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by hurin 12y ago
Decryption can require several servers to participate rather than one - don't allow for a privileged user on one server to have an easy path way to access and escalate on another server. From the way it looks, the security precautions
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by hurin 12y ago
Tax and Identity Fraud are not anything new - but the way they are accomplished has changed significantly. Sure you can physically intercept mail - but there is a huge difference in magnitude. I wager you could not in any practical way inte
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by hurin 12y ago
It's always the "super-ninja hackers". You can't exactly announce: oh sorry, our manager's password was his phone-number can you?
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by hurin 12y ago
It seems like every 2 or 3 months there is data-breach in the news and a bunch of plain-text info is stolen. And ever-time I am inclined to imagine the companies storing in plain-text would think "oh we should change something about th
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by hurin 12y ago
It's a non-trivial task to design software that will deliberately fail and cannot be easily by-passed with a debugger.
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by hurin 12y ago
Yes it probably did, that's why $213 million by the prosecution sounds plausible, - but considering bitcoin did not break $100 till April 2013 and their estimate spans 2.5 years through July it 1.2 billion sounds highly implausible.
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by hurin 12y ago
Future potential incoming isn't an estimate of market-price of goods. We are discussing the size of the drug business, not their potential gain as investors in Bitcoin (that would be investment income). Sure it's not $0.10, it&#x2
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by hurin 12y ago
(that was a typo) > You're really stretching the truth here It's a huge stretch of the truth to estimate all values over 2.5 years in real time. They are retroactively estimating the number of bitcoins that passed through from
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by hurin 12y ago
FBI's way of estimating "1.2 billion" involved pricing the net turn-over in Bitcoin (over the course of silk roads existence) at it's highest values in order to give the news a sensational effect. Silkroad is a joke comp
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by hurin 12y ago
I can tell it's not going to be as good - because you know.. 4 letters vs 2. Jokes aside I don't think this provides anything over zsh or fish or another shell that supports directory and tab completion?
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by hurin 12y ago
Because no one wants to use a laggy text-editor, it doesn't matter how sleek and hip it is if they can't fix that.
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by hurin 12y ago
> In 1922, in “Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,” the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. The amount of times this particular proposition has been quoted and rehashed by ignorant p
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by hurin 12y ago
I thought it was going to be some awesome neural-network based censorship engine.
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by hurin 12y ago
It's hard to tell with dead-languages; for example we say "chi" in english, but most grammars list χ as aspirated.
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by hurin 12y ago
I tried to learn a bit of rust and I couldn't shake the feeling that rust is a very ugly language, like uglier than c ugly.
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by hurin 12y ago
I wonder if the `control group` were students that did not want to be enrolled in the program (introducing significant bias into the results) or students selected randomly to be tracked and not enrolled or given such an opportunity (the one
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by hurin 12y ago
While corporations are a good analogy - they still need human actors to function; the threat of AI is that it will not need human beings to function. This isn't a question of physical death it's a question of whether the human rac
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by hurin 12y ago
I wasn't specifically referring to her analysis, indeed as you point out with those sample sizes and the number of potential conflating factors it's unlikely this data is statistically worth anything - I was commenting more on the
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't know what's more worrying, - the turn everything into data as an industry, or how happy individuals apparently are to apply it to themselves. Take this with a grain of salt. The statistics of course (well on a larger scale
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by hurin 12y ago
It all seems more amateurish with every additional piece of news coverage - why a single decryption key or even your day-to-day laptop as storage for that multitude of evidence! Surely you don't need 4 years of chat logs to run a site
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by hurin 12y ago
Actually Shakespeare also pulled many of his themes from other writers very much closer to him in history (and he was criticized for it in his time actually), but as it remains those writers i.e. Christopher Marlowe are not well known and S
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by hurin 12y ago
The article is quite explicitly calling it a classic it doesn't actually mention any predecessors that it inherits from (I haven't played DwarfFortress, but reading about it suggests to me, games such as Ultima, Moria, Angband).
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by hurin 12y ago
>. But at this point, DF has a relationship to modern games much like a literary classic does to other books: it will help you understand where a lot of stuff is coming from. According to wikipedia DF came out in 2006? Where does the cla
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by hurin 12y ago
Again. You are incorrect and you don't what you're talking about, banks need to send a written explanation of a denial and in most cases they aren't partial (because usually they aren't the ones paying the refund) - sinc
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by hurin 12y ago
>Scenario #2: When the card was physically present during the transaction, and when a pin code was used, the customer is always held responsible unless he can prove he and his authorized users were definitively not present. I think you o
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by hurin 12y ago
You obviously have no idea what you're talking about. The consumer isn't responsible for Credit Card fraud - if it's stolen my bank reimburses me for transactions I did not commit. If bitcoins are stolen you get what? Specif
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by hurin 12y ago
... I'm not asking about why you'd want one. - I'm asking about why you'd make a new one and who would pay for your work on a new one when others already exist?
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by hurin 12y ago
I'm curious as to what drives the creation of this multitude of add-blocking projects? What is their income model and what supports their development?
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by hurin 12y ago
2^64 is expensive, but breakable.
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by hurin 12y ago
The vim codebase is very large - it may very well be more efficient to write an 80% version of VIM (which might be 100% of what the author needs) than to figure out what's going on in the VIM codebase.

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