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by adekok 13y ago
> That Mr Levison happened to use the same SSL certs for all paying customers isn't the fault of anyone but... him. Name me one large company using HTTPS, with separate SSL server certs for each user. Just one. I'll wait.
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by adekok 13y ago
Yes. 18 year-old fashion models or recording artists are fast-tracked with a cultural visa. I guess it shows what the priorities are. Science? Dangerous! Skinny girls with weird clothing? Come on in!
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by adekok 13y ago
The link appears to go to "Help us find Stephen Martin's killer - Bay to Breakers assault" Chrome, OSX.
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by adekok 13y ago
> Sure, he re-used a few login names but I don't know how many people could've successfully gone without doing that over a 2.5 year period. That is the difference between a professional and an amateur. An amateur tries hard to
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by adekok 13y ago
> if you have a young female relative, watch how many times toys are oriented towards looking good vs. doing anything constructive It's what sells. It sells because it's what the children want . The idea that gender is a soc
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by adekok 13y ago
> I don't know if it's fair to say that every teenager who is not immune to that is not accepting personal responsibility. To give it some perspective, in 1942 there were 18 year-olds fighting in the war. The people then were
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by adekok 13y ago
FTA: > My teachers recommended that I study economics and statistics as my A-level subjects, but I had my mind set on a life fulfilled by the arts. And in the next paragraph: > Without realising it, I was a victim of a gender stereoty
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by adekok 13y ago
> Afterward, she said, “I would go back to that person and he would say, ‘Oh, yeah, that should work.’ ” Each expert seemed to dwell in his own private silo, so that whenever she crossed from one discipline to another, she would run into
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by adekok 13y ago
RADIUS guy here. I've worked with 802.1X and PEAP for as long as it's existed. This isn't news. If you disable certificate checking, then the authentication security of TLS goes away. Your traffic is still encrypted, but yo
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by adekok 13y ago
This is the most important take-away. They're not just incompetent at crypto, they're incompetent at programming . And they don't understand that they don't understand programming.
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by adekok 13y ago
http://deltacostproject.org/resources/pdf/trends_in_spending... Page 24: > In all institutional groupings—public and private—tuition prices increased faster than education and general spending per student. This suggests that both publ
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by adekok 13y ago
After making murder illegal, people are still murdered. Therefore, laws against murder are ineffective.
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by adekok 14y ago
Please avoid reddit-style extremism. OP said: "They should .." Emphasis on the "SHOULD". He didn't say "nothing but breast milk, and I don't give a damn if the babies die" Creating a straw man for your someone signifies only one thing. Yo
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by adekok 14y ago
It's the same in France. Simple. No arguments, no stress, no fuss. The complexity in the US tax law is largely due to the kickbacks inherent in the system. People donate money to congressmen, who shove favorable tax clauses into legislat
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by adekok 14y ago
Well, no, it's not an ad hominem. An ad hominem would be to use insults, or baseless accusations. The accusations here are well-based. She has made offensive comments, and gotten upset when others made less offensive comments. That's
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by adekok 14y ago
The comments here are curious. The bulk of them are arguing the finer points of rampant speculation. Why did the guy get fired? What were her motives? Was their conversation intended to be private? This is all beside the point. Engagin
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by adekok 14y ago
> "Why is the person who does the majority of the programming also doing the majority of the customer support?" Because no one else cares. It's a huge problem in Open Source projects. Most of them are single-person projects. One pers
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by adekok 14y ago
> Is it really that hard to get people don't write open source to solve your problems? Yes. There is a persistent set of well-intentioned but clueless people. > What state of mind makes people believe they are entitled to someone e
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by adekok 14y ago
This article repeats the statistic that "Across all industries and occupations, full-time female workers earned 78 cents to every dollar a man earned in 2010." That's phrased misleadingly. The truth is the median wage for full-time femal
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by adekok 14y ago
> This is a privileged person, someone who travels internationally, ... ... and who has gone through extensive scrutiny to get a green card. Exactly the kind of person who should hit red flags at the border, right?
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by adekok 14y ago
How about being perfectly legal? There are companies which do geo-IP checking on their web site. If you're out of the US, you can't see anything. Just a page saying "we don't want you as a customer". If you're a US person, with a US credi
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by adekok 14y ago
No evidence with me. This is recollection from my degrees ~20 years ago.
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by adekok 14y ago
The best predictor of university physics scores is high school English scores. Why? Physics is about relationships. Sure, there's math. But it's about understanding the big picture, and the relationships between the pieces. It's about h
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by adekok 14y ago
> There is literally nothing that you gain from being derisive that you can't also gain from being polite. As maintainer of a large open source project, this isn't entirely true. I would agree that derision is bad. But being blunt
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by adekok 14y ago
IIRC, from an article long ago in New Scientist, there are precedents for this in small marine animals. i.e. plankton or hydras. The "adult" form grows inside of the "larval" form. And then breaks out, fully formed. The "larval" form con
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by adekok 14y ago
> if I create two filenames that are identical except for normalization, how can the "human" layer possibly handle this? The "human IO" layer is responsible for normalization of strings sent to the rest of the system. Therefore, your
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by adekok 14y ago
The problem is that the filenames are interpreted by computers, not by people. Your comment that filenames are "human-readable strings" is subtly changing the problem statement. You're conflating bits (interpreted by computers) with displ