ErrantX

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by ErrantX 15y ago
Here's something I learned: don't be wishy washy. Avoid pandering to the person you're emailing - it takes up words and sounds pathetic. I've done this in the past and been the recipient. It just goes bad. Busy people work on short terse co
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by ErrantX 15y ago
They will sell this with "think of the children" thing again, I am sure. Pisses me right off. We fought this in the UK in the disguise of deep-packet filtering at the ISP's, that one floundered from the off but dragged out its demise for a
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yes... but all of the aforementioned was built by people even closer to the caricature he paints. So I am unconvinced the problem is as described :) The problem is that the world became suddenly a lot smaller and social perspectives chang
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Churchill was not the smartest (from a technical perspective) cookie in the cookie jar, he was not a careful quiet thinker, he was a bit racist, from the "old school" and rather stuffy. But he was very very very very good at two things; pat
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This is hilarious :) I honestly thought it was a joke... but now I am uncertain.. he seems to genuinely think that Britain is like this :S The best bit is the wonderful caricature of Oxbridge interviews, as if the modern world is left beh
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Yes, absolutely true. Anecdotally the first couple of novels I wrote (unpublished) disgusted me. I know the stories I want to tell and all of the things that make books in my genre (fantasy and historical fiction) suck. But I found myself r
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I work for a private company and we contract out to both the private and public sectors. There is definitely a lot of private work; not just investigations but document recovery etc. It also segues into general security work. The public sec
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Honest answer; never come across one. I'm going to guess that will be a serious hurdle to overcome (assuming no one has found a workaround).
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by ErrantX 16y ago
At least some phones running Google's Android OS Android is a dream for someone like me (forensic analyst). It is easy to get data off, and is chock full of all sorts of cached information. iPhone is more difficult, and can sometimes be
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by ErrantX 16y ago
One of my uni professors had a good maxim he has posted above his desk: love the software, hate the code
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Damn. You're right :S I didn't manage to make that final leap... and hence see to importance of the foreigner. Subtly brilliant! Consider me trouted.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Umm, we defined X as the number of people with brown eyes. So on an island with 4 people, three of whom have brown eyes, then X=3 and, yep, there is a problem. Where X=4 (i.e. there are 4 people with brown eyes) it works. In your case, wh
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Suppose X is one, then the brown eyed person appears to be stuck Yes, the problem specifically doesn't work if the number of people with an eye colour is below a certain amount. The case for X>2 seems similar to the case for X=2, the
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by ErrantX 16y ago
I have done; I was using the "blue eyes on their own" as an example to demonstrate it. I'll try again (this can take a long while to get your head round :D). Once the Blue eyed people are dead each islander now knows that there are definite
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Imagine the problem like this. The island is populated by just 100 Blue eyed people. An individual can therefore see 99 blue eyes. Their logical reasoning is that if they are not blue eyed then on day 99 all of the blue eyed people will c
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by ErrantX 16y ago
As a logic puzzle it is very tenuous. The proposed solution (which is lower down the blog post) is that because any blue eyed Islander is able to count the number of blue eyed people (99), if on day 99 those people do not kill themselves it
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Huh? They could just do another analysis to show email from that time. Although proving the lack of something is a lot more difficult that proving the existence of something. So it doesn't always serve much for them to say "nope, can't find
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by ErrantX 16y ago
My advice is probably going to be different from most others here: don't worry about it, enjoy yourself. Unless you are really lucky, once you're out of university you will be in a 9-5 job for some significant time, with a few weeks a hol
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Are these emails from those HDD's? If not, where are they from? Have they been subjected to forensic investigation? Has the source been substantiated? Was the due diligence done on these emails, specifically? I'm a cynic about such things t
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by ErrantX 16y ago
There are some missing comma commonalities between the two that I find compelling.
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Yes... but still sceptical. I'd like to know what due diligence was done, and by whom. And exactly what they did (i.e. to the computers, these emails etc.). It would certainly be possible to fool someone that such emails were legit dependin
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by ErrantX 16y ago
The emails don't read 'fake,' writes Henry Blodget Really. How exactly? Blodget appears to qualify this claim (in the Business Insider article) by basically saying "well, they haven't been proven fake yet, so we are suspicious that means
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Oh crap. Typing too late again :s
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Sad. Kudos. I've only ever come across Groklaw on HN, it's not a blog I've ever kept up with regularly (my loss). But every memory I have of Grok' content is of competent, sensible and inciteful commentary. The SCO stuff kinda passed me by,
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by ErrantX 16y ago
French politics simply does not understand the internet. And they are uninterested in privacy or security. They "lost it" in my eyes with their LOPPSI internet filtering laws (which they heavily promoted with nonsense about child sex offend
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by ErrantX 16y ago
No you're not alone on that. Branson has always pushed to be at the "edge", see Virgin Galactic as the prime example of that :)
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by ErrantX 16y ago
He's saying that revenue is in the region $20-30 Million.[1] That's... crazy. Awesome, but crazy. I knew Minecraft was a success story but not to that extent! http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/gjrf4/iama_indie_game_...
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Yeh you are right on both points (HN mungs the period on the end of the URL... grr). The WP article was a bit of a mess so I've been rewriting/sourcing it - and, yes, the court carefully states that it didn't believe it was deliberate discr
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by ErrantX 16y ago
If you could show that passing the test was an important part of performing in the job (i.e. those that did not pass the test would be worse, or unable to perform the job) then it would pass the Griggs finding. The main issue with Griggs wa
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by ErrantX 16y ago
Patricks summary was just the basics of the case. The background is that Duke Power originally segregated employees, only employing African-Americans in the labor sector. Then the civil rights laws came in and they introduced requirements,

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