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by nknight 14y ago
That's only partly true. As I recall, he exercised a substantial option (~100 million shares or something like that), half of which were non-qualified and are immediately taxed as ordinary income, so he's got a big tax bill coming and proba
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by nknight 14y ago
If you're having this kind of problem a lot, now might be an excellent time to start using a lint tool in your development process. It'll catch these things.
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by nknight 14y ago
I have, but it was a patched version. I think there's a sense, which I generally agree with, that random applications asking for your password is something we don't want users to get used to.
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by nknight 14y ago
> blowing up their first three Falcon 1 flights Only the first flight did anything close to "blow up", and the payload was recovered largely structurally intact (sensitive components irreparable). It would almost certainly have been s
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by nknight 14y ago
You don't need to. Groupon's business model was ridiculous from the beginning, and they actively engaged in attempts to manipulate their earnings numbers. Facebook's model is fundamentally unremarkable and quite similar to a number of other
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by nknight 14y ago
Two different issues got mixed together here, and I wasn't good at distinguishing them in my comments. It should take five minutes for them to learn the basics of public key crypto so that their eyes don't glaze over when you say "public ke
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by nknight 14y ago
I'm angry at willful ignorance and attempts to justify it. I truly, TRULY have no problem with making key generation push-button. I really don't. I have a very BIG problem with people who don't understand it pushing that button. But you're
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by nknight 14y ago
> The installer keeps failing for some unexplainable reason. Not a problem following the instructions -- such a failure is clearly outside their scope. You also conveniently ignore the reality that if they don't have permissions to in
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by nknight 14y ago
It tells you to back them up, that makes it an inconvenience in the worst case, not dangerous. More fundamentally, you had SSH keys and no understanding of what they were for? Sorry, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. You are choos
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by nknight 14y ago
> They don't know, or care what a fingerprint is. Then they cannot use the system safely and should walk away. > I still have no idea what the 'randomart' images are about. First result for "ssh randomart" in Google: http://sup
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by nknight 14y ago
All sorts of things can be done without any user intervention, but if the user doesn't understand how it works, they can't use it safely, and they are a danger to themselves and those around them. One can perform the act of driving a car wi
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by nknight 14y ago
It's a detailed exploration of git object signing. It's not trying to describe a "ground-shaking vulnerability". There is a current, known issue with display of git signature verifications, and he's including it in his article. That's not
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by nknight 14y ago
Corporate networks get broken into all the time. Any machine that a copy of the repository is stored on is a potential attack vector. Various strategies are used to specifically protect all kinds of sensitive systems far beyond simple netwo
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by nknight 14y ago
This is why you protect it with a passphrase, which SSH asks you to do by default . Choose a good passphrase, it's encrypted on disk, and decrypted only as needed. Seriously guys, you're not even trying. Here are the instructions everyone
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by nknight 14y ago
http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ Please, bring me someone who actually had trouble with those instructions, and not because they freaked out at the first sign of a command line. They must have actually read them, including the exp
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by nknight 14y ago
> just plain forgetting to [lock] you PC when you go to the toilet You're not even trying. Physical access, game over, the lock is irrelevant. You fear what you don't understand, and you don't understand because you're afraid to learn
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by nknight 14y ago
There is no UX issue, it's entirely an irrational fear of having to read. Putting it in a GUI accomplishes nothing but clutter the screen with irrelevant crap. nknight@unassigned-hostname:~$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "foo@example.com"
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by nknight 14y ago
It seems like they're using the iPhone for pretty much all intelligence, which makes sense. Custom embedded systems are non-trivial to design, manufacture, and bootstrap software for (I've been involved in some capacity with several). You'd
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by nknight 14y ago
At least on the prototypes they're showing, that whole panel appears to easily unscrew. I could see it possibly being practical to replace with a more accommodating piece for a few tens of dollars.
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by nknight 14y ago
I think that tries to draw too bright a line between theory and experiment. If you view a theory as human understanding of reality, the only reason an experiment would be fundamentally flawed (as opposed to forgetting to carry the 2) is if
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by nknight 14y ago
It'd be remarkably impressive if it was a new video, considering Feynman's been dead 24 years.
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by nknight 14y ago
Here's the fundamental problem. If you can't understand very basic security tools and concepts, you cannot securely operate a computer, much less hope to ever write secure code. SSH is one of the easiest security tools to use safely that ha
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by nknight 14y ago
It's not insulting to point out that the instructions are very simple, easy to follow, and easy to understand. Everyone here is smart enough to understand these things, and it's utterly bewildering that they angrily refuse to spend 5 minute
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by nknight 14y ago
No, he isn't, and the relevant Wikipedia article is very poorly written. PKI is a highly generic term. Webs of trust are just as much a PKI as a certificate-based system. Everything you've said in this thread has been bang-on, and the repli
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by nknight 14y ago
But why would you be looking at the iPhone screen other than when interacting with it using said hand?
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by nknight 14y ago
While more money is at stake, I'd say the risk is actually substantially lower unless they're lying about everything (I have no reason to believe they are). These guys aren't totally green, they have multiple working prototypes/pilots, the
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by nknight 14y ago
In areas of tort liability, it's routine for there to be a determination that party A is liable for X%, B is liable for Y%, etc.. Historically, I don't think this would come up as much in copyright law. General torts often involve a conflue
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by nknight 14y ago
I don't actively use any git GUI client, but my reaction is to the style in general rather than anything git-specific. I don't claim to be a design guru, but it looks like somebody was going for minimalism, but used a nuke instead of a scal
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by nknight 14y ago
Are you serious? I ask this out of genuine ignorance, knowing only a little of what has gone on in the Windows world the last ~4 years. This is what Windows 8 apps are supposed to look like?
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by nknight 14y ago
In my mind, LiveJournal (April 1999) is the first really successful "social network". And as far as I can tell, it's the oldest one of any particular significance that still operates.

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