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541.
by ballard 13y ago
Nerd's law: A commenter C declares that concepts X and Y are completely different. Because parent commenter P failed to make this point, P is intellectually inferior to C. Hence C > P for all X and Y.
542.
by ballard 13y ago
Yes. The magic, poorly-documented constants are the "public key" while the "private key" is known only to the construction's author.
543.
by ballard 13y ago
Then feel free to question Schneier's chops: http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securityma... Edit: this was in response to the deleted comment
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by ballard 13y ago
Mr fusion FTW.
545.
by ballard 13y ago
I think the point was to speak well of the dead: their acheivements, humanity and even their attributes. She was quite beautiful as well.
546.
by ballard 13y ago
This is a tragedy and I'm sorry for the family. Words are profoundly lamer than can be expressed. It doesnt mean much that skyline is dangerous as fuck. On a motorcycle or in a car there is a luxury of being able to slow down for bli
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by ballard 13y ago
To patentable, it "must be non-obvious to an expert in the field." (A friend is a frmr patent examiner.)
548.
by ballard 13y ago
As soon as someone see there's no gun case, the charade is up. My grandfather was an avid fisherman; he had a 15' line full of catfish "skulls" hanging from a telephone pole. Catfish can grow to 100 lbs. and their &quot
549.
by ballard 13y ago
Keyboard layout shootout: qwerty vs dvorak(s) vs colemak http://patorjk.com/keyboard-layout-analyzer/
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by ballard 13y ago
Yep. Life is fragile. One subtle mistake can be game over (McCandless) Non-nonsense survival guide: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0762448180 Also: man vs wild (television)
551.
by ballard 13y ago
A wildnerness first aid kit and training: http://www.outdoored.com/community/risk_management/b/wildmed... And an AED
552.
by ballard 13y ago
If it drives, flies, floats, fornicates or floods, someone will launch a startup to share them.
553.
by ballard 13y ago
A proper luxury product should debase the consumer, ie, "LoJack for luxury handbags" that would adapt radio tags for monitoring wild animals to the task. (Sans Civets.)
554.
by ballard 13y ago
Also interesting: https://www.novainfosec.com/2013/05/13/apples-ios-backdoor-t... http://fairerplatform.com/2013/07/no-nsa-backdoor-says-tim-c...
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Apple, RIM, etc. provided backdoors to India intelligence (2012)(zdnet.com)
4 points by ballard 13y ago|1 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
Donning tinfoil hat, NSA is just one part of USG. USG is one of hundreds of countries, zillions of criminal enterprises that would like to get intel's private keys and μcode format. Given that intel is a large company the odds favor o
557.
by ballard 13y ago
It depends on loads of factors. Also, differentiation between acute toxicity (would kill within a month) or chronic issues (inflammation, deficiency, hormone altering, etc).
558.
by ballard 13y ago
Contemplating, or perhaps risking (at one's choice), death brings appreciation of life. And possibly, what's important.
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by ballard 13y ago
If infrastructure (eg system) configuration is the goal, there's already a much more accessible project with backend support (flexibility to hack up support for ldap, zk, etc): https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera
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Ask HN: What did you used to do to retail shop's computers?
2 points by ballard 13y ago|2 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
It is sad to see promising (usually young) people dazzled by the myth of an ivory tower in the sky. Most of academia simply sets fire to money. The more given to one bureaucracy, the bigger the flame. Fusion research (DOE). Or in this ca
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by ballard 13y ago
0. HomeJoy was already in this space. HomeJoy was PathJoy, yc iirc. http://homejoy.com 1. Any big pivot will take time for trust to return.
563.
by ballard 13y ago
The only way to scale it seems is for cities to go extremely vertical. Then if there were attractive choices for DIY housing that meets building code The alternatives include taking on a longer commute or being farther from the action.
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by ballard 13y ago
Consumer wine tasting in a lab (UC Davis), glasses are handed one after another based purely on number.... from jetfuel to good stuff. (VEN 3 [0] prof rarely ever bought anything over $14.) [0] http://catalog.ucdavis.edu/pro
565.
by ballard 13y ago
Might be the tip of the iceberg. Without open source hardware and independent verification, the full supply chain of every shiny new widget is a question mark because of whichever governments/actors may happen to lean on suppliers. I
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by ballard 13y ago
Feeding time: http://youtu.be/tkUSx6aQGXU Looks like a cool pet.
567.
by ballard 13y ago
Then try harder, cry baby. Here's a bottle.
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by ballard 13y ago
Taiwan's cool.
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by ballard 13y ago
The last part is agreed, but the inmates don't pay for their own incarceration (this aint Brazil yet). The agencies that administer prisons get their funding from taxes, and the the level of funding maybe based on population. But ultim
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by ballard 13y ago
The fundamental motives are good... TLS/SSL is extremely complex (per 'cperciva) But without hand audits and active research, it's peeing into the wind without knowing which way its blowing.

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