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by jb613 10y ago
Fine but then you're leaving open the possibility for others to get a cert for your domain.
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by jb613 10y ago
Fine, but take note that leaves the door open for others to get a cert for your domain.
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by jb613 10y ago
By suggesting HPKP is only for sites worried about nation state adversaries means deploying SSL without HPKP which leaves the door open for adversaries to get a cert issued for your domain.
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by jb613 10y ago
That's outdated thinking. Look around at the efforts in past ~year for getting SSL everywhere. Non-SSL sites already suffer Google PageRanking[1] (maybe you want Google visibility for your blog or cat-sharing site), other consequence
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by jb613 10y ago
> 2. Don't HPKP your blog. Don't HPKP your cat-sharing starting. Key pinning is a good thing, but it doesn't need to be universally deployed. Just to be clear, this is equivalent to saying don't bother with SSL for yo
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by jb613 10y ago
> I'm stepping back since you're clearly more interested in technicalities than my overall point. When I disagree with your overall sentiment that patents have no value - then the technicalities ARE important. Regardless, I&#
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by jb613 10y ago
what is culture other than behaviors, beliefs, values? In those respects, Malaysia is much more similar than any European or western country.
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by jb613 10y ago
> "It doesn't matter what you describe them as." When you're using it as you did to try to make the point that the patents were overly broad - then of course it matters! > "but also wants to shut them down&quo
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by jb613 10y ago
> the number of vague or obvious patents in enforcement has not declined in any serious way. We have a recent example with Virnetx pulling hundreds of millions out of Apple et al for using end-to-end crypto. Couple of things seriously wr
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by jb613 10y ago
Don't put words in my mouth. I was disputing the notion that China is "relatively peaceful and non interventionist". I purposely stayed away from the comment of "imperialism and militarism" of the U.S. In contrast
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by jb613 10y ago
> databases outlast the applications built on top of them sure but this needs to be balanced with performance UNTIL then
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by jb613 10y ago
> I think it's rarely a good idea to store blobs of any kind in the database. Stop right there. There are plenty of examples for storing blobs in a datastore - images and videos are 2 prime examples. I think what you should say is
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by jb613 10y ago
> and a value that is the configuration object serialized in JSON It all depends on the data, but if it's not simple, then serialized JSON values would generally incur performance hit for search operations. Breaking out the data in
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by jb613 10y ago
squelching any internal dissent, creating islands in the ocean to hold military bases to takeover an entire section of the world, manipulating currency, providing infrastructure to carry out corporate and nation state espionage, etc... - th
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by jb613 10y ago
> It is just that the low hanging fruits are now almost all picked. If you're copying, then there is never an end to the low hanging fruit. Never. > Hopefully they are reaching their Walkman moment. To reach a Walkman moment the
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by jb613 10y ago
> China in general has said "we don't care" about IP rights, it is only changing now because (a) they are beginning to have their own IP to protect, (b) it is a race to the bottom between local companies when NO IP is prot
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by jb613 10y ago
> if NSA is spying on me it is only fair to let the Chinese in too :) I never understand this self-defeatist mentality. One represents a democracy while the other represents a communist dictatorship. If you trust them so much why not j
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by jb613 10y ago
> Most pantens are so vaguely worded that any independent solution to a problem can be claimed to infringe on a patent. No longer true, over the past ~decade, quality of patents issued has dramatically improved. Most patents are actuall
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by jb613 10y ago
> patents are mostly used as anti competitive behaviour; it is not related to "innovation", nor is it related to research and development. Generally, patents are derived from R&D which is where innovation directly comes fro
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by jb613 10y ago
> Problem is, coming up with a definition of "patent troll" that's 100% objective and can reliably differentiate between a benevolent NPE like ARM From what I can tell, ARM started 30+ years ago and sold physical chips. I
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by jb613 10y ago
> There should be massive fines for patent trolls to deter this kind of behavior. Patenting abstract ideas with no viable product should not be allowed. Then start with fining large corporations who each hold numerous patents that do not
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by jb613 10y ago
What is a patent troll really? In VirnetX's case, last time I checked most (all?) of their patents were created in house. There are numerous publicly traded stocks of companies that are mainly patent holding entities: Acacia (ACTG), F
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by jb613 10y ago
broad != overly broad It's a balancing act between a patent that is worthwhile to own yet still novel+non-obvious. Overly broad means prior art exists that can be used to invalidate. If none could be found then it means patent is val
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by jb613 10y ago
> Patents are a different matter. ... patents might be useful in fields where the cost of R&D really is prohibitively high without some reliable way to exploit any successful projects You seem to be suggesting that cost should be a
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by jb613 10y ago
> We knew, since the end of 2015, that this change was coming -- we were given 6 months time to get support for ALPN going, but by the current state of OpenSSL packages that was too little time. This hints at part of the problem - simply
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by jb613 10y ago
whether implicit trusts such as for example Google Play Licensing[1] or explicit trusts such as for example the set of Certification Authorities Android devices ship with, you are trusting Google in many ways. [1] https://support
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by jb613 10y ago
except Android devices trust Google keys
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by jb613 10y ago
nobody suggested ad hominem - you did. However, the underlying tactic that ad hominem attacks are used for is misdirection - and since you brought up ad hominem, I'll point out you did not bother to dispute the actual arguments the co
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by jb613 10y ago
Interesting counter-argument[1] suggests 1) data was cherry picked: "The alarmistic claim originates from riding the positive phase of the inter-annual, decadal and multi-decadal oscillations typical of the sea levels over a cherry pic
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by jb613 10y ago
Not handling an error from something you called into will lead you to be bypassed when it jumps "directly to the right place".

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