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by mckoss 14y ago
The real solution is to switch to public keys. No more shared secrets - you just prove your identity by using your private key to sign an authentication challenge.
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by mckoss 14y ago
Google authenticator is great; can be used on many sites (gmail, last pass, aws) and is based on an open standard that is to implement on your own servers.
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by mckoss 14y ago
Deflation is just another word for long periods of decreasing prices (not VALUES). What's wrong with that? Because of their infinite divisibility (it's equally easy to spend 1 millionth of a Bitcoin as it is to spend 1 Bitcoin) they do no
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by mckoss 14y ago
I agree with you that Bitcoins can open markets because they can eliminate the friction of making payments when two parties live in different political regions that do not currently trade easily. This is a good thing for individual liberty
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by mckoss 14y ago
Imagine that Padmapper were released as an alternative web browser. As an end user, I have the right to consume CL's content. Do they have a right to tell me which web browser I can and cannot use? Since CL offers their data freely to "th
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by mckoss 14y ago
Why would apt owners NOT want their listings cross posted and distributed to the largest possible audience? I call BS.
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by mckoss 14y ago
I've noted very bad screen flicker on the Nexus 7 when browsing the web (large white background). This is a Google IO unit.
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by mckoss 14y ago
I think this is the motivation behind .Net Linq - bringing the relational query semantics into the language. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb308959.aspx
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by mckoss 14y ago
I don't think that's what the post said. Doing so would break the semantics of the 0 second cache time. They must wait for your 304 Not Modified response before serving from their cache.
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by mckoss 14y ago
A good reminder that scientific thought and "authority" are often at odds. I try to keep this in mind when I hear statements that x% of scientists are purported to "believe" in anthropogenic global warming.
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by mckoss 14y ago
pageforest.com? (my project). But ... no payments system built in. I found that the JavaScript clientside-only programming model was hard to get developers to adopt.
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by mckoss 15y ago
Agreed. If you can provide an generic implementation able to work across many applications, you save everyone from having to reinvent the wheel - at the cost of delegating a portion of your app to the service host. The model I used in page
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by mckoss 15y ago
In reality the usable space is substantially less; you can start seeing significant collisions once you've filled half the space. More problematic, the chance of any collisions is 50% when you have filled just sqrt(space) - known as the b
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by mckoss 15y ago
This is an example where a short answer is better than a long answer. There is so much detail provided by the CEO in his explanation, that it is very difficult to understand the outline of the protocol and structure of the system. Securit
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by mckoss 15y ago
Would be very cool to support HTTP Range requests [1] on the virtual stream - then client could restart at any point. [1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html section 14.35.
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by mckoss 15y ago
I wish I could block all extremetech stories from My HN feed. The are universally overhyped, never the original source, often draw unjustified conclusions, and are a pain to read (at least on an iPad - they use a non standard interface and
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by mckoss 15y ago
This was a really great episode of 60 Minutes - also see the in-depth story on face blindness; it's an excellent demonstration of a mysterious capacity of (most) people's ability to recognize faces. BTW - 60 Minutes should be retitled "40 M
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by mckoss 15y ago
I don't think that's the best approach to protecting our freedoms. While many of the provisions in the previous act are similar, I think the new order expands the power to go beyond merely protecting the flow of materials and equipment und
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by mckoss 15y ago
Section 304 defines the right to subsidize oil companies if the cost of supply goes up. It also allows them to create loan guarantees of any size to prop up a favored industry or business. Section 308 gives the right to the government to i
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by mckoss 15y ago
On initial reading, I think This order has a very high chance of increasing the cost of doing business and especially burdening startups. As I read it, the government is asserting the authority to deem any industry as a "critical national
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by mckoss 15y ago
I would be very surprised if the (US) government were to try to "shut down" Bitcoin. Perhaps regulate it. Perhaps harass an individual entity using Bitcoin. I believe we have a protected right to use technology like Bitcoin. To make it i
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by mckoss 15y ago
You're confusing "clients" (or Bitcoin nodes) with miners. All clients share information about pending transactions through a peer-to-peer network. A small % of those clients are also mining - incorporating (or not) transactions into a bl
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by mckoss 15y ago
If I didn't know better, I'd interpret MS's actions as trying to drive desktop computer users to Mac and Linux; kind of like their redesign of Office (ribbon) driving people to Google Apps. MS doesn't seem to be "protecting" it's market sha
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by mckoss 15y ago
On a flight last week I overheard the TSA agent joke about the "torture" procedure he was about to inflict on my son when he opted out of a body scan. I don't find anything about the TSA to be humorous.
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by mckoss 15y ago
Why value uniqueness over simplicity, cleanliness, and learn-ability? When the Mac came out, the primary selling point of the interface was that every application could share a common way of doing things and present it's capabilities to th
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by mckoss 15y ago
No, you use a stolen private key to transfer the Bitcoins to a new public key whose private key is only known to the thief.
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by mckoss 15y ago
My password was randomly generated, has 85 bits of entropy and, it took me only a couple of days to memorize.
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by mckoss 15y ago
We created an online editable version of Google's html5 slides at http://slides.pageforest.com .
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by mckoss 15y ago
I was doing a back of the envelope NPV calculation - 30 years of 0.5% payments -> 15%. Depending in the discount rate, it's less than that; which is why I said "nearly".
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by mckoss 15y ago
It's a sad commentary to think that the best way to improve the system is to pretend to use its services.

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