parties (American health care) for their goods and/or services. In a competitive market, providers have to set their prices at an attractive level in order to get business without missing out on profit opportunities, but their prices have to cover their costs — or they go out of business.
Prices provide many services to a market economy. One is information on the value of something. When you offer more for a pair of World Series tickets you are informing everyone who owns them what the opportunity cost of their use is. Those who don't sell are in essence saying "these tickets are worth more to me than what I can sell them for on the street/on StubHub/etc."
Costs, though, are much more subjective than prices. As I've blogged before, costs are always costs to someone. Actions have costs, not things. Heyne, Boettke and Prychytko put it best: "All costs are costs of action or decisions, all are attached to particular person, and all lie in the future." So when someone asks "what does health care cost", you have to ask "cost to whom?" To use an extreme example, suppose government says to anyone holding an M.D. "You are now required to work one day every week — we'll pick the day — at a public free clinic, and we will pay you $0 for your day." To the taxpayer and to the government's budget, that costs nothing. But to the doctor this is tremendously expensive. She loses the income she would have earned had she been permitted to go to her clinic or hospital instead. Maybe this is more or less than what would have been paid if the patients who attended the "free" clinic, but for sure it is not free. It's only a question of who bears the burden.
This is the simple explanation, by the way, of why the Congress tried unsuccessfully to pass the Medicare fix for doctors. No costs would be changed by the act: The decision was whether or not to shift those costs from doctors to future taxpayers.
Likewise, the use of the public option is to, in short, provide pressure on the insurance companies to negotiate lower reimbursement rates for doctors or else lose customers to the government insurance plan. But at best this only changes the distribution of health spending between doctors, patients and insurance firms. What increases the supply of health care is a reduction in the opportunity cost of providing health care.
A misunderstanding of costs applies as well to patients. Alan Krueger wrote last February about the cost of patients' time waiting for health care. Question: Will the wait for health care rise or fall under Baucuscare? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? Not Congress, because it's not their costs.
This is also why the question "is the bill deficit neutral" hides the cost question. All this asks is whether the cost arises through the tax system and through government expenditures. Many costs can be hidden in mandates and "cost controls" that in fact increase costs, just not on the government's budget. Theirs are not the only costs that matter.
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Media powerhouse Oprah Winfrey has been implicated by a judge who claims she participated in her father's scheme to screw her step mom out of profits for the sale of their barber shop, TMZ reports.
In divorce documents–acquired by TMZ–Vernon and Barbara Winfrey filed conflicting petitions for divorce, but the judge granted hers and rejected his. The ruling followed accusations that Vernon was an adulterer and engaged in "inappropriate marital conduct."
TMZ reports that Vernon put the barbershop into foreclosure. This decision normally results in zero dollars for the owner. But according to the judge, Vernon knew his billionaire offspring would purchase the barbershop out of foreclosure and give him the title, forcing Barbara out of the picture.
Like clockwork, that's exactly what happened.
Sources say when the barbershop went into foreclosure, Oprah's trust purchased it and deeded it to O's dad and his business partner, leaving her step mom empty-handed.


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I'm looking into getting a new computer, and have to decide between getting components and assembling it myself, and buying a complete system. I'm not sure which way to go.
The system is intended to dual-boot Windows + Linux, and be a gamer PC under Windows and a work PC under Linux. Since my work obviously involves lots of C++, this means I want 4 cores and massive amounts of RAM. (Compiling big projects is slow otherwise.) On the game side, I also need some graphics power. I'm not looking for a top system here, but I still want to be able to play new releases with decent settings two years from now.
I've looked at Lenovo's desktop offers, but they're useless in this area - Lenovo is clearly focused on business computers. I suspect that the same goes for similar big companies like Dell. Dell's Alienware offers high performance, but I'm not sure if the prices are reasonable.
On the other hand, if I go for components, I have to do all the research and selecting of components. The assembling itself is no problem, but the selection is a significant time investment, and I'm rather out of touch with the hardware market.
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China air force in large-scale drill amid tensions
China's air force has staged one of its largest-ever drills amid heightened tensions with Japan and Beijing's southern neighbors over territorial claims, state media reported Friday.
The air combat exercises involving more than 100 pilots were held over 11 days last month in the vast northwestern region of Xinjiang, according to the website of the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily and other official news outlets.
Pilots practiced engaging in dog fights and countering electro-magnetic interference, the reports said.
