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by __jal 10y ago
This. I once had a conversation with someone who started an open source project about the "10K meter" view. I strongly encouraged secure defaults. He asserted that when getting started, grabbing mindshare requires insecure-out-of-
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. The joke is that Microsoft finally solved the perception problem around spyware by making the OS into one big bundle of spyware. I still have a VM running Win7 that I use to run CNC software. Like any other software I don't trust,
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by __jal 10y ago
Part of it is that this is HN, and Yahoo as an internet company has been boring for a long, long time[1]. Another part of it is that it shows the incredible value of inertia. Sports scores and email is with $5B. And I think a third is just
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by __jal 10y ago
Just to run down this alley, highly seconded. It is a great, if somewhat depressing, novel. _Echopraxia_ is a continuation of the themes/story, and is just as good (and also depressing). I personally put Watts near the top of the list
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by __jal 10y ago
Google deserves shit for using market power to stop the purchasers of personal devices from running software of their choice. If the user does something with their device Google dislikes, Google can block the user from using Google services
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by __jal 10y ago
I was commenting on the phenomenon in which random "facts" from narrow professional niches are cherry-picked to make politically motivated arguments. The show is playing now on the usual blogs, so rest easy. If I had been making a
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by __jal 10y ago
This is a magic report. Over the next 24 hours, it will transform a huge number of people into experts on intelligence reporting requirements, hacking, sources and methods, and diplomacy.
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by __jal 10y ago
I'd rather read the story of how they managed to land that product placement.
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by __jal 10y ago
The solution is not to overcorrect and massively downplay. The reaction to Bannon is not because of a single incident. Go peruse breitbart.com to take in some of his editorial direction - be sure to check the 'black crime' tag. Th
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by __jal 10y ago
Three'd. I do recall that being the pinnacle of word-processor efficiency for me. 5 was when the Windows-UI started invading, it became massively slower, and wouldn't run off a floppy, thus couldn't be used in my school'
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by __jal 10y ago
...Which explains every enterprise software UI ever made.
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by __jal 10y ago
I do think the GP has a point though. Very roughly, by cliche: Perl, Git: "The street finds its own uses." Python: "How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" (With apologies to those who don't r
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by __jal 10y ago
Ok. "In breach of implied contract?" "Failing to respect social mores?" "Doin' the wrong thing?" I'm vastly less interested in quibbling about word choice than the underlying concepts being discussed.
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by __jal 10y ago
The facts are these. If I connect to, say, port 80 on www.cnn.com and send some particular ASCII, then the machine on the other end will likely respond with some text. The owners of that machine invite these connections. I can then: pipe th
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by __jal 10y ago
1) If other people want to write contracts with each other that obligate them to do things for each other in response to bit patterns generated by my computer, that's none of my business. Legally, you might get Tortious Interference pa
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by __jal 10y ago
I'm not impressed by things I don't read, either.
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by __jal 10y ago
Humans as a whole have a revealed preference for tribal cohesion over accepting reality. It was probably a beneficial trait when the Dunbar number roughly matched the number of people with in a day's communication.
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by __jal 10y ago
Honest answer: I do. More than one.
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by __jal 10y ago
Always-on surveillance devices (at least the ones I know about and for which I do not control the endpoints) do not have a place in my home. I'm increasingly feeling like humans around me are remarkably less protective of their private
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by __jal 10y ago
Exactly. This isn't X.org. The author has an itch to scratch, and scratched it in exactly the right way. Trying to funnel someone with an itch into a project is a bit like making someone on meth fill out paperwork: kills the buzz and w
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by __jal 10y ago
I'm only guessing, but it seems like he means "impure functions", e.g., side effects.
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by __jal 10y ago
Yep. Seems like a classic dumb move(tm) designed to convey that you're on to their FBI games. I'd say that unless you're a TV spy complete with a complicated plan, sidekicks and knowledge of how the script ends, the right ans
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by __jal 10y ago
Remember that economics is rather bad at pricing things like huge population migrations. "Bearing the cost" does not include an a huge array of expected outcomes that humans will find negative but are difficult to plug into a toy
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by __jal 10y ago
I exploited this once when designing a puzzle. One clue was "encrypted" text appended to the end of an otherwise-innocent zip file. (One person found it, but the whole thing was way too hard. I drastically overestimated people&#x2
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by __jal 10y ago
Options to select output? Sounds like advice from the Rule of Silence. But. - People above were just complaining about having to use sed to tweak output. I don't see why they would prefer a built-in filter to an external one. The exter
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by __jal 10y ago
NKW gave a nice summary of some recent actions. For more historical examples, I highly suggest any of James Bamford's excellent books on the NSA. _The Puzzle Palace_ is a massive tomb, but a very good read. I haven't had a chance
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by __jal 10y ago
Not anti-virus. Symantec. You might even call it a bit pro-Symantec, in that the time bomb is an accommodation added especially for them. I certainly would not call it antisymantec.
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by __jal 10y ago
"Better" is in the eye of the beholder. It creeps me the hell out, which is why I block the data flows that feed them.
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by __jal 10y ago
They should make the UI idiom feeding your file a mushroom and then double the icon size on completion.
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by __jal 10y ago
> But aren't prosecutors and lawyers really a part of the general public when it comes to forensics? In this case, no, they aren't. A better comparison would be to a general contractor hiring an electrician. A prosecutor is lik

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