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by Forbo 10y ago
There's definitely science behind it, it's called stylometry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry Here's an example of an open-source project designed to counter stylometric analysis: https:/&
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by Forbo 10y ago
>"...suing small farmers who accidentally grow your crop..." The Wikipedia page seems to paint a much different picture regarding Monsanto's legal cases. Everything that I'm reading seems to indicate willful infringem
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by Forbo 10y ago
"Cult compound" is probably how I would describe it. Sure, you can leave, but there is immense social pressure to continue in what has become the norm, despite there clearly being something not okay with what is going on. And good
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by Forbo 10y ago
I don't know if it has anything to do with GPUs, I had thought it was due to memory, as referenced on the wiki page for Litecoin: "Litecoin uses scrypt in its proof-of-work algorithm, a sequential memory-hard function requiring as
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by Forbo 10y ago
For anyone wanting more information on this, it is commonly referred to as "Five Eyes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes Also of note is the "Future Enlargement" section of that article, wher
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by Forbo 10y ago
It was completed in September of 2014.
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by Forbo 10y ago
Not sure, but it is actually listed as P0 (PAPA-zero). Having a hard time finding any info on this myself.
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by Forbo 10y ago
Anecdote vs. anecdote. Until manufacturers of non-disposable units start publishing their sales numbers, this is just spinning tires in the mud.
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by Forbo 10y ago
I'm not sure I follow what you mean. I didn't mean that this be used for mining bitcoin, but rather that there are other cryptocurrencies that have useful by-products. Am I misunderstanding your comment?
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by Forbo 10y ago
> "That electricity cost is a lot better for the environment than the standing armies required to secure fiat money." There are better alternatives to brute-forcing hashes and generating nothing but waste heat in order to mine
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by Forbo 10y ago
I get the following: % brew update ==> Homebrew has enabled anonymous aggregate user behaviour analytics
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by Forbo 11y ago
I'm sorry you received downvotes for asking a question. Based on the url (test.html), I would imagine this was just someone's quick one-off attempt to see if something worked that ended up getting left behind. Edit: Looks like thi
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by Forbo 11y ago
As tongue-in-cheek as this is, it raises a valid point. Corrections industry unions are large and powerful.
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by Forbo 11y ago
Except I don't think he actually released any of the documents he was collecting. So what Aaron was doing was far less condemnable. This is just out-right disregard for the copyright law. And I love it.
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by Forbo 11y ago
Ah, two of the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse rear their ugly heads: 8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?" [...] like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen&quot
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by Forbo 11y ago
If you don't mind digging through blatant racism.
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by Forbo 11y ago
This is a perfect example of chilling effects in action. "If you can be told what you can see or read, then it follows that you can be told what to say or think."
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by Forbo 11y ago
The traffic is only unencrypted if the destination traffic would normally be unencrypted. That means that an exit node can't MITM what would already normally be an HTTPS connection. It's a small nitpick grammatically, but the dist
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by Forbo 11y ago
Then you're missing half of the point of Tor, the other half being hidden services which don't require an exit node at all.
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by Forbo 11y ago
The point of Tails is not to be read-only, hence all the work they have put in to enable persistent storage. USBs can be read only, especially when using a device such as a forensic write blocker. It all depends on how much you trust the ma
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by Forbo 11y ago
What sources are being used? Hydro? Geothermal? Unfortunately, in my area only about 23%-30% of the power generation is composed of renewable sources, primarily hydro.
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by Forbo 11y ago
In case helping to advance science isn't enough of a reward for you, there's also Gridcoin[0], the cryptocurrency that you mine by contributing processing power to BOINC. [0] https://gridcoin.us/
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by Forbo 11y ago
There's a whole collection of this kind of search engine query at Hackers for Charity: http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/
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by Forbo 11y ago
How so? Sure, a few drivers would be replaced. However, the last-mile driver is also taking care of the doorstep delivery. Even if you replace the driver, someone needs to finish the delivery/get signature/whatever.
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by Forbo 11y ago
It would be interesting to see if this gets adopted in something like Tails where security is the priority focus.
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Identity Piracy(watchingover.us)
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by Forbo 11y ago
I hate to play devil's advocate, but what about things like intellectual property or (ugh, even saying this makes me feel like a scumbag politician) child pornography? I can see the argument for the virtual variety of CP, but what abou
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by Forbo 11y ago
In a similar vein: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
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by Forbo 11y ago
"... not purely domestic ones." Doesn't room 641a fit that description perfectly? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
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by Forbo 12y ago
It says so right in the man page: "Agent forwarding should be enabled with caution. Users with the ability to bypass file permissions on the remote host (for the agent's UNIX-domain socket) can access the local agent through the

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