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by ianterrell 13y ago
Pure speculation, but... I don't know that his dead man's switch has to necessarily be interpreted as dumping the docs to the public. Perhaps they would simply deliver them to Glen Greenwald's doorstep (or someone else). In t
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by ianterrell 13y ago
If that were the case, there would need to be at least two other parties who share his ideology specifically enough to decrypt the data only after he's presumed dead. They would also need to remain secret in order to not be targeted
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by ianterrell 13y ago
I interpret this as it's protected in such a way that any information he can give is not sufficient to access the documents. (copy pasted from my reply on another comment below)
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by ianterrell 13y ago
> it's easy to say you can resist torture, at least until you're tortured I interpret this as it's protected in such a way that any information he can give is not sufficient to access the documents.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
I dated a German woman for a while. Took just a few nights at her place to convince me the top sheet is worthless and I was doing it wrong my whole life.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
What we need is a Linux Distro co-maintained by the US, China, Iran, Russia, Israel, ...; Abundant resources and mutual distrust should ensure a rather secure OS.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
> The word frequency distribution follows Zipf’s law, which is a necessary (though not sufﬁcient) test of linguistic plausibility. From http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf , linked in ano
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by ianterrell 13y ago
"[He] has been released on bail after an anonymous donor posted a $500,000 bond." (emphasis added)
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Teen jailed for Facebook joke is released(cnn.com)
19 points by ianterrell 13y ago|6 comments
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by ianterrell 13y ago
Thank you for the extra info. I had no idea there were multiple denominated chronophilia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronophilia
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by ianterrell 13y ago
> Can use a barcode scanner to look up cooking instructions from an online database > There weren't any online microwave cooking databases around, so I made one Brilliant.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
I went through Make: Electronics [0] several months ago. It takes a hands on learning approach and favors experimentation over theory. Any parent could get through it. Give it a shot. :) [0]: http://www.makershed.com/Make_El
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by ianterrell 13y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=kenya+mobile+payment
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by ianterrell 13y ago
Alan Moore is one of my favorite writers, and I've been considering doing a Kickstarter in the next several months, so I've been watching this Kickstarter with trepidation (after pitching in my own contribution, of course). If he
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by ianterrell 13y ago
I watched Jimmy's End when it came out, and enjoyed it overall. It was good but not excellent. Still, seeing Alan Moore come out on stage at the end gave me a delightful little fanboy thrill.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
Breaking news: Systems administrator took course to learn how to secure systems he was in charge of administrating.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
> It makes me wonder if Snowden thinks his sacrifice was worth it. I've always enjoyed Israel Regardie's metaphor that society is like a candle. Only a tiny fraction, the wick, needs to be lit to say that the whole thing is e
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by ianterrell 13y ago
It's hard for me to take seriously anyone who suggests they're going to eat a human heart. Even without "lol" and "jk", I read that and I think, "Oh, that's a joke", not: "what a horrible, u
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by ianterrell 13y ago
It probably isn't the optimal strategy. But it's real world, average-case human honesty. One reason among many why fairness in prosecution and sentencing is critical.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
> You can't spray paint over a billboard and then claim you're protected under the first amendment, for example. Why not? The court doesn't have to agree that your claim is valid. To prohibit you from even making that clai
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by ianterrell 13y ago
Why do you think other business costs are pertinent to royalty rates at all?
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by ianterrell 13y ago
You, sir, have mastered at least one of the two hard problems in computer science.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
This is still a growth focused definition: "repeatable and scalable" is really saying "growable".
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by ianterrell 13y ago
"It should be obvious why this argument is absurd, even in principle. Asylum seekers do not have the luxury of choosing states with perfect records from which to seek asylum. That is because no such states exist. " http:/&#x
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by ianterrell 13y ago
Protests serve the same purpose as newspapers, blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, phone calls, letters, etc: they're for communication. You might not be able to afford that billboard on the street corner, but you can afford to stand
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by ianterrell 13y ago
They didn't leave it out entirely. From the last paragraph: > one thinks he may have crossed a line by talking about surveillance on China
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by ianterrell 13y ago
I have the same concern. I find it's even more troublesome with the flat/simplistic design aesthetic: it just takes way longer for my brain to differentiate one light-gray-on-white abstract symbol from another than it does to patt
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by ianterrell 13y ago
I'd rather not be spied on at all, but if someone's reading my emails I sure hope they have a sense of humor.
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by ianterrell 13y ago
SEEKING WORK — Portland, OR; Remote; West Coast US Travel My specialties are - iOS applications - Ruby-based web applications It's the double whammy special when you have an iOS app that works with a server — you can have the same develope
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Apple's offering second chances at WWDC tickets for failed purchasers
4 points by ianterrell 13y ago|0 comments

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