glurgh

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by glurgh 13y ago
The oddest thing about it is that people who ought to know better are not straight up calling it the tinfoilhattery that it is. Schneier saying things like 'if I were doing this deliberately, that's how I'd do it'. That&
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's a Federal prosecutor who just happens to be located in New York.
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by glurgh 13y ago
https://en.rsf.org/venezuela.html http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-press/2013/venezu... Suggesting some sort of similarity between press freedom in the US and Venezuela seems pretty
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by glurgh 13y ago
It comes through just fine. It's possible your detractors have just had the good fortune of not experiencing the 'pesky recruiter' problem, Google or otherwise. You can take heart in the near certainty that, if they work in t
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by glurgh 13y ago
What doesn't work about courses that are already online and complete (say, Open Courseware, most of the Coursera stuff)? Any that do work? I run into the complement of your problem reasonably often - trying to point technical people t
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by glurgh 13y ago
Nerdnit, but it's not like AES is based on some wholesome certified organic granola theory to the exclusion of number theory. Number theory didn't wait around 2+ millennia to be useful only to be dissed like that, man!
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by glurgh 13y ago
How long till we find out the NSA has been doing this in secret for years? This is the most 'warm, well-intended way possible' to divert the discussion to something entirely unrelated and SNR-destroying.
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by glurgh 13y ago
and you are trying to hang your hat on a technicality that does not exist. God, no, I'm just running with the thing and I'm appreciative of you taking the time to respond in detail. Your argument is about the domain name itself
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by glurgh 13y ago
So bear with me for a moment, the wikipedia page lists as a pre-requisite for the test to apply "Nominative use, also "nominative fair use", is a legal doctrine that provides an affirmative defense to trademark infringement a
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by glurgh 13y ago
Here, he is referring to the Tumblr product properly, and referencing their trademark'd product properly. He is not using their trademark to refer to another product, or confusing users about the trademark. Dumb question from not-an-
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by glurgh 13y ago
Germany has GSG9 which is solely used for anti-terror operations. This isn't strictly true since the GSG9 can and occasionally has been deployed in what are pretty much domestic criminal cases. http://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by glurgh 13y ago
I would accept that usage, but not "my pronunciations." My filter might be a bit more lenient because I imagine an implied 'my pronunciations of some particular words" after it. I still wouldn't say it or write it
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by glurgh 13y ago
It seems reasonable to ask what it is that actually happened before the Prussians and Plato are deployed, that is all.
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by glurgh 13y ago
No, I got it and I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with the point itself, per se. The basis of the point, though, is one report from an advocacy source - and here we are talking about the moral philosophy of law and st
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by glurgh 13y ago
There are also German laws that place restrictions on whether and when your retail business can be open on Sundays. Or what you can say about the Nazis. Plenty of US laws are heatedly discussed here as well, often enough. Fact is, it's
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's essentially linkbait spam. Just google 'ladder paradox' or 'barn-pole paradox' for a zillion detailed, often illustrated explanations. "Relativity's greatest thought experiment" itself is a tip o
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by glurgh 13y ago
OP's link is a link to a US homeschooling advocacy organization. So you're right, the problem is the link itself - not a particularly constructive thing to post on HN.
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by glurgh 13y ago
You mean "my pronunciation." It's not the most natural thing to say but it can still fly: "Merriam-Webster provides a free online dictionary, thesaurus, audio pronunciations, [...]" in a way that 'softwares&#
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's German law? Every developed democracy probably has a few that you might find disagreeable or outright immoral. If you're going to get righteously indignant about every single one of them you probably won't have much time
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by glurgh 13y ago
I get to self-pedantipoint myself here, 'ls' does not stand for the Multics 'list segments' as I thought, it didn't mean 'list segments' in Multics either, that's just folk etymology that's made
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's the entire point of the periodic table - what makes it a 'periodic table' rather than 'a list of all the known (or 'found in nature') elements'. When originally conceived it included blank spots for
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by glurgh 13y ago
The 'unfriendliness' doesn't come from the names, it's that for it to make sense you have to absorb some conceptual framework of how the thing works. People adapt to odd names quite easily, just as you have, once they ge
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by glurgh 13y ago
The book still works even if you assume every specific line of lisp in it is hopelessly outdated (I wouldn't know, I'm not a lisp programmer). Suppose you were looking at lisps and got around to the part where you realize homiconi
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by glurgh 13y ago
What's safer for developers, reading from /dev/urandom, or calling the platform CSPRNG when the platform CSPRNG does something other than reading from /dev/urandom? I think you're right about this and the (ra
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by glurgh 13y ago
I'll stop harping on the backdoor point. I never even made such a point! At all! If anything, I'd like to know how I gave you that impression so I can avoid it in the future. What kinds of things do you think developers can do
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by glurgh 13y ago
I don't think that at all, I'm sorry a dumb NSA joke confused the issue. I think app writers should be calling SecureRandom (or platform equivalents) and expect secure results. Just like app writers should use TLS, despite its fau
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by glurgh 13y ago
Wait, wat? I thought we were talking about 'What is the reasonable line that cryptography API users should assume is secure'. Which is something sensible people can disagree on. I just happen to think you're wrong (and the Na
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by glurgh 13y ago
Once it was clear what library was in use (on the day of the original announcement) it literally took minutes to eliminate that particular one. You're right that it's taken days to learn what the precise problem is - but that&#x27
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by glurgh 13y ago
Sure but down that path lies 'did Intel and the NSA backdoor my CPU' tinfoilhattery. If you're an app developer, rather than implementor of original crypto from dry sticks and a bit of flint, you have to trust something and t
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by glurgh 13y ago
The programs in question were not manually seeding the RNG, as was patio11's suggestion. The app implementors in this case don't seem to have actually done anything wrong at all.

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