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by dotBen 13y ago
because, you know, being a former NSA contractor with national security clearance doesn't provide any authoritatively to speak on issues pertaining to "privacy, surveillance, and online monitoring." It's amazing that pol
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by dotBen 13y ago
Someone described Google's foray into driverless cars, robots etc as the emergence of Google as a conglomerate. Those projects are just too many steps away from advertising revenue to claim they're all part of a common vision. T
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by dotBen 13y ago
Actually, the Snowden files show that is happening for non-US Citizens/US-persons. The NSA only has the legal obligation to obtain warrents for US Citizens not for anyone else. The NSA is unlikely to get involved in civil legal dispute
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by dotBen 13y ago
Do you have a link to qualify the statement Dane is anti NN? Knowing him and his business I find that hard to believe. On IPv6 their implementation might be beta but most ISPs don't offer anything and don't care.
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by dotBen 13y ago
And the OP didn't even discover the legendary Kit Kat Chunky yet...
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by dotBen 13y ago
"this is really not the way to communicate the message that they ... want their software to be scrutinized" To be fair, isn't the case for most proprietary software - even for the most security-concerned closed-source compa
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by dotBen 13y ago
Are you compiling a seed list for an aggregator/machine learning type project?
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by dotBen 13y ago
Given the article doesn't shed any light on who is behind this enterprise/stunt/whatever, I'm curious why they used the term "Successful Troll". The use of either word in their own right is curious as I don&#x2
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by dotBen 13y ago
What kind of tools would you like? email me ben@wpengine and let me know!
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by dotBen 13y ago
It all comes down to semantics, doesn't it? It wasn't imaged or indexed but the officer sat down and looked through it for quite some time. I think you asked people what they thought the 1000 searches consisted of, they would incl
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by dotBen 13y ago
Not really beyond a) they both died and b) they both worked in the field of security. Any further comparison is a little contrived. Gareth Williams was never a hacker - he was an academic mathematician who later became employed by GCHQ. U
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by dotBen 13y ago
I think you give yourself a hard time - part of the reason you're older is because you're doing a post-graduate program and not everyone does that immediately after their under-grad. So I actually have an open req for such an inte
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by dotBen 13y ago
Right but the dates of his high school and undergrad programs on his resume will presumably give away that he's not 22.
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I had my laptop searched during this time by a CBP officer at the US border in Calgary airport. There was no documentation of the event and the only 'receipt' I got was a pamphlet telling me that it was legal and what my rights we
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The NSA's elite hackers can hijack your Wi-Fi from 8 miles away(theverge.com)
3 points by dotBen 13y ago|1 comments
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by dotBen 13y ago
Acquia is the commercial company behind the development of Drupal, so understandably they're going emphasize Drupal as a great example of PHP ;)
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by dotBen 13y ago
And where exactly did the money go? $600k is a lot of money to implement an existing standard. That's 4-5 annual engineer salaries. I'm wondering exactly how much work was actually undertook for $600k and whether those doing it
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by dotBen 13y ago
"As I said in the beginning, we were surprised that in our industry people weren't as tech savvy or tech-minded as we thought they would be. ... Another thing that surprised me was how people made themselves available to talk to
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by dotBen 13y ago
Similarly, "jolla" is the pronunciation for the Korean word for "erect penis".
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by dotBen 13y ago
"More options are better for the consumer:" not if you consider fragmentation. While this runs Android apps, it's not clear if it's fully/"acid" compliant and the risk is Sailfish's flavor of Andro
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by dotBen 13y ago
UPDATE: Apparently folks are saying this is NOT how it works, although I read a write up that indicated this was how it works. I'm leaving the original below anyway... I believe it is linked. The idea is that you'll tell the app
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by dotBen 13y ago
This isn't really a new idea - the military already have versions of these that they can throw into a room or inclosed space to gain optics on it upon before entering it to clear it. They also have versions that can be launched over a
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Google opens its spectrum database to developers(gigaom.com)
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by dotBen 13y ago
Except that lease $ payments are fixed and agreed at point of contract. The parent is suggesting that on day 0 of the lease the lessor doesn't know if the EV will be worth less than they project, due to accelerated obsolescence from a
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by dotBen 13y ago
on the cost structures: my guess is this is primarily aimed at the type of game developers who build upon a MRR (monthly reoccurring revenue) model - from WoW through to XBox-Live type gaming. Being server based particularly lends itself t
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by dotBen 13y ago
As a British citizen I admire his interest to operate the business domestically within the UK (and thus create UK tax nexus) , but given the nature of the business and the run-around he's unsurprisingly receiving, I'm surprised h
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by dotBen 13y ago
A significant number of these people and those mentioned in the sibling comments here are not CEOs (if you seek out their job title carefully) and/or don't have startups.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Also note, this article was published in 2001. If disk storage was cheap then, it's an order of magnitude (or more) cheaper now.
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by dotBen 13y ago
Sure, these are the kind of concerns engineers raise when you talk to engineers who are right for the job but not worked on OSS before: * Perceived job security, especially developers with mortgages, families, etc. Going from a core-func
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by dotBen 13y ago
This is an interesting question, because I'm in the process of looking to hire an engineer to work full time on contributing to WordPress. The twist is I'm looking for someone who is currently not part of the WordPress Community

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