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by frisco 13y ago
A quantum computer would generate private keys readily. Quantum computers are well within the accepted laws of physics and there are multiple companies working on them. None is believed to exist with sufficient power to find an RSA privat
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by frisco 13y ago
I feel like this is a rather porous plan for privacy. > 1. Sign up to relevant pressure groups Ok, I like this one. No reason not to. Support the EFF. > 2. Install HTTPS Everywhere Since I believe that the NSA likely already have al
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by frisco 13y ago
I think this is misleading. I now believe that the NSA has the private keys for substantially all SSL certs in use, and I expect that a non-trivial percentage of Tor nodes are run by the government. SSL certs require cooperation of a trust
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by frisco 13y ago
Emacs used to do it. See: www.catb.org/jargon/html/N/NSA-line-eater.html
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by frisco 13y ago
I'm now just confused. If I understand it correctly, the government has publicly acknowledged the program and tried to explain how it's "limited and legal," but extant nonetheless. Now the companies are all uniformly den
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by frisco 13y ago
I think it's interesting to ask why these programs are so widely hated. These are national security assets: evidence gathered here will never be used in a drug case, or a tax evasion case. Why not? These tools exist for the bigger fish: t
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by frisco 13y ago
Transcriptic: Web Development, Electrical Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visu
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CD+G Revealed(jbum.com)
1 points by frisco 13y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 13y ago
I guess deal flow trumps everything else. MG Siegler can almost certainly generate significant deal flow (I assume this was the same thesis behind getting Kevin Rose on board). Yeah, he's seen as a goofball of the internet, but I guess al
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by frisco 13y ago
The thing about Ray Kurzweil is that he's basically entertainment, in the same way William Gibson or George Lucas are entertainment. He excites and inspires the lay population, but is ultimately pretty weak on the non-fiction part. There a
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by frisco 13y ago
There's already a proposal floating around on the dev list to introduce a new address type, P2SH^2, which would allow the relevant data fields currently being used to stuff the info discussed in the article to become hashes. This would hav
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The US Banking System Is Insecure(maxhodak.com)
2 points by frisco 13y ago|1 comments
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by frisco 13y ago
> The word is they are throwing out Miranda for this What does this mean?
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by frisco 13y ago
I think that's looking at it backwards. I'm not saying that he should be given any kind of leniency or have anything be "excused" because of this. I'm just wondering what a society would look like that started with the hypothesis that thi
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by frisco 13y ago
I can't help but feel like these brothers are also victims here. Of course, their victimhood is nothing like what they inflicted on the people of Boston and the marathoners, but they're victims nonetheless. Humans are glorified chemical r
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by frisco 14y ago
This is the quintessential first world problem. Out of the range of problems facing society that you could solve, of all the ways you could create value by making peoples' lives better, you settled on "making airport pickup easy". Now, thi
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by frisco 14y ago
Transcriptic: Web Developer Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is "Amazon Web Services" for the life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then
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by frisco 14y ago
If this is being presented as a security problem, know that this is a non-issue. This is intended behavior; Heroku config vars are considered secret. If this is just showing off that you can run multiple apps from a single database, then,
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by frisco 14y ago
The linked chart is a little out of date... Mtgox is now trading at $92.00, and there are 10959175 BTC in circulation ( http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc ), giving a total market cap of $1,008,244,100 as of 12:40am PT.
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Bitcoin hits $1 billion in market cap(blockchain.info)
13 points by frisco 14y ago|2 comments
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by frisco 14y ago
While I grant you that this is possible, it's probably risk #971 on my list of Bitcoin risks right now. China has already forbidden buying real things with virtual currencies, but I think it's very unlikely that many Western governments, e
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by frisco 14y ago
Don't listen to the "it's out of control" or "is very due for a crash because it's rising so quickly" stuff. It comes down to a very simple test: do you think that there are significant reasons Bitcoin would or would not gain acceptance as
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by frisco 14y ago
It's not clear to me what being a hedge fund gets you if all you're doing is holding Bitcoins. Sure, there are some regulated entities that can't invest in Bitcoins otherwise (i.e., pension funds), but they probably aren't going to start h
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by frisco 14y ago
What is the realistic risk of a hardware backdoor in mainstream smartphones? I assume that there's nothing apps like these could do against those. Is that a risk even worth worrying about at this point? If it is, is there anything that c
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Five Things(maxhodak.com)
8 points by frisco 14y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 14y ago
Transcriptic: Core Developer Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is the "Amazon Web Services" for life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and the
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Andrew Mason's Github Account(github.com)
2 points by frisco 14y ago|0 comments
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by frisco 14y ago
Why the dropping of support for submenus? I find those really useful and it would be a pain to have to patch them back in.
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by frisco 14y ago
Transcriptic: Core Developer Menlo Park, CA Transcriptic is the "Amazon Web Services" for life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and the
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by frisco 14y ago
I don't know much about MSVC++, but Intel's compilers are widely considered the most advanced C++ compilers, as long as you stick with Intel hardware. There was some controversy over it generating bad assembly when targeting AMD cores, but

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