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by cal5k 8y ago
Why is it unreasonable? You could exempt anyone below a certain income level from paying the fee - it's no different than any other kind of tax.
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by cal5k 8y ago
It might be necessary to issue new dongles every once in a while, but it wouldn't be unreasonable to have a user fee for doing so. Certainly people have to pay to renew driver's licenses and such already.
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by cal5k 8y ago
Well, the above solution would actually allow you to connect the stolen number to the specific organization you supplied it to. That would help with accountability quite a bit!
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by cal5k 8y ago
Right, but it's like using a private key as an identifier. As soon as it's compromised you need to get a whole new ID. I'd rather see something like Bitcoin's HD wallets used for identification - your private keys are on
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by cal5k 8y ago
Question: Doesn't the fermentation process destroy some/much of the vitamin C content of the spruce?
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by cal5k 8y ago
Zoom actually does some neat things, like detecting audio problems and attempting to fix them automatically (on Mac it restarts CoreAudio I think).
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by cal5k 8y ago
Come to Canada :) We'll hire you.
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by cal5k 8y ago
I guess the implication is that the manufactured cost is still significantly higher than the cost of the raw materials, which implies lots of room for improvement.
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by cal5k 8y ago
Well, they all live in Kazakhstan and Russia. It may not be so easy to convert talent into legitimate business success, particularly when "cybercrime" (god I hate that word) is often encouraged in places like Russia so long as it
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by cal5k 8y ago
Apparently we're in sync around our use of ellipses to simulate dramatic pause.
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by cal5k 8y ago
The most interesting part for me: "Furthermore, the defendants leased more than 650,000 Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses, assigned multiple IP addresses to each datacenter server, and then fraudulently registered those IP addresses t
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by cal5k 8y ago
"We've fired the missiles, sir" "Excellent... when do they hit?" "According to our calculations... ohhh about 6 weeks from now"
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by cal5k 8y ago
I’d recommend watching one of his lectures rather than clips framed as “Jordan Peterson DESTROYS leftist” (the scourge of YouTube). He’s often intentionally put on the defensive in interviews and can understandably get prickly at continued
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by cal5k 8y ago
Apparently Facebook, a company, is expected to prevent election meddling from Russia, a state actor. Where is the NSA in all of this?
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by cal5k 8y ago
Even worse, agencies will now see side-scrolling websites as "in" again. Expect to see a return of the dreaded side-scrolling corporate website :-P
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by cal5k 8y ago
I find this claim that Quebec is a repressed province bizarre, particularly when more Prime Ministers have hailed from Quebec than any other province (including Ontario): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Mini
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by cal5k 8y ago
I mean hey - that really sucks. It sounds like you've met some shitty people. It doesn't change the fact that good-natured ribbing is really common in cross-cultural contexts. I grew up in Ottawa, a really bilingual city, and maki
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by cal5k 8y ago
I think it’s possible to broadly generalize about a culture without needing to caveat that yes, obviously some people are different.
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by cal5k 8y ago
The title is fun, but this is a terrible paper. Yes, Canadians poke fun at Québécois, and sometimes poutine is used (but rarely these days given its popularity). But a big part of Canadian culture is being “in on the joke”. We tend to love
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by cal5k 8y ago
Heck, even CloudFront is super easy to setup and works like a charm.
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by cal5k 8y ago
I think that’s an over-simplistic view. Failing to adhere to Chinese law would mean exiting the Chinese market. If the US passed a similar law, Apple would be forced to comply with it (although they would at least have recourse through the
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by cal5k 8y ago
Probably an RSA token. They're common for business banking but not for retail banking, or at least not in North America.
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by cal5k 8y ago
That's actually a really good point. I'm not sure what options are available in the US, but Canada Post has a service for exactly this purpose: https://www.canadapost.ca/cpc/en/business/postal-servic
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by cal5k 8y ago
I understand the point of view, but it still smacks of weak process. Support should not be able to do anything other than trigger an email reset link. If they lost the email password, they need to take it up with their email provider. Other
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by cal5k 8y ago
Also, if we’re talking about high-security applications, it’s really not enough to focus on authentication. Detecting account hijacking can prevent an attacker from executing some damaging action (transferring money, buying stuff) even thou
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by cal5k 8y ago
What you’re saying about support indicates poor process rather than an issue with SMS per se. All password resets should require email verification... so an attacker would have to either compromise both the email account and the phone numbe
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by cal5k 8y ago
This. Most people don’t appreciate that banks are responsible for most of the attack vectors that cause their customers to lose money. No 2FA options. Passwords are used directly to connect your bank account to third party apps rather than
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by cal5k 8y ago
Overall some good ideas - but I’m curious, why would SMS-based 2FA be LESS secure than no 2FA at all for unsophisticated users? Yes, SIM-jacking is a real threat, but it still requires directed effort on the part of the attacker. It can’t b
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by cal5k 8y ago
>> There's a single counter-example that I think demolishes this entire line of thinking, and it is the rise of "Asian privilege". > No, it doesn't. >> If Western power structures are inherently racist &gt
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by cal5k 8y ago
Replace race with socioeconomic status and you'll get a more complete picture that doesn't rely on traits someone has no control over. "Old white men" is no more an acceptable pejorative than any other in my view.

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