lorddoig

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by lorddoig 12y ago
I don't see how it can be a JS SDK, taking file inputs via the browser, and do end-to-end encryption in anything but JS. It's just not possible, no?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I'm a little confused - it's an auto-updating JS library with a price tag? Is the end-to-end encryption done in JS? Is it OSS, or is the source minified and obfuscated?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Exactly
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The standard of the average academic/research paper is low enough that very few stand on their own. This, of course, is the reason why certain media outlets are able to make lots of money with bi-weekly, likely untrue claims that &lt
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I would totally use this if the guy running it was closer to robot than human. A highly logical walkthrough of whatever problem I present is something I would value immensely, as I think anyone else who's watched any sci-fi films with
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by lorddoig 12y ago
That situation is just about as maddening as that site's scroll behaviour.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
As an aside - for a wonderfully complete proposal on how to align corporate and social goals when it comes to IP in healthcare, you should see the literature on 'patent buy-outs', starting with this seminal paper by Michael Kremer
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It was no image - it was a tarball with some highly suspect mtimes.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The problem with end-to-end crypto is that we often think of its security properties mathematically and neglect its practical performance. Obviously this is increasingly not true (Heartbleed probably did more to educate the world on crypto
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Well yes, that's obviously true, which is why it's (idealistically speaking) important to verify the routing mechanism. Of course most of this is mitigated by end-to-end crypto but given that we see all too frequently how fallible
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It's meant as no criticism but "should" always worries me in contexts like this. I find that often the reason it's "should" as opposed to "will" is because there's potentially dangerous human in
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by lorddoig 12y ago
So, in summary, when I connect to an IP the only assurance I have (putting aside the application layer e.g. HTTPS) that I'm connecting to the right box is the fact that I made it to some machine with an interface configured to that a
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Well I imagine it would only be a portion of traffic. I wouldn't think a router in the UK would capture any US to US traffic through this method, for example. Is that what you mean?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I'm a little hazy on the technical details of BGP routing - am I correct in thinking that if you're a first-class BGP citizen, you can just advertise yourself as handling others' traffic and that's it, it just comes?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
A tarball is not a disk image and - in my view - is seriously shaky as evidence in a criminal trial. I had always imagined - apparently incorrectly - that evidence-gathering requirements in this area would have been more along the lines of
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New UK car tax service sees 30k traffic surge, crashes(bbc.co.uk)
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by lorddoig 12y ago
CGI...shell script...
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Kind of the point...
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It's important to remember that if someone's taking home a billion dollars in pay - and they're not on the public payroll or run a monopoly/oligopoly enabled by legislation (like, ooh, banking?) - then said person has al
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by lorddoig 12y ago
As well as traditional verification, I often use a perl script that takes an email as `ARG[1]`, runs this, and exits with `0` or `1` (for easy cross-language usage) because: 1) I don't like the idea of my frontend giving the impression
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Totally agree. A completely off-topic aside (sorry) - I creeped your profile and was wondering, did you create your blog template yourself? It's pretty much exactly what I've been looking for for ages but haven't been bothe
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Without a reason to attract (relative) experts beyond philanthropy I think there's a risk that a ballooning amateur/expert ratio could soon cripple this, as happened to the way Matasano Crypto Challenges used to be run. I hate to
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by lorddoig 12y ago
JS conflicts (as described)? Today? Really?
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by lorddoig 12y ago
The implication being there is no discernible transition between perfectly fine and full-blown cold? You're just trundling along, enjoying your day, and then - BAM! - like a ninja, it's there? Or are you saying it's too diffi
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by lorddoig 12y ago
To further my point: this is just more noise that I really can't be bothered to take in. I don't have the time or energy (or qualifications) to dedicate to analysing my Berocca intake which has done no noticeable harm in the medi
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I don't think the placebo effect works when he who's dishing it out is quite so blatant about it.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
Regardless of most of that - she doesn't need to be an expert on vitamins or biomed as this article is an analysis of the statistics that have come from the actual experts work, which she's very qualified to do.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
It's not quite the same. The conflicting instructions of what we all should and shouldn't do coming from all directions is psychologically stressful. I'm positing simply that the expected utility gained by ignoring this r
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by lorddoig 12y ago
I read once that Linus Pauling was convinced high-dose vitamin C could defeat a cold, and I hate colds. So now right as I feel one coming on I chow down (literally) 30,000mg and I must admit it appears to work.
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by lorddoig 12y ago
> Thats like saying that doing rain dances can't hurt and might bring rain. ...and make rain dancers happy, to complete your simile. Or at least stop them being sad because some douche from the internet came along and ruined their

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