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by kgo 16y ago
Yeah, I almost wish they didn't use the keyword 'lambda' at all. If you could just write: def foo(x): def lambda(): print x lambda;bar(callback=lambda);baz(42,lambda) def lambda(): print x
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by kgo 16y ago
I'm actually sorry. Apologies. I know the core of your message was "you can get a PhD, and things will work out okay." I might be being intentionally provocative up above, because I too am sick of the many articles about education suckin
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by kgo 16y ago
Well yeah, but if you're on the fence about a big life decision, you should go out and research it, and not rely on hacker news to spoon-feed you the appropriate info. I'd hate to to think that someone considering a PhD program read yesterd
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by kgo 16y ago
Tell HN: It's your fucking life, do what the fuck makes you happy. If you find being an undergrad painful and you're bored to tears, and you're only doing it is because your parents and peers tell you you'll end up as a janitor without that
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by kgo 16y ago
The Clipper Chip was introduced in the open. They tried to push it through legislation. It's not like the NSA blackmailed Intel executives to include the capabilities secretly in their Pentium Processors without notifying their customers
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by kgo 16y ago
Yeah, but 'wanted' doesn't equal 'did' like the OP claims.
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by kgo 16y ago
I did some consulting work at a big pharma company. And they solved the whole problem of someone stealing (or more likely losing) a RSA key by keeping all the keys at the helpdesk! You just called up, said you need the ID, and they read yo
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by kgo 16y ago
This guy picks that upper limit based on the idea that an attacker can't hit the webserver more than 100 times a minute, which makes me question how much he knows about crypto. He doesn't take into account someone who has access to the pas
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by kgo 16y ago
Almost as big of a ripoff as that company that gives you less than 20,000 bucks for a 2-10% steak in your company: http://tinyurl.com/yb74jsr Or maybe both of these deals have other less tangible benefits to the people who end up winning.
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by kgo 16y ago
Direct DB access isn't typically world-accessible either. It's not like I can do an XML request to get my hashed password on any site. The point is, if someone has gotten enough access that they can actually get a raw copy of the database,
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by kgo 16y ago
I don't think Schneier recommends a hint. That's only good if your password sucks to begin with. And it's not the 'writing down' part that's a security risk, it's the 'storing in an insecure location' that is. Password in wallet, fine. P
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by kgo 16y ago
Wow. Yeah. Apologies. I did a quick google search and the first few pages were 'configuring IMAP on hotmail'... Checking again, the next few were "WHY THE HELL DOESN'T HOTMAIL HAVE IMAP?" Anyway, hopefully they at least let you do pop w
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by kgo 16y ago
I wouldn't trust any free service not to delete all my emails, either accidentally or intentionally. Hotmail supports IMAP and POP. So even if you normally use the web-interface, open up thunderbird every few months a month and sync up.
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by kgo 16y ago
For an all day interview, sure some feedback would be nice. For a phone interview, I'd probably think you're a bigger asshole if you went into details about how I failed the interview, what's wrong with me, why I'm unqualified, and how I ca
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by kgo 16y ago
From http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors : Wikileaks is currently mirrored on 1289 sites (updated 2010-12-08 19:07 GMT) Does the world really need a 1290th mirror site?
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by kgo 16y ago
I would word that as "Only if you don't explicitly disable it". Not trying to be super-pedantic, but I think it's important to note that the default is unencrypted, since most people probably won't change that default, especially when the
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by kgo 16y ago
Except on mac your data can leak into tmp or swap. I was going to go on a rant about how encrypting home directories is practically pointless, and you really need full disk encryption if you're worried about people snooping, but was glad to
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by kgo 16y ago
But both the title and the summary claim that it secures your 'internet connection', not your 'firefox connection'. That's my big gripe with the article. And of course you can setup SOCKS5 proxies for all apps, but it'd be nice if the art
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by kgo 16y ago
(assuming you only care about firefox, not email, dns lookups, chat, software updates, that script that calls wget or curl, your netflix live client, etc...) Ugh. If you're worried about security on your email or bank account or whatever, y
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by kgo 16y ago
Not black-holed for me, either on verizon DSL, or via Tor and OpenDNS... Anyway, they're running a bunch of mirrors now: http://wikileaks.realprogrammer.org/mirrors.html
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by kgo 16y ago
That's a really vague question. Do you need to know about fundamentals? Like what a capacator/resistor/transistor is? Do you need to know how to solder and assemble components? Are you interested in messing around with micro controller
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by kgo 16y ago
http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/usama-bin-laden/view
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by kgo 16y ago
This is a little late... But yeah in that case I agree 100%. Different case if you're shipping some scientific equipment worth 1500 dollars now and then. And if that equipment is 50,000 bucks, maybe you start looking at a private courier.
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by kgo 16y ago
I agree with most of what you're saying, but I don't see how you can say Apple and Skype exist because of Blue Boxes and Kazaa. That's like saying "The Pianist" exists because Roman Polanski raped some 13 year old...
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by kgo 16y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root
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by kgo 16y ago
Right on. Notice thepiratebay.org is still up and running. the registrar: Key-Systems GmbH (R51-LROR). I tried running whois's on some of the banned names to see what registrars were cooperating, if it was all (for example) GoDaddy, but a
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by kgo 16y ago
But what does that actually prove? I can put an already broken laptop in a box, ship it, and blame it on UPS. How is a shock sensor any different? Even if it's on the outside of the box, the pickup guy isn't exactly trained to confirm it'
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by kgo 16y ago
But once again, you don't need permission to exercise fundamental rights anywhere in a civilized country. If I'm on a public sidewalk, the default assumption is that I can pass out whatever pamphlets I want. That I can spew out whatever ti
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by kgo 16y ago
As I alluded to several posts down, I don't think it is. Lets pick a random fundamental human right: Free expression. If you lived in a society that: + Required you to take a test and get a license to execute your rights. + Included
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by kgo 16y ago
You need a license to drive a car. You don't need a license to write a book, publish a newsletter, to form some sort of organization and assemble, etc... Your license can be revoke if (for example) you get too many DUIs. Your rights to free

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