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by bdunbar 14y ago
Not everyone. Just people who need the internet. There are people who don't actually _care_ all that much if their neighbors can read yahoo mail or not.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Why is an Army spokesperson talking about an event handled by the coast guard? You will have noticed that when a guy is filmed at the Pentagon handing out bad news, it's whatever PIO is up next, not an officer for that branch of the s
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I suggest the intended audience of his blog and the intended audience of his fiction are not the same.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
By itself it does not. If you have a bunch of machines, you also have a config system (right?) and they (puppet, chef and so on) have the means to manage cron tasks as a class. You still get cron, and the means to manage them across one's
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You didn't say what operating system you are using. When I 'got into' emacs it was with the OS X-ish version, Aquamacs. Which _is_ emacs, but with Mac friendly bits. At first I used it simply as a replacement for Textmate, then later got
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Time flies when you're having fun? Maybe we don't realize how long it takes to acquire a new skill. If someone had told me it would take a year to just become comfortable with emacs, I would never have picked it up. I already have sublime
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by bdunbar 14y ago
They do have those. I've used them. They're pretty cool: lots of steam flying around. But they are not cheap: my aunt couldn't afford one for her deli, for example, but she could afford me! But it's still going to be someone's job to load
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Common in commercial software, too. I installed version 3.3.0 of an EDI application. Couldn't license it, which was the simply importing an .xml file. I called. The fix was to apply 'cumulative patch X' available on their website. Now ..
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by bdunbar 14y ago
How did _I_ learn the command line? By doing. Some reading, sure, but .. more doing than thinking. Like this; I was a brand-new programmer (COBOL). The Marines assigned me to a billet in the LAN team at my new command. A corporal wrote
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> He has no motive to smuggle drugs. Because .. he already had a job? A whole lot of crime is committed for reasons other than financial.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Given these premises, Your premises are faulty. But that's a lengthy and tedious discussion, probably not suitable for this post. Instead, I invite you to visit your local parish with an open mind, celebrate Mass. I suggest you'll f
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by bdunbar 14y ago
The Roman church has been around for two thousand years. The lifespan of your average publicly traded company is what .. a decade? Advising the Vatican to change everything based on the listed problems is like telling Bezos he needs to over
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Nobody launched any nukes at the US. You're right about Korea being a limited war. Both sides had protected rear areas that were vital to the war, and were careful not to step over the line. However the USSR had only tested their fir
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> non-explosive artillery shells Artillery shells contain explosives in the nose.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I know a nice lady, who is in IT: she's a programmer, a web guru. This topic came up in conversation. Her suggestion? I paraphrase: 'Just make it a nice place to work.'
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Homeschooled does not mean hermit. Agreed. My three oldest were public schooled, my two-youngest are home schooled. And what do they do after school hours? They're outside with their friends in the neighborhood, doing kid stuff.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Clearly this is a YMMV thing. I was public schooled, semi-rural Oklahoma in the 1970s. The only diverse culture we had was 'town' vs 'country'. My kids, who _are_ home schooled, have more exposure to diversity because of where we live, who
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You have a good point. I don't think it needs to be this way. A lot of tasks that we ask users to perform are out of their knowledge scope. We gussy them up with dialog boxes like 'It looks like you've lost your network connection, would
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> If that's not what you meant please clarify I didn't mean cookies. I meant the process of -getting- a cookie. I supply userid/password to the website, get a cookie. Granted, once I have the cookie I'm good. But ... what I feel I _sho
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Look at the popularity of decentralized private/public key trading with (e.g.) PGP. NOT. Haw. At a previous employer, in 2001, we started a project to deploy PGP to everyone. The idea was we could encrypt our work, email, send files
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Thank you! I vaguely recall reading about these, a long time ago.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> Couldn't you have the keys on a device An issue with those is that's just one more thing to keep track of. And, hardware costs money, and that's just one more thing to keep any solution from being adopted.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
Ah. Shoot - hadn't thought of that edge case. Keeping the private key on a third party host would negate the whole point of _having_ a private key. I suppose one could dodge this by encrypting the encryption, or have it stored 3rd party a
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Ask HN: Why aren't we using SSH passphrase keys for website logins?
10 points by bdunbar 14y ago|21 comments
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by bdunbar 14y ago
"Suddenly you don't need a carrier to provide topcover for amphibious operations," Airplanes do more than keep away other airplanes. They're also useful to blow up the enemy ashore, close air support for the grunts, deep tactical missions
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I don't see that. If you need to kill the line of sight laser, swarm it with cruise missiles flying nap of the earth. The gun won't see incoming until they pop over horizon which is .. what five miles away? Now I am armchair warrior-ing -
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by bdunbar 14y ago
> They don't want anything to change, ever, because it breaks their workflow. I'm like that. I'm willing to change, but there needs to be a compelling reason. I think of 'my computer' the same way I do my work area. If my phone is over
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by bdunbar 14y ago
You just lack a God-like perspective, is all.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
It's God's own hex nut. Don't take it off! Saturn will fall off and go wobbling around the Solar System.
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by bdunbar 14y ago
I'm pretty sure the postal police take a dim view of people using USPS to ship illegal goods. Or at least I've always assumed they do.

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