Aircraft taking part came from 14 separate units and included China's most modern jet fighters, the J-10 and J-11, along with older models and two-seater Sukhoi Su-30s purchased from Russia, the reports said.
The exercises are a vivid demonstration of China's vastly improved military capabilities that have unnerved other Asian nations and spur a renewed U.S. focus on the region. The Global Times newspaper published by People's Daily called them the largest in recent years in both firepower and numbers of aircraft, and said they also involved large numbers of technicians and experts on missiles, radar and other related technologies.
They came amid stepped-up sea patrols around East China Sea islands claimed by China but controlled by Japan that followed an explosion of violent anti-Japanese protests across China in September.
Beijing has dispatched China Marine Surveillance vessels almost daily to confront Japanese Coast Guard cutters around the uninhabited rocks north of Taiwan, known as the Senkakus in Japan and Diaoyu in China. Taiwan, which calls the islands Diaoyutai, also claims them.
The drills also follow renewed feuding between China and other claimants to islands and maritime territory in the South China Sea. Aggressive patrolling by Chinese vessels has prompted Vietnam and the Philippines to bolster their forces with additional ships, planes, and submarines, and has drawn in the U.S., which insists on free navigation through the region of crucial shipping lanes and rich fishing stocks and undersea mineral wealth.
While the exercises were being held, China's navy also for the first time launched and recovered aircraft from the country's first aircraft carrier, a refurbished Ukrainian craft that will be armed with J-15 fighter-bombers, a Chinese adaptation of the Russian Sukhoi Su-33.


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Intel's OnCue TV service may finally see the light of day. The chipmaker has announced that Verizon will acquire its Media division, taking with it the division's intellectual property, products, and employees. In a press release, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam laid out plans to incorporate the product into its FiOS TV services while also offering an over-the-top experience that might allow Verizon to expand its reach—without incurring the expense of expanding its fiber optic network.
Intel's project was led by television industry veteran Erik Huggers and revolved around an IPTV service that would provide a nearly à la carte experience. Search and discovery features were among the key features of the service, but content distributors were hesitant to sign on to a system that would disrupt their comfortable relationship with cable companies. After taking over as CEO, Intel's Brian Krzanich expressed doubts that his was the right company to see this project through; Intel was reportedly seeking $500 million for the division.
For Verizon's part, its FiOS home television and Internet service has grown considerably, but high costs and a noncompete agreement with the largest cable companies have kept it from aggressively expanding the service's coverage area. That noncompete clause may soon expire, though, as it was tied to a spectrum purchase that has since been completed and a joint venture that was recently dissolved. If Verizon is to renew its efforts to expand and market its FiOS service, having a differentiating feature like OnCue might go a long way. Further, if Verizon is able to offer the same OnCue service in a set-top box over a competitor's wires, it could gain customers with minimal capital expense.
It's unlikely that Verizon would agree to the purchase if it weren't certain that its existing content partnerships would carry over into the new product. First, though, the usual regulatory hurdles have to be met before the sale is completed; it is expected to be finalized by the end of this quarter.


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Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi took her adorable 23-month-old son Lorenzo to the park in New Jersey on Monday (July 14).
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Group hopes to build housing complex for veterans
Organizer looking to get funding for planned facility
A Fort Smith group is working to help veterans overcome the challenges they're faced with every day.
The National Cemetery is quiet Saturday, but many are expected to visit the cemetery through the weekend to honor the men and women who have served the country.
Scott Bollman served in the military for 25 years. He and his wife now run Camp Hope for Heroes, a nonprofit whose mission is to make sure no veteran is left behind.
"(We want) to help them out and get them back on track to where they need to be," Bollman said. "The biggest issue I think is employment."
Camp Hope for Heroes provides veterans with resources and services, like transitional housing, financial counseling and help with employment and education.
"What we've done is reach out to the civilian community to help out our veterans," Bollman said.
The camp has 25 acres of land at Fort Chaffee, and Bollman said he wants to build a transitional housing complex that would serve 98 veterans in the area.
"If we could get the veterans jobs and get them back into school at least to better market themselves, then they wouldn't run into so many issues," Bollman said.
Bollman is looking to get funding for the housing complex.
Bollman started Camp Hope for Heroes in 2010. With other community groups' help, the nonprofit has provided food to nearly 1,500 veterans locally.


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So how many bumps does it take for old members to be able to use the PM/Email features? I have posted once, this will be my second post. But I can post a lot of nonsense if need be.
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It just takes one post but it has to be on one of the main boards. There is a specific post in the General Board to bump your counts up.
