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by hannibal5 13y ago
I believe you are extrapolating the threat model past anything reasonable. The original concern around RdRand is that the tiny on-chip random number generator might be compromised. You are arguing that there might be implementation that use
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by hannibal5 13y ago
I don't think he has to explain anything. It's clear that change.org petition was result of circle jerk that caused unnecessary confusion. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not everyone is entitled to professional opinion
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by hannibal5 13y ago
He joined EFF Board of Directors this year. He has clearly changed his tone after Snowden leaks. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/renowned-security-expert-...
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Enormous amounts of fuss and it turns out it was just people talking bullshit and other people believing them.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
I use Linux and install always Consolas. Programmers designing fonts is cute but it's not good idea. Lucas de Groot knew what he was doing.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
If you compare US Military operations in Africa to non-military operations China is doing in Africa, they pale in comparison. Chinese are really going into Africa and it's priority to them. There is roughly million Chinese living and w
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Amazon has trademarked names like “Amazon S3”, “AWS”, “Amazon EC2” and “EC2” but not S3 https://aws.amazon.com/trademark-guidelines/
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by hannibal5 13y ago
They say that they store data in three separate servers in two data centers. Three HDD's must fail between two data accesses or scrubs to lose data from HDD failures. For 99.99999% durability their way of doing things is good enough to
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Jordan is drowning in refugees and acutely running out of water. They have over 100,000 Syrian refugees, 750,000 Iraqi refugees and 1.9 million Palestinian refugees. That's a lot for small country of six million people. It's easy
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by hannibal5 13y ago
It was meant to be taken as literal case. Just as example of how it will be used.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Majority will lose, minority will win.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
The problem is that jobs will be worth less and less compensation and the balance between work and capital is turning towards capital. There will be new jobs, but fewer and fewer people qualify. Network effect and superstar economy mean th
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Google don't have suspect anymore. The first documents Snowden published show that they are doing this. PRISM program is for collecting intelligence within and with companies that have joined the program (including Google). Upstream is
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Bruce Schneier uses Tails: https://tails.boum.org/ >Since I started working with Snowden's documents, I have been using GPG, Silent Circle, Tails, OTR, TrueCrypt, BleachBit, and a few other things I'm not going
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Will Insurers Begin to Use Social Media Postings to Calculate Premiums? (verdict.justia.com)
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by hannibal5 13y ago
http://verdict.justia.com/2012/01/03/will-insurers-begin-to-...
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by hannibal5 13y ago
But when you visit sites that google searches take you, they are full of trackers.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Because it it gives companies advantage over you. For example banks and insurance companies want to know everything possible about you. So do potential employers. Profiling people and putting them into categories and calculating their risk
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by hannibal5 13y ago
In poker optimal strategy is not winning strategy. An optimal strategy’s goal is to loose the least against any arbitrary strategy. It is a strategy that is impossible to exploit in poker because poker has antes. Poker players must seek max
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by hannibal5 13y ago
>Assume he is playing the Nash equilibrium strategy. You you can't do that assumption because you don't know what the strategy is. You can calculate Nash equilibrium only if you know the strategy your opponent is using. In full
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by hannibal5 13y ago
I can see the possibility for confusion here. You can certainly use Nash equilibrium when you have figured out the strategies your opponents are using. This is what Bryce Paradis is talking about. It can have practical value when playing H
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by hannibal5 13y ago
You can calculate Nash equilibrium only when you know the strategies of your opponents. There is no single winning strategy in complete No limit Holdem, so you don't know how your opponent is going to play. It's theoretically poss
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Heh. If Newkia becomes success. Nokia might buy Newkia in 2015 when it is allowed to sell phones again. That would be great comeback.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Nash Equilibrium assumes that each player knows equilibrium strategies of the other players. It does not apply to No Limit Hold Em. You can solve equilibrium for simplified poker games like just Heads Up with only shove or call an all-in
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by hannibal5 13y ago
Illegal poker bots grind constantly on low level online poker games and take the money from low level players by just value betting them. Computers can easily calculate probabilities and expected values for every hand. So why they are not b
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by hannibal5 13y ago
No practical difference compared to point to point network with symmetric ciphers.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
If there is one man that deserves to go trough all that hell, it's Bill Gates.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
WP market share is just 4%
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by hannibal5 13y ago
>It’s also the acquisition of a global brand Cringley thinks that Microsoft bought global brand.
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by hannibal5 13y ago
It looks like US commentators are confused. 1. Microsoft did not buy Nokia. 2. Microsoft did not buy Nokia's patents (it only bought licences). 3. Microsoft did not buy Nokia brand (it can only use the brand in smartphones for short ti

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