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by mpyne 12y ago
My experience comes from a different (IRL) context, but the type of people you need to moderate or ban are also often the type of people who will move right up to the edge of any bright line you draw, and use it is a shield for further anti
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by mpyne 12y ago
I think it's far more likely that the analyst has what we used to call "common sense" than they that have a master's degree in statistics, I'll admit. Of course Turing and his compatriots at Bletchley Park managed t
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by mpyne 12y ago
To go along with that, the captor was nabbed because his car had a built-in GPS tracker, installed by the dealer to deter theft. Don't worry, it was in the fine print somewhere.
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by mpyne 12y ago
They don't "pretty much show active surveillance on individuals". Even the NSA doesn't have the human intelligence analyst bandwidth for that. The Snowden leaks show pretty expansive collection of data that could be ex
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by mpyne 12y ago
Because the blockchain is awesome and the government is bad. They'd use bubble sort, efficiency be damned, if they could find a way to keep the bankers out of it.
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by mpyne 12y ago
I would actually revise #1 to be to always use a smart pointer for heap-allocated objects. C++11 is 3 years old now after all.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Yes, I'm sure that his "not actually the same as the joke we're talking about" joke was a mere slight variation. Maybe the Secret Service guy missed the (+5: Funny), I'm sure that happens to the best of us sometim
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by mpyne 12y ago
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is responsible for controlling the import of goods (such as counterfeit Dutch passports and ID cards, but probably including drugs too) into the country, and they're a part of DHS.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Easy mode is to encrypt the device key for each individual device, store it only with the manufacturer. Make it more difficult by requiring m-of-n agreement (probably via a parity block scheme) between HSMs to derive the key if you wish (wi
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by mpyne 12y ago
You satirically quoted an imaginary job posting and Secret Service showed up? That sucks, I guess we need to close down Duffel Blog and The Onion then.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Perhaps not, but if you know (or reasonably should know) that a crime is being committed and then don't report it, now you're an accomplice to the crime. It's hard to miss all the ads for drugs on SR2.0, so it would be very e
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by mpyne 12y ago
"Greed. It's terrifying how much it prevails in our startup culture." Good to know he managed to tone down that concern in time for him to drop cold hard cash on a Tesla once the dough from SR2 started rolling in.
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by mpyne 12y ago
ICE is the agency that handles customs inspections, and presumably get called in for any type of smuggling of contraband that crosses national borders. It would make a lot of sense for the Federal government to have a single agency that inv
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Isn't it really easy to locate one if you can perform active attacks on the global infrastructure? (introduce latencies and/or break links temporarily) Seems like it wouldn't even take too long if you apply the same type
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by mpyne 12y ago
Commenting more on the general tone of US agencies, since changing the law to specifically allow an expanded set of investigatory techniques , is them "breaking the law"? What? You can argue they shouldn't have such authorit
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by mpyne 12y ago
Perhaps, but that kind of joke gets made all the time on the Internet without bringing down black helicopters.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> By the way: If the FBI is so successful using traditional police tactics to infiltrate "cybercrime syndicates," why do they need a "front door" to our devices? Just like the old-fashioned police work they did here w
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by mpyne 12y ago
I can tell you that even my Nexus 7 is rather abysmal at handling Google Docs documents. The Bluetooth keyboard connection is flaky at best, gets much worse when Wi-Fi is turned on (which makes working on a cloud document rather inconvenien
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by mpyne 12y ago
Potato prices jump around based on demand and supply just like any other commodity: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/blig... If you were starving on a desert island I'm willin
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by mpyne 12y ago
Saying that you can fund centralized payment systems with Bitcoin isn't an argument for Bitcoin, it's a solution in search of a problem. Even if you think fiat is completely unacceptable you can fund those centralized payment
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Gold is valuable because it takes effort to find, mine and refine. Other way around, people spend effort to find, mine and refine gold precisely because it's subjectively valuable. That's always been the ironic thing to me
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by mpyne 12y ago
Bitcoin is a scheme designed to create a deflationary store of value by wasting electrical energy, co-opted by a vast amount of people who really did look at it like "tulips" and who continue to operate today as if it's a p
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by mpyne 12y ago
That contorted chain of logic is quite striking. And even then you miss the other questions you need to ask yourself. "Would my kindly, gray-haired mother refuse to pay taxes for this?" "If she didn't, would my kindly,
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by mpyne 12y ago
Except that leaks to the press as a way of trying to control a story (or to simply play bureaucratic knife fights) is a DC art as old as time. Such things happen in other countries including Russia, though the Kremlin promulgating "bla
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by mpyne 12y ago
Even in KDE, the JuK media player/tagger (which is actually the semi-official app) is much closer in appearance to Rhythmbox than Amarok. https://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/juk/ On the other han
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Shills are easy to detect, as they out of character with the typical tone and style of messages on a particular forum. They also tend to have egregious flaws in reasoning and use emotional and heated personal attacks against the person
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by mpyne 12y ago
There is a reason that the oath of witness in U.S. court systems requires telling not only the "truth" (i.e. facts or truthful opinions), but "the whole truth" (i.e. all important contextual information/opinions rel
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by mpyne 12y ago
Yes, seriously. Assange himself stated bluntly that he told Snowden to go to Russia (not Cuba, nor any of the leftist South American nations). DDB left WikiLeaks due in part to the ongoing association of WikiLeaks with authoritarian figur
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by mpyne 12y ago
Is "establishmentarian" supposed to be the new "statist shill"?
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by mpyne 12y ago
The only things that has been surprising about Snowden's revelations have been, in some cases, the scale (MUSCULAR comes to mind) and the audacity (Dual EC DRBG, which is technically "strong crypto", unless your opponent is N

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