Woah. Looking at the ruling, they seem like very straight-to-the-point judges. The writing style is very intuitive and easy to understand even for non-legal minds!
So you bought a book that's sold as "The world's most infamous hacker offers an insider's view of the low-tech threats to high-tech security"[0] and expected it to be about serious computer-based intrusion?
> The irs keeps 6 months of emails on tape; when investigators asked for emails in mid-2013, tape was available through late 2012.
IRS guidelines state that official records, in accordance with the Federal Records Act, must be retained (at the very least archived as a hardcopy). So the IRS is institutionally violating their own guidelines, as well as federal law?
> 2011 < 2013, it's not as if she could know that her emails would be requested in the future.
Looks like the git repositories used to submit solutions are over SSH? Unfortunately this won't work in an environment that requires outbound traffic to go over an authenticated proxy. Any chance of getting git-over-HTTPS support?
No kidding! I would routinely get 850+ km from my Golf in city driving on a tank (45-50 L). 1000+ km should be easily possible on the highway. Larger cars would have a little worse economy, but should still be excellent.
I'm also curious about the downsides of using Vagrant.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if you have full access to the command line you can probably get your recipes working there. If this works, I understand it's not as easy as provisioning with Vagrant but it's a workaround for now.
Paul Krugman was also skeptical and dismissive of the Internet:
> The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law" -- which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants -- becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.
> As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.
Paul Krugman was mostly right on both accounts...but for the wrong reasons.
The fax machine was a sea change when it was introduced. It absolutely was the one communications device every business had to have. It revolutionized white collar businesses and the sales process (imagine! transcontinental signed sales agreements within minutes!). Hell, the catalog industry (upon which the founding laws of e-commerce rest) owes its existence to the fax machine! Krugman misunderstood how important the fax machine was to businesses.
And he was right about the number of jobs for IT specialists, which has been declining for the past decade as IT operations are increasingly outsourced (even as other technology-related fields programming/design/etc have vastly grown) to foreign countries or specialized operators (i.e, Google Apps, Office 365, Amazon AWS, Salesforce, etc).
So with the fax machine analogy, you're saying that not only did he have no idea what he was talking about with his predictions of the future, but he also couldn't even comprehend the present.
With relation to IT jobs, wow that is one hell of a stretch.
If you turn out to be wrong, along with everyone else in your cohort, that's okay (you can't win them all). It's being wrong, while going against the majority of your peers that gets you laughed at.
I think it's safe to assume that Krugman is a lot more trustworthy when talking about something that's actually within his realm of expertise; namely, economics.
what does it say about a person who is dismissive about the way technology can affect/influence human behavior?
what makes him an expert?
is it because he panders to what is the status quo (the ever-present monopoly of sorts)?
is it because he engages in thoughtful exploration of ideas and notions with a larger community and helps bring about great discussion?
is it because he has a degree?
is it because he has done something notable for humanity?
Of course not, but it does affect your credibility, and rightly so.
I don't know what his track record is on technology in general, but dismissing something as important and revolutionary as the Internet makes me seriously wonder about his ability to understand the impact of new technologies.
It doesn't for me. A lot of people were wrong about the Internet. It was a revolutionary technology, but for every revolutionary technology that has succeeded, there are plenty that fail.
If we look back 10 years from now, BitCoin could either be hugely successful or a mere afterthought. I'm not going to hold anyone accountable for being "right" or "wrong" about predicting its future. But I suppose this is why sensationalist journalism works.
Being wrong on technology as an economist isn't an indicator in this case. Bitcoin is intended as a currency, his skepticism is directed towards that. His background as an economist and success/failure there should give weight to his views.
I am curious: Has Krugman actually made any predictions about the potential uptake of Bitcoin?
From what I recall, his statements basically amount to saying that using Bitcoin as the basis for the economy is a bad idea because it would hurt macroeconomic developments.
Those are very different things, and obviously Krugman is much more likely to accurately predict the latter than the former.
This is not entirely true. A very large percentage of spam (70-90%) is stopped at or before the banner, at a layer he probably doesn't control (unless he runs his entire email infrastructure).
I do run my entire email infrastructure, in this case. During the time period where a lot of these spam messages were received, it was directly hosted on a enterprise fiber line, on its own IP address, which I wouldn't imagine was doing any sort of filtering.
I could be wrong and it's possible that some filtering was happening on the ISPs side, but you'd think that of the thousands of spams that get through, there would be some that looked like guesses.
