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One thing I'm having conniptions over is the inability to automate the installation of TLS certificates into stores other than the local machine or user. I'm referring specifically to the NTDS store, where I need to replace certs
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Although this also would be a huge boon for Type 2 diabetics like me, I thought that the pancreas generated insulin from the Islets of Langerhans (or something like that - IANAB), which sounds a lot more complex to replicate than a scaffold
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> This is a later version of our computer... Nice YouTube video, thanks. > To load the OS, you first had to hand key in a bootstrap loader in octal (base 8) on the front panel. When I eventually got to university in 1978, we had a PDP
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If it didn't point crackers to these sites, I would love to call out all the sites that do incredibly misguided things such as: - Allow you to paste passwords into their smartphone app, but not into their web site being accessed from t
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I just started using privacy.com and so far it has been an excellent experience. They provide everything my previous VAN-providing CC company did, and more. The one and only downside is that at present, the VAN uses ACH debit to draw immedi
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Knowing a little about the people who make Signal, and their principles (particularly Moxie Marlinspike), it would surprise me nigh unto death were they to compromise its security in any way.
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I used to drink sparkling water exclusively. When I stopped buying bottled water (to reduce unnecessary expenses), I do seem to recall a slightly easier time of avoiding weight gain. But this really means little, objectively speaking; it&#x
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Ok, they deserve credit for openness, definitely. Is it just me that feels this way, or should they not also apologize for the leak (which appears to have been from one of their systems)? I didn't see an actual apology.
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> I was lucky. Our high school system shared a DEC PDP-8. This was in 1974. Luxury! (Monty Python "Four Yorkshiremen" reference) In 1974 I was (the equivalent of) a junior in high school in South Africa. Back then we called it
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I was just about to write this exact comment. Thank you for doing this and saving me the effort! At the time of writing, this should have been #2 on HN.
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> Every single person reading this knows that ... I am reading this and I disagree, therefore your statement is false. Gen. Flynn was fired - by Trump - for not disclosing his discussions with Russians. So it's not a total fabricati
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I thought Clapper clarified today that he didn't mean there was no evidence, only that he was uninvolved and did not know of any evidence. Lack of knowledge of evidence != no evidence.
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> An objection I hear to this is that you're not just writing tests for yourself, you're writing tests for the others who will need to help maintain your code, perhaps after you're gone. I'm somewhat sympathetic to th
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> The problem is that coverage tools report whether that line of code executed and not whether its logic is correct. This can easily give you a false sense of security. This is true. But isn't that true of any test? A suite of nai
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We'll probably still be debating this as we row to work one day.
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Did you mean to reply to the parent comment rather than mine? It seems more relevant:)
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That's very sad.
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That, too.
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What kind of a question is that? Does it add value to the discussion?
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Even if I agree with you, and I am wrong in including Computer Non-Science, my point stands just as strongly. Mathematics is a foundation of science, and people working in the objective, analytical disciplines, like computers and engineerin
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Policies have institutional inertia. International accords can be broken, numerous polluting plants and pipelines built, and irreversible environmental damage can be done in four years. It's a matter of rolling back the effects of th
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Reducing peer review is antithetical to good science, first of all. Second of all, the failure to renew the terms of the current members, who were led to believe they would get a second term, and labeling them as "Obama appointees&quot
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Peer review is meant to compensate for scientific bias (i.e. "yes-men"). This administration is reducing peer review. Therefore the new yes-men are worse than the old.
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The new EPA administration is reducing peer reviews? Some of us HN readers, call ourselves Computer Scientists, some Software Engineers, some are other type of scientists. I believe that for many HN readers, science is a core component of w
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I've worked at 3 startups. Every single one of them has (or had) the problems you describe. Is there some known principle that governs this, something that could be named along the lines of Parkinson's Law or the Peter Principle?
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> The device owner actually has the password or key. The device owner might be dead. Given that the context is law enforcement, that's reasonably likely (I forget - wasn't that the problem with San Bernardino?)
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> Do you have programmable international wire transfers in the works? Unless things have changed recently, please watch out for the money laundering laws if you are in the USA. It is easier than you might think for absolutely innocent pe
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I developed a serious allergy to what were called "debit orders" when I used to live outside the USA many years ago. You would sign a form to allow the merchant to debit your bank account every month for (say) a subscription. Canc
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How VMware's ovftool password handling gave me a headache(edfine.io)
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> But as an inexperienced C developer, I found it quite helpful. Fair enough. I didn't mean to come across as arrogant; I just wasn't thinking about the audience. I'm happy you got value from it.

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