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by gradschool 17y ago
However, it is legal to use deadly force against an intruder if you're in a life threatening situation. An interesting test case would be to install a wall switch that remotely disables the brakes on your car (so that an intruder can put yo
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by gradschool 17y ago
Hee hee, the same thing happened to me with Amazon. I use more than one email address too. Maybe I should have insisted for security reasons that they write to me only from the email address associated with their customer support department
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I've danced recreationally for about 18 years, also occasionally teaching, performing, or competing, but I found nothing familiar in this article. I imagine it might also be discouraging for many people to be informed by someone portrayed a
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Not everyone knows who Bill Gates is. http://www.geeks.co.uk/12352-bill-gates-is-a-thief-and-a-don...
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What reference would you recommend for a compiler developer targeting the Erlang VM?
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Can you give an example of a situation where Haskell type checking gets in your way? Not to take issue, but because I'm a collector. I've been told that it's not that easy to make a list of functions in Haskell unless they all have the same
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One shouldn't fault Google for capitalizing on most people's low regard for their own privacy when the opportunity exists. If it's giving you grief, why don't you use a search engine with a better privacy policy? http://clusty.com/privacy
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Theoretically, a password is protected by the fifth amendment only in very limited circumstances, basically when the mere knowledge of it would be evidence against you. If your equipment is seized legally with a court issued warrant, you'd
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by gradschool 17y ago
You might find it interesting to look at this site, which gives you a lot of the infrastructure for testing your FX strategies with real time data (although not direct access to the data). http://preview.collective2.com/ Strategies are in
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It's possible, but the culture is not conducive to it. According to Simon Singh's book on the subject, Wiles had to go as far as stockpiling several years' worth of conference papers in advance in unrelated areas so he could submit one occa
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Also, the Ghostery Firefox plugin is supposed to be good for blocking Google Analytics and similar services.
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Google isn't the postal service and has no contractual obligations to its email users. The judge might well think anyone who allows his livelihood to depend on a freebie that Google can withdraw any time it wants is an 'idiot'. Who could bl
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The idea proposed in Schneier's article lacks plausible deniability. If it's not self evidently clear to the customs official that you can't decrypt it, you're in a sticky situation regardless.
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Bayesean filtering? If it's trained on a corpus of mail from the same person, it could be more effective than in the general case.
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Single sender email addresses -- The idea is that a subscriber to the service gives out a separate email address to each friend or associate that he's willing to hear from (maybe from serialized business cards or whatever). The mail server
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Can you elaborate on the ethical aspect? My first reaction is to favor anonymizing services but I would like to understand both sides of the issue.
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No problem. 1) Encrypt sensitive data by the method of your choice, and store it in a filesystem X. 2) Generate a plain text filesystem Y full of disinformation, the same size as X. 3) When the key to decrypt X is demanded, compute Z = (X x
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by gradschool 17y ago
One comment suggests running the browser in a virtual machine and restoring from a snapshot at the beginning of each session, which is also what I do and has worked out well. Using Virtualbox, the bookmarks file can be separately mounted on
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First we find out we've been living in a world where most people will give away their privacy freely because they don't think it's worth anything. Then a few large companies finding a way to capitalize on it are not just tolerated but admir