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Amelia Island is host to three festivals throughout the month of February that highlight a wide platform of artistic endeavors.
The Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival has concerts on February 9th, 11th and 15th as part of their WinterFest program. This are advance presentations with the main concert series running in May. These concerts are followed by the Amelia Island Book Festival on the 21st and 22nd. The Book Festival hosts writers , workshops, a readers workshop and the opportunity to meet authors like David Baldacci.
Our third festival in February is the popular Amelia Island Film Festival featuring six award winning feature films, a documentary series, international film series and an Oscar night party. The Film Festival runs from February 27th through March 2nd with films being shown in venues all over the island. Check out their website and order your tickets early.
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Victoria's Secret's crack Photoshop team appears to have a new target bodypart: Shoulders. Whatever other changes these highly creative minds are making to South African model Candice Swanepoel's body in their ongoing quest to erase any evidence of her having armpits, pores, or skin that creases in any way, they are certainly having a field day with her left deltoid.
Vicky's Miraculous® Multi-Way Push-Up Bandeau Top, featuring new shoulder-exaggerating technology™, comes to us via Photoshop Disasters. Love the way Swanepoel's outline gets fuzzy around the body part in question, though the edges of her arm and torso remain sharp. Anonymous Photoshopper-person: that was truly an inspired choice.
The VS Hipster Boot-Cut Jean, today's second entry in the Shoulder-'Shopping Sweepstakes, comes to us via a tipster reader, who noted helpfully, "God only knows how this happened." Love the return of the fuzzy outline, and that pose — it's like Candice is already looking for her Invisible Armpit.
Perhaps there's a very simple explanation for all of this: someone at Victoria's Secret is a really big fan of DIS [Link semi-NSFW].
VS Hipster Boot-Cut Jeans [Victoria's Secret]
Miraculous® Multi-Way Push-Up Bandeau Top [Victoria's Secret]
Victoria's Secret: Killer Shoulder Fat [Photoshop Disasters]
Shoulder Dysmorphia [DIS]


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Player Races
There are six Races that the player may choose. Each of these Races has varying attributes and combat ability.
The DATA column shows the basic data, such as weight, hits and carrying capacity for the race. DEFENSE shows the combat adjustment against the various type of weapons. ATTACK shows the adjustment for hand-to-hand attacks, THROW for thrown weapon attacks, MISSILE for missile attacks and SPELL for magical attacks for this race. The Attack value modifies your chance to hit, Dam Base and Dam Rand are the base damage and random variation. Rng Base is the short range distance, which is at the base attack value, and Rng Max is the maximum attack range. The Attack value is adjusted down for distance beyond Rng Base by -10 for each distance increment of the base range.
Non-Player Races
The following are the non-player races in Aragon. Players may not choose these. The data is provided here for reference.
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The controversy facing YouTube and video game channels now sees this broadside, by Clash (180,000 subscribers) against his network, Machinima.
The video echoes many complaints aired by others, particularly the feeling that, since YouTube changed the rules for how multi-channel networks like Machinima handle or manage their channels, there's little reason to belong to one. Clash in particular accuses Machinima of collecting ad revenue from his videos while doing little to no management or promotion on his behalf during the two year-relationship so far.
We've asked Machinima for a reaction.
Update, 7:57 p.m.: Machinima has provided this statement.
We are bummed to see that Clash isn't happy—he is truly one of our success stories. Our most successful partners are thriving because they create amazing content that resonates with the audience. In fact, we never take credit for our creators' successes, that credit belongs entirely to them. We always try to provide significant support, guidance and other opportunities for creators in our network—at various levels and stages given where they are in their career and what their goals are. We foster cross-promotion and collaboration across the Network on a daily basis. We have a dedicated support team. A development track that takes select partners and develops new shows for their channel and for the various Machinima channels. And, we provide amazing sponsorship opportunities with some of the largest brands in the world. We wish Clash nothing but continued success.


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Leif is a shy but playful 5-year-old boy who loves to play make-believe. Through the pages of his favorite book series, "Okee Dokee," he is able to join his favorite characters as they embark on voyages through time. From the Appalachian Mountains to the Wild West and down the Mississippi River, Leif is not confined to his hospital bed when he is immersed in his stories.
In his battle against leukemia, a special gift in the form of a wish-come-true helped Leif find strength. Leif had three requirements for his wish: there must be sand, a pirate ship and quality family time. A beach getaway to Hilton Head, N.C., was the perfect fit.
