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by hurin 12y ago
Most down-voted doesn't mean it hadn't been upvoted, it just means a lot of the people looking at it thought it was a bad question. This one made me chuckle: What is the name of the “-->” operator?
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by hurin 12y ago
Looks like a significant and concentrated effort to produce something nearly-unusable, there must be a microsoft patent they're infringing on.
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by hurin 12y ago
Anaerobic bacteria for treating waste-water will actually produce methane ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaerobic_digestion ) - this can be harnessed and used as a low-cost energy source. For drinking water aeration is
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by hurin 12y ago
I'm not up to date on how google's current search indexing algorithm works. Supposing someone has a lot of bots that post links to `extra-small-teen-pony` or some other /sr query on nordstrom.com from other sites - would goog
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by hurin 12y ago
By comparison, Facebook Inc. generated more than $12 billion in revenue, and nearly $3 billion in profit, from its 1.3 billion users last year. I didn't realize Facebook had such a small revenue figure - could anyone explain their ma
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by hurin 12y ago
>They are not the inventors, and they don't make anything. This is highly misleading if not down-right ignorant. Academic research is and has been absolutely necessary for most of the technologies we use today - patent's might
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by hurin 12y ago
>The future employer might be deceived, but the other students who did not cheat are the real injured parties. They will have a lower GPA either in relative to the cheaters (no curve); or possibly absolutely if the class is graded on a c
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by hurin 12y ago
>> It's not that you need those credentials to model in Excel. > Rather, you're signaling that you have a proven capability to work long hours, deal with bullshit, work "within the system", etc. It's not ab
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by hurin 12y ago
It's probably a 1st year lecture, those students that are actually concentrating in biology or a related-field already took an AP in high-school, and the rest need to fill graduation requirements with a science course. It's a test
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by hurin 12y ago
>With the keys, you can do data collection now, and cracking later. Do the attacks on A5/1 require known plaintext? I was under the impression that they do not.
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by hurin 12y ago
That's what I assumed (but I wondered if there was some other advantage I was missing). Are not all the ciphers breakable post collection anyways? Is it fair to say that this is effectively for the purpose of blanket non-targeted surve
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by hurin 12y ago
Could someone explain to me the significance of having the keys as opposed to simply breaking A5/1 or A5/2 (Which is considered to be trivial)? Especially since A5/3 (which is also known to be insecure at least theoretically)
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by hurin 12y ago
> "law must be at least as complex as its the subject matter" is an unreasonable generalisation on the whole. I mean it's an unclear generalization to say the least. Consider concepts such as culpable state of mind, insan
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by hurin 12y ago
> Citing Einstein as a prototypical example is somehow conceding the parent's point, don't you think? I'm not citing Einstein as a prototypical example by any means, but I'm citing the idea about how we verify knowl
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by hurin 12y ago
You say that certain generalizations (which you do not believe to be true) are inherently unreasonable. But you have no problem making a generalization about something you believe to be true (only in this case it's qualified as fairly
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't know what good it can be to try and debate him - All he's done so far (other than down-voting comments he disagrees with) is assert platitudes about how by necessity law must be too complex for mere uninitiated mortals (su
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by hurin 12y ago
> Because blanket generalisations do not work well, > In any legal system, no matter how fair, a lawyer would be necessary . > so you must be just as complex as society at large. Do you see what I did there ?
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by hurin 12y ago
> The issue is that many pro se litigants are like you...hubristically believe...advance wildly incorrect theories Thank you for the ad-hominem attacks. Usually these come when the interlocutor has little left to say of merit. > A qu
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by hurin 12y ago
What does it mean to be an expert ? The cartel-aspect is that it's not good enough to know the relevant law (it's not any harder to read legal documents than manuals) or to be able to emphasize it's relevance and logical c
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by hurin 12y ago
Modern law is effectively a cartel. There is no reason that an educated, intelligent man shouldn't be able to represent himself in most cases with fair preparation - so the bulk of modern law consists of creating obscure procedures and
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by hurin 12y ago
Well non-competitive isn't quite correct. Certain industries indeed were non-competitive (i.e. automotive, which btw boomed domestically post 1990), but as a whole they were torn apart by privatization and corruption. One reason being
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by hurin 12y ago
The U.S. by some accounts set a bad international precedent with Kosovo. Crimea is not objectively any different from the former. Even the civil war in Ukraine, which is absolutely criminal has international precedent (vis a vis Syria).
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by hurin 12y ago
No surprise with Russia topping the list. Since 1990 the country's entire economic output has been exploiting what's left of soviet infrastructure and selling natural resources.
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by hurin 12y ago
More so I haven't heard very convincing reasons for MiTM even in other settings, and certainly in this case that they choose not to be deployed as an add-on - has to do with avoiding detection and removal, which is malicious - and that
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by hurin 12y ago
> The point is that the MITM proxy can scan the traffic for malicious content and block it before e.g. it reaches a browser. The difficulty is identifying the malicious traffic in an automated way, your own machine can scan it to - but m
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by hurin 12y ago
> Do you perhaps mean "cryptography" rather than "encryption"? That's true the poster said authentication of the server, if you sign every message cryptographically, you'll be able to detect message tamperin
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by hurin 12y ago
I'm somewhat puzzled by the single certificate. Couldn't they have generated a new signing request and self-signed on each machine - at least ensuring that each customer has a unique cert for their proxy?
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by hurin 12y ago
>You're going to block all of AWS? a) You block post and get requests that go to external domain's which are either blacklisted or non-whitelisted. a) services hosted on AWS still have specific ips or ip ranges tied to domain n
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by hurin 12y ago
> 90% of the time the desirable quality of TLS traffic is authentication of the server, not encryption. Authentication of the server is not sufficient, you also have to authenticate every message as having a valid checksum and signature.
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by hurin 12y ago
It's also likely or possible that other disclosures are labeled under Snowden in order not to compromise or reveal the existence of a new source.

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