coldcode

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541.
by coldcode 5y ago
Everyone's security is awful, as the penalty for failure is less than the expense required to make it secure. Until the former becomes higher the latter will guarantee insecurity rules.
542.
by coldcode 5y ago
Wouldn't it be cheaper for Apple to just buy DDG or Brave?
543.
by coldcode 5y ago
> the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet Really? Assume people who still use IE6 on a late 1990s computer are too poor? My millionaire BIL would flunk that test.
544.
by coldcode 5y ago
US healthcare is a giant cash making scam, where patient health and open pricing are unimportant. If the Federal government actually cared to force the issue, we might find a preference for a national unified system, in which of course the
545.
by coldcode 5y ago
Requires people licensed to transport liquid oxygen as well as tanker trucks designed for it; with so much unplanned for demand, it's hard to balance the needs of medical and industrial oxygen quickly.
546.
by coldcode 5y ago
I live here and have a well, the aquifer water is pretty much rotten eggs.
547.
by coldcode 5y ago
What if you no longer have an account at the issuing bank and the cards were cancelled. How would this even work given there is no business relationship anymore?
548.
by coldcode 5y ago
As usual they don't say how this was accomplished. They call it "sophisticated" but it probably was just stupid or lazy, which is very common in most corporate hacks. Big companies don't really care much about security s
549.
by coldcode 5y ago
Not necessarily, currently there are a lot of Wall Street companies buying real estate at any price (Zillow, etc). That is contributing some to the price inflation. My house has increased insanely in just the past 30 days for no obvious rea
550.
by coldcode 5y ago
Old quote: "To go forward you must back up". I've seen data migrations that took a year of effort and multiple practice sessions before working flawlessly. I've also seen places where every single backup for years was em
551.
by coldcode 5y ago
Bush, Obama, Trump all kept it going. Trump finally wanted a withdrawal which Biden is keeping. The implementation of the withdrawal wasn't all the great, but the problem is the US keeps thinking it can force democracy on people who ei
552.
by coldcode 5y ago
If Covid had symptoms as physically horrific as Smallpox, Bubonic Plague or Ebola, I think there would be fewer people rejecting a vaccine.
553.
by coldcode 5y ago
I still wonder if recreating mammoths will ever be possible, and of course if you could, would they survive in the modern climate in the wild.
554.
by coldcode 5y ago
150 other unengaged and unproductive people are making sure it never works.
555.
by coldcode 5y ago
I had a little fever (99) and was tired for about 12 hrs. Was not terrible. But I am 63.
556.
by coldcode 5y ago
When I was in college in the 70's we went to a Miller brewery where they told us about some blue liquid they poured into Miller High Life that allowed them to ship the beer in clear bottles instead of brown. It came in tanker cars full
557.
by coldcode 5y ago
Many times I have wanted the Oh No! undo and the Dynamite in my IDE.
558.
by coldcode 5y ago
Maybe they plan on making the encryption slightly less encrypted so they can tell something about the content? Would that not mean the encryption is basically pointless?
559.
by coldcode 5y ago
I retired at age 62.5, tired of working long hours and high stress as a lead programmer in a huge company. Now I write code all day I want to write. Much more fun. I miss being involved in the (non FAANG) companies business, but I don'
560.
by coldcode 5y ago
FaceID uses a 3d surface to identify your face. These GANs are making 2d images. Until you can make a dynamic controllable 3d surface and generate the faces in 3d you have no hope of defeating FaceID.
561.
by coldcode 5y ago
I always thought the CEO should be responsible for what their company did even if they were carefully screened from direct knowledge of stupid things. But obviously that rarely happens.
562.
by coldcode 5y ago
Up until I retired a few months ago, I routinely worked 50-60 hours a week as a team lead because I wrote code full time + meetings for several hours a day plus communicating with other teams, product and execs all day long. I rarely took v
563.
by coldcode 5y ago
Not one person ever code reviews code that was not already compiled. Requiring you know the syntax of a programming language (in my case, Swift, changes syntax in every release) outside of a compiler is pointless. I remember in the early da
564.
by coldcode 5y ago
If the robot is perfect, then there is no one left to prosecute a war crime. It's only a war crime if someone can accuse and prosecute, thus only losers commit war crimes.
565.
by coldcode 5y ago
What would be even more informative is (1) what does the hospital/doctors actually receive from the insurance company (2) what would the hospital/doctors get if the parents had zero insurance (3) what would a hospital in each of t
566.
by coldcode 5y ago
While even the new ones are not perfect, they are way better than what's in the movies/shows. Good they decided to hire the artist instead of just beating him with lawyers.
567.
by coldcode 5y ago
Hoping the olympics just goes away. Now it's all hyper scientifically prepped professionals competing to get attention in between ads on some idiotic exclusive network. College football is about to become the same thing. No more thrill
568.
by coldcode 5y ago
Are people really that stupid to give some mobile app company access to their contact list? On iPhone you have to explicitly give permission, I presume on Android as well. I find that hard to believe everyone is doing it.
569.
by coldcode 5y ago
This makes me wonder how many of Van Gogh's works are valid Perl. Perhaps he invented the language...
570.
by coldcode 5y ago
Just because it was only used to target journalists, supposedly, does not mean someone could not also target random individuals. I doubt NSO has such control over their customers that the uses can't be expanded to almost anything, like

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