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by nathanlied 8y ago
It's quite interesting to me to see something like this here. A few years back (turn of the decade) I discovered a similar problem in the equipment of a fairly large ISP, albeit a little bit more serious (think root access). Their fix
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by nathanlied 8y ago
I get the feeling Elon might need someone to reign him back on some of his tweets. I've heard he suffers from bipolar disorder, which, even if medicated, can sometimes flare up. If that's the case, and some of his episodes bring t
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by nathanlied 9y ago
I've heard from some people in Portugal that MEO is affected, as well as the Spanish Vodafone. A friend working for the Portuguese Vodafone is saying that, so far, they're unaffected. This seems to be quite serious.
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by nathanlied 10y ago
University these days is gross in certain places, especially in anything related to IT - Computer Science, Engineering, Electric Engineering, etc. There's a stupidly heavy emphasis on group work, with the superficial justification that
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by nathanlied 10y ago
It's not a very good example, because making food halal requires businesses to change the way they do things. One of the things required for food to be halal (AFAIK) is that the person doing the slaughtering must be Muslim. I can see h
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by nathanlied 10y ago
It is, but I don't see why it can't have a different meaning for people on a different technical/theoretical area.
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by nathanlied 10y ago
I'd further elaborate on your answer with: Even if you can only monitor things, instead of directly issuing commands, it's still information you're leaking. Information leaks are still a class of vulnerability for a reason. I
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by nathanlied 10y ago
I agree fully. We need a big, BIG revamp of copyright laws, but that's "The War", this is -a- battle in that war, and in order not to fully alienate the 'other side', we must be aware that large-scale commercial cop
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by nathanlied 10y ago
I've seen that sentiment in a couple of places, and the answer is fairly simple: The first season gave us a show about a heterogeneous team of hackers (plenty of ages, both males and females, different personalities, etc.) trying to &q
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by nathanlied 10y ago
Because if you do that, someone will fork your codebase, and patch it out. Or, failing that, code a new adblocker from scratch, without said feature. If you're talking about giving legal power to websites' ToS to define what softw
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by nathanlied 10y ago
Not all encryption. There is such a thing as self-destructing data/keys. Once it's gone, it cannot be recovered, even if your life is threatened and you really don't want to die. Whether you're willing to go that far for
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by nathanlied 10y ago
I'd wager a driverless car can afford to go a little faster, given its reaction speed is likelier much, much faster than anything a human can put out. In fact, a driverless car may be capable of estimating its own stopping distance giv
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by nathanlied 11y ago
Not all countries would be included there. The US? Russia? North Korea? Sure. Finland? Iceland? Not so much. There is something to be said about a country's foreign policy and how 'arrogant' it is. A country can have a solid
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by nathanlied 11y ago
If the algorithm's nooks and crannies were fully known, website owners could manipulate it to display their results at the top, which may not be in the web's best interest.
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by nathanlied 11y ago
Rules about advertising could just end up like it did in Portugal. ISPs were advertising unlimited data (on fiber/cable), but the small print stated that there was a limit, which was dependent on congestion/etc. Essentially, in an
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by nathanlied 11y ago
Perfectly acceptable. I believe it's within everyone's right to filter what hits their browser (and what their browser gets in the first place) as much as it is the website's right to serve whomever they want. They should att