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by phkamp 10y ago
You should study the history of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems, and you will find that for the longest time nobody wanted them, because that would force the enemy to attack before they were completed. Never build more formidable wea
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by phkamp 10y ago
I'm pretty sure that both former slaves, women and most recently nonheteronormative lovers would disagree that there is "no precedent for political engagement actually helping". That is the only way human rights have ever bee
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by phkamp 10y ago
The (only) solution is for people to care about quality in computing. There's still too much money to be made on kludges for that to happen.
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by phkamp 10y ago
(Author of the essay here) It is discussions like this which make me truly admire Douglas Adams for his insights and ability to express them. For instance, when I read through the debate here, I can't help notice how many of the argume
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by phkamp 10y ago
The alternative ? You could start out removing the autocrap checks for <sys/stat.h> and <stdlib.h>. Then you could eliminate all the other autocrap checks which come out one and the same way on every single OS in existence.
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by phkamp 10y ago
I think you misunderstand my essay. Yes, autoconf was clearly a response to the incompetence of the UNIX industry, were everybody thought they could become Da Man over everybody else. But that doesn't mean that it was the right solutio
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by phkamp 10y ago
For everybody ? No. But some minority have to take the open SOURCE seriously, if we want it to actually work. I'm part of that minority.
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by phkamp 11y ago
The fact that Apple indicates that they would be able to produce such a software version is in itself a backdoor in the iPhone.
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by phkamp 11y ago
Yes.
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by phkamp 11y ago
Varnish author here. I'm several sets of information short of being able to say anything particularly precise about their results. Their diagnosis is very detailed and useful, but I think the main thing we can learn from it is that the
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by phkamp 11y ago
I don't think anybody doubted they would sign something in Paris, and that is baked in, but the actual content wasn't known until after market close on friday. Professional traders will have diversified away from fossil stocks d
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by phkamp 11y ago
We'll see on monday when the stock exchanges open if this agreement actually matters. If Oil/Coal companies tank: Yes If not: No Always follow the money.
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by phkamp 11y ago
Given the fate of TLS3 I really don't see that as much of an endorsement ? The NSA leadership would be utterly incompetent if they have not planted people in the FOSS world. (I gave a talk about that, google "Operation Orchestra
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by phkamp 11y ago
That is exactly how it was done during the 1960'ies: The duration of atomic seconds varied from year to year and it proved utterly unworkable for everybody.
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by phkamp 11y ago
They are very low (motor) power, so they need to run often, in order for the grass not to grow too tall. Here in Denmark they usually run at least three times a week, but very often every day of the week. How many hours they run each time d
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by phkamp 11y ago
Don't worry about what I can do to mitigate my problem, I have the electronic and RF skills+kit to deal with this. My point is that John F. Consumer will likely conclude that his "radio controlled clock" is dying, throw it
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by phkamp 11y ago
That was mostly because the were (perceived to be) an economic threat to some very big industries, it had very little to do with electro-magnetic radiation.
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by phkamp 11y ago
It is not obvious to me that emission limits are being exceeded here, and I don't have a calibrated antenna which would allow me to decide one way or another. But even if emission limits are not exceeded VLF-based radio-clocks near the
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by phkamp 11y ago
You should have bought a "Rugby" clock in England. Many of these clocks come in four different versions: Japan, Europe, UK and USA, depending on which signal they use (JFY, DCF77, Rugby, WWVB) DCF77 works OK in Denmark, provided
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by phkamp 11y ago
DCF77 is indeed not a protected broadcast in denmark, despite the fact that an awfull lot of public infrastructure uses it for timekeeping.
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by phkamp 11y ago
The modulation type for the lawn-mower is digital current pulses with no bandwidth limiting, as is obvious from the scope signal I conveniently included for your and everybody elses information. As for what exactly goes wrong with DCF77, th
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by phkamp 11y ago
And you think NSA with their enormous budget and a mandate to collect "everything" looks askance at the CA's and go "Nope!" ? Really ? How many of the root-certs that are in your browser by default do you actually t
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by phkamp 11y ago
So what you're saying is that because you disagree with me, I'm a terrible person ? Needless to say, I don't agree.
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by phkamp 11y ago
How many mentions do companies get in national constitutions ? They're not mentioned one single time in the US or the Danish Constitutions, yet, both countries they more or less run government now. UN's human rights don't men
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by phkamp 11y ago
Right now, the biggest problem is the unlimited invasion of privacy done by transnational companies accountable to nobody. NSA could, in theory, be reigned in by the government, but nobody in the world has the power to stop the transnationa
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by phkamp 11y ago
So we have established that your factual knowledge of varnish is severely lacking (and/or skewed) and now you just demonstrated that you have no idea who you are lambasting either. Let me know if you ever want to have a fact-based disc
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by phkamp 11y ago
HTTPS doesn't provide authentication. It only communicates authentication, and that is from the untrustworthy and widely trojned CA-concept, which is as broken as it almost can be. There are other, far better authentication methods
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by phkamp 11y ago
"Should we use HTTPS" is very much a closed question, and for a lot of sites the answer is a resounding "NO". The fact that you might not use those sites doesn't mean that we who deliver tools for them can just igno
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by phkamp 11y ago
I have a really hard time following your argumentation, because it seems to have very little to do with both reality and what I wrote. What I did WRT moving people closer to the finish line was to implement the PROXY protocol, so that using
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by phkamp 11y ago
Right, so when you're guest at a company you have to install their CERT on your device to use their guest-wlan ? If you're an employee you have to put the company CERT on your smartphone ? How does that improve your security ?

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