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by nickodell 9y ago
I don't think it does have a story. Things happen in it, sure, but not for a reason. In one skit, the bad guys bring a tiny shark, then enlarge it with a magic wand. At first, it chases them in a pool, but after they get out, the shark
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by nickodell 9y ago
There are several reasons why that wouldn't make sense. 1. Bitcoin nodes have no special knowledge of transactions. There is nothing that you can get from a subpoena of my Bitcoin node that you cannot get from blockchain.info. 2. Bitco
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by nickodell 9y ago
This is an impressively bad idea. Good work.
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by nickodell 9y ago
Because of fidget spinners and the cloud, got it.
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by nickodell 9y ago
It's annoying that the article doesn't talk about how effective the Center for Disaster Philanthropy is. Sure, the Red Cross has mismanaged stuff, but this new charity could be even worse. All the article tells us is that Facebook
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by nickodell 9y ago
Dunno. They have a white paper, but it's not available unless you provide an email.
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by nickodell 9y ago
I would say that this argues for the opposite - making firmware closed source and as hard to reverse engineer as possible. Let's say that the software is open source, and you can buy your own microcontroller and turn it into an ECU. Th
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by nickodell 9y ago
It has not been passed by both houses. https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/10/...
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by nickodell 9y ago
First Amendment law makes this distinction. https://www.popehat.com/2017/01/25/quick-cheat-sheet-on-firs...
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by nickodell 10y ago
How often do the jlp bytes occur randomly in memory? Is this a pattern that never shows up in x86 assembly?
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by nickodell 10y ago
It's more like DNS using Twilio. It's analogous to Google Voice.
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by nickodell 10y ago
$277 seems suspiciously cheap. A google suggests that should cost $5/sq foot, or $2000 for this house.
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by nickodell 10y ago
This broke apt-get update on my system, by adding an https update method. I assume the author must have apt-transport-https installed, or something.
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by nickodell 10y ago
Most services don't hash the password before sending it to the service, so it's going to pass through the service at some point.
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by nickodell 10y ago
>And "code is law" is not really extendable across society. We have contracts, of course. But almost all contracts include a "Use common sense"-style clause, which is the whole point lawyers and judges exist in the fi
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by nickodell 10y ago
I mean, at least they do it on purpose.
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by nickodell 10y ago
Aren't IOPS incredibly expensive on Glacier? There was that guy who paid $150 for a retrieval. https://medium.com/@karppinen/how-i-ended-up-paying-150-for-...
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by nickodell 10y ago
That's correct. There's one exception to the encryption rule, which is when sending commands to a space station. (That does not allow you to encrypt the responses, though.) See 47 CFR 97.211, https://www.law.cornell.edu
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by nickodell 10y ago
True. But let's say that didn't apply. Would this be harmful interference?
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by nickodell 10y ago
I think this is the exception that swallows the rule. Let's say I observe two ham radio operators having a morse code communication. I decide to stop them from communicating, so I transmit "<callsign 1> QRT DE <callsign 2
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by nickodell 10y ago
Discord/slack isn't federated, is it?
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by nickodell 10y ago
No, I think the author is using the full range of a 32 bit int. So read could be any 32 bit integer, even if the size of the ring is 1. (The trick is that SIZE has to be a power of two, or else when you increment from 2^32-1 to 0, your poin
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by nickodell 10y ago
You can have a discussion about how to implement voter ID without deciding whether it's a good idea overall, or whether it violates the VRA. In fact, most voting machines don't check ID at all; they leave that to the humans. (If t
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by nickodell 10y ago
The EFF is not correctly describing the Rule 41 change. The amendment gives magistrate judges the same power that Article 3 judges already have. Nor is the EFF's position reasonable - suppose you want to search a computer in an unknown
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by nickodell 10y ago
I can see that interpretation, but I don't think that's what he meant. To me, he's saying that those platforms should develop their own systems in a way that's acceptable to them.
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by nickodell 10y ago
Do you mind linking to where Obama said that? The closest I can find is this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-lan... >"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-info
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by nickodell 10y ago
I agree with the proposed remedy, but I wouldn't call this a test of accountability. If NTIA oversight of VeriSign didn't prevent this, I don't see how NTIA oversight of ICANN would.
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by nickodell 10y ago
True, but do you think the average consumer understands the distinction between ad-tracking code inserted by a web host, and ad-tracking code inserted by a broadband provider?
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by nickodell 10y ago
Number 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...
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by nickodell 10y ago
Not without causing the device that receives the updated key prompting about the change.

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