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by mordocai 11y ago
The problem is that the existing societal solutions have a pretty hard bottleneck: It requires a physical person to show up at your door with a warrant to "rifle through your underwear drawer" as the president put it. It's re
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by mordocai 11y ago
A lot of American comedians are more truthful and balanced about their news reporting than the American news media.
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by mordocai 11y ago
Truthfully the truly privacy conscious are going to have to start joining the open hardware + open software movement. Edit: AFAIK it isn't yet established enough to setup a full range of your average first world consumer's product
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by mordocai 11y ago
An interesting thing about this is that successfully organizing in any fashion (violent or peaceful) against something like police shooting people for no damn reason pretty much requires encryption. So encryption is needed to effectively fi
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by mordocai 11y ago
I think you are talking thousands not hundreds. They had to pay people to set it up, pay for tablets for every room, and pay for the control devices too.
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by mordocai 11y ago
I'm not an expert on such things, but I believe people have been saying that the newer iPhones are more or less impossible to do this kind of thing for. The iPhone in question is old enough that it doesn't have the new security fe
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by mordocai 11y ago
I don't have sources handy, but one of my friends doesn't eat pork because he believes (based on some source or another) that it is worse for his health than other meats (including beef). I never asked him for his sources because
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by mordocai 11y ago
I've been doing 16/8 IF for most of my life and didn't realize it had a name or was something that people talked about...
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by mordocai 11y ago
We won't have the right to be ashamed about it. At least, not to communicate the feeling.
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Actually, the term hacked is more often used nowadays in social engineering cases since that is how most data breaches occur. Espionage falls firmly under social engineering.
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by mordocai 11y ago
It also doesn't take much to move a company from "Okay, we'll help you by hosting your shit for free" to "Fuck you, you're banned since you are ungrateful bastards" (in nicer language of course).
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by mordocai 11y ago
A large percentage of what they do is lobbying against things like this, so yes. I don't know if they've sent anything out to congress members about this quite yet but if they haven't they will.
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by mordocai 11y ago
I may be missing something, but it seems to me that this technique(if not this particular implementation) could be used to easily track individual users.
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by mordocai 11y ago
Not an official comment, but from other parts of the hacker news thread it sounds like one of the mirrors the main site redirects to was hacked, not the main site itself. The SHA sums on the main site where apparently unaltered. So it sound
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by mordocai 11y ago
Nitpicking, but the problem as they described is definitely not fedora. It is definitely a PC problem. The main problem here is that Windows is such a monopoly that the PC manufacturer didn't care to make sure anything else worked.
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by mordocai 11y ago
That's where the purely subjective argument comes in I suppose. The argument could be made that go's channels SHOULD be able to handle zeeboo's use case and the fact that they weren't designed to be able to handle it mak
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by mordocai 11y ago
While I agree all of this is subjective, I would argue that something being composed of "deliberate decisions to enforce a certain set of design contracts" doesn't mean those decisions nor the design contracts are good. Nor d
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by mordocai 11y ago
In addition, the author points out existing go libraries that people use that use channels when they shouldn't, so apparently the go language community needs more people pointing out that this is a bad idea. (I decided to make a new co
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by mordocai 11y ago
As a non-go programmer, I'm pretty sure the author made some very good objective arguments that channels are in fact badly implemented.
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by mordocai 11y ago
Yeah, they should use payday loans instead! Seriously though, it is astonishing to me how many people are so entitled they just literally cannot understand why someone would have legitimate problems with money. Not everyone is lucky enough
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by mordocai 11y ago
They may be "do no evil" on privacy, but apple heavily pushes vendor lock in and basically does everything they can to keep you from being able to easily switch to a different vendor. Google seems easier to switch from, they seem
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by mordocai 11y ago
I would argue that expending resources is different from creating something entirely new though.
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by mordocai 11y ago
Ubuntu isn't based on debian stable so I'm confused as to why you debian's stable release cycle would have anything to do with ubuntu.
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by mordocai 11y ago
Emacs has a pretty good "transparent" encryption mode too, for those interested. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EasyPG There are some potential issues I'm sure, but so far it has worked perfectly for me
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by mordocai 11y ago
Have you actually tried it for a significant period of time? Most (but not all) people who have used lisp for significant projects find that they either like the parens or are simply neutral about them. There are very few people I have hear
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by mordocai 11y ago
Per definition of myth, something doesn't have to be false to be a myth. Since there are multiple definitions, depends on which you use: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/myth
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It gives 3 month certs because what you are supposed to be doing is automating the cert creation and when you have it automated 3 months certs are a good thing since it is a security benefit and has no disadvantages.
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The only problem I have with your comment is that there are quite a few people who starve or nearly starve in the US. Dismissing all poverty in the US as just a hard time paying bills is incorrect. Yes, there are a lot of programs to provid
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by mordocai 11y ago
I would argue that 14% isn't a significant number and, therefore, PG's point stating "a significant number who get rich by creating wealth" is indeed disproved. The rest of your comment I agree with.
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I'd prefer Apache with its patent clause but what can you do?

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