Ahoy matey! And welcome aboard the Black Dagger pirate ship.
Dressed in breeches, a bandana and mustache, Leif was ready to take on his mission as the first mate aboard the ship and take down the evil pirate Stinky Pete. Working closely with the crew, Leif shot water cannons at Stinky Pete, hoping to knock him off his ship. After countless hours of strategic strikes, Leif aimed just right and launched the final shot that took down the villainous pirate. The crew all sang in celebration. Leif was the hero.
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On days when treatment is particularly difficult, Leif and his family look through their photo album, reminiscing about the fun times they had together on his wish. "We play 'pirates' daily, and the sword he brought home is a physical reminder of the inner strength and bravery Leif has," Emily said.
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This page is under construction -- please help!
Getting involved
There are two major ways to get involved in the diagrams community and find out what is going on:
- The IRC channel (
#diagramson freenode.org) is fairly active and a good place to interact with other diagrams users and developers. (Be patient: sometimes no one is watching the channel, but if you say something or ask a question, you can be sure that someone will eventually see it and respond.)
- The mailing list is the place to stay up-to-date with announcements, and also a good place to ask questions, especially longer or more involved ones.
Getting the sources
All the core diagrams code can be found in the diagrams organization on github.
If you don't already know how to work with repositories hosted on github, take a look at a tutorial. The hub utility is an optional but recommended tool for simplifying common tasks involving github.
Choosing a project
If you would like to begin contributing to the diagrams project but are not sure where to start, here are a few resources that may be helpful:
- Take a look at the issue trackers for repositories in the diagrams organization on github, especially those for the diagrams-core, diagrams-lib, diagrams-contrib, and diagrams-doc repositories.
- See the projects page for a list of ongoing projects to get involved with, or new projects to start.
- Don't hesitate to ask for ideas on the mailing list or IRC channel.
Best practices
As a running example, let's suppose you want to add a function to the
Diagrams.TwoD.Shapes module (from the diagrams-lib package) to draw a diamond shape.
Getting the code
To begin, you will need a github account, and to fork and clone some of the diagrams repositories. See here for help on how to fork a repo. At a minimum, you will need the following repositories:
as well as one of the following two backends:
If you do not plan to make any modifications to the code in a certain repo, you may clone it directly instead of first forking on github and then cloning from your fork, for example
git clone https://github.com/diagrams/diagrams-core
or, using hub, simply
hub clone diagrams/diagrams-core
(In fact, hub makes it easy to later convert a direct clone into your own fork if you wish, via the
hub fork command; see the hub documentation for more information.)
It's recommended to use some sort of sandboxing tool while working on diagrams. Because diagrams consists of several separate packages, using cabal-dev can be something of a pain. Instead, we recommend using hsenv---though you will have to build it from source, and it is only known to work on Linux systems. Good suggestions of similar tools for Windows or Mac are welcome.
In any case, there is an important trick for building multiple local packages at once that you should know, which works with cabal as well as cabal-dev. Instead of installing each package one at a time, simply go up to the parent directory and issue a command such as
cabal install monoid-extras/ dual-tree/ diagrams-core/ diagrams-lib/ diagrams-cairo/ diagrams-contrib/
The trailing slashes tell cabal to install packages from local directories, rather than trying to download packages from Hackage. In addition, it doesn't even matter in what order you list the directories; cabal will figure out the correct order based on dependencies.
Making changes
Now that you have your cloned/forked repositories and know how to build them, go ahead and make some edits. You can see what changes you've made using the
git diff command, stage certain changes with
git add (try the
-p flag!), and create a commit from staged changes with
git commit.
Submitting a pull request
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- use topic branches
- encourage submitting update to documentation
- link to coding style document
TODO: expand/clean up the below
But the short version is that a pull request is not for a set of commits, it is for a *branch*. In particular, you add new commits to a pull request simply by pushing to the branch which the pull request is from. So best practice when working on a new feature is
- make a new branch (a "feature" or "topic" branch). If you have push access you can make a branch directly in the main repo; otherwise, fork it and make a branch in your fork.
- Make some commits in your branch.
- Open a pull request from your branch to 'master'.
- If necessary, make revisions etc. by pushing additional commits to the branch. There's no need to "revise" the original commits; it's useful to have the entire history of development with comments, etc.
- Once your commits have been merged, you can delete the branch.
The important point is that it's usually a bad idea to open a pull request from the 'master' branch of your fork because then you can't do anything else while waiting for your changes to be merged.
