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by bcoates 13y ago
I'm guessing current laws were written around the "managed care" (HMO/PPO) system, the previous (70s-90s) attempt at healthcare reform. For that one, the theory was that the payment/administration bureaucracy was th
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by bcoates 13y ago
Users, given the choice between paying for things and being inundated with ads, overwhelmingly choose the ads. I don't get it either, but advertising isn't some conspiracy, it's giving the people what they want. Ambitious soc
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by bcoates 13y ago
Considering the risks of flying vs. driving, I would argue it makes more sense to demand aerospace quality from cars than it does from airplanes.
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by bcoates 13y ago
The ability to do a schema migration consisting of several changes as an all-or-nothing, all-at-once change would be useful even if they can't figure out how to do it concurrently with other operations on the tables. It shouldn't
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by bcoates 13y ago
There are active worms for insecure software that runs on Linux (and weak SSH passwords), so that'd be detectable. Something more like an IDS that detects known-insecure software and configurations is probably more useful than a patter
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by bcoates 13y ago
What, like the original release of XP from 2001? I'm trying to find a worm that uses a vulnerability that works on an out of the box, unpatched XP SP3 and the closest I can find is Conflicker and related MS08-067 worms, but even that r
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by bcoates 13y ago
Before Facebook, there was this thing called "the Grapevine", a decentralized communication network of people who were so intensely interested in everyone else's doings that you couldn't stop them from keeping you up to
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by bcoates 13y ago
It's the outfit. If he looked like Spider Jerusalem everyone would be fine but he looks like a congressman so people expect more politesse than they get. I guess it's too much to expect Julian Assange levels of stagecraft from eve
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by bcoates 13y ago
I'm pretty sure click to play on Chrom* only keeps honest sites honest-- it doesn't prevent a site from activating its own plugin.
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by bcoates 13y ago
Windows subverts that mechanism by providing APIs that unprivileged apps can use to access each other's memory. On Windows, any programs sharing a desktop are within the same security boundary and are not protected from each other by d
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by bcoates 13y ago
If that's the worst case scenario we're doing pretty OK. The nationalist networks will presumably be like the PSTN in the 90s: ubiquitous, reliable, safe but perceived as safer than it is, overpriced, limited, behind. All the inte
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by bcoates 13y ago
I like the idea that it's targeted at people for whom the existing system is failing, rather than a panacea for education. Alternative education programs like this don't have to be capable of replacing traditional education to be
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by bcoates 13y ago
For custom hardware with a substantial fraction of the feature-set of a modern smartphone, plus way more sensors, $1000 seems ambitiously cheap. They aren't going to sell a billion of them, R&D and tooling costs are going to push t
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by bcoates 13y ago
If I feed it a key of all zeros and a text of all zeros the output is a counter, that seems like a problem.
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by bcoates 13y ago
There are indirect scanning techniques that induce and measure traffic from ordinary non-compromised hosts. When the attacker notices that he gets banned for scanning he'll do that. http://nmap.org/book/idlescan.ht
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by bcoates 13y ago
He's right that "security by obscurity" isn't the entire story -- it's more like a mnemonic device for the more complex idea that: 1. In the real world, security resources aren't free. 2. Security decisions are
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by bcoates 13y ago
I don't get it -- most of the transistors I administer are off at any given moment, way more than 50% of them. If there's heat-density issues, can't they just pack some nice relatively-cool DRAM and flash around each core and
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by bcoates 13y ago
TOR+Eastern Europe has probably triggered the heuristic that you're a probable bot, and it's giving you a test that will further amplify its confirmation bias. Welcome to the preview of the day where all the networked, statistical
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by bcoates 13y ago
That's the beauty of it... it doesn't do anything!
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by bcoates 13y ago
It's tricky getting a passive GPU to actually work, mine has a tendency to overheat and halt the system rather than throttle down under load. It required a fair bit of tweaking to case fans and driver underclock settings to get it sta
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by bcoates 13y ago
According to Microsoft, JavaScript has been the future of Windows desktop applications since at least 1997. I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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by bcoates 13y ago
It takes two to tango. There was a lot of "vote down and move on" behavior in that thread. Instead, people kept responding to content-free posts, which predictably got content-free re-responses--because the kind of person who says
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by bcoates 13y ago
Huh? It's a regular Windows computer, you use the same Windows software everybody else uses. You don't have to use the goofball metro interface anymore than someone who installs Windows 8 on a desktop does. I mean, if you're
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by bcoates 13y ago
Server core still has a GUI, it just doesn't run Explorer as a shell and doesn't have a bunch of GUI programs that come with Windows included. When you log in there's a cmd or powershell window floating there with the standar
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by bcoates 13y ago
All of them? I don't think there's a way around that, including expecting the people writing your copy to operate in the abstract realm of responsive CSS or whatever. There's no way around thinking about your use-cases and y
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by bcoates 13y ago
I just use the filesystem for that sort of thing. Everyone justifies using MongoDB because its easy and general but compared to the tool and compatibility ecosystem around files it's awkward and primitive.
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by bcoates 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that what people want when they ask for WYSIWYG is live editing -- they don't want a "compile" step in their editing process, it's a gigantic productivity sink. The actual act of editing something by
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by bcoates 13y ago
I'm not even that optimistic, it will almost certainly be robots vs. civilians simultaneous with guys with AK-47s and car bombs vs the other side's civilians. Nobody's going to intentionally get in a stand-up shooting match w
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by bcoates 13y ago
Yeah, it couldn't be perfectly general. You could still keep the decoder simple and just put a little more intelligence on the GPU side to handle quantizing on the time/space/color dimensions appropriately when you try to sen
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by bcoates 13y ago
Stylus. 6000+ year old invention for increasing positional and pressure control on touch-sensitive tablets. The hardware is there already, but the stylus-optimized software is thin in the ground.

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