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by adrtessier 11y ago
It sounds like you may be best off seeing a psychotherapist that may be able to help you better understand and control your novelty-seeking. Your pattern sounds self-destructive and it is obviously causing you distress. Also: have you consi
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by adrtessier 11y ago
Running steel cable or nets, instead of monofilament wire, is pretty much SOP for denying an area from rotorcraft. There's a pretty cool article on Wikipedia about prison escapes by helicopter [1] that explains how this is often implem
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I can only speak to this anecdotally, but in my observations, yes, especially so when you're in areas of far less socioeconomic success than that of Western Europe, financially-driven city-states like Singapore (or Hong Kong, if you ca
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by adrtessier 11y ago
Sadly, the "bureaucrats", or politicians are the ones in the right, and the scientists are not. In little scientific echo chambers like Hacker News, we generally put science and rationality above human emotion. Unfortunately the w
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by adrtessier 11y ago
Yes, cryptographers should take on the surveillance state. So should developers, and entrepreneurs, and politicians, and the common citizen that thinks AES is some foreign sports conference or IND-CCA is a new trade agreement. I'm grow
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I'm willing to remain optimistic on this front, because even if nothing meaningful is accomplished with this specific accord, it does not rule out more in the future. Getting all of these nations on board to do something about climat
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by adrtessier 11y ago
So the correct title is "1 oversized RC car with hose fights a fire in Australia".
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by adrtessier 11y ago
> The fact that Amazon has paid engineers to write a bot that scans for API keys suggests that most people aren't that careful The fact that GitHub has not paid engineers to write a bot that scans for API keys, RSA keys, and other c
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by adrtessier 11y ago
About a month ago I decided to reinstall Windows on one of my old PCs, an Intel Ivy Bridge desktop i5. It is frustrating and nearly impossible to end up with a patched system. The process was pretty much as follows: 1. Manually check for up
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by adrtessier 11y ago
So others don't have to click through to this: "Windows 7 uses Component-Based Servicing [1], which means Windows Update has to work ridiculously hard to determine file and component dependencies/inter-dependencies, maintain
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I agree. Regardless of the outcome, I'm grabbing the popcorn. I'm half-waiting for another P2P foundation signed post discrediting him, too. Even if Craig Wright is (wholly or part of) Nakamoto, I'm confused as to why it is h
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by adrtessier 11y ago
How many people regularly use Tor for things other than stuff you want to truly keep private? When was the last time you fired up Tor just to browse the web? I think all of us that want things like Tor to exist need to start making sure we&
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by adrtessier 11y ago
+1 to what whisk3rs said, as that's how I feel, as well. For example using Vault v. Keywhiz [1] since I made that comparison earlier, this page feels like it's written to say "Vault does X. Keywhiz does too." That's
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by adrtessier 11y ago
There sure are a lot of these systems these days. While I'm always happy to see innovation in this area, I'm personally beginning to get confused as to why I might prefer to use (and probably then contribute to) one of these proje
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by adrtessier 11y ago
Sunde is probably coming at this from a point of complete fatigue. Assuming this is not some PR stunt from him, he sounds like he's pretty broken. > I disagree with the idea that an open internet is gone forever and that we will for
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I was about to ask a lot of these questions of how deep the metadata layer really goes - including using SpiderOak as the threat. It seems this is built on Crypton, linked below; however, the paper itself [1] goes into a lot of detail on wh
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by adrtessier 11y ago
Thanks for the correction; I didn't know this existed and that's somewhat comforting. I guess my point still stands for personal users of Skype, small businesses and startups.
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I'm not danellis and I'm not skilled in signals processing, but assuming LTE is multiplexed with TDD, yes. The radio is switched throughout time between receiving and transmission. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by adrtessier 11y ago
"Skype for Windows takes advantage of Internet Explorer and Flash to display advertisements in the client. This means that in order for advertisements to work correctly, Internet Explorer and Flash need to be working correctly." A
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I'm not sure if this was your point or not, but we can't really trust any handset without an open baseband, of which all of the handsets we use today don't have. As long as we're stuck with proprietary blobs and their
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I believe the majority of Hacker News readers could run OpenBTS on an Ettus as a weekend project, provided they had a little systems programming experience. I think the greater problem is expense: an Ettus USRP is into the 4 figures, althou
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by adrtessier 11y ago
The AIMSICD application mentioned above for Android uses this as a synchronizable data source.
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by adrtessier 11y ago
I have used both apps before. SnoopSnitch only works on specific Qualcomm chipsets. If you want to use IMSI-catcher detectors, make sure it actually works with your specific chipset. AIMSICD eats a decent amount of battery as it really need
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by adrtessier 11y ago
Economic stagnation for whom? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the majority of younger Japanese seem to hate Abenomics and his ultranationalist policies. The majority of the jobs and wealth in Japan is concentrated in its fast aging popula
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by adrtessier 11y ago
It is rational for Sulzberger to call for more gun control, and to be the only one with a gun. After all, it makes him safer. <insert major American city>'s economic elite are fearful because there are crazies that often have b