Another interesting point is that there's not necessarily any reason to wait until you are "done" to open a pull request. Just make sure you state that the feature is "in progess", and then you can get useful early feedback as you continue to work on the feature and push more commits. Of course, branches/pull requests also make for a nice way to work on a new feature collaboratively.


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Is the Samsung Galaxy Note II Too Big?
One of the most interesting things about category-defining devices is that they tend to polarize opinions based on one or several unique characteristics. Also, these standout features typically survive into the products' sequels, which typically launch before anyone's finished arguing about their worth.
That's certainly the case with the recently-launched Samsung Galaxy Note II, bursting onto the market almost exactly a year after its predecessor, and touting the same standout features such as its S Pen stylus and massive display.
Like its predecessor, the Galaxy Note II is massive. Samsung has slimmed the newer device somewhat, stretching its vertical axis to make it a bit more palm-friendly, but there are only so many tricks possible with casing design when you're dealing with a 5.5-inch display. The result is, once again, a device that seems impossibly huge — if you consider it a smartphone.
Samsung hoped to blur the line between smartphone and tablet with the original Galaxy Note. Despite the gloom-and-doom predictions of some of us in the tech press, it succeeded brilliantly. But even all those millions of units sold can't overcome the confusion on some folks' faces when they first handle the new device, as I recently discovered.
Carrying the Galaxy Note II around my rural hometown for the past few days, I've been entirely unsurprised at the reaction of the public to this monstrosity: from flabbergasted to awestruck to what-the-hell-were-you-thinking-you're-insane, people always have an opinion. Again, that's not surprising in this area of the U.S., where networks aren't yet robust enough to make the case for widespread smartphone adoption, but people here still know smartphones and tablets when they see them. Laying eyes on a phablet, though, is still a new experience for most, so the natural assumption is to say "that's a giant phone!"
Breaking out the S Pen and showing some of the multitasking functionality available on the Galaxy Note II certainly changes that perception somewhat, and people have generally thereafter been more accepting of the beastly mobile device riding shotgun in my pocket. Still, more often than not, the conversation ends on the mildly bemused note of "but I could never carry something that big."
Popular as it's likely to be, it's unlikely the Galaxy Note II will be able to single-handedly catapult the "phablet" concept into mainstream awareness. Many people will continue to perceive it as an oversized smartphone, and you can see why. Holding the Note II up to your head is possible; that's not the case with tablets. It's somewhat pocketable; tablets generally aren't. Wireless carriers will sell the Note II with traditional voice-minute cellular plans; they don't do so with tablets. In many ways, then, on paper, the Galaxy Note II is in fact a scaled-up smartphone.
So the question is a good one: Is it too big? And the answer is a simple one, one that often crops up in off-color jokes, and discussions about mobile devices: "it's not the size of the boat [that matters], it's the motion of the ocean." Or, if you prefer: "it depends how you use it."
In my short time with the Note II, I've pondered the question myself: Is this a product I see myself carrying as a daily driver? Could I make this my primary mobile device? And my answer has stayed relatively consistent: "Yes. If I were still a student."
My test-drive of the Galaxy Note II has thus far enhanced my perception of it not as a large general-purpose smartphone, but as a specialized tool. The large screen, S Pen support and fancy features I mentioned in last week's initial-impressions piece would have made my life as a student much easier. That's true to an extent of tablets as well; an iPad or Nexus 7 would have served a similar purpose in those days, but the Galaxy Note II would have carried the added bonus of serving as both my smartphone and my tablet.
The specialized nature of the phablet category actually is helpful in the two occupations that take up most of my time today; writing for Pocketnow and acting. In the former application, I'm able to stay on top of news faster using the Note II by using the pop-up browser feature; I load pages from links while I'm browsing my Twitter feed. In the latter occupation, I'm able to see more of a script in my hand by virtue of the larger display, keeping me from being that guy who holds up rehearsal every four seconds because he's scrolling to keep his PDF on the screen.
There's all kinds of specialized examples where a larger device is preferable: truck drivers using GPS applications; artists and graphic designers in frequent need of a large canvas; road warriors who need the added longevity a larger battery (theoretically) delivers; videographers and photographers who want to share rough shots around a room without forcing their customers to squint. The list is extensive.
With all these useful applications, it's easy to see two things: how Samsung sold millions upon millions of original Galaxy Note devices, and why the device has built up such a loyal following in only a year. But it's also important to realize that it's not going to be a device for everyone … because it really, truly is a behemoth.
