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by maggit 13y ago
DRM-free is the way to go, and has been the way for music on iTunes since March 2009 ( http://www.macworld.com/article/1137946/itunestore.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes_Store#Move
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by maggit 13y ago
What makes you think DRM has worked up to now? Which content is unavailable for pirating because of DRM? As far as I can tell DRM has only ever punished, and still only punishes, legitimate users.
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by maggit 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64 says "Prior to launch, "x86-64" and "x86_64" were used to refer to the instruction set. Upon release, AMD named it AMD64." and refers to https:/&#
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by maggit 13y ago
Are you on an experimental version of Chrome? I mean, are you using Chrome, but a variant other than the stable one? I've sometimes found that they roll out crazy experiments in the non-stable Chrome builds that integrate with crazy fe
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by maggit 13y ago
Disabling JavaScript lets me read the site without enabling the social stuff. I noticed that the content seems to be there, but then gets removed, presumably by JavaScript. (Ghostery+Chrome here)
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by maggit 13y ago
A USB stick could be anything, but if it is simply a proper USB mass storage device, it, by itself, can not execute code on the host machine. To execute code on the host machine, either the host machine has to be stupid (like many Windows v
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by maggit 13y ago
I've similarly had poor experiences with the Humble ports of games. Off the top of my head I can think of Super Meat Boy, which usually crashes within the first minute, and Psychonauts, which is so broken that it ruins all the fun. Bot
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by maggit 13y ago
> The road signs in the US are _well established_ in the US. Of course they are! I am not trying to say that US signage is unclear. I am trying to illustrate that it does not automatically make things clearer if you use text instead of p
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by maggit 13y ago
I'd just like to add that well established icons are much more readable than text. The prime example that makes me believe this is road signs. In Europe it is pretty easy to drive a car in any country and be able to do it correctly,
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by maggit 13y ago
FYI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5984223
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by maggit 13y ago
Some information about WebM/VP8 hardware support: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM#Hardware Notably, "Nvidia is supporting VP8 and provides both hardware decoding and encoding in the Tegra 4 chipset."
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by maggit 13y ago
I spend a lot of time on that site, and like you I generally think the strict criteria are a net positive. However, I'd just like to add that I've seen lots of abusive language and misuse of powers to close/put on hold. Flagg
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by maggit 13y ago
I initially interpreted "5D" in the title as five spatial dimensions, which would be incredible, but the reality is entirely credible: > The information encoding is realised in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addi
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by maggit 13y ago
We seem to be in full agreement. I only wanted to spell out my own reasoning for using curl and not wget, since you explicitly said you were interested in this information, and I suppose there are others that think like me in this regard as
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by maggit 13y ago
> I'd be interested to see if many others on here do prefer curl over wget for pulling binary files. This is how I ended up consistently prefering curl: Last time I looked closely, I had better control with curl, and curl had bett
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by maggit 13y ago
I'd say it's a paradigm. For whatever that's worth ;)
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by maggit 13y ago
Yep, you're right. I was thrown off by the fact that Elliptic Curve Diffie-Hellman has public and private keys. I figured you weren't talking about the DH part when you talked about public and private keys. Today I learned more ab
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by maggit 13y ago
Of course! I apologise! I was thinking that the adversary would discover the private keys and then learn nothing, but he can of course attack the DH exchange. My bad.
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by maggit 13y ago
Edit: Sorry, I was confused. I missed out on the part where the adversary attacks the DH exchange, thinking he would only try to get to the private keys. Original gripe below. ---- This guy has not understood forward secrecy. The session ke
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by maggit 13y ago
I agree in general, but you are painting with too broad strokes here: > No part of cryptography has anything to do with the code. There have been successful attacks against cryptography based on attacking the implementation. For example
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by maggit 13y ago
You should try it on a retina mac. It's awful! However, I am willing to put up with this for a while until maybe I can create an alternative client or something. Private communication is pretty important to me :) Apparently there'
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by maggit 13y ago
Is Qt 5.1 poorly integrated with Android? Have you experienced this, or are you simply assuming it? Working with Qt could be a huge productivity boost for me compared to working with the standard Android SDK. I could have more time availabl
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by maggit 13y ago
I agree. What you are saying is really important, and using RetroShare does not seem to be the correct solution to mark_integerdsv's problem. > a few friends talking freely behind closed doors? Even dictatorships have that . But I
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by maggit 13y ago
While it is not technically impossible to discover backdoors in closed source software, I'd say it's essential for me to trust crypto-software that it is open source. That being said, it is probably feasible to hide a backdoor eve
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by maggit 13y ago
I've recently started developing something like this. Now it looks like I might not have to. Thanks! I found RetroShare worthy of its own submission, given today's climate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983
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RetroShare: secure communications with friends(retroshare.sourceforge.net)
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by maggit 13y ago
Second the "mass" problem. I didn't experience either misses or false alarms with the stupid phones I had before, but as my phone has been growing smarter and bigger, the vibration engine has turned into something that primar
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by maggit 13y ago
On the other hand, electric cars mostly get charged over night. The need for a battery swap or a stop for super charging should be much less frequent than the need to refill gas. It is hard to make a direct comparison.
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by maggit 13y ago
I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-
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by maggit 13y ago
I agree. While we wait for him to add the pictures, we can dig them out ourselves from amazon: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1489522212/ref=sib_dp_ptu#re... Use the "Surprise me"-link to get to a page inside the book.

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