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by ax0n 16y ago
I was thinking of the same thing... And all the X10.com ads that were the pervasive bane of everyone's Internet existence in the late 1990s.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Executed properly, it might be an awesome hack!
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by ax0n 16y ago
I also tether a lot. Usually, the speed is better and more reliable than the over-crowded crap provided by businesses. The added layer of protection is just icing on the cake most of the time.
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by ax0n 16y ago
You're over-simplifying a bit. Public WiFi is a bit more risky, though, because the barrier to entry for sniffing last-mile infrastructure is so low that anyone can do it. At my home and office you have to contend with WPA2-Enterprise (it's
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by ax0n 16y ago
In Linux, most applications respect the http_proxy environment variable. It's the closest thing Linux has to a system-wide proxy setting as found in the more mainstream platforms.
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by ax0n 16y ago
My long answer is here: http://www.h-i-r.net/2008/08/defcon-paranoia.html The short answer: I back up my data. I encrypt all sensitive data on my laptop and don't access it in uncontrolled environments. I tunnel everything (usually with O
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by ax0n 16y ago
s/blocks the view of/distracts/
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Cubicle Spy: Inside Etsy’s Brooklyn Office (mashable.com)
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'm really looking forward to the advances that are being made in solar power. Just a few short years ago, it was still mostly an inefficient pipe dream. We're a long way off from being able to fully charge daily-used commuter vehicles with
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by ax0n 16y ago
They sent nothing into outer space. They sent something about 100,000 feet up, partway into the stratosphere and not even 1/3rd to the Kármán line. Yes, I am feeling rather pedantic about this. Thank you very much.
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by ax0n 16y ago
You're allowed to reason about the security of Facebook's software. I simply posit that the security of their software makes little difference when they've already taken a compromising stance with their business practices. Also, I don't dis
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by ax0n 16y ago
Unfortunately, yes. PHB: "We need to get this in here! It's UNBREAKABLE!" IT Guy: "Sir, I assure you, it's breakable." PHB: "That's not what the shiny pamphlet says." IT Guy: Facepalm
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by ax0n 16y ago
That was mostly my point to begin with. At best, these new "security" controls prevent attackers from stealing my account and defacing my data. Facebook loses the confidentiality battle and thus the war.
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by ax0n 16y ago
"Secure" and "Facebook" in the same headline. Please allow me to regain my composure. To elaborate, I measure security by three metrics: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability. Facebook has been fighting Confidentiality tooth and nail
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by ax0n 16y ago
I predict this thing lasts no more than 2 weeks before someone finds a way to break the "unbreakable"
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by ax0n 16y ago
How efficient is the transmission of electricity from generation to end point? How efficient is the charging circuitry? The motors? How many kilowatts need to be burned in a coal plant to put a kilowatt of energy to the pavement in an EV? I
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by ax0n 16y ago
For the most part, that's true. It's mostly localized. Seattle, for example, gets nearly 89% of its electricity from hydro, and another 9% or so from nuclear and wind. In places like that, pure electrics start to make a lot of sense. There'
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by ax0n 16y ago
Plenty of them. One startup I worked at had hundreds of cluster machines booting from USB drives. I'd say one or two failed every month. They were Kingston brand, too. But they got a lot of use (read and write) and there were literally hund
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by ax0n 16y ago
Here in Kansas City, 87% of our electricity comes from coal. 11% from nuclear. Wind makes up the lion's share of the remaining 2%. One of the Sierra Club's members had his soul crushed when a friend of mine pointed out that he was, in fact,
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by ax0n 16y ago
This seems like much more of a cultural phenomenon than a biological one.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Because of bullying, I grew up with highly augmented situational awareness and just enough mistrust in strangers to be useful to daily life. I'd say I turned out better for it.
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by ax0n 16y ago
This is not about what I thought it would be about, but it's still good.
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by ax0n 16y ago
I had a similar situation at my last job, but my heart wasn't totally in it (if you can't tell) - This small company acts and feels a lot like a start-up, even though it's been around for 13 years and was just purchased by a F500 company in
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by ax0n 16y ago
Meh. I took a 15% paycut when I got my new job after being laid off. I'm pretty sure my new peers who've been at my new job longer are making close to what I used to pull in. And I don't care. My new co-workers are awesome, my commute is 1/
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by ax0n 16y ago
Youtube would be a silent wasteland.
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by ax0n 16y ago
This, but ultimately, I really wish people would inline-reply on longer correspondence, particularly in mailing lists.
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by ax0n 16y ago
re: FW: re: RE: re: re: Re: fw: re: re: re: re: thursday meeting Sorry, I'm forever spoiled by GMail's automatic threading now.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Because some people really love it when their email inbox is a giant, chaotic FILO buffer that matches the "In Box" tray on their cluttered 1960s-era desk.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Hah! Rails? Seriously? Rails is a framework, not a language. And there are far too many really huge project using PHP (larger than any Perl project I know of) to suggest whacking PHP for Ruby in any flavor.
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by ax0n 16y ago
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8O9BCJ80&show_a... FTA (emphasis added): "Existing rules require cellular phones to be turned off once an aircraft leaves the ground in order to avoid interfering with cellular network systems

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