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by Crito 10y ago
What the hell does edgy mean these days?
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by Crito 10y ago
More complete quote of the photographer's joke: > "Don't worry, Soviet radiation is the best in the world. It makes hair thicker and men more potent." http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/al
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by Crito 11y ago
Controversial politicians, by their very nature, are not convincing liars. If you want to find examples of convincing liars, you need to look among the people who are universally loved.
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by Crito 11y ago
How do you manage hundreds of tabs in Chrome? I used to use hundreds of tabs in firefox, but firefox had an effective tree-style tabs extension...
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by Crito 11y ago
That's pretty fucking hyperbolic. A technical "sin" perhaps, but people are heaping derision on them as though they committed some great moral sin.
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by Crito 11y ago
At worst, Microsoft researchers are guilty of not being familiar with internet racism. Hardly a great sin.
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by Crito 11y ago
The euphemism treadmill is infinite.
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by Crito 11y ago
It's all fun and games until your boss's boss walks into the room and says "Why aren't you using Eclipse? Real developers use Eclipse." If you have sufficient seniority, you can tell them to fuck off without worr
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by Crito 11y ago
Yes yes, congratulations on having an old country.
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by Crito 11y ago
He's pedantically pointing out a superficial difference between the two cases, and pretending as though he therefore demonstrated some profound ethical or moral difference between the two. Good job on calling him out on this and pinni
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by Crito 11y ago
Of course it was a joke. But what sort of person, in that sort of situation, makes a joke like that? Forget the NYP completely and watch the video of how it played out on court. He comes off as a complete piece of shit.
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by Crito 11y ago
If the government is required do something for you ( "inform you of your rights" , in this case), then wouldn't it be reasonable to say you say that you have the right to that service? Miranda created the right to have th
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by Crito 11y ago
Gawker wasn't whining about the First Amendment when it was female celebrities whose tapes were leaked. This is a good outcome in every possible respect.
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by Crito 11y ago
You mean to tell me that in the 90s technically illiterate people were encrypting their files without even realizing it? Bullshit. Much has changed since then, whether you want to admit it or not.
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by Crito 11y ago
I'm honestly still surprised they ever did. I wonder how much they spent implementing their ability to accept bitcoin. Probably more than they ever made in profit.
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by Crito 11y ago
You need to remember the difference between theory and practice. In theory, yes. The technologies where available. But in practice, much has changed. In 2016, technically illiterate people are encrypting their files without even realizin
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by Crito 11y ago
If the government wanted your files decades ago, they'd take a crowbar to your filing cabinet. Not so easy to get files these days.
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by Crito 11y ago
If the drone is going to get up close and personal with the target, there are any number of toxins and venoms that would be more practical than nerve gas.
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by Crito 11y ago
> "Since the LD50 is 10 mg, "legally" _any_ country could stockpile 100g of VX (the amount they can produce annually without reporting to the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons) and maintain a swar
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by Crito 11y ago
Whether we want to call it a backdoor or get senselessly pedantic about terminology and call it a "front door" , the practical reality is yes; it is that functionality that the FBI is asking Apple to take advantage of.
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by Crito 11y ago
Running software in VMs to stay safe is not a new idea. So is it effective in this case? Just because attackers can break out of VMs, doesn't mean that they always do. I wager most malware out there isn't set up to do that. Lo
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by Crito 11y ago
Yeah, and passwords aren't supposed to be dictionary words. Nevertheless...
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by Crito 11y ago
> "It's a pretty good bet that China, Russia, the NSA, and other state security agencies have access to Apple's source code (not by Apple providing it to them, but by having pwned an employee's laptop). If Apple crea
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by Crito 11y ago
2000 years on, and we are still arguing over the Ship of Theseus
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by Crito 11y ago
Claiming it with the rigor that Sokal has is not common.
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by Crito 11y ago
If anyone is only familar with Sokal for his Social Text hoax, you owe it to yourself to check out his book Fashionable Nonsense (originally published in French as Impostures Intellectuelles ). While Sokal's hoax exposed inadequac
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by Crito 11y ago
In an alternate universe it may have been a plausible deliberate measure, but in this universe, it was a fuckup.
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by Crito 11y ago
Without a wristprint for the watch to read, what prevents somebody else from wearing it? The pulse and skin conductivity might change, but are either of those reliable enough metrics for such an application?
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by Crito 11y ago
> "Copying a good fingerprint from a dead finger or a randomly placed print is not easy [2]. It's hard, doable but you get 5 tries so if you screw up, you have thrown away all the hard work of the print transfer." You ge
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by Crito 11y ago
> "This is going to come back to haunt China at a time when growth is slowing and when they are going to need investment the most." The market has a short memory. China can act this way for as long as it is profitable. As s

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