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by jingo 13y ago
Inconvenient Fact #4 about Privacy: The US government was already tracking every citizen's postal mail, and storing a copy of the contents for potential later use, for many years before networked computers, "email" and the &q
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by jingo 13y ago
He has a conspiracy theory about Ebay's purchase of Skype.
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"So far I have not found..." What else have you tried?
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by jingo 13y ago
At the end of the video he warns of the dangers of "dogma". He looks really nervous and impatient in this talk. He seems afraid that it won't be well received. If so, it is interesting to note that this is what dogma in fac
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by jingo 13y ago
"To study today's programmers is to criticize them, not blindly admire them. And the present is not all romantic."
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by jingo 13y ago
"Big data problems are almost all inherently columnar..." Can you name some that are not?
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by jingo 13y ago
s/Unix/Linux/ When you say "Unix" did you mean to say "Linux"? "Real OSes" Can you name an example or two? I'm aware of some old non-UNIX OSes that are still around but which over time have
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by jingo 13y ago
Thank you. This is the answer I was looking for. I assumed (incorrectly) that the person designing the database was also involved in selecting the "prepared statements" or "assembled queries", or was the same person. No
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by jingo 13y ago
Question: Can/do they do "fuzzing" on their database applications? Has anyone built a fuzzer for this purpose that tries an assortment of possible vectors as well as random strings? I still do not understand why the injecti
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by jingo 13y ago
I'll get downvoted for this, but I think SQL admins should in some way be held accountable for successful injection attacks. Falling victim to this type of exploit which is as old as the hills should be inexcusable. How difficult is
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by jingo 13y ago
First, the idea that IV is a scapegoat is an amusing one. IV is the world leader in patent trolling - that is what they set out to do. One of its co-founders in fact coined the term "patent troll" while watching the practice in
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by jingo 13y ago
The title has now been changed to remove the reference to Intellectual Ventures. A well-known philanthropist has taken its place. Maybe it's not true that "all publicity is good publicity". At least not for Intellectual Ven
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by jingo 13y ago
"Do you know him?" How does that matter? Maybe the issue the commenter is raising is not personal. Maybe it has nothing to do with personalities or generosity. Maybe he is raising the issue of IV's business model: further
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by jingo 13y ago
Not a fan of D-bus. Too brittle for my tastes. I'm curious, because you agree philosophically, what if I said my chosen VOIP solution didn't need any IETF-approved method to traverse NAT, didn't need DNSSEC (e.g. we could us
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by jingo 13y ago
The brief leaves me with the impression that curl http://example.com/page[1-100].html (sequential download) where no URL is password protected (open access) is still a violation of the CFAA if someone can convince a co
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by jingo 13y ago
The original title on this was: Spolsky, Patent Killer
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by jingo 13y ago
How many of those are actually derivatives of daemontools?
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by jingo 13y ago
I'm no authority on JavaCard, but I'd guess it's verbose like Java and expects some sort of auto-completion capable "IDE". I took a quick peek at a JavaCard standard and I could swear it said there are classes. I d
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by jingo 13y ago
"Given the runaway success of the iPhone for hardware reasons..." I wish there were more folks who could see that. Your comments about Apple on this thread are worth contemplating. There seems to be this silly idea that Apple is
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s/ucpsi/ucspi/g
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by jingo 13y ago
Every business need not be "the solution" to a problem. Problems can often be solved in multiple ways. Getting from origin to destination can be done via horses and also via automobiles. Whether they realized it or not, Ford&#x2
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s/ucpsi/djb'"'"'s & applications/
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by jingo 13y ago
Usually, whatever software PC's "ship with" is crapware. Go figure. "Crapware" is just my opinion. Although I've heard others note the same thing.
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by jingo 13y ago
Ha. That is debatable. Define "force". At the very least, I'd say there is strong coercion. If not in favor of using names, then certainly in favor of deprecating the use of IP and port numbers (e.g., for email). Lemme gu
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by jingo 13y ago
Who says there can only be one SIM card? What if the user can have her own SIM card? Who says SIM cards are only useful with cell networks? What if the user has her own network? Is that impossible, now and forever? What if she has her
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by jingo 13y ago
Yes.
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You're right. DES repeated thrice is better than DES. But I wonder why 3DES is not recommended for new systems? Hmmm.... You're wrong on the SIM as an MVP idea. I guess I'm not communicating clearly enough. What I mean i
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by jingo 13y ago
Hey, I got a better idea. Let's give each socket a "human-friendly" name. Translating back and forth to the underlying numerical representation should be easy enough.[1] Heck, we could even create a centralized system for m
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by jingo 13y ago
I thought we were talking about SIM cards. Can I upload software to my SIM card? No. Most phones accept some type of SIM card, while not all phones have a means of user-controlled offline external storage (microSD, etc.). Why can't th
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by jingo 13y ago
Consider that some might not program for "fun". They might do it out of necessity: to "scratch itches". Limitation breeds creativity. This is true in general, but certainly in computers. Ever heard of demoscene? By co

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