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811.
by __alexs 13y ago
Despite the differences in what happened this is still very disappointing. I hope he handles the situation better than Eich did whatever his politics are.
812.
by __alexs 13y ago
I also whine about Peter Thiel being an awful human being but this isn't a Peter Thiel thread :)
813.
by __alexs 13y ago
They don't have to agree on everything but I certainly wish they'd agree not to try and ruin each others lives.
814.
by __alexs 13y ago
-Don't donate any more money to anti-gay laws.
815.
by __alexs 13y ago
I agree that the Twitter integration doesn't seem enormously useful. However the GitHub integration seems to be somewhat useful for code signing at the very least. Knowing that the binary or tarball you got was created by the account y
816.
by __alexs 13y ago
I don't believe the UK gov have a TLS CA in any standard browser deployments do they? I'm not even sure we have a CA HQd here for them to compel into giving them certs for mitm?
817.
by __alexs 13y ago
Our complete inability to even suggest trying to think rationally about these issues is much worse than that. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/4949555/Harr...
818.
by __alexs 13y ago
s/GPL/AGPL/ Which raises the question of whether or not a program that passively wiretaps you falls under the provision of network services clause in that :)
819.
by __alexs 13y ago
If it was GPL you might be able to argue that they violated the derivatives clause. I doubt it would help since this is top secret intel work and I'm sure they have legal loop holes that essentially allow them to ignore things as trivi
820.
by __alexs 13y ago
Amancio Ortega Gaona allegedly profits from child and "slave" labour across the world. High street fashion is commonly manufactured in factories that have particularly awful welfare standards. e.g. http://fashion.telegr
821.
by __alexs 13y ago
A non-CALEA US sponsored hardware backdoor is discovered in actual equipment.
822.
by __alexs 13y ago
Given that he's run off to collect a pay check in a new position created for him at Covington & Burling LLP, a firm well known for representing various major banks, I imagine they'll be getting plenty of work from HSBC in the
823.
by __alexs 13y ago
An important aspect of the organizations you mention that isn't mentioned in the article is explicit profit sharing and co-ownership, not just options. This is a feature that seems fairly at odds with the desires of VCs who often seem
824.
by __alexs 13y ago
This is the patch they used to mitigate it afaict. http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=co...
825.
by __alexs 13y ago
Their HTTPS server isn't configured with the right certificate :( Firefox gives me "The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.stel.com , stel.com" for https://telegram.org/
826.
by __alexs 13y ago
You need some degree of entropy estimation at initialisation time or early boot numbers are predictable.
827.
by __alexs 13y ago
Yes. People have even experimented with using CPU specific instabilities in certain operations to extract entropy. http://www.irisa.fr/caps/projects/hipsor/misc.php#exectime The problem with such systems is t
828.
by __alexs 13y ago
Energy prices are unlikely to be low enough to support desalination in our life times. Water prices will have to rise to support it.
829.
by __alexs 13y ago
This design optimises for low-wind speeds by exploiting the Bernoulli Principle but the problem with doing that is that there is very little energy available in the wind at low speeds to begin with. It's more practical to aim at higher
830.
by __alexs 13y ago
> Just as there are Journals of Negative results [1][2] so too should there be a journal of failed startups. We used to have something like that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
831.
by __alexs 13y ago
Cameron specifically says "blocking online sites." While he doesn't mention the technical specifics of how that will be done, the traditional way of achieving this in the UK is through the filters originally put in place for
832.
by __alexs 13y ago
Minus many days? http://grahamcluley.com/2013/07/car-hacking-video/
833.
by __alexs 13y ago
Are drivers of the S-Class bound by the terms of the JSON license and so better be careful not to do anything Evil lest they anger Crockford?
834.
by __alexs 13y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20100723133654/http://illuminati....
835.
by __alexs 13y ago
Bytemark in the UK might accept it for this if you have a chat with them. They are ORG sponsors and generally seem to be on side over privacy and free speech issues.
836.
by __alexs 13y ago
The Boehm GC [1] has been integrated with various other languages in the past. I'm aware of various attempts to get both Python and Ruby code running with it. 1. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc&#x
837.
by __alexs 13y ago
We already know that we can't trust most major US companies. What compromised CAs mean is that we also can't even trust non-US companies due to our dependence on US CAs for TLS to actually be usable.
838.
by __alexs 13y ago
> Right now we need to find out which (root?) CAs are compromised by the NSA. Given that basically all CAs people actually use (even in Europe) are owned by US companies, I would estimate something close to 100% of them have cooperated w
839.
by __alexs 13y ago
I imagine that was the intent but the idea of something that is only approximately worst case constant time is quite odd. Does that mean it's only ever so slightly O(N)? O(N/BIGNUM) Except as I understand it that would still norm
840.
by __alexs 13y ago
Anyone else the numerous AOL chat plugins that used to do this back in the day? e.g. http://www.tpasoft.com/fadeit/

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