Amadou

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by Amadou 13y ago
wouldn't security researchers writing 0days not really need the advice in OPSEC For Hackers since they are still acting legally? Your own government isn't your only potential enemy. True story: A friend of mine works for a larg
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by Amadou 13y ago
Obligatory stories of a Taco Bell employee refusing to accept a $2 bill and a Best Buy employee having a guy arrested for paying with $2 bills. (plus more currency anecdotes linked from the bottom of the article) http://www.snope
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by Amadou 13y ago
why the need for public access to a record of someone being arrested It is intended to prevent secret arrests. It is absolutely sucky for individuals to have their arrests made public, but the consequences of enabling secret arrests woul
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by Amadou 13y ago
On the other hand, there is something to be said for picking first names for your children from the list of 10 most common first names associated with your last name. "Free Viagra" is weird, but "Roberto Garcia" is (lit
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by Amadou 13y ago
The first thing all these people do the day they are laid off is file for unemployment (justifiably). So this passes all the costs onto the states. Unemployment insurance is primarily paid for by payroll taxes that go into a dedicated fun
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by Amadou 13y ago
The flipside is that it's impractical to pay companies to maintain the capacity to build everything they've ever built for all time. The defense contractors handle that problem by putting those people on other projects. Sometim
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by Amadou 13y ago
> In particular, congress shouldn't be paid. The problem isn't that congress is being paid, it is that so much of congress does not need to be paid because they are independently wealthy. Excluding non-revenue generating prope
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by Amadou 13y ago
I knew a guy who paid for porn. The way he explained it boiled down to curation. Those youtube-for-porn sites are pretty random, and places like usenet and bittorrent are even less organized, and require a bit of, er, delayed gratification
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by Amadou 13y ago
This was in June, so it's summer, and the father was supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, but forgot; don't know why... but came and left the baby in the car, and came into work. As an aside... There was a Pulitzer Prize wi
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by Amadou 13y ago
The experience was very positive from our side of things Your experience is almost certainly the common experience for people in your socio-economic group. The common worst case being they do let it slide and you are just left with waste
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by Amadou 13y ago
"Two years ago, battery fires broke out in three Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid cars after crash-testing." "After" being the operative word. They crashed the Volts for testing purposes and then left them sitting outsid
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by Amadou 13y ago
A constant theme with RMS is his complete misunderstanding of basic business and economic principles. I can't tell if Poe's Law is at work here. For all of RMS's 'misunderstanding' he's been so profoundly r
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by Amadou 13y ago
I'm not aware of any legal caselaw that has ever drawn such a distinction for the acts in play here. So I guess i don't get while people keep saying this like it should or would matter. Law is always a distant second to morality
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by Amadou 13y ago
"U.S. citizens living in a foreign country are not required to get health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. If you're uninsured and living abroad, you don't have to pay the fee that other uninsured U.S. citiz
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by Amadou 13y ago
What are they trying to fix? Maybe they have a requirements document somewhere that defines the goals of this redesign, but I don't see anything like it on their blog post. Just a couple of hand-wavy statements that don't describ
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by Amadou 13y ago
Learn to see how things break. Most developers have a vision of how things should work. Good security developers have a vision of how things are brittle. Risks Digest is a good, low volume, high signal to noise place to just soak in the i
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by Amadou 13y ago
All you have to do, the email says, is help them catch your friends in the group. You have to report back every week, or you dad might lose his job. So you do. FWIW, that is exactly what the FBI has been doing with the No Fly List. The
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by Amadou 13y ago
I really like Lawrence Lessig's proposal. It is a "hack" of the Citizen's United ruling along the lines of how copyleft is a hack of copyright law. In essence, he proposes that all campaign donations go into a "bla
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by Amadou 13y ago
Free speech does exist. But do remember that any free country also stipulates that the freedom comes with the responsibility that you do not use your freedom to hurt others. Joe Random twitter user can't hurt anyone by being an assho
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by Amadou 13y ago
My guess is that she sees her political fortunes as being tied to the programs. She is head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - she has been rubber-stamping them for years. If the NSA goes down, she goes down as an enabler.
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by Amadou 13y ago
Also being an Arab as far as I know is not a slur. Context is everything. They didn't just idly identify her as an arab as in "Wow, an arab finally won Miss America" - they called her an arab as part of a larger effort to
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by Amadou 13y ago
I wish reporters and pundits would just quit mining twitter for stupid quotes. It is like shooting fish in a barrel. It means exactly nothing that a couple of hundred, or even thousand, people said something dumb on twitter. What this jud
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by Amadou 13y ago
Seems like the guy requesting that certain data be collected is due some measure of academic credit for having the foresight to know what question to ask, even if someone else "scoops" them on the analysis. Sure, sometimes the r
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by Amadou 13y ago
I would seriously consider mandating that devices MUST NOT (in the RFC vernacular) have real-time human-calendar clocks on board them. I am in total agreement. My experience with gps-based clocks in high-precision hard real-time environm
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by Amadou 13y ago
Double-quote is "sort of literal" (google will perform automatic stemming on single words in double quotes, but not on phrases) if you want really, really literal use "intext:" or "allintext:"
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But for the other cases, like looking up specific serial numbers or whatever, it's a mess. It is a boatload of extra typing, but the "allintext:" operator is your friend for those kinds of searches. I wish there was a URL
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by Amadou 13y ago
Is there a solution to Quis custodiet ...? Yes. It is oversight by the public at large.
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by Amadou 13y ago
It seems I misread the original post and thought you were 'correcting' an already correct usage. On reading it again, it seems that I was wrong and I apologize. Given that HN does not show any historical revisions, it can be hard
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by Amadou 13y ago
Here's my personal anecdote: When I was working as a consultant I literally doubled my rates in the space of two years by simply not caring if I lost any gigs because of it and that was staring with a hourly rate of 3 figures. At the t
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From your second link: 2. To provoke; arouse: The portrait piqued her curiosity.

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