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by nadams 11y ago
Was I the only one who canceled their pre-order after they asked for your social security number?
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by nadams 11y ago
This is a great idea for new communities - but many communities I've been to violate at least 90% of those rules. If you are curious I have screenshots.
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by nadams 11y ago
> just every day you're in danger of losing a drive by a small statistical amount. Which is why for important data I always use some sort of RAID (or cloud syncing). If I lose a drive I won't lose all my data (presumably though
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by nadams 11y ago
> you can stop buying disks from Amazon every few months This is something that has been puzzling me. Many years ago I purchased 4x 2TB 5900 RPM drives for a 4 bay ReadyNAS (cost about ~$300 for drives plus ReadyNAS). They have been spin
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by nadams 11y ago
> it would be a security nightmare. It's not so much a security nightmare as it is a maintenance nightmare. The whole reason you pay for services is because you don't have time (or resources) to deal with it. > security of t
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by nadams 11y ago
Well...kind of. When they announced they would be dropping support for downloads - at that point I know it wasn't if but when they were going to shut down google code. Also, if you look at their issue tracker - it's pretty clear t
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by nadams 11y ago
> The moral is don't use Apple cloud services for anything you care about. The moral is don't trust ANYONE for anything you care about [1]. Especially free services - the free service you use can go under or away in a matter of
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by nadams 11y ago
I mean that's a quick glance at Google Analytics - I don't know if Google has algorithms that filter out bots or other non-human traffic. I have thought about dumping google adsense and trying something else.
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by nadams 11y ago
> In the best month, I made around $300. I could never figure out how to get traffic If you never got traffic - why did Google adsense pay you $300 in a month? I get ~600 visits per day and I barely get $0.10/day - usually ~$1 if so
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by nadams 11y ago
I wonder if you could put up a sign that says: "If you steal this camera you agree to pay a $200 fine" - just having a sign is a deterrent but not a strong one. Though, a better idea is to attach a speaker to it and when someone s
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by nadams 11y ago
> Oh really, you're not going to change the name because 3 people on HN suggested it? I'm sure the people behind FUSE file system library might have some comments to add. I would never name my product after a major open source
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by nadams 11y ago
> Don't do your medical consultations over insecure channels. It's not any more insecure as the last dentist office I went to (and no longer go to). They had the username and password for the system written on a sticky note nex
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by nadams 11y ago
> i really don't see any reason to use it now. >> 759 jobs for “python” http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs?searchTerm=python
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by nadams 11y ago
Depending on what you are trying to implement - passing an extra variable everywhere is just creating noise (because potentially you have to have an extra parameter to EVERY function or method). I believe in KISS - everything should be as s
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by nadams 11y ago
1) Wouldn't tell us 2) I tried to explain millions of people around the world rely on it and use it. I argue it's probably safe (within reason - obviously the weak point is the private key file). These were also the guys who refus
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by nadams 11y ago
I once worked with some Linux admins who told me that SSH public key authentication wasn't secure.
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by nadams 11y ago
I was actually just wondering if they made it better - why not create a patch and push it upstream?
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by nadams 11y ago
> There are all sorts of "special club" mentalities in programming. I've found this an interesting topic. I've seen a number of C++ communities where they are clearly disrespectful to new members or people who are new
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by nadams 11y ago
> Also, when you log into the United website, you can transfer airline miles. True, once someone complains about their miles disappearing, United might pull them back and ban the receiving account, but it might take a while. Put that int
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by nadams 11y ago
> I, for one, want to at least see, if not help, what small but interesting byte-size hurdles others encounter and how others can solve it in different ways, and all the discussion around it. I've thought about this idea and I think
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by nadams 11y ago
> Yes there is - the ability to verify identity and hence actually prevent MITM attacks. In asymmetric encryption - we both will generate a public/private key pair. We can walk up to each other, exchange USB drives containing public
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by nadams 11y ago
> And it's easy to find examples of for-profit companies that use (and abide by) any one of those licences. You can also find companies that don't. I am under the impression that nprobe source code is under the GPL [1] but the
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by nadams 11y ago
> They are definitely considering the MIT licence. Did they do a ninja edit? Perhaps my head was spinning from the vagueness of their license decision and I just overlooked it.
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by nadams 11y ago
I like to think that I understand most open source licenses - but that is just making my head spin. > The core of Ethereum will be released under the most liberal of licences. Then why aren't they considering MIT? That's about
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by nadams 11y ago
> Using the HTTPS URI schema indicates you're asking for a secured connection. That is why the errors exist. Having a self signed certificate isn't an error in the encryption negotiation (fatal) but a policy error (non-fatal).
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by nadams 11y ago
> You can't have encryption without authentication. Sure you can - symmetric encryption. If you have the same key to encrypt and decrypt - you can't be sure you are talking to a good guy on the other end. I think what you mean
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by nadams 11y ago
From the average user's POV: no They won't know the difference between a lock and a green bar. I would bet a percentage of users don't even notice if they are browsing an site using SSL or even understand why HTTP without SSL
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by nadams 11y ago
The one feature that I would really like in personal file encryption tools like this is to be able to read/write the files on the fly. For example - with encfs you have 2 folders: /encrypted /decrypted Whenever you write some
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by nadams 11y ago
> Jesse Jackson had an AMA that did not go very well. Several of the most upvoted questions were simply disrespectful. I think anyone could have seen that coming. Anonymous accounts with community voting and an API to boot? This is only
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by nadams 11y ago
> Google usually finds StackOverflow answers which is great. Depends - I've seen stackexchange questions that are exactly what I'm looking for and I would argue are on topic - only to see that it has over N thousand views with

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