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by fabulist 11y ago
> Also, I sincerely hope you're not trying to synthesize ASICs out of code from a language with constructs like call/cc. Many EEs prefer to use functional languages. If you're wondering why, spend some quality time with Ve
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by fabulist 11y ago
Writing and using a DSL in LISP seems to be the definition of reducing your power in a case you find it useful. I'm not sure what nuance you're drawing. Changing requirements and the browsers wars made the web a mess, not this des
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by fabulist 11y ago
Surely OP didn't mean to celebrate being tracked by advertisers. Emotional reactions are understandable, but if you take a step back, the technology could be used in a very different way. The problem is not that it uses sounds which ar
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by fabulist 11y ago
Heuristics are very well and all, but certainty is another matter entirely.
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by fabulist 11y ago
The only people who know are Dragos Ruiu, his associates, and possibly some incredibly talented (if strangely sadistic) malware authors.
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by fabulist 11y ago
If anyone else thinks to check if it's only the top result in fasterthanlime's filter bubble, it is also the top result on Google through search.disconnect.me.
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by fabulist 11y ago
By their nature accidents are unanticipated. As a general rule we do not proceed knowingly into certain doom. The proprietors of that BNB should surely be forgiven for making a terrible mistake, with no malice in their hearts. No one is bor
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by fabulist 11y ago
This article says the tree was dead. The original says the tree was dead for two years. It is no secret that dead trees are hazardous. If you look at a tree which has been dead for years, it looks like it has been dead for years. IANAL, so
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by fabulist 11y ago
It is interesting information of a technical nature relevant to an important current event. That it is distributed in a manner HN finds quite palatable is icing.
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by fabulist 11y ago
"You don't see the world as it is, you see it as you are." -- Krishna Saagar With all the information now available regarding mass surveillance, the only ways to believe it is an effective deterrent to terrorism are ignorance
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by fabulist 11y ago
don't forget to restart, as well.
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by fabulist 11y ago
I believe the OP was referring to specific Christians who they converse with when the visit their family in the Midwest. I think OP is right that there is a real phenomenon of people accepting a surveillance state without interrogating the
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by fabulist 11y ago
I don't think your assessment of the situation is correct. I doubt the logistical challenges involved of kidnapping Snowden would give the US military and intelligence communities much pause if he were in Russia, Cuba, Ecuador, or anyw
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by fabulist 11y ago
If the attacker can run code on your hardware, they probably don't stand to gain anything from (from the standpoint of compromising data integrity) by degrading your hardware to introduce bit flips. It would be simpler to present you d
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by fabulist 11y ago
Direct link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/32ulhvew5hxsqnb/2015-bennett.pdf?d...
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by fabulist 11y ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/lAxHz
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by fabulist 11y ago
I don't think I see the point in centralizing a decentralized chat application.
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by fabulist 11y ago
The NSA publishes a lot of useful literature, such as guides for hardening network equipment or RHEL servers.
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by fabulist 11y ago
Mozilla needs money to function; this is true. But I am deeply disappointed that have resorted to this. I do not consider Chrome, Opera, Konqerour, or Safari to be real options for my use case, but I don't want to use a Firefox which s
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by fabulist 11y ago
I don't think informed speculation is out of line in an opinion piece.
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by fabulist 11y ago
I concur that Towne is a great speaker on this subject, and would like to add that he's an HN user. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=emhart I discovered this by reading this comment, and as soon as I read "sec
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by fabulist 11y ago
Some sandboxing could be done, but if an attacker roots a pacemaker or an insulin pump it will be extremely difficult if not impossible to prevent them from convincing the device to perform its intended function at an unintended time.
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by fabulist 11y ago
Security necessarily comes in layers. Some will fail; hopefully not all of them. Adding protections at the hardware part of the stack is a fantastic idea, but insufficient for something lives are literally, directly depending on. Medical de
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by fabulist 11y ago
They also need to be "able to kill you" so that the patient can be defibrilated if their heart stops beating. If you do that when their heart is functioning it tends to have the opposite effect.
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by fabulist 11y ago
> There shouldn't be pentesting, because there shouldn't be anything to pentest. At the face this seems like the right approach, but you end up with security-through-obscurity protecting (yet another) critical system. If you do
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by fabulist 12y ago
Is the 500 error I'm getting some kind of meta humor?
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by fabulist 12y ago
I think it is mostly a result of their threat model -- they're a service which seeks to make things harder for those entities in particular.
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by fabulist 12y ago
> The SSL is the only thing keeping away low and average level attacks easily. The password is meant to authenticate the user to the server; the user is meant to authenticate to other users through the use of PGP. In theory it shouldn&#x
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by fabulist 12y ago
The bad characters may have been stripped
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by fabulist 12y ago
Sweet, thanks

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