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by generj 13y ago
I agree with one of the comments on the source article - Arstechnica, other news sites, and the community at large shouldn't allow John Hopkins to let fundamental questions about this takedown go unresolved. The specifics matter. Did t
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by generj 13y ago
Dilbert has had several comics regarding the NSA since the story broke. As is to be expected, all of them were negative.
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by generj 13y ago
"The numbers reported above include all types of government data requests such as criminal law enforcement requests and those under U.S. national security authorities, including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Nati
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by generj 13y ago
I almost wonder if Scheneier is pushing for the job of special prosecutor. He certainly would be quite effective in that role, although I guess he's not a lawyer. Having him or one of the EFF lawyers as a special prosecutor is pretty m
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by generj 13y ago
No, I absolutely feel I can get a good startup experience in Austin. I just prefer skiing over humidity :)
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by generj 13y ago
Reading the full study, I was surprised how big Colorado was in startups, especially areas like Boulder. I anticipated moving out to the Austin TX area after college for a startup experience. I can't afford the California tax, both the
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by generj 13y ago
Everything back to normal now, so far as I can tell.
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by generj 13y ago
I hate how they weasel out and display a green checkbox, but with a tiny little "i" for information on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (N. Virginia). http://status.aws.amazon.com/images/status1.gif I deserve to
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by generj 13y ago
Well, I guess everyone might get another chance to figure out if their automatic-failover schemes really work...
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by generj 13y ago
I likewise cannot reach the Amazon homepage.
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by generj 13y ago
Ugh. I still think iOS 7 is a usability nightmare. In my mind, better suited for a movie interface than a real interface.
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by generj 13y ago
Huh. That's a neat trick. I certainly wouldn't stop at the output, but this is a very useful tool to speed up regex generation.
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by generj 13y ago
I am enjoying the rise of video games as political commentary. It is important to note that "Papers please" was considered the worst case scenario for America. We now must produce driver's licenses for anything, even sporting
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by generj 13y ago
"Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns" is excellent. Anyone who hasn't read it should do so immediately. I want some expansion of verbs, counterbalanced with the elimination of some of the less useful verbs. The focus should be
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by generj 13y ago
The only possible disadvantage is information about rapidly changing world events (for which Wikipedia isn't the best resource, but still). English Wikipedia dumps are only run on a monthly basis. Images are much more resource intensiv
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"Zero abuses of NSA PRISM" according to NSA director(arstechnica.com)
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by generj 13y ago
I'm happy that improvements to original products can be made while still monetarily acknowledging the original authors. This is a great idea, much as Tindie itself was a great idea. I hope it's successful.
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by generj 13y ago
Is the easy solution to the NSA simply to use unpopular services which have SSL? Thus far, only established, large corporations seem to have been targeted by the NSA, with a few exceptions. Twitter in particular has apparently been quite re
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by generj 13y ago
I use this technique frequently, it helps people understand my email address better. My non-personal address has severalwordsalltogether@gmail.com, so I use several.words.all.together@gmail.com whenever possible. And yes, I could have camel
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by generj 13y ago
GA does use 1st party cookies. There is still concern that with sufficient statistical analysis, Google can still track users across multiple sites. "Anonymous" data frequently turns out to be very personally identifying. In parti
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by generj 13y ago
IP logs aren't sufficiently unique: my IP changes as I move my laptop around, it is shared with several other persons at work and home, and my IP at each of these locations changes. Most DNT is concerned with Javascript, which has the
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by generj 13y ago
It's like the worst customer service job ever! Nobody wants you in the way of their plane ticket. Everyone wants special exceptions because they are late. Loads of people (myself included) view you as an agent of tyranny, and visibly
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by generj 13y ago
I want to thank the author for the excellent sketches. If I was forbidden photography equipment, my sketches would be rectangles, which, if squinted at, might construe a door. Joking aside, it is obviously very concerning that FISA is compl
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by generj 13y ago
I agree with the article; I haven't ever been comfortable ceding control of my personal website to a third-party. Inevitably conflicts of interest arise. The great appeal of Medium is the potential of featured content being re-tweeted
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by generj 13y ago
I think this underscores Defcon's decision to exclude the Feds this year.
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by generj 13y ago
Just from a Natural Language perspective, this is amazing. By using the code as as a corpus, we can see how differently legal language differs from day-to-day parlance. Such an analysis might be fascinating, especially if we compare to word
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by generj 13y ago
We can have our cake and eat it too. Send the DNT header flag, but purposefully edit analytics requests. Thus, providers must honor DNT requests or risk a poisoned well of data. This is not theoretical, I have a Chrome plugin which does thi
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by generj 13y ago
Piwik can be set to follow the Do Not Track header. It rigidly follows DNT, not storing the request at all. It looks like Google and other analytics players are going to refuse to follow DNT, after a hilariously weak proposal by the DAA was
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by generj 13y ago
I want to take this opportunity to praise SnowPlow. They allow for collection from just about anywhere. Options include Javascript, GIF beacons for email embed, Arduino, and anything else that can send HTTP GET requests. Snowplow's col
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by generj 14y ago
Ah, sorry. I've taken a logic class, so I should really stop making spurious arguments like that. We have seen the enemy and he is us and all of that I guess. I'll admit to collecting domain names simply because they sound cool and I worry

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