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by josho 12y ago
Infantry support in urban areas don't benefit from a stealth tank. I'm not arguing that tanks have 0 value. I'm saying their value has diminished. In WWII they were the dominant technology, and if total war broke out during t
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by josho 12y ago
Classic straw man attack. Don't critisize Chomsky's ideas, or the logic of his arguments, but critisize how he lives.
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by josho 12y ago
I thought the tank era had passed us. Once that tank fires a single shot, its location is revealed and an artillery or air strike can be ordered against its approximate location. We are well in the era of air superiority and moving ever clo
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by josho 12y ago
So, I suppose this means that ads that Verizon customers see are potentially targeted by their home address, age, gender, and call/texting patterns. Holy shit, if I was a customer that would be ending today, even if I was in a contract
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by josho 12y ago
I would argue the senior staff may not be dumb, but much of their staff is another story. For example, I was working closely with Verizon staff while they were petitioning the FTC to allow them to raise 411 rates. Their argument for the req
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by josho 12y ago
Yup in theory. In practice you would call up your legal counsel, and they'd ask you how hard would it be to re-engineer your protocol to not break by Verizon. If the answer is anything less than 1 year and tens to hundreds of thousands
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by josho 12y ago
Zero demand? Wouldn't it be nice to send confidential email to business partners and know that it's secure? I am surprised that large businesses have tolerated this for so long. Maybe SMIME isn't the answer, but it's sur
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by josho 12y ago
Since we are making progress to use secure mail transports, why are we not seeing more use of S/MIME to secure the contents of the message? I set up signing/encrypting on my mail clients, but have yet to see anyone, or any company
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by josho 12y ago
And for those that still aren't familiar with TLS yet, think of it as simply SSL but newer and better. So, even though SMTP starts unencrypted the STARTTLS command initiates an encrypted session. Most mail servers these days use TLS. S
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by josho 12y ago
Dang, didn't realize that the formatting cuts off the quote, here it is in full: "It’s hard to blame users for not being interested in SSL and certificates when (as far as we can determine) 100% of all certificate errors seen by u
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by josho 12y ago
I suspect that anything that a user could be reasonably expected to perform wouldn't provide enough additional security to make the additional effort worthwhile.
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by josho 12y ago
Interestingly, up to now the only time I've seen an SSL certificate warning was a misconfigured server. This is the first that I've seen an attack throw up a cert. error (usually attacks leverage other avenues that don't alar
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by josho 12y ago
I think we know that it's intentional, because after all these years they haven't improved. Take for example, Apple. They've adopted a bunch of Android first innovations. So, what is stopping Google from adopting Apple's
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by josho 12y ago
Because Spotlight does App Store, maps, and other searches that DDG doesn't handle.
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by josho 12y ago
I'm sure that will come when the MacBooks have the power to drive a 5k display.
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by josho 12y ago
Just wow. I was considering making a switch from ios, but this reality just put me off until their next release.
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by josho 12y ago
That's no longer true. Most end user access to email is over a secure channel (https/imap with tls). While SMTP between most servers uses TLS as well. The problem is we don't know if the message was sent over secure channels
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by josho 12y ago
We've seen this happen with airplanes. Where the autopilots result in the human pilots no longer being fully aware of their environment and context in that environment. So, when the autopilot alarms, the human pilot doesn't have t
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by josho 12y ago
My source to the dynamic payout ability is a past co-worker that did work in the casinos back office computer system (think big iron computing). He entertained me with stories of how the casinos manipulated the environment to manipulate you
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by josho 12y ago
The Nevada gaming laws, as I understand it, allow for payout probabilities across a time threshold. E.g. Over a 24hr period this machine pays out 95 cents on the dollar. This gives the casino the ability to make a machine pay out $1.05 doll
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by josho 12y ago
I like your point, but you've drawn the wrong conclusion. Those with power are the ones that make the rules. Programmers aren't the ones with power, it's the casinos or the plane manufacturers with power, so it's their r
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by josho 12y ago
I'll rephrase your suggestion: Since the regulator responsible for monitoring private financial institutions has failed, we along with universities, pensions, etc should stop investing in those financial institutions. The above strikes
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by josho 12y ago
It really depends what your source material is. Anything geared to the masses will site US innovation and competitive spirit. Anything geared to the political/military class focuses on how Russian rockets were superior to the US, and t
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by josho 12y ago
I think the reasons are straightforward. Page views. Rob Ford gets clicks, and doesn't take any effort to write. Complex trade deals are boring and take research to make sense of, and after all that research may not even result in a me
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by josho 12y ago
Wow. I checked CBC, CCTV, and globe and mail myself before commenting and didn't see anything. After your comment I double checked and saw it buried at the bottom of the politics page. Sadly, the CBC doesn't provide any insight ex
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by josho 12y ago
Why is this not being reported by any of our national news outlets! Instead I'm fed the latest drivel on rob ford.
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by josho 12y ago
Agreed, but I also hope that the regulators catch up and make sane decisions to correct the current environment. For example, at the forefront of my mind is the need for consumers and the state to have assurances that the drivers of these s
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by josho 12y ago
I wonder if Apple's ios7/Yosemite icon designs are a shift in this direction to vectors. E.g. the icons look like they are authored as a vector. But, I wonder if the platform APIs are not yet ready to handle vectors everywhere and
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by josho 12y ago
"connect with people" is exactly what the apple watch does. This strikes me as the first tech. product launch that the fashion aspect plays at the forefront. Personally, their watch is not for me. But, this strikes me as Apple&#x2
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by josho 12y ago
Herein lies why I can't wait for driverless cars. Cars are supposed to stop while a pedestrian is in an intersection, no matter if the pedestrian has already passed the car and is a 'safe distance away'. The reason is by stop

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