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   by meowface 12y ago

   If a doctor is actually trying to commit someone who is not exhibiting any sort of psychotic symptoms, they should have their license revoked. I doubt the author would have gotten committed simply for being depressed and refusing to take an
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   by meowface 12y ago

   What in the world are you talking about? How is CyberLock responsible for Superfish?
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   by meowface 12y ago

   Simple ethics. If you contact them, you can at least give them time to patch the flaw for software, or time to start producing a new line of locks in this case. If you release it to the world before they're even aware of it, there&#x27
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   by meowface 12y ago

   Were these vulnerabilities disclosed to CyberLock at all before the results were published? If not, I can't blame them for being angry. Not saying they shouldn't be publicly disclosed in addition to private disclosure, but you hav
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   by meowface 12y ago

   People also seem to forget about major French companies like VUPEN, who research and buy 0-day vulnerabiliies with the express purpose of selling them to French intelligence services (and intelligence services of allied countries). I have n
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   by meowface 12y ago

   It's the lesser of the other evils, I think. It's very important that the company is transparent about this process before you even apply, though, so that they don't waste your time and their own time. That way at least you k
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   by meowface 12y ago

   Interestingly, I use 'lol' "seriously", and use 'heh' and 'hehe' ironically.
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   by meowface 12y ago

   https://twitter.com/rootworx/status/592126475689545729 >Receiving reports that Julius Kivimaki hacked Tesla and Elon Musk's Twitter accounts and websites by Social engineering NetworkSolutions NetworkSolut
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   by meowface 12y ago

   It's a means of searching public-facing (albeit cloaked) content, not a means of tracking people specifically. If anything, it's ethically much superior to what the NSA is doing: law enforcement searches for content that is clearl
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    by meowface 12y ago

    >Google (whose executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, sits on the board of The Economist’s parent company) told staff in an internal memo that it has a “very strong case” to make against all the allegations. I'm glad to see disclosures l
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    by meowface 12y ago

    How could they know for sure the artificial sweetener did not adversely affect focus somehow?
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    Ask HN: Alternative HN themes?

    4 points by meowface 12y ago|3 comments
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    by meowface 12y ago

    This can be done in any dynamic language, especially languages that allow `eval` or similar.
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    by meowface 12y ago

    I honestly think that between POTUS Rand Paul and NSA mass surveillance programs, the latter is the leser of two evils. It would be very nice to see other candidates making similar pledges though.
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    by meowface 12y ago

    At first I thought you were editorializing a little bit; I expected to see conspiracy theories discussed objectively, with theoretical solutions. But you're right, it does seem like they are seriously arguing in favor of eliminating co
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    by meowface 12y ago

    If only there was a way of generating a pseudorandom stream of bytes with which to XOR against based on a shorter randomly generated key...
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    by meowface 12y ago

    That seems to be missing the point. The only "witness evidence" we have of an afterlife is the reports of those who have had near-death experiences. If that evidence is called into question, then no other evidence remains. This do
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    by meowface 12y ago

    Even if you say that, a not insignificant number of users are still probably going to type either taalk.co or taaaalk.co to start with.
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    by meowface 12y ago

    I like the format and the content as well, but the domain name and company name seem pretty terrible, if I'm to be honest. Imagine explaining it to a friend or prospective user. "Yeah it's called Taaalk, just go to taaalk.co&
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    by meowface 12y ago

    I'm very surprised by the unwise compromise remediation advice: >Remove any files, pages, posts, comments or processes added by the attacker. If in doubt as to whether you got everything, set up a new WordPress site from scratch and
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    by meowface 12y ago

    I do pretty much agree with all your points. The revelation that NSA was engaged in economic spying definitely brought their moral highground way down to earth, even if the nature of the spying was somewhat more geopolitical than what China
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    by meowface 12y ago

    They do, but usually those actions are done against "belligerent" entities. And though it's certainly not a great defense, the router bricking was unintentional. The US generally does not engage in destructive actions with th
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    by meowface 12y ago

    It feels weird knowing I will never be 5% as productive as TJ is. (At least not without amphetamines or something.)
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    by meowface 12y ago

    DDoS attacks are a dynamic and changing problem. It's usually like playing whack-a-mole. There's no way GitHub is going to develop a solution that magically "prevents all DDoS attacks".
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    by meowface 12y ago

    Both are unethical, but there is a difference between spying (sitting with some binoculars by a window, or snooping around inside the building) and destructive actions (blowing up the entrance with a constant stream of TNT so no one else ca
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    by meowface 12y ago

    That's definitely interesting, but I'd have to see both codebases to make any real determination. It's plausible their Python code was extremely imperative, overly complex, and/or not idiomatic.
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    by meowface 12y ago

    When dealing with function calls, they're roughly the same. But how about things like: g = some_input() # A list with 3 elements a, b, c = g Or in Python 3+: lst = [1, 2, 3, 4] head, *tail = lst # 1, [2, 3, 4]
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    by meowface 12y ago

    Thanks, that clears up some misconceptions I had.
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    by meowface 12y ago

    How exactly? Ignoring issues of backwards compatibility for the moment, I don't think Java's introduction of generics added a ton of complexity for developers, and I don't see why Go would either. In Java's case it seeme
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    by meowface 12y ago

    As a professional Python developer and amateur Go dabbler, I very vehemently disagree. Without access to list/dict/set comprehensions, or libraries like itertools, or a lightweight lambda syntax or something like Ruby's block