This weekend, I had a bit of time off from those two occupations I mentioned, and I spent a lot of that time off alternating between boating and traveling via bus and train. In both instances, I was folded in half in a small space on a rapidly-moving vehicle, and trying to extricate the Galaxy Note II from my pocket proved very difficult. Also, once I got it out, manipulating the device's features with one hand was tough, and I didn't always have another hand to spare.
If you frequently find yourself in situations where one-handed usability is a priority, then, you're probably the consummate example of someone the Galaxy Note II would be too big for. We've talked before about the importance of preserving choice in the mid-size phone categories, but being stuck using the Galaxy Note II with a single hand is almost doubly a tragedy– because you're also losing all of the S Pen functionality, the other half of what makes the device truly special.
As a phablet, the Galaxy Note II is forced to carry the heavy burden of serving as both a smartphone and a tablet. You'll have to wait for our full review to see how well it ultimately accomplishes that goal, but in the interim it's safe to say that the gigantic dimensions it requires as a result of its nature will be off-putting to some, and ecstasy to others. With the Galaxy Note II, as with any other mobile device, the question of "How (x) Is Too (x)" will ultimately depend on the user. It just happens to be a bigger, more critical distinction in the case of this massive slab than with other devices.
This article originally published at Pocketnow here


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Move over, Stephen Colbert.
The Associated Press and TMZ are reporting that comedienne and self-proclaimed "domestic goddess" Roseanne Barr has filed documents to run for president.
Apparently, she thinks that only a woman can solve this nation's problems. Check out the above video from her website.
Barr, who starred in the classic sitcom Roseanne and in her 2011 reality-TV show, Roseanne's Nuts, plans to run under the banner of the Green Party.
Barr says she's sick of Democrats and Republicans, whom she believes are not working in the best interests of the American people.
So what, you ask, is Roseanne pushing? The answer is simple … pot. She wants marijuana legalized and sold strictly domestically.
If you're not taking her seriously, apparently a Green Party official does. Tom Yager posted on her website: "I am pleased to inform you that Roseanne Barr is officially recognized by the Green Party of the United States, Presidential Campaign Support Committee, as a Green Party Presidential Candidate."
The star in a statement to AP that she's a longtime supporter of the party and looks forward to working with people who share her values.
"The Democrats and Republicans have proven that they are servants — bought and paid for by the 1% — who are not doing what's in the best interest of the American people," Barr said.
Barr has started a grassroots campaign for support through her Twitter account and website. On her website, she writes:
I'm tired of watching as men destroy all the world. Everything used to be beautiful when women were in charge, and now I, working as the physical manifestation of the goddess Isis and the reincarnation of Cleopatra, have decided to save the world.
Remember what happened when she sang the national anthem? We're guessing her campaign will suffer the same fate. But the way the race for president seems to be going, just about anything is possible.


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Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union. Written for posterity, perhaps, it's still a policy speech, and policy costs. Here's "Debtris," reminding everyone that, a bilion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money.
Debtris, produced last month by Information is Beautful, arranges spending figures in relative sizes to one another; the Tetris motif is just to get you to pay attention. No squiggly pieces or L bars, but damn, that $3 billion from OPEC's climate change fund sure is preventing the board from clearing off a couple lines, isn't it.
For our friends overseas, here's the U.K. version.
Debtris [Information Is Beautiful]


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A Home Office official has warned once again that with the Olympic Games only weeks away the country faces an unprecedented threat from cyber-attacks during the event.
Using the 3 July National Security 2012 conference as a platform, Counter-Terrorism department director Richard Clarke likened the potential disruption from cyber-attacks to the sort of physical threats that might have concerned security chiefs at past games.
"The current threat level is at substantial and we recognise threat levels may change rapidly," Clarke was quoted as saying.
"With the scope to move to highest level of critical we will adapt to respond to changes and challenges. We remain vigilant against cyber issues in our preparation for Olympics. London 2012 is the biggest peace time security endevour in the last 20 years. People are starting to realise the sheer scale and I think it's staggering to see the amount of work that has been done," he added.
That Clarke mentioned cyber-terrorism and cyber-hacking disruption in a speech so close to a huge public event was only to be expected, but nobody could accuse the UK Government of failing to remind people of the issue.
There have been numerous such statements, including Foreign Secretary William Hague's warning on targeted attacks against the country in February 2011, which echoed several by senior politicians and officials going back to 2008.
