dimino

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by dimino 11y ago
I'm sorry, but you misunderstand what a public key is if you merely think of "public" as a way to distinguish between private. If your security model relies on public keys not being publicly known, then your security model ca
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by dimino 11y ago
As a guy who just recently raised hell, mostly got ignored for it, and is now moving teams, I hope what I did won't be remembered as "oh, that jerk was just trying to sink the team". I hope in your case you at least made very
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by dimino 11y ago
Also, what if he needs to shoot... "goofy"?
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by dimino 11y ago
That's like what SQL does too, you just tell it what data you want, and it comes up with the best way to get you the data. There's a word for programming languages like this, I forget what it is, though.
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by dimino 11y ago
It's "gratuitously negative" to ask me to pipe a script I download from the Internet into bash directly. They really should, for security reasons, spend the 5 seconds it'd take to separate those into two commands, or c
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by dimino 11y ago
Oh certainly, I just wanted to make the point that photography is a notoriously expensive hobby to begin with.
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by dimino 11y ago
Price is a huge inhibitor for a mid-range Canon DSLR, so it'll probably be a huge inhibitor for this system too.
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by dimino 11y ago
I dislike posts about Facebook's usage, if for no other reason than how many people tend to come out and say "I don't use it and I can't imagine why anyone would". That statement is just so intellectually dishonest,
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by dimino 11y ago
They're not even remotely comparable from a reliability or bandwidth standpoint, which is important for high quality streaming content (4k video from Netflix, for example). These things will matter more as high quality content increase
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by dimino 11y ago
This is a tragedy, as it forces comments to contain syntactic value.
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by dimino 11y ago
I don't understand the title, this writer performs the act of "getting healthcare is dangerous" after she reports on healthcare? I get that she "stops dieting", which is something different, I guess, from her normal
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by dimino 11y ago
They couldn't legally, no, as data protection laws still apply, and every proposal I've seen includes very strong language about how specific and pertinent the intel must be in order to be shared. But they could illegally, just li
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by dimino 11y ago
> The experience of Firefox and Chrome is that long release cycles actually decrease quality, precisely because of the dynamic on display here: long release cycles create huge pressure to land under-done features just before a deadline.
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by dimino 11y ago
You realize that, in the context of a cyber attack, customer data is not what you think it is, right? No one's giving away your browsing history, they're giving away C2C server IPs, md5s of malicious files, etc., and guess what?
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by dimino 11y ago
As recently as today I thought IPython might be worth looking into -- I've heard too many good things about IPython to ignore it, but I didn't really know how to get started. I guess I don't have that excuse any longer! My o
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by dimino 11y ago
My analogy was designed to demonstrate the responsibility of an actor who has knowledge of a consequence of his/her behavior, whether or not the actor is in control of the consequence itself. In the event of a shamed child, I am indeed
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by dimino 11y ago
When did he start? How long is he expected to go for?
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by dimino 11y ago
If I send my kid to visit his dad, knowing full well his dad is going to abuse him, am I at fault for sending him anyway, or are you exclusively arguing that his dad would be at fault, and I would carry zero blame?
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by dimino 11y ago
So about those swiss bank accounts, then...
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by dimino 11y ago
Considering there has never been a time in human history where a nation state has not had any opposition from other nation states, I suspect your suggestion is literally impossible.
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by dimino 11y ago
I've been very wary of PayPal given the vocality of those who've had issues, but I've used it a couple of times, in a couple of different ways, and have seen no issues. I've used PayPal to: * Buy/sell things f
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by dimino 11y ago
There's no way to notify your population of an action without also notifying your enemies of that action. No argument exists, to my knowledge, that a nation-state can be successful without hiding some information from other nation-sta
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by dimino 11y ago
I understand this sentiment, but I doubt you'd continue to hold it in the event of a leak that was much less beneficial for you in particular. Consider for a moment the fictional scenario that all US tax documents were leaked, or perha
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by dimino 11y ago
Hah, I don't think anyone would disagree with you if your thesis here is "most people are generally uninformed". That being said, technically speaking yes, it probably was a different set of people polled, just considering ho
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by dimino 11y ago
You're not really addressing what I wrote -- specifically, the general precedent of allowing state secrets to be leaked without severe punishment seems harmful to any nation state. It makes sense to me that the default reaction to th
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by dimino 11y ago
Why? I myself am not over the moon about what Snowden did, though I recognize the necessity for it, and don't hold any personal grudge against him for it. I just don't trust people to accurately asses whether or not something is
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by dimino 11y ago
Almost everyone I talk to in person thinks Snowden is a criminal. These people believe the US government was caught doing something it shouldn't have, but Snowden himself is a bad guy to these folks because he's seen as betrayin
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by dimino 11y ago
Yeah, which is what's happening now! Hooray!
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by dimino 11y ago
I think he's just trying to point out some of the unexpected aspects of "going to Mars", and there certainly is a set of the population of people who think they want to go to Mars, but actually would not enjoy the practicalit
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by dimino 11y ago
I once read an article or email about why web browsers can't/won't implement BitTorrent clients -- one of the biggest barriers IMO to making BitTorrent more ubiquitous for file download/upload is the fact that I can&#x27

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