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by joshuak 13y ago
Just out of curiosity does anyone know of research proving or disproving the viability of using 'safe' bacteria to defend against dangerous bacteria? I've often wondered since we've selected for super bugs buy killing of
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by joshuak 13y ago
GPGMail is nicely integrated into Mail.app. It plays well with s/mime, so you can have both installed, and use either one that is appropriate. For easy steps on how to do this see here: http://arstechnica.com/apple&#x2F
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by joshuak 13y ago
No, you cannot revoke your s/mime cert. Your CA can. That is a big difference.
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by joshuak 13y ago
Yes you can, but my point was that this is of no utility with GPG. Whereas with s/mime anyone can confirm that your email was signed (with many email clients), so there is value to using s/mime prior to all your contacts also us
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by joshuak 13y ago
My company's internal mail goes through gmail so I decided after recent news to setup GPGmail and s/mime. I identified a couple of usability issues, which where fixed. I'd say all in all its very good. Regardless if you belie
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by joshuak 13y ago
This is great! I don't truly believe that no software patent should ever be granted, but we should definitely weed out the bullshit ones. I would think mipmapping would be the core prior art, and that's from 1983. But I suppose a
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by joshuak 13y ago
You may have missed my point if you think I was criticizing Save the Cat.
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by joshuak 13y ago
This is, stupidly, in direct opposition to the trend towards a popular understanding of "power exchange" relationships. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/books/fifty-shades-of-grey... (not even
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by joshuak 13y ago
Where's the fun in that? ;)
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by joshuak 13y ago
For certain types of games latency shouldn't be a problem since you can map the future interaction point between hand and target. If you miss then, well you missed. Boxing games would work well, FPS not so much. In a POV game you can&#
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by joshuak 13y ago
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steven-spielberg-predi... From the article: "...half dozen or so $250 million movies flop at the box office and alter the industry forever. What comes next -- or even before t
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by joshuak 13y ago
Me and most people I talk to agree with you, although not just for physics but more generally "follow your own rules." I'm put off when I'm watching a movie and something that has been established IN THE FILM is then int
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by joshuak 13y ago
Ah, yes. That's the one.
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by joshuak 13y ago
As others have pointed out the concept of a more detailed screenplay structure has been around for a very long time, and typically pretty well understood by working screenwritters. I remember reading about the 9 act structure in the 90s (ca
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by joshuak 13y ago
I'm not hating brand in the abstract. I've had specific technical, aesthetic and business issues with Yahoo throughout it's entire existence. Technically I've had a lot of trouble with Yahoo mail, and those types of prob
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by joshuak 13y ago
Well the DMCA has a "take down" process, but the purpose of that is mostly to protect the website / carrier not either of the parties. The parties are protected under the regular law (i.e. they sue each other).
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by joshuak 13y ago
Well 8 is a little incomplete. You may not be able to use a photo just because you are in it, but usually neither can the photographer without explicit consent. This is an issue rights of publicity rather the copyright (as I understand it,
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by joshuak 13y ago
I have hated yahoo because of their poor products, bad user experience, ridiculous design sense, and what appears to be just brand marketing for a brand's sake. However, I have to say this news gives me a strong reason to reevaluate ya
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by joshuak 13y ago
Interesting. I'm testing it now, so I'll keep an eye out for that, thanks. So far I'm not seeing anything odd though.
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by joshuak 13y ago
I like this in principle. I think it should be abstracted out to a simple package system or something though. When you go to a sight that requires JQuery, your browser checks the sha256 hash or something against it's canonical list of
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by joshuak 13y ago
Or http://timingapp.com which does track what files you work on, and can be grouped into projects?
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by joshuak 13y ago
Really, because they have a better way? Either they are just dumb and designed Dual_EC_DRBG by accident, or they design systems like that for a purpose. Your assessment of what they need is an assertion, based on what exactly? Security is
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by joshuak 13y ago
But what if the government, specifically under the argument of national security, wanted a chip manufacturer to use a specific algorithm? They may want to do this not to create a general weakness or backdoor. That is to say not a backdoor t
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by joshuak 13y ago
Perhaps it isn't the government you should be concerned about encrypting your email from.
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by joshuak 13y ago
I'm guessing you don't work in cryptography research, and so posting on deep security issues seems pretty silly to me. The US government has endorsed demonstrably weak random number generating algorithms, and it is security profes
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by joshuak 13y ago
So to find out how hard this was I recently tried to setup smime, and it actually isn't really that hard. No plugins required and fully integrated with Mall.app on mac, and my iOS devices. For easy steps on how to do this see here: ht
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by joshuak 13y ago
This just made me instantly search for the Malcolm Gladwell Korean air story, which of course I'm not the first to think of. http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/07/malcolm-glad...
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by joshuak 13y ago
Really great work, I'm all for it. I've been wanting terminals / shells to move forward with usability for decades now, but have never had time to do it myself. I'm 100% behind any effort in this regard at all. I'll
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by joshuak 13y ago
Wow this answer is really disconcerting. Are we really so javascript/web programming oriented now that "plug-in" connotes javascript? No I am not talking about JavaScript. I am talking about an actual application level plugin
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by joshuak 13y ago
I don't understand why webmail seems to be such a conundrum for everyone. Can't we just write plugins that looks for encrypted messages, and signatures in a page or ajax request and if you have the key in your keychain you get pro

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