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by cakeface 10y ago
What are the odds that the private keys for all of the .gov domains are also sent to the NSA? I guess if you are worried about another nation spying on your traffic you would be fine. I would expect that all of this traffic is decryptable
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by cakeface 10y ago
Another reason why it is difficult to create the "google" for the law is that some laws are copyrighted and are not in the public domain. Stop. Think about what I just said. There are laws that you must pay to read. A good exampl
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by cakeface 10y ago
They are there to build features. Hopefully those features are something that solves business problems and ultimately drives revenue. Reliability is a requirement for a useful business system but is not a useful thing on its own. Your syste
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by cakeface 10y ago
I think that we'll see a ton of companies going after this space, but they'll be as quiet as they can. Why? Jobs. You are directly competing with humans in this space. Truck driver is one of the most common jobs in many states[1
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by cakeface 10y ago
So what you're saying is that there are a bunch of unix engineers looking for jobs.
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by cakeface 10y ago
Sure you can. You just cannot use standard cheap home policies. I have learned that someone somewhere will always write a policy. It may be crazy expensive. But they will write it.
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by cakeface 10y ago
At least one silver lining to the GOP/Trump change in the wind. I hope that we are able to find more as time goes on. As outrageous as Trump is and as much as I find him personally reprehensible I hope for at least a few welcome policy
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by cakeface 10y ago
Is python's upgrade difficulties from 2.7 to 3.x due to being interpreted rather than compiled? I feel like the types of problems seen in a non compatible upgrade are exactly what I consider easy problems in Java. Look for the compila
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by cakeface 10y ago
This is sort of starting to remind me of the Reticulum in Neal Stephenson's book Anathem . He talks about how they are constantly checking the reputation of data and only valuing high reputation sources. It's certainly hand wavy
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by cakeface 10y ago
From the article section on grsecurity Linus added that this kind of problem is exactly why he has never seriously considered merging the grsecurity patch set; it's full of "this kind of craziness." How do you reconcile tha
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by cakeface 10y ago
There is a good reason for this by the way. It is meant to prevent vote buying.
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by cakeface 10y ago
Please don't be surprised by this behavior. It's in the guidelines to do this and is what most of us would prefer. > Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. > Plea
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by cakeface 10y ago
.NET framework version 2! That's old!
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by cakeface 10y ago
This article, like many security articles, shows an unwillingness to reason about security in a non-extreme manner. All aspects of life include risk, internet or IoT security are just one axis of risk that must be weighed when making decis
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by cakeface 10y ago
When is the open source project to create self driving systems going to start? I feel very uncomfortable with private corporate AI driving me around and making decisions with my family's life in the balance. For me, I need to be able
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by cakeface 10y ago
The motivation is to make a smaller change to their operations and infrastructure. Right now they are running application services on linux machines using puppet to make the machine environment work. Switching to a container gives them rep
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by cakeface 10y ago
This reminds me of The Git Parable which helped me understand git when I was first getting started. I really do believe that you have to understand how git actually works under the UI in order to have long term success using it. Whether it&
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by cakeface 10y ago
There is in fact a religion called Stallmanism. http://stallmanism.wikidot.com/
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by cakeface 10y ago
I like this idea. Grab a new elastic IP on AWS. Set up an EC2 listening on 80, maybe some other interesting ports, and see if anything juicy comes in. Or just respond with some canned SPAM or phishing attempt. Repeat.
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by cakeface 10y ago
Who is going to make an automated service that rents the DVD from dvds.netflix.com, loads the DVD up on their cloud rentable DVD players, and streams the result to your device?
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by cakeface 10y ago
Direct SSH access can be an invaluable tool for debugging production issues. It is great to be able to SSH in and check the tcp dump, view the running processes in detail, attach gdb and get a memory dump. These types of tasks will never g
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by cakeface 10y ago
Dealing with technical debt is the privilege of a successful business.
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by cakeface 10y ago
I've frequently wanted to understand the actual workings of the JVM garbage collector but I get bogged down reading the C/C++. If you want to know exactly how a program works then reading the source is a great way to do it. Someo
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Poor people pay for parking even when they can’t afford a car(washingtonpost.com)
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by cakeface 10y ago
1. Create an account 2. send the login info to all your friends 3. Upload whatever files you want to share. Now you all have access to download or upload. Its semi private because the files never leave the account. Similar to when people u
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by cakeface 10y ago
A transactional expense may be purchasing a license to the online version of the content for perpetual access. Similar to how when you buy a print journal you can keep that forever. The way some online publishing sales work is that you buy
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by cakeface 10y ago
How much of these low bids in Dubai are due to the low cost of labor there? Also I am guessing that various building regulations are significantly cheaper to meet than in the US. I remember reading about the huge building boom in Dubai bein
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by cakeface 10y ago
>That guy who decides to rewrite an entire system in his off-hours in a new language without telling anyone else? I have worked with this person on more than one occasion and I would love to work with them again. Entire new products and
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by cakeface 10y ago
If you haven't played it, Pixel Dungeon is great.
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by cakeface 10y ago
Apparently we cannot read the statutes that govern us. I was under the impression that when something became law the copyright went away. It seems like these trade organizations are trying to take down public domain knowledge. I'm tryi

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