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by ds9 13y ago
In the classical era, wealthy patrons contributed the fixed costs - training of musicians, providing room and board and practice time for sponsored composers and musicians, etc.. In the 20th century, the "record companies" covered
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by ds9 13y ago
"Piracy did seriously wound the music industry. ... The industry is not coming back either." This is a very common fallacy. You're mis-identifying "the music industry" with one sector of the music industry. The sect
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by ds9 13y ago
It's hard to tell whether this was intended seriously, but if so you totally missed the point of the parent post. No, musicians don't enforce the rights that some of them claim. Those who do believe in copyright rely on a third pa
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by ds9 13y ago
So apparently it doesn't give the owner root by default? I don't think I would buy such a product. And this guy reports the means of getting root on his own device as a "defect" to be "fixed"? That is disgracef
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by ds9 13y ago
Maybe I'm too cynical (is that possible about csec anymore?), but as soon as I saw this line from Google, I thought "oh right, it'll be something to get Google inserted into every login interaction". Well, not quite yet
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by ds9 13y ago
Yes!! It's remarkable that only one or two of the designs had the numbers in order. I've always wondered about this in regard to keyboards as well: why did anyone ever think it was a good idea to put one of the numbers out of sequ
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by ds9 13y ago
There's a big contradiction in the article. "We also need to take advantage of mobile computing technology. Secure key exchange has to occur through tamperproof channels... The rest of this proposal assumes that we can trust the h
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by ds9 13y ago
Exactly. The Xray scanners (now pulled), the offensive groping, the authoritarian attitudes, the long delays - I'm sure I saw some numbers showing big declines in the airline industry from late 2001, and undoubtedly few Americans toda
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by ds9 13y ago
"since airline travel is far safer than car travel" -- source quoted by Schneier This old line has been exaggerated because people make a fallacious comparison. Ask whether people feel safer driving or flying, and many will say
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by ds9 13y ago
A good assessment in my opinion. As a junior coder earlier in my career I found exactly the situation described. A co-worker was always griping loudly about how bad the code and architectural decisions of certain people supposedly were - a
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by ds9 13y ago
Oh yes, some outstanding thinkers have gone into mind boggling depth on the meanings of fundamental maths concepts. This started getting a proper treatment in the early 20c. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_
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by ds9 13y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243936 - covered some of these issues, with pros and cons of various ideas.
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by ds9 13y ago
Those are the relevant first principles according to you. As the linked writer indicates, others believe the relevant principle is something like "whatever policy will produce the best outcome, according to statistics such as firearm d
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by ds9 13y ago
"The best insight here is that self-worth and fear of shaming are the main motivators for not agreeing." This is often true, but it is not always true. One person forms opinions on topic X based on reason and evidence, another
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by ds9 13y ago
All that is correct, but it needs (a) support in software and (b) the outside party having secret values mathematically related to the "attestation key" embedded in the TPM. The OS designed for this kind of system then uses the TP
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by ds9 13y ago
And when someone connects to a Commbox, how can they tell (across the network) whether it's operating as described, or an imposter box reporting to the bad guys while pretending to be trustworthy? This is a problem for a lot of these i
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by ds9 13y ago
So, Alice encrypts message with Bob's public key, that's EM1. Then Alice encrypts EM1 with the server's public key, outputing EM2. And sends that to Bob thru the MTA. The server decrypts EM2 revealing EM1 and some plaintext m
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by ds9 13y ago
This prediction is plausible based on the trend to vendor-managed devices amongst the general public. However, all the vendors of such devices need GPC's to make them. And certain big industries (incl. financial, pharmacos) won't
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by ds9 13y ago
The usability question is crucial for secure comms on a NSA-infested internet - it must be "easy" for non-technical people, but such as to not obscure anything, nor impair configurability, for more astute users. But usability is a
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by ds9 13y ago
Thanks for your efforts. Others are working on similar projects. I'm not sure whether this applies to liamzebedee's concepts (haven't read enough yet) but may apply to the trsst scheme: I just want to point out that there are
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by ds9 13y ago
Here is my hypothesis of the meaning of this story. What the government wanted was to trojan the code (collect passwords because the encryption was based on them), and do so invisibly to the users. Levison prevented this by shutting down th
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by ds9 13y ago
But they can't prevent employees from resigning, can they? If yes, the 13th amendment is gone as well as the 4th. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un...
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by ds9 13y ago
Actually, I read about a case (US) where the court ruled that a service operator had to turn on logging. The rationale was that the required data existed on the server, albeit only transitorily in memory, and therefore was "in possessi
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by ds9 13y ago
"Browser extensions that change some of the parameters of your browser’s snapshot make you even more identifiable because there are often other ways to check the values of these parameters." For example, use Useragent Switcher in
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by ds9 13y ago
So, in your scheme, existing websites are deprived of their domains if someone in government decides they belong in .xxx? And new sites are forced to the likely-to-be-blocked tld if someone deems them pornographic? What definition do you pr
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by ds9 13y ago
Also written up on Arstechnica ( http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/hand-of-thief-bankin... ) It is not a real remote exploit due to any flaw in Linux, rather it is something the purveyors trick people i
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by ds9 13y ago
On my first try I got an erroneous result on a non-Anglo name: http://api.genderize.io/?name=krishna returned "male". In fact god names are unisex; I've met a female Krishna. Edit: and "null" on Vis
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by ds9 13y ago
I did something similar (USA here). I asked for an automatic debit for a student loan, and got a form to fill out. Among other terms it specified that the lender could change the amount taken from my account, unilaterally!!! So I crossed o
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by ds9 13y ago
The name/theme of the site really put me off. It suggests an audience of men who are so insecure they feel they have to live up to some imaginary ideal of "manliness". Isn't being a good person more suitable, with mayb
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by ds9 13y ago
Only if you happen to agree with this guy's value judgments. He counts ad blocking and "pirating movies" as unethical! The former assumes some nonexistent contract obligating people to do whatever a website asks, and the latt

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