glurgh

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by glurgh 13y ago
It was not a reasonable guess even at the time because it should have taken you all of 2 minutes to verify it is, in fact, not a reasonable guess. I don't think there is some great tragedy or mistake in being wrong about this but if yo
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by glurgh 13y ago
I think this is fundamentally wrong, in the way 'secure programs should do their own crypto' is wrong. Secure programs should be able to rely on the platform provider's API to provide a CSPRNG. If the platform doesn't, i
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by glurgh 13y ago
Yes but that's not the problem being reported.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Neither could I. Maybe it is SecureRandom itself but then that would be a bigger deal than some broken BitCoin wallets, one would think.
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's the lib, if you're bored enough to keep diving https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/
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by glurgh 13y ago
Not in the bitcoinj library they all appear to be using, no. That, in turn, uses bouncycastle. Bitcoinj is not explicitly seeding SecureRandom, I'm reasonably sure.
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by glurgh 13y ago
This is why I don't let my MBP out with strangers.
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by glurgh 13y ago
That's right. A lot words have metaphorical uses. Now, would you say 'it lynched that server' or 'it made that server its bitch'? You could, surely. The meaning will be clear. You'll still sound like a complete
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by glurgh 13y ago
Rape has meanings other than non-consensual sex. Not really. Ravish might. But other than on, say, gamer message boards, 'rape' doesn't have many other meanings than forcible sexual assault. Take a look at the usage in prin
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by glurgh 13y ago
It's just that they recognize your financial interest in Jay-Z and are sickened by your support for the Playa state. Look into your Lexus and change, man!
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by glurgh 13y ago
It was in response to a direct question in an interview so the choice was that of the interviewer, Jacob Applebaum.
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by glurgh 13y ago
If you are specifically targeted in an investigation [...] The purpose of services like DDG is to reduce the amount of casually collected, personally-identifiable private data you might be strewing about - data that might potentially be r
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by glurgh 13y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoIvd3zzu4Y I can't think of a single time where I closed or did not close a deal on the basis of business cards, as a freelancer. Whether they were nice or I forgot them at home.
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by glurgh 13y ago
Maybe at some point a project exhausts whatever potential goodwill/snarklessness is available and just becomes an object of snark - and at that point and beyond, perhaps the benefits of the project having a reputation of being a snarkm
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by glurgh 13y ago
Sure but the author(s) of Cryptocat have been so uniquely resistant to help/input, over a fairly long period of time. Maybe your euphemism 'unserious' is worth adopting for every time one wants to say 'bad' or &#x27
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by glurgh 13y ago
Dijkstra wrote something (in the same vein, if not an exact topic-match) similar but a bit more strident in '85 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD09xx/EW...
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by glurgh 13y ago
And previous previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569564 Seems like quite the evergreen.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The 'dawn' part is wrong. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dawn
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by glurgh 13y ago
Those don't have arrow keys , they're pretty fascist keyboards. Part of the motivation is to discourage programmers from writing text based interfaces for the Mac.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The apple keys were on Apple /// and Apple //e keyboards, before the gs or ADB. It's 'open apple' because there was also a filled-in 'closed apple' http://www.rhod.fr/images&
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by glurgh 13y ago
Have you watched the demo? Or looked up what an Eidophor is? This is pretty much the invention of the 'computer demo in front of a big, live audience'. I have no idea what teletypes have to do with any of this.
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by glurgh 13y ago
The Engelbart demo is about as much about teleconferencing as the iPhone introduction is just about a nicer mobile phone. And I think both the original and my reply were about the demos themselves not about the mouse specifically or Apple i
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by glurgh 13y ago
Other than the fact that they are both demos and happened in SF (in different locations, Brooks hall has been closed for many years), they're almost entirely dissimilar. One is a demonstration of new technologies, previously unseen by
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by glurgh 13y ago
The account in What the Dormouse Said says the sound was intentional audio feedback: "Engelbart referred to the on-screen cursor as a "bug" or a "tracking spot," and there were occasionally odd buzzing sounds in t
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by glurgh 13y ago
Agreed on the 'search vs id check' distinction. The case law you mention involved someone taking it up all the way to the Supreme Court, a luxury not many have. The reality is that these border patrol checks do happen, often well
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by glurgh 13y ago
Oh, I thought that's what the replier was asking about. The border stuff, I think you're right that 'constitution-free zone' thing is rather hyperventilaty. On the other hand, the notion that a bunch of uniformed, armed
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by glurgh 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiibel_v._Sixth_Judicial_Distri...
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by glurgh 13y ago
In a 300 foot fall, you're not reaching the bottom at terminal velocity. Mythbusters have in fact gone over this a few times and the results are a bit different - falling from such a height onto more or less anything is almost certainl
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by glurgh 13y ago
Mythbusters: they routinely demonstrate how our intuition on these matters is wrong. Or demonstrate that things we're sure about are sometimes not quite right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&am
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by glurgh 13y ago
Oh no doubt. And in this specific case, I think 'tptacek was wrong to list the Mission but at the end of the day, that's a nit and given that I likely can't accurately name one neighborhood in Chicago, it didn't really s

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