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by nixos 10y ago
>engineering a secure Internet voting system which maintains these attributes is a difficult problem. It's not a hard problem, it's an _impossible_ problem. If there's any security hole between the BIOS, CPU, firmware, OS,
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by nixos 10y ago
How? Do you log in? If you do, how do you prevent tracking/logging?
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by nixos 10y ago
It does. The article says that you can always cancel your vote later. So vote pro-flowers in front of husband, and then change your vote on your cellphone or in the library
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by nixos 10y ago
My fear is that: 1. _Right now_, I don't know how many nation states are trying to hack the election in Estonia. I know of quite a few who would be more than happy to do so in the US. And while it's true you can send spies... it&#
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by nixos 10y ago
It does. One can drop by the next day and vote for someone else (and the last vote wins over earlier, and physical voting overrides e-voting). However, it still requires that people "undo" their vote. I can imagine that a large pe
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by nixos 10y ago
Again Google is shooting themselves in the foot. Google Fiber, like Android, is a moonshot to keep their line of business alive. Failure doesn't mean that Google doesn't profit off a new line of business. Failure means that Google
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by nixos 10y ago
>Or if it lands they can say "see? we learned to land with the crashed Schiaparelli, so it was good sending it in the first place" Failures may not be bad, but they're still failures. Apollo 1 was a failure. Sure, it helpe
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by nixos 10y ago
Yes, the point wasn't the lander but the _landing_ . If the landing works, they can try an expensive rover in 2020. Now, they can fix what they think broke, but they're never sure until it (fails to) land.
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by nixos 10y ago
Which is mostly root. Rootless containers are still not widely deployed
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by nixos 10y ago
sshd can have vulnerabilities which port-knocking can (temporarily) block.
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by nixos 10y ago
>This assertion confuses me. I suspect that you're confusing fail2ban and port-knocking (or using fail2ban as a port-knocker). The point of fail2ban is to prevent an attacker from brute-forcing your server. In a key-only config, the
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by nixos 10y ago
> though I believe that's available only on desktop operating systems. And on Android (where you set up the password manager as a custom keyboard), and possibly an iPhone
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by nixos 10y ago
I find it interesting that the US produces world class universities (Caltech, MIT, Stanford), and the proof is that (good) international students are dying to get in, while elementary schools average around 25th in the world
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by nixos 10y ago
Are you permitted to counter-sue if FB trolls _you_?
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by nixos 10y ago
While I mentioned the NSA, really the bigger threat is a guy (or hacker group) who wants to pull off a million dollar heist. The NSA can get into (practically) anything and everything. To get a job at MS, you have to have a real life repu
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by nixos 10y ago
The problem is getting a bad actor into a large community is quite easy if funds aren't an issue. You think the NSA (or FSB, or whatever) can't pay for someone to maintain nginx or apache?
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by nixos 10y ago
But at least we'll know _something_ about operating a self-sufficient colony. What will happen if on landing on Mars, we find that the Oxygen cycle isn't good enough, or that plants don't grow, or ...
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by nixos 10y ago
I don't think people realize just how _bad_ is Mars. When scientists talk about "water on Mars", they think they've found a river. When they hear how far it is, they think it's only twice as far as the moon. It even
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by nixos 10y ago
That's why I said "thermodynamic-ally speaking". Not practically.
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by nixos 10y ago
> Not to mention that voting isn't mandatory. Australia solved both of those problems with a preferential, mandatory voting system How will that stop corruption? Presumably, when someone is being dragged to vote, he'll vote for
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by nixos 10y ago
I don't know if it's just me, but these days instead of seeing inane photos of my friends, all I see are photo's my friends liked (especially if they have 1.5k other likes). I don't "like" anything on fb so it&
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by nixos 10y ago
>Also, once autonomous cars are plentiful and transportation is dirt cheap Why do you think it's going to be dirt cheap? I expect it's going to be half of an Uber ride, but not much less.
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by nixos 10y ago
We can (thermodynamic ally speaking) make a huge radiator going from the earth to the moon, warming up the moon and cooling off earth. Will it happen in 5 (or 500) years? Probably not, but it's not an entropy issue.
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by nixos 10y ago
Earth isn't a closed system
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by nixos 10y ago
>reasonable default governance framework Why do you need one? What will happen if you just build a community around github (especially an Apache-licensed project which doesn't have licencing enforcement issues found in copyleft code
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by nixos 10y ago
>It's hard to make a case against Bill Gates being a massive player in the astounding success of personal computing without delving deeply into emotional reasoning The only thing he really did was not get in the way of making billio
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by nixos 10y ago
Can you please explain the purpose behind ASF? Back in the day, providing hosting space was really a big deal, but nowadays, with GitHub, GitLab, or SF, why put a project on the ASF rather than just dump the code to GiHub with an Apache lic
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by nixos 10y ago
> I doubt that it would happen given that Microsoft's modus operandi is to make as much money as possible by trying to lock people into their products, with Windows being the primary product on which they want people to be dependent
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by nixos 10y ago
How much of it was Gates, and how much of it was IBM and their allowing IBM-compatible hardware?
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by nixos 10y ago
> This is what a reliable system looks like. Unlike SpaceX, BO doesn't publicize things as they happen, so it could have been the third attempt also. Though having more money to play before launching commercial sats helps

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