The alerts state the obvious perhaps but are not totally without foundation in concrete terms as an attack on the BBC (seen in some foreign states as being an arm of government) earlier this year underlined.
In April, PwC warned that large organisations in the UK were being hit by an average of 54 cyberattacks per annum.
Confusingly, only a day before Clarke's presentation, James Quinault of the UK Cabinet Office went on the record as saying he believed that many cyberattacks could be prevented using simple security measures.
"By suggesting that the majority of attacks can be defeated simply by changing passwords or being careful about what information is shared online points to a severe lack of understanding of how the current security landscape is manifesting," responded Ross Brewer of security firm, LogRhythm.
The dichotomy spotted by the critics points to the protection afforded government infrastructure and the lack of similar protection for ordinary consumers, the target of Brewer's prompt. None of this is new of course.
"You only have to read the constant stream of headlines to see that our established reliance on anti-virus, firewalls and other perimeter-based defences are proving time and time again to be woefully ineffective at mitigating the advanced threats that we are seeing today," chimed Paul Davis of FireEye.
The fact that the country's critical infrastructure might be assaulted using bots that have recruited compromised consumer systems inside the UK remains an unresolved wrinkle in national cybersecurity policy.
The better news is that the UK has also been rated by McAfee as having some of the strongest cyber-defences in the world. In the coming weeks the effectiveness of this shield will be on display as never before.


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Since its introduction, Flash RAM has become immensely popular. It is widely used in digital music players, millions of people have USB thumbdrives on their persons, and hybrid hard drives that combine flash memory with the spinning platters are on their way. For all its usefulness, flash RAM does have its drawbacks: it's relatively slow and it has a finite (although high) number of read-write-erase cycles.
Enter PRAM. Despite sharing the same name, the new memory technology from Samsung is not to be confused with the stuff Mac owners zap when troubleshooting a balky machine. Phase-change Random Access Memory is Samsung's new memory technology that works much like flash memory, but is much faster and more durable.
So far, Samsung has built a fully-functional 512Mb chip to demonstrate the technology. It uses the same vertical diodes and three-dimensional transistor structure used in DRAM and unlike flash RAM, can write data without needing to erase data already present on the drive. Samsung says that overcoming this limitation means that PRAM can operate at speeds up to 30 times faster than flash RAM. It will also last longerup to 10 times longer than flash RAM chips.
The chipmaker anticipates offering a full lineup of PRAM products in 2008, once it has the kinks in the manufacturing process worked out and fabrication facilities up to speed. It looks promising from a fabrication point of view, though. Samsung says that it will be less expensive to manufacture since it requires 20 percent fewer process steps than does conventional flash.
It is possible that laptops and other computers will incorporate PRAM into their systems down the road, as the battery life on a laptop with a large PRAM drive could be rather impressive. In the near-term, PRAM is more likely to be used for applications such as cell phones that use a relatively small amount of memory, but where faster reads and writes could result in a significant increase in performance.


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A next-generation version of Dead Island could be announced as early as this year, publisher Deep Silver has suggested.
Makes sense. Here's hoping the gameplay is upgraded along with the graphics. I enjoyed Dead Island, but there were moments where the game simply missed the mark.
Riptide looks like an expansion back. This should've been their next move instead.
Make it less tedious. I'm about 10 hours in, and all I've done is melee zombies that take 2-10 hits to kill (other than Thugs) and fetch quests. IDK, maybe there's more variety to come, but for TEN hours? Sheesh.
And better voice acting with less annoying, unclever stereotypes. "I am RUSHEEN. Bring me alke-hal. MY COUNTRY GREATEST"
Hopefully they improve on character and lip movement when SAM B got chatting he was miming away and it looked silly sometimes, also more weapons they may have missed out on dead island one but they were spot on with the coop and it was very fun.
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The growth of shared Wi-Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have devised a low-cost system that can thwart these "Man-in-the-Middle" (MitM) attacks.
The system, called Perspectives, also can protect against attacks related to a recently disclosed software flaw in the Domain Name System (DNS), the Internet phone book used to route messages between computers.
The researchers -- David Andersen, assistant professor of computer science, Adrian Perrig, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and public policy, and Dan Wendlandt, a Ph.D. student in computer science -- have incorporated Perspectives into an extension for the popular Mozilla Firefox v3 browser than can be downloaded free of charge.
