mentat

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901.
by mentat 15y ago
Because the infrastructure is free. That's like asking why botnets connect over the Internet. (Though clearly to a different degree.)
902.
by mentat 15y ago
This is a discussion of jwz's posting and the comments to it, not of the original. Therefore not a dup.
903.
by mentat 15y ago
Flagged for this reason.
904.
by mentat 15y ago
It's usually appropriate to call females women instead of girls when they are of age to be renting out their houses. It sets the wrong tone to use this word and makes our community look sexist, which has been an ongoing problem.
905.
by mentat 15y ago
> they make it impossible for users to do it themselves That seems like a fundamental problem with their business. I'm inclined to agree that unless they make a serious shift in the information they're providing to people providing room
906.
by mentat 15y ago
Yes, this exactly. You're not letting your friends use your house. Trusting random strangers, getting burnt, and then saying that it's all the fault of the person who introduced you to them as a stranger makes no sense. Airbnb wasn't vouchi
907.
by mentat 15y ago
It seems that those who have entered the tech world in the last 10ish years under appreciate how frameworks have changed the way people get work done and the scale of projects they are able to undertake. Even the existence of rich operating
908.
by mentat 15y ago
The idea is that any sort of web console (that can be attacked with CSRF) is a really bad idea as it likely results in a complete compromise. Most web developers are not at all good at web security (case in point being this release with eas
909.
by mentat 15y ago
Since the request is coming from an authorized user, then SSL won't matter any which way. The action the attacker is causing the user to take would be legitimate except the user doesn't actually want to do it. Check out CSRF.
910.
by mentat 15y ago
If you're a registered Apple developer, it's worth watching how they're dealing with this in iOS 5.
911.
by mentat 15y ago
If someone has root on your phone, they have your passwords. It doesn't matter how they're stored on the disk. Protecting a key from someone who has full access to storage and memory is very hard.
912.
by mentat 15y ago
Well, a TPM would be fine assuming a hard limit on rate of attempts or total attempts. Apple, as far as I understand it, uses a TPM but had an interface that didn't properly limit attempts, hence the elcom brute force attack.
913.
by mentat 15y ago
There is certainly some benefit to encrypting removable flash. However, for non-removable flash, the speed at which normal attackers could pull items off of internal flash without the device running should be relatively long. I'm not totall
914.
by mentat 15y ago
If you have root you have access to the plaintext of the password in memory. It doesn't matter how it may or may not be obfuscated on disk.
915.
by mentat 15y ago
Surely you're not serious? The innovation that CDs and DVDs made possible is mind boggling. Digital music, video, gaming, none of these were possible with the existant storage densities and prices. They're clearly not the final solution to
916.
by mentat 15y ago
Yeah, flag and move on. No value here.
917.
by mentat 15y ago
Wow, this is a pretty interesting idea. Have you given any thought on how you'd establish consensus on an ongoing basis? It seems like a hard but very interesting problem.
918.
by mentat 15y ago
The amount of maximum time should probably be random ideally with some distribution. It might also be good if people didn't quite know how long they had to live but had some signs the time was running out.
919.
by mentat 15y ago
Though I certainly can't speak with authority about what might constitute value in an MBA program, I would think it would be the ability to understand systems and their organization and to think creatively about solutions to complex problem
920.
by mentat 15y ago
How to you propose to measure the value of work? I'm certainly not limiting it to financial remuneration. Whatever the value is measured by, it certainly doesn't correlate to effort. Sometimes something of great value takes much effort, som
921.
by mentat 15y ago
"who put in the most effort and demonstrate the highest level of achievement" I've noticed a growing problem with people equating effort with achievement as the parent does. Just because one "works really hard" doesn't mean that one creates
922.
by mentat 15y ago
Both of these utilities have sliding scales (at where I've lived in California) which become punitive at higher levels. Comcast could do that same as long as they provided reasonable visibility.
923.
by mentat 15y ago
Yes, waiting for someone's real answer because you care can't be turned on if there isn't a relationship there, but it is the most essential show of respect.
924.
by mentat 15y ago
This and similar answers makes me worried about the type of managers people are working for. Even the most introverted person should have a sufficient rapport with their manager to answer this question when it's honestly asked. It's a quest
925.
by mentat 15y ago
Keyboards can be hubs with hostile code implanted in them. They can also have built in key loggers.
926.
by mentat 15y ago
I'm not sure what your educational background is, but when you spend significant time working on literary subjects, you come to understand that definition is the trickiest part of any intellectual engagement. Your claim that your definition
927.
by mentat 15y ago
Ok, I see the way you're using sexual objectification now. I think people in this thread have been using it to describe both positive and negative reactions to people based on objective characteristics, not using desire as the important qua
928.
by mentat 15y ago
We all draw conclusions about the feelings of groups of people without experiencing what the group actually feels. Making observations and conclusions based on those observations is necessary to reason. "Many women that I've talked to" shou
929.
by mentat 15y ago
Well, assuming that you're referring to objective qualities (fat, bald) and tying that to attractiveness in an non-platonic sense, I think it's a simple deduction that that is sexual objectification. I would say that the second paragraph of
930.
by mentat 15y ago
No, he's saying that judging sexual attractiveness is inherently objectification and that both sexes do it. Though I believe it is a fallacy to say that you can't dislike to be objectified if you are in fact objectifying others, in non-logi

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