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by anfedorov 13y ago
I'm a big fan of Bret Victor's thinking, but this part struck me as indicative of the criticisms he'll receive: "here, they are discussing some relationships: the regular latice, L grows linearly with n, we see L growin
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by anfedorov 13y ago
Great library! I wrote something similar once [1] and thought two special cases might be useful to optimize for: a predecoration that modifies the arguments to a function and a postdecoration that modifies the return value. 1. https:/
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by anfedorov 13y ago
I think the point is that anyone with an ounce of technical competence knows that the claim of formerly a normal computer being infected via sound is patently absurd, so even bringing it up is unnecessarily distracting from the discussion a
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Jack Dorsey at Startup School 2013(youtube.com)
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by anfedorov 13y ago
They didn't use dodgy language: "conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data." [1
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by anfedorov 13y ago
AFAIK, the Lavabit case is not legally decided yet: http://www.volokh.com/2013/10/11/lavabit-challenges-contempt-order/ I imagine Apple would put up quite a strong legal fight if they were issued th
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by anfedorov 13y ago
[The researchers] went on to say there's no technical measure stopping Apple employees, working under a secret court order or otherwise, from performing the same kind of attack and making it completely transparent to the parties excha
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by anfedorov 13y ago
Some press on this case implies that the FBI found this person from his activity our site. I can't disprove that, but it is much more likely that they found him through other means, and then tracked his activity on various sites to bu
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by anfedorov 13y ago
The article refers to a "26k BTC fortune", which was confiscated, while the complaint against Ross said the total SR commissions were 614,305 BTC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road_(marketplace)#Site_s..
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by anfedorov 13y ago
I'd wager Ross only kept enough coins accessible from the machine hosting SL for day-to-day operations, and sent the extra proceeds to an account the production machines didn't have access to, one with the private key either on hi
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Introduction to Complexity (Fall, 2013)(complexityexplorer.org)
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by anfedorov 13y ago
They're encrypted, though, right? Do they need to be sent to this third party to decrypt?
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by anfedorov 13y ago
It doesn't have to be a screen door, and as far as I understand, it's not intended to be with iOS 7. The phone will not let you sync with an unrecognized external device unless you unlock it, and will stop you from brute forcing t
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Facebook doesn't want to be cool, it wants to be electricity(techcrunch.com)
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by anfedorov 13y ago
They used to have a service for exactly that: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/health/about/
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by anfedorov 13y ago
Sounds familiar: https://plus.google.com/u/1/112218872649456413744/posts/Gbdj...
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by anfedorov 13y ago
One more really cool one: http://www.hacker.org/bitbath/
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by anfedorov 13y ago
I accidentally entered the last four of my social wrong and they said they didn't have a profile. Correcting it fixed the issue.
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by anfedorov 13y ago
We're not there yet, but with the advances in technology I think we'll see in our lifetimes, one could implement surveillance as thorough as most conceptions of God.
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by anfedorov 13y ago
I almost skipped the article because of the top comment, but he says a lot more than the comment addresses, so it's worth reading nonetheless.
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by anfedorov 13y ago
He's not shutting down to raise awareness, but because he feels unable to conduct the blog without feeling his communications with his readers are private.
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by anfedorov 13y ago
From the way he presented it, I would be very surprised if there was anything specific that cannot be told.
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by anfedorov 13y ago
The article currently says "drugs, cash, and guns". Was that changed, or are you making a joke?
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by anfedorov 13y ago
Knowing how to use a computer is a lot more integral to living in modern society than knowing how to use/debug a car, though. Especially in areas with good public transit, one can live life without knowing how to drive, much less fix a
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by anfedorov 14y ago
Since we're picking favorites, why not the happy pile of poo? 💩 It's not officially supposed to be happy, but Apple seems to have decided eyes and a smile would give it more character. http://codepoints.net/U+1F4A9
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How Online Learning Companies Bought America's Schools(thenation.com)
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by anfedorov 15y ago
I think the context is slightly different: when an employee says "we do not track users on other domains", he means that they don't record your loading of a page with a "Like" button, even though they could. The patent claim is for a system