Perspectives employs a set of friendly sites, or "notaries," that can aid in authenticating Web sites for financial services, online retailers and other transactions requiring secure communications. By independently querying the desired target site, the notaries can check whether each is receiving the same authentication information (a digital certificate), in response. If one or more notaries report authentication information that is different than that received by the browser or other notaries, a computer user would have reason to suspect that an attacker has compromised the connection.
Certificate authorities, such as VeriSign, Comodo and GoDaddy, already help authenticate Web sites and reduce the risk of MitM attacks. The Perspectives system provides an extra measure of security in those cases but will be especially useful for the growing number of sites that do not use certificate authorities and instead use less expensive "self-signed" certificates.
"When Firefox users click on a Web site that uses a self-signed certificate, they get a security error message that leaves many people bewildered," says Andersen. Once Perspectives has been installed in the browser, however, it can automatically override the security error page without disturbing the user if the site appears legitimate.
The system also can detect if one of the certificate authorities may have been tricked into authenticating a bogus Web site and warn the Firefox user that the site is suspicious. "Perspectives provides an additional level of safety to browse the Internet," Perrig says. "To the security conscious user, that is a significant comfort."
Andersen said the increased use of wireless connections to the Internet has increased the risk of MitM attacks. These occur when an attacker tricks a computer user into believing that the user has established a secure link with a target site, such as a bank. In actuality, the computer user is communicating with the attacker's computer, which can eavesdrop as it relays communications between the user and the target site.
"It's very, very, very easy for someone to convince you to go through their computer" when making connections through public Wi-Fi, Andersen says. A user who thinks he is linked to an airport or coffee shop "hot spot," for instance, might actually be linked to a laptop of someone just a few seats away. "A lot of people wouldn't even know they've been attacked," he adds.
Most Internet communications, such as to standard hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) sites, are unsecured, but those involving encryption over a secured socket layer (SSL) and those using secure shell (SSH) protocol, which involves the use of a login and password, require that sites authenticate themselves with a digital certificate containing a so-called public key, which is used for encryption.
The exchange of this security information typically occurs without the computer user being aware of it. But when something isn't quite right, a dialogue box such as "Unable to verify the identity of XYZ.com as a trusted site" is displayed by the Web browser.
"Most users don't have a clue about what to do in those cases," says Wendlandt. "A lot of them just shrug and go ahead with the connection, potentially opening themselves up to attack."
A vulnerability disclosed in July in the DNS software poses a different problem for computer users, but one that also is addressed by Perspectives. The software flaw could enable an attack against an Internet Service Provider (ISP) that would cause the ISP to connect users with a malicious site instead of the legitimate site they were seeking. "With Perspectives, even if a client's ISP has fallen victim to the attack, the client will be able to detect that the public key received from the fake site is inconsistent with the results returned from the notaries," according to Wendlandt.
Andersen, Perrig and Wendlandt have launched their own publicly available network of notary sites. They anticipate that ISPs, universities and large companies will eventually sponsor additional notary sites, in the same way that they voluntarily provide time servers and network diagnosis sites.


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Prior hurt himself in training on Monday and England called up uncapped Lancashire gloveman Jos Buttler as precautionary cover.
However, Prior, who has a minor thigh injury, looks set to play in the match which begins on Wednesday.
Cook said: " We're 99 per cent sure that he'll be fine but we'll have a little check in the morning just to make sure.
"But all things at the moment are looking good."
Earlier, the England and Wales Cricket Board said on Twitter: "Jos Buttler called into the England squad as cover for Matt Prior, who experienced some mild tightness in his right thigh yesterday.
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This climate climate zone covers from about 44°N to 50°N latitude mostly east of the 100th meridian in North America. However, it can be found as far north as 54°N, and further west in the Canadian Prairie Provinces and below 40°N in the high Appalachians. In Europe this subtype reaches its most northerly latitude at nearly 61° N. Areas featuring this subtype of the continental climate have an average temperature in the warmest month below 22°C (22°F). Summer high temperatures in this zone typically average between 21-28°C (70-82°F) during the daytime and the average temperatures in the coldest month are generally far below the -3 °C (27°F) mark.
The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Dfb". (Warm Summer Continental Climate).
The average amount of precipitation for the year in Bradford is 50.5" (1282.7 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is August with 4.8" (121.9 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is February with an average of 3.4" (86.4 mm). There are an average of 135.0 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in May with 13.0 days and the least precipitation occurring in February with 10.0 days.
In Bradford, there's an average of 87.0" of snow (0 cm). The month with the most snow is January, with 20.7" of snow (52.6 cm).