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by kardos 8y ago
I wonder how bad are the economics of going back to glass for product packaging, eg, like milk bottles. We still do it for beer so it mustn't be atrocious. Could we make inroads that way? I'm envisioning there'd be order 1-2
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by kardos 8y ago
That'll work while they continue to use dedicated hosts (eg, telemetry.microsoft.com) to collect the exfiltrated data. With a single update they can shift that collection stream to another host (windowsupdate.microsoft.com, or a skype
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by kardos 8y ago
> that analysis shows that seawater extraction could be competitive with land mining at present prices. Price of uranium isn't really the main impediment to more nuclear deployments. Rather its politics and safety concerns etc. So I
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by kardos 8y ago
It's probably best to whittle away at that rather than unemploy 3m people in one go. Better for them to find another place in the economy slowly. At least, that's how I read it.
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by kardos 8y ago
One rationalisation is that hiring someone "too smart" for the work required means that they'll soon become bored and move on, so your effort invested in training them is wasted.
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by kardos 8y ago
It seems short sighted to do this. One dirtbag trying to hack logins using a VPN service would poison the VPN's IP(s) for legit users.
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by kardos 8y ago
Arresting everyone at once opens up a power vacuum and a lucrative competition-free market, risks abound..
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by kardos 8y ago
If the waste heat could be harvested and used for another purpose (district heating? cooking?) that would more or less curtail the waste, yes?
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by kardos 8y ago
The cost to pickup, clean, and return a computer mouse/kb is almost certainly higher than buying a new mouse/kb
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by kardos 8y ago
How would that even work? You'd get certificate errors on any TLS site with typo-correcting-dns right?
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by kardos 9y ago
https://namecoin.org/
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by kardos 9y ago
The article makes exactly that point: > If ever a single attacker gains access to that vault and is able to extract, at most, a few gigabytes of data (around the size of an iTunes movie), then the attackers will gain unencrypted access t
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by kardos 9y ago
No movfuscator post is complete without mentioning the demovfuscator [1] https://github.com/kirschju/demovfuscator
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by kardos 9y ago
I read OP's point as a new user might want to hit the vote in the "thanks, this solved my problem" sense, but gets a rather surly "your vote is denied until you demonstrate that you are worthy" response. Entirely a
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by kardos 9y ago
How about "laying down seats", or bunks, rather than this abomination?
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by kardos 9y ago
How would you know if the paid version is privacy respecting or not? If for example FB had a 5$/mo subscription that was ad free, how would you know that access to your database wasn't still being sold? For me that kind of problem
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by kardos 9y ago
I was hoping this would be an elaborate side channel where the data was exfiltrated bit by bit over a few weeks by inducing temperature fluctuations that were picked up by the thermometer that was visible through a window from the building
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by kardos 9y ago
> I, too, use encrypted VPN, but we are just a minority. You're right that VPN usage is technically a minority [1], but it is well beyond fringe usage. [1] https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/304927/Downloads&#x
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by kardos 9y ago
Indeed -- FB will not have a hand in the solution. Cracking the micropayments egg might be the new game that unseats the adtech scourge. One can hope.
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by kardos 9y ago
Sidestepping your title authenticity question a bit: the risk of going with the clickbait headline is that you simply won't get any substantive comments because a critical mass will skip the posting -- that may have happened here (4h i
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by kardos 9y ago
Indeed.... if you pay anything to FB, you reveal a propensity to spend money online and self-select into a group of prime targets for adtech. FB is an ad company, they will not be able to resist brokering deals for access to that group. You
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by kardos 9y ago
This clickbait headline doesn't belong here
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by kardos 9y ago
It makes you wonder if it is real people commenting, or bots/troll firms set up to stoke outrage
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by kardos 9y ago
Says a guy commenting on the internet?
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by kardos 9y ago
Selective compression does seem like a pretty optimal approach. > We found that in most cases a secret within a webpage can be described in terms of a classical regular expression. Not sure I'd want to rely on a regex that identifie
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by kardos 9y ago
Don't forget that people with 3+ years experience probably aren't applying for entry level jobs
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by kardos 9y ago
Surely you mean an offline translation program, and not an online translation service like google's translator...
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by kardos 9y ago
Revenue
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by kardos 9y ago
I thought it was to make keyword searches work on twitter
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by kardos 9y ago
> developing countries where Facebook is already dangerously synonimical to the whole online experience of the average user. Was that not the case with AOL in the US in decades past?

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