drspacemonkey

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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
I'm currently building a side project I'd like to release for public use at some point, and I'm using PGP/RSA (soon-to-be ECDSA pending some cross-platform experimentation) for multiple-recipient encrypted messages. What
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
It also used to be considered paranoia to think that the NSA might do all the things in the Snowden leaks, but here we are.
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
The problem is that Google wants to give the military better weapons to kill people, knowing full well that they're intended to be better at killing people, and they're using the data we voluntarily gave them under the illusion th
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
I've seen Ben Crystal do some other Original Pronunciation Shakespeare videos. It's his specialty, and I would love to see one of his "original practice" productions live one day. Here's a couple more of his videos:
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
We've already got users who fall under GDPR protection. Not as many as we will by the end of this year, but some. And really, I've done all I can do. I've talked it up, given powerpoint presentations, and emailed a comprehens
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
We're in fintech. And we're not in Europe, but we're about to start a big project targeted towards European users.
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
Right now, it's not. Management has decided that we're going to keep operating the way we have been as if the GDPR didn't exist, and hope nobody notices. Which isn't a surprise, this company is very reactive. Proactive p
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
>Nothing has been learned In my limited view, this is pretty much the case. When I was telling our management team about the GDPR and how it relates to our new European-focused project, the first thing the CEO said was "how do we ge
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
Agreed. There's nothing more exciting in science than finding out that our widely-held beliefs about something are wrong.
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
True, but the number of executives and managers that are just starting to ask "what's this GDPR thing I keep hearing about?" tells me that it's about to be a growth industry. IME, there's also a significant overlap
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
Yes. A friend of mine is very much an uninvolved father. His wife handles all the child-rearing and housekeeping, while he plays videogames, often while drinking. I've mentioned to him that he should probably be more involved, but it&#
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
38yo Canadian male. Made a conscious decision to never have kids when I was 30. Haven't changed my mind.
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
Hell, it's even worse than that. "Sex tape" implies Hogan and a ladyfriend set up a camera and put on a show. They were recorded having sex via hidden camera, without their knowledge or consent. That's a sex crime that t
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by drspacemonkey 8y ago
The more difficult part is deletion from backups, which is also a requirement. IMO, the best solution is per-row encryption with the keys stored in a second database. This second database can still be backed up, with backups that have a max
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Honestly, I don't know. That's not my field of expertise. I'm mostly just cynical about fines and penalties being paraded around as a curative measure, only to find out that the fines and penalties have such huge loopholes th
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
If I were a gambling man, I'd bet that would just lead to "data warehouse" subsidiaries that would hold the liability. In case of a leak, they'd "go broke", and another would be spun up in its place. Same thing
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
The ability to create and share a netflix playlist, effectively user-created "TV networks", would be absolutely awesome. Most would be crap, but the same can be said for youtube playlists.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>Normally the way this is done they don't supply the content from the original game you have to provide your own copy which you then mod to use the newer version of the engine Hell, this is exactly how the Tale of Two Wastelands mod
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I wonder if that could be resolved by the government offering an annual bonus for every road that requires no pothole maintenance. If the bonus were bigger than the profit they'd make from filling in the pothole, it would be free money
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I've never been hit by it personally, but I know two people from different companies that found themselves in the same situation. The first went through the stages of grief, and "acceptance" meant shutting down. The second co
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
It's much easier to convince people that tests are necessary if you're starting a new project. Problems arise when you're working on a legacy codebase that never had tests to begin with. Often, the code isn't testable at
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Maybe it's just me, but this reads like an attempt to say they recently received another national security letter.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Generally, they're making things worse. After finally getting around to dealing with doctors over-prescribing powerful opioids, they just shut down the legal supply. Now all those patients, many of whom are addicted because they'v
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>I hope you're right and it's not the other way around. Sadly, it is the other way around. Purdue spent millions of dollars advertising Oxycontin as a safe, less-addictive painkiller for chronic pain. Doctors were inundated w
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
The government argues that searches at international borders is a "reasonable" search, thus the 4th amendment's prohibition on "unreasonable searches and seizures" doesn't apply. The EFF disagrees. You can read
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
That hasn't applied at or within 100 miles of a US border point of entry since 1953.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
About 2 years ago, I was in the same position as you. Had been freelancing for years, then went back to full-time employment. It was quite a change from what I was used to. IE: working with a very small team of people I chose and have worke
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
>Isn't that like a turkey asking why they haven't been slaughtered yet? Then the day before Thanksgiving comes and times up. This is an excellent way to illustrate so many problems of this nature. "If X is a real concern,
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
Having used a TENS system before, yes. And if there's imperfect contact, it stings like a bastard.
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by drspacemonkey 9y ago
I was under the impression that kuru was a prion disease that comes from eating brain matter. Was I wrong about that?

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