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by dlitz 13y ago
I agree. Since the era of Microsoft dominance, we've done a fairly good job of selling appliances and single-purpose software & services, but I think we've failed to sell general-purpose computing to the public. We've
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by dlitz 13y ago
She's the USB3 maintainer, and as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with her code; Linus never even directed any vitriol at her.
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by dlitz 13y ago
It's not just about AWS, though. What about hard disk encryption, PGP, Bitcoin, or any other process that doesn't immediately leak its timing information over the network? I imagine it would be difficult to covertly leak LUKS key
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by dlitz 13y ago
I've been using tcplay on Debian for about a year now.
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by dlitz 13y ago
No, it's not just crypto primitives, it's crypto protocols, too. It's even designing other protocols that run on top of crypto protocols (see CRIME). Even implementing existing crypto primitives is hazardous: D.J. Bernste
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by dlitz 13y ago
I think a more relevant question is, "Do you have a realistic plan for how you're going to generate revenue from this software in the next year or two?" If the answer isn't, "yes", then your prospect of ever
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by dlitz 13y ago
Hmm. I created a dummy package and allowed GitHub to create the tag for the release. It looks like it used a lightweight tag, and I don't see any evidence of any extra refs: $ git ls-remote https://github.com/dli
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by dlitz 13y ago
You might want to take a look at Dev Bootcamp. It's a 9-week intensive course that teaches its students just enough to make them employable, and then connects them with interested employers: http://devbootcamp.com/ Bl
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by dlitz 13y ago
"Dr. Martin’s lifeless body was found floating in the waters ... at this time there does not appear to be any suspicious circumstances." What?
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by dlitz 13y ago
So, the actual scheme is authenticated Diffie-Hellman key agreement. Its security is based on the discrete logarithm problem---it does not provide perfect information-theoretical security. "Forward secrecy" is an accurate term.
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by dlitz 13y ago
One of my old professors developed radiation-hardened orbital sensors for NASA. From what I remember of his lectures, I think a refrigerator is probably a terrible Faraday cage. Here are some excerpts from a nifty Analog Devices tutorial a
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by dlitz 13y ago
Sure, here's a court order compelling you to turn over N BTC by such-and-such a date, or you'll be held in contempt of court. I suppose you can file a motion to quash, but now you'll need to submit evidence that you no longer
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by dlitz 13y ago
Purely from an optics standpoint, I think it would be better for Snowden if the petition got 100,000 signatures than if it failed to.
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by dlitz 13y ago
Making it not a felony to talk about it might help.
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by dlitz 13y ago
Nope. I've done this with a Canadian card. It prompts for the zip code (at least, at many gas stations along the east coast).
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by dlitz 13y ago
It doesn't seem to notice punctuation errors, either.
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by dlitz 13y ago
I think it's been answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853901 Hong Kong currently has a moratorium on extradition of asylum seekers.
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by dlitz 13y ago
IPv6 can fix p2p connectivity, as long as the people rolling it out don't screw it up by using NAT or (to some extent) deny-by-default firewalls.
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by dlitz 13y ago
Encryption is cheap nowadays; I doubt making it optional would do anything but reduce the effectiveness of the system.
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by dlitz 13y ago
So, you're basically an exchange, right? Are you operating in the US, and if so, do you have the appropriate MSB license? It seems like the US government is starting to crack down on Bitcoin exchanges that operate without a license,
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by dlitz 13y ago
OK, so you've elected representatives that you trust. Now what? A major purpose of having new elections every 4 years (as opposed to life tenure) is to allow the people to periodically re-evaluate their trust decisions. What do you p
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by dlitz 13y ago
If voters in the US are just supposed to "trust" Congress and the executive, why even bother having elections?
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by dlitz 13y ago
You're assuming that all sensitive information has the same probability of leaking. Anecdotally, that's not really true. Most of these systems depend on honest citizens to keep the information secret, and honest citizens are mor
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by dlitz 13y ago
Some more facts about Wayland and client-side window decorations, quoted from here: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/02/client-side-wi... - Nothing in Wayland requires them - QtWayland allows Client
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by dlitz 13y ago
> disturbing both that it exists and that our government can't keep highly sensitive secrets Why could it be disturbing that a government's officials can't keep secrets about cases where they abuse their power or act against the public
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by dlitz 13y ago
It's not about your employer being your identity; It's about empathy and whether your choices improve or worsen others' lives. > Don't blame the soldiers for the fault of the generals. Since you apparently like military analogies, I'll
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by dlitz 13y ago
> Often the problem with these queries is that there are not enough devs complaining to MSFT. No. "Customer complaints" are not a substitute for product design sense. Any survey of your customers is inherently biased: Your customers, b
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by dlitz 13y ago
Google Authenticator only offers a subset of standard TOTP, and it also offers a very similar subset of HOTP. - Option of TOTP or HOTP ("time-based" or "counter-based") - SHA1 only - 6-digit codes only - 30-second time step only (
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by dlitz 13y ago
> Compared to the GPL, it's quite a hard license to comply with. Really? I don't see it. Compliance should be easy for any site where the source code already resides on the server (e.g. every Ruby on Rails, Node.js, or Python-based sit
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by dlitz 13y ago
Fair enough. This thread started with "Why not 2-clause BSD", and I understood your comment as defending the use of "2-clause BSD" in a non-standard way.

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