ddt_Osprey

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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Seriously. These " enumeronyms " drive me batty.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
All things considered, 84 bit encryption is pretty impressive, considering DES was still considered "okay" even into the late 1990's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard https:/&
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
If they ever... Boiling frogs, my friend. Boiling frogs.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
I would not say a brute force copy must be necessarily lossy by default. In theory, if the picture is revealed on a display, upon which the full pixel raster can be distinguished for every frame (in real time or slower), an optical capture
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
a typical cinema release is a pretty big file - frame-by-frame encoded as jpg2000 in 4k. Often shipped on hard drives, or downloaded via dedicated fiber lines. This is not a show stopper. All you need is one unlocked
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Modern DRM schemes like AACS employ methods to change keys for new works. So when crackers find a key that allows them to circumvent the DRM scheme they can't publish it or it would soon get useless and they woul
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
on the security side https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hastings_(journalist) http://nymag.com/news/features/michael-hastings-2013-11/ http://i2.wp.com/www.dcclothesli
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Here it comes. The next wave of propaganda, in favour of precogs. The concept of precrime will save us from ourselves.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
I think some people know exactly what that situation involves and they are inviting it with open eyes. When you want to stay clean, you have others do the dirty work. The ones that volunteer for the dirty work are usually regarded as equall
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
NO U
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Not useless. Just less useful. It pushes the capacity for your adversary to operate into (slightly) slimmer confines, which is a marginal improvement. Otherwise, your adversary can behave in an unrestrained manner. No?
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Jesus, I wasn't even going to read this article, but holy shit, am I glad I did. Using more precise sensors, the same MIT researchers went on to develop systems that can distinguish between different people standing behind
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
There's worse things than Snowden's revelations though, like cheerfully donating your organs to a government that executes you over some religious aerobics classes. [1] I hope this whole panopticon thing doesn't get finished
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Oh, clickbait. Nevermind. I suppose maybe this identifies the polarity of backchannel.com's political alignment.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Boy, just like so many MP3 sharing services of yester-year. What a curious development! Standard practice to poison the well of your enemies. This is a phased approach by the way, and malware is a preliminary step. Next come reputation smea
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
I'm sure that's what the robot voices are for. The problem is, they only have ten or fifteen pre-sets, and all of them are useless.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Perception in humans seems capable of grasping data sets with billions of pieces of information each second, and distilling it all down to intuition. All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels (excluding things like one&
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
People literally take shits in subway cars, especially at night. When people aren't taking a dump in the corner, the new subway cars have air conditioning systems that smell like stale halitosis. But, the worst part about the new subwa
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
If you like that, you'll love this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_of_despair
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Certainly an easy way to keep people who suck from producing children.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Bikeshedding is when a group of people form opinions about, and squabble over something frivolous and irrelevant, but appealing to the lowest common denominator. Offer a group of people the opportunity to design a nuclear powered aircraft c
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
I thought it meant "turn up the speakers and head over to the mosh pit or die."
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A Weekend in Chicago: Where Gunfire Is a Terrifying Norm(nytimes.com)
1 points by ddt_Osprey 10y ago|0 comments
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
I might take a guess that, when sensational amounts of money are flying to and fro, there's a degree of truth to the fact that humans trading imaginary numbers or paper tokens or what-have-you, is a centuries old game that consistently
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
I definitely remember receiving blister packs, decorated with directions and pill groupings that started with 2 pills, at high intervals like every 6 hours, then tapered to 2 pills every 12 hours toward the end of the first week, then 1 pil
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Welly, welly, welly, welly, well.
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
No, I just meant in general. Under the circumstances that you're fully employed for 7 or 8 years, and never need to make a claim, the maximum payout is always 24 weeks of unemployment supplements. Therefore, after 8 years, you might ha
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Meanwhile, you'll be paying for 24 weeks of coverage. And, so, 24 times $511 means, the maximum payout is $12,264 in taxable income, so maybe $8,000 in net cash. So, at the 7 year mark (or maybe right now), just start questioning wheth
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Meanwhile, here's me over here, thinking throughout my youth that it was advice to prevent the painful, avoidable side effects withdrawal symptoms. Stepping down off a high dosage in halves is the exact same strategy used to ease peopl
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by ddt_Osprey 10y ago
Oh man, is THAT who the author is? Yeah, the Gervais Principle is brilliant writing. He didn't provide any empirical evidence with this article. He's just proselytizing about... whatever. This article sucks. I guess he must be a

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