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721.
by mentat 12y ago
The NSA is very much not interested in directly disclosing their capabilities. It could be they already had the information but wanted parallel evidence construction.
722.
by mentat 12y ago
So please tell us, why is it not done? Contract provisions? Lack of profit?
723.
by mentat 12y ago
That's a far cry from "the only topic that matters." Aside: burn karma burn, if that's the community I don't want to be a part of it
724.
by mentat 12y ago
This could be extended to the ephemeral nature of digital formats and their co-dependence on certain execution environments. As much as I love this example I don't think it's DRM specific.
725.
by mentat 12y ago
So Hacker News is about selling? I'd be interested to see if this is one of the big divides here.
726.
by mentat 12y ago
So for all those saying that we should just "trust the engineers know what they're doing" this is a pretty damning refutation as far as I'm concerned.
727.
by mentat 12y ago
Zooming out to a "regional" level with the circles showing activity centers is pretty interesting. Wonder if the NSA interface to similar looks like this. Thanks for sharing the data (as crazy as I might think that is =) ).
728.
by mentat 12y ago
It would cost them the legal due diligence and setup which could be significant for complicated requests and/or large companies.
729.
by mentat 13y ago
I fail to grasp on Cloudflare and Akamai are "service providers" and Amazon Web Services is not.
730.
by mentat 13y ago
Or maybe he wants the largest possible audience and the comment is aimed at getting him that.
731.
by mentat 13y ago
I concur with this speculation. My work access is all IPv4 but at home I'm native IPv6 for my whole network.
732.
by mentat 13y ago
Because people work on what interests them and that apparently doesn't. http://www.fastcolabs.com/3020181/open-company/inside-github...
733.
by mentat 13y ago
Except that that function has been completely perverted by economic dynamics.
734.
by mentat 13y ago
You really trust a large government bureaucracy that's been beholden to large pharmaceuticals to get this right? Really? The danger of the information is that great? I'm just not buying it and the comments in this thread so pure &
735.
by mentat 13y ago
I've found openwrt to be quite superior, especially config and packet management.
736.
by mentat 13y ago
It's the exponential reduction in the resources required to accomplish visibility in public actions which is "new". Sure, you could pay someone to follow another person around in public. Now you don't have to, everyone&#
737.
by mentat 13y ago
davedx, You comment is still basically unresponsive. Are we supposed to uncritically read everything we find on the web? Being critical is not the same as being negative, even if it's a feel good article.
738.
by mentat 13y ago
So cache timing attacks increasing with table size? I thought the table was only for the authentication section. I guess that would be reversible to the key. Are there any papers on this?
739.
by mentat 13y ago
Why do people consider GCM difficult to implement in software? (disclaimer: I worked for a company that sold a GCM implementation)
740.
by mentat 13y ago
It's a natural psychological process for people to attribute to themselves good outcomes and to attribute to others bad outcomes. This seems to twist that to same something about ethics. Also, the playacting by undergraduates some of w
741.
by mentat 13y ago
I don't quite grasp how you can purposefully ignore the general bias on the possession of wealth currently in the common mind, much less the mind of a Berkley student. This is where people got pepper sprayed for Occupy. They're go
742.
by mentat 13y ago
Stealing was good for the majority of people in the financial services business who didn't get caught and go to jail. Your grasp on the use of statistics seems tenuous. It is not to prove possibility but likelihood. I could give one ra
743.
by mentat 13y ago
I don't usually endorse snark, but I think a large set of the new HN don't have any appreciation for the history of thought about a lot of hard problems. It's part of the new "I've got an opinion so it must be one t
744.
by mentat 13y ago
For those who didn't make it to IDF, it felt dead. There was very little attendance in most sessions and the expo floor was also pretty much empty. They actually moved food into demo areas so it looked like there was buzz. I'm pre
745.
by mentat 13y ago
So this is an application level approach to the same things as Mobile IP, MPPP, etc?
746.
by mentat 13y ago
Yeah, I've been wondering about that for a few years. After he disappeared, none of the Irvine people would even talk about it.
747.
by mentat 13y ago
I can see if there's anything in any of my backups. Nowadays I'd just use Google Earth's history feature (optionally feeding in time based KMLs of access points). I think the WiGLE interface supports time filtering, but I don
748.
by mentat 13y ago
This was so much fun to use. I built perl scripts around this (learning at the same time differences between lat/lon and UTM) to map wireless access points[0][1]. 0. http://wigle.net/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=9 1. ht
749.
by mentat 13y ago
Since this is still floating around /best, I highly recommend http://hockeyapp.net/ SoundFocus is using it for their betas and it "just works" for distribution and updating. Feels like the app store too.
750.
by mentat 13y ago
SoundFocus is using http://hockeyapp.net/ to do distribution of betas. It seems very smooth from my experience.

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