Nrsolis

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by Nrsolis 10y ago
No. What I'm suggesting is that we all keep in mind that ANY of us could have started from where she started. I reject the premise that "The Internet" somehow gives us license to judge someone through the narrowest of lenses
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
That's YOU bub. That's not HER. YOU learned to accept responsibility. SHE didn't. YOU learned to acknowledge your mistakes. SHE didn't. Now she IS learning and she's learning it the HARD way instead of the EASY w
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
And here we have another example of someone who doesn't get it. You're saying that you wouldn't make the mistakes she has made because you'd know better, right? You'd use math or logic or any of your abilities to m
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
I feel like a lot of people are missing the larger point of this story: BE KIND. Because everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle you know nothing about. I'm not going to excuse her rant or her poor decision making skills as she n
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
The problem you are trying to solve is much closer to the "decidability problem" than you might suppose at first sight.
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
Yeah. This has been something they've been looking into for a while now. Read all of the updates. It's turtles all the way down. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/05/backdoor_foun..
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
I'd venture there isn't. The problem of verifying the integrity of embedded silicon (at the microcircuitry level) is one that hasn't really been solved yet. This has been a problem for the DoD since forever. THEY solved it p
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
There is this too: http://ubld.it/products/truerng-hardware-random-number-gener...
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by Nrsolis 10y ago
Not strictly true. Neither is really great if what you are looking for is TRUE randomness. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/insecurities_...
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Those who know don't say, those who say don't know.
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
You're free to reach out to me if you'd like to talk. I'm not a therapist but I might be able to provide some encouragement and advice on finding a path to wellness.
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
My point exactly. The fact of the matter is that prepaid phone use (much like encryption) is used by people for pretty banal purposes: they want to make sure that their private life stays private. Maybe they are carrying on an illicit affai
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Terrible idea. They are also used by investigative journalists trying to uncover government wrongdoing along with people trying to escape abusive ex-lovers. The desire for anonymity is not synonymous with criminal intent.
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Here is the thing: the drugs are like a cast or a crutch. They help you heal. The talk therapy is like learning how to get strong so you don't break bones or lose balance and fall. They go together. You can do talk therapy without th
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Zoloft. I had a very strong opinion about psychiatric drugs: I hated the idea of them. But when you are desperate, you'll try anything. And I was desperate. SO I made a bargain with myself: drugs for a maximum one year. No matter w
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
I'm going to post here under my real nick and hope you read my comments: I was in a depressive state for close to twenty years. The loss of my mother at 10 put me there and instead of getting better I settled into my depression for th
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
I would love to hear more about this. I've been considering a similar use case for a while and haven't found anything really comparable to what is available commercially.
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Well, if there was a more right-leaning advocacy organization that provided a similar level of lobbying and awareness for all of the digital issues that are important to people like me, I might consider contributing. I donate to the EFF no
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Broadcom makes "switch on a chip" modules that will do VxLAN encapsulation and translation to VLAN or regular Ethernet frames. That chipset is available in lots of common 10/40/100 GbE switches from Arista/Juniper&
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
I knew a guy who got wrapped up in a minor stock fraud case that might have landed him in jail for maybe a year. He killed himself rather than face the music. Sad, actually. He didn't need to kill himself. There is life after a con
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Yeah. I understand the problem that TCP is trying to solve. My thinking was that there is a whole class of network applications that don't work great under TCP because the retransmission mechanism drives latency super high when conges
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
I've often wondered why not implement G.709 on the packet payload (as opposed to the whole frame) and see how that compares to TCP retransmission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.709
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
I was looking at the CS Masters program. I have a strong desire to acquire a foundation in information security. I was looking at their cybersecurity program as an adjunct to the CS program. How was the actual administration of the progra
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
How did you like the JHU program? I'm genuinely curious about the rigor and experience with the school.
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Look, HFT as a concept is already black magic to people who trade. It's a fundamentally simple idea but when you actually try to apply it to a real living breathing market, it becomes indistinguishable from electronic warfare because t
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Yeah....most people in the know think Hunsader is full of crap. He certainly sounds smart to people outside of the business of HFT, but he's not quite the droid everyone seems to think he is. His opinions of HFT and the various market
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
What makes you think that taxes aren't already being paid in the foreign jurisdictions? This is a big part of the disconnect: if you (say, as Apple) sell a phone in Munich, you're paying the VAT tax in that country already. Genera
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Adding in another market distortion isn't going to help matters, you only create opportunities for people to game the system in an ever increasing effort to explore the law of unintended consequences. Those funds are held (usually) as
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
Here is the sponsor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Titone
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by Nrsolis 11y ago
I'll second this. I just donated a bunch of cash to the EFF (as I do every year at this time). In this world, there is a huge need for a digital-rights aware advocacy group to keep the politicians in check. Everyone that works in the

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