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by ipsin 10y ago
Bill designs incorporate a lot of public features in order to help people figure out when bills are legit. I do wonder how many non-visible features they hold back, in order to recognize the case when high-quality fakes have landed. Does th
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by ipsin 10y ago
The crazy thing to me was that the 2015 discovery was reportedly [1] due to a "product demo". Of course, I expect that the company was entirely legitimate, but running an intrusion detection company would apparently be great cover
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by ipsin 10y ago
Is the concern here specifically related to the NSA Shadow Brokers hack (where they're supposedly auctioning the goods for bitcoin), or just more generally that a state adversaries will try to fully identify parties on the network?
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by ipsin 10y ago
I think he's saying "imagine an engine the size of Los Angeles airport", but it's basically "imagine something this company is not going to do".
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by ipsin 10y ago
Why on earth does NASDAQ make it look so much like Neuromama (NERO) is a real NASDAQ-listed company? If I was trying to fool investors, this is the link I would use: http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/nero/stock-chart
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by ipsin 10y ago
I tend to think of "basic architectural principles" as the things that keep buildings from falling over. If land is expensive and you want a lot of space, isn't a "McMansion" the ideal building for you? I don't
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by ipsin 10y ago
This is kind of like "overdraft protection" used to be before they cracked down on it (somewhat). If you're savvy or have had it happen before, you know to avoid it, but otherwise it's a financial landmine ("profit
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by ipsin 10y ago
Oh God, there's a special place in hell for stamps.com. I did not read the fine print, but made the mistake of thinking that it was a partnership with USPS and did not incur extra fees (like a crazy $13 monthly fee, even if you're
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by ipsin 10y ago
This "we've gotten this far!" argument applies to global warming as well, doesn't it? I don't believe the proposition that global warming is not a problem because human ingenuity will fix it. Our land and oceans are
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by ipsin 10y ago
The blog entry covers a lot of options, but as a cheapskate who wants to play with cloud infrastructure, I'm wondering if there are any good resources for pricing comparison? I could use AWS or Google, but if I'm just keeping a to
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by ipsin 10y ago
Before I had it memorized, I tried with "11.66" which breaks down into two parts ("1:1.6" and "1.6:6") 1 mile = 1.6 kilometers 1.6 gallons = 6 liters
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by ipsin 10y ago
I'm intrigued by the gap between manslaughter where a car is not involved and manslaughter where it is. The penalties involved for driving recklessly and killing someone with a car seem very light to me, even as many other kinds of cri
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by ipsin 10y ago
I wonder if Dropbox is going to do steganography detection before using Lepton compression, because "pixel-for-pixel identical" is obviously not the same as "byte-for-byte".
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by ipsin 10y ago
The reason this seems crazy to me is that a fixed appointment time is way harder for me to meet (even though I keep a calendar). I'd rather just schedule my own time. If I could give the service a key to the car (and trust them to f
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by ipsin 10y ago
Ok, my apologies for that.
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by ipsin 10y ago
Please finish your anecdote. What's different about the Bay Area that made your life worse? What improved when you left it?
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by ipsin 10y ago
It's mostly oriented so that you can only walk along it -- that is, it's bounded by the road and a barrier, so that you can only really experience it one way. It is pretty miserable.
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by ipsin 10y ago
I'm convinced that someone(s) in Santa Monica, CA's urban planning divsion has been practicing unpleasant design ruthlessly. The first pass replaced normal bus bench seating with low blue toadstools. Once they figured out that th
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by ipsin 10y ago
This is disturbing despite it being "optional", because it's a place for border agents to push in the entry interview. "I noticed you didn't fill out the question regarding online identity. Do you have an online id
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by ipsin 10y ago
The problem with the "lawful order or request" split is that, even if they make it very clear, there's the implicit threat of escalation if you don't agree. Today you refuse a request. Maybe tomorrow they convince a jud
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by ipsin 10y ago
It advances mathematics by saving the time of people who might otherwise try to prove a false conjecture?
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by ipsin 10y ago
Any good sources on the min number (>2) of terms of sums of positive powers of n equaling another power of n, for each n? I'm curious if there are low or high outliers.
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by ipsin 10y ago
I think that the most charitable interpretation (for the FBI) is that they believe their targets are some kind of "unexploded ordnance". That is, people who haven't been radicalized, and who aren't likely to go on shooti
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by ipsin 10y ago
I'm interested in three things: 1) ERAD training materials disseminated to law enforcement agencies (LEAs). 2) Correspondence between those LEAs and DHS, or occurring in DHS forums, regarding ERAD technology. 3) DHS reports, studies or
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by ipsin 10y ago
The Christian rock band raising money for a Thai orphanage[1] was a slam dunk, in terms of this so-called "low burden of proof", but it still took them two months to get their money back. (Edited to add: I just realized they didn&
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by ipsin 10y ago
I do wish my high school combinatorics had included Stirling's approximation. It allows great approximations for problems that are really asking for it. If there are 200 white and 200 black balls in an urn, there's no sense askin
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by ipsin 10y ago
Yeah, it's a comical argument, that he should come home and "face justice". You can't even call it just because the judge would probably prohibit a moral defense, and even if the judge did, the jury wouldn't couldn
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by ipsin 10y ago
I honestly don't understand the animosity towards the author. I consider this sort of mischief to be a healthy thing. If you are exposed to true facts constantly, all facts are true, in the same way that a TSA X-ray tech who sees te
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by ipsin 10y ago
Stewart Baker's quote from the article is so disingenuous: “This is a Silicon Valley delusion that the government wants to outlaw encryption,” If you replace "encryption" with "secure encryption", that's abso
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by ipsin 10y ago
I had a similar experience in Chrome, pasting into gedit. Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V works, but menu copy/paste doesn't.

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