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by cdjk 13y ago
Lottery - sure, that's a scam, barring the odd situation where a positive expected value is possible. Insurance on small events (i.e. the extended warranty from Best Buy) could be described as a scam, but homeowners insurance/car
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by cdjk 13y ago
In the US that would be illegal, and get you in serious trouble with the FCC. What is possible, however, is for the prison to run its own cell tower with whitelisted IMEIs - i.e. only the guards' phones.
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by cdjk 13y ago
That could work, but the advantage of an HSM is that the key material is physically prevented from leaving the device, barring acid/x-rays/other attacks. All encryption happens on the device itself. With an open ssh connection you
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by cdjk 13y ago
It's called a hardware security module (HSM) [1]. The basic idea is to store the private key in the tamper-resistant hardware, along with a microprocessor to perform the basic encryption options you need. They can be relatively cheap,
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the recruiters are all contractors, and are all fairly independent. I think that's the only think that explains stories like this, as well as some experiences I've had with them.
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by cdjk 13y ago
I interviewed at Microsoft quite a while ago, and the process was fairly pleasant. My only complaint was that eight hours of straight interviews is a little long.
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm really surprised that's not how it works at Google, both from their perspective, from the perspective of the candidate. I would be extremely hesitant to interview or accept a job at Google if didn't know what I'd be
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Paper backups for digital data(ronja.twibright.com)
3 points by cdjk 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdjk 13y ago
Unless it's a strict liability crime. In the bubblegum example, I believe you could be convicted of something like manslaughter without mens rea. The CFAA is not a strict liability offense, however, as far as I'm aware.
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by cdjk 13y ago
This is awesome! I've been meaning to use mailgun for some small personal projects, but didn't want to pay to use my own domain. That's the biggest advantage of the change for me.
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by cdjk 13y ago
It looks like there are two books with similar titles - which one are you reading? Blind Man's Bluff is good, as another poster suggests. Another fun one is "The theory that would not die," about the history of Bayes rule.
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by cdjk 13y ago
So you have a customer that's just about to buy your product, and you're sending them away from your site? I mean, as a consumer I like discounts, but as a programmer I really want my customers to just click checkout at that poin
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by cdjk 13y ago
True. You can get the same thing with referrer URLs that apply a coupon code behind the scenes, e.g. example.com/store/fifty_off. The logic is the same, you're just hiding the troublesome coupon code field.
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by cdjk 13y ago
It causes noticeable dropoff in stores. I don't remember the numbers, but we did an A/B test and noticed a difference. We switched to referrer URLs for discounts instead. I wanted to try an experiment of putting a bunch of low v
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by cdjk 13y ago
This is very cool. For a slightly easier way of experimenting with a lisp machine it's possible to install OpenGenera. There are scattered tutorials online, but here's one I've found: http://www.cliki.net/VL
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by cdjk 13y ago
And before anyone thinks about disrupting the step stool market, it's been done: http://www.squattypotty.com/ Complete with puns.
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by cdjk 13y ago
That is why I always travel with caffeine pills. Yes, I feel like an addict, but it beats the alternative of withdrawal.
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by cdjk 13y ago
He could shut down external access, deploy changes to capture plain text passwords, then turn everything off. Technically he's complied...
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by cdjk 13y ago
But that additional access would probably include various keys that would let them decrypt previous communication. Maybe the order was to log passwords on login, or something like that, that would allow recovery of the key and decryption o
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by cdjk 13y ago
I have a hunch that mentioning jury nullification as a potential juror will get you removed from the pool pretty quickly.
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Bootstrap your own machine shop(gingerybooks.com)
2 points by cdjk 13y ago|0 comments
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by cdjk 13y ago
Most QRP work is at frequencies less than 30MHz. While 6m might work, tropospheric ducting, sporadic E, etc are touchy enough that adding in QRP operation wouldn't be pleasant. The RF upconverter would help with that, however. Power
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by cdjk 13y ago
What if you want to do something between "everyone can access it" and "only local host can access it?". For example, I have to run a recursive DNS resolver on a port other than 53 because my ISP intercepts DNS traffic. I
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by cdjk 13y ago
Unfortunately the legal is perfectly clear... to lawyers. I've thought that it would be nice to simplify things, but it already is simple to the people for whom it matters (i.e. lawyers and judges). It would be kind of like trying to
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by cdjk 13y ago
You can do IP over DNS today: http://code.kryo.se/iodine/
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by cdjk 13y ago
There is TLS for SMTP, which admittedly doesn't protect the email once it gets to the server, but at least helps en-route. Also, I don't think there's a problem around the fact that most of the time you don't communicate
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by cdjk 13y ago
I'm waiting for the widespread adoption of DNSSEC so we can just start adding TLSA records with the public key fingerprint. Yes, it means you have to trust whoever has access to create DNS records, but you already have to trust them.
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by cdjk 13y ago
I don't know much about undersea cables (although it is a fascinating subject), but I imagine there's no need to tap a cable in the middle of the ocean. If instead you tap it a couple miles offshore (even tens of miles), suddenly
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by cdjk 13y ago
The fallout products of an atomic bomb generally have short half lives. Wikipedia has some interesting graphs comparing the radiation dose of a fission bomb and Chernobyl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fallout#H
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by cdjk 13y ago
Reliability for incoming mail, sure. But there's making sure outgoing mail is delivered and not spam filtered, making sure your ip isn't on any blacklists, managing and testing backups, keeping up to date on security issues, etc.

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