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by poet 16y ago
Google's CEO doesn't think pilotless planes are possible by 2030: http://www.longbets.org/4 . Part of his reasoning: the FAA changes so slowly that if this were even all possible, the adoption and certification would all take at least 50
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by poet 16y ago
Supporting privacy is one thing and I'm appreciative of Google's stance. But when we're talking about personally identifiable information we're talking about a binary. Either you're personally identifiable from the data being stored or you'
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by poet 16y ago
A link to the actual paper for those interested: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/hits09/jain-ji-upadhay-watro... .
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by poet 16y ago
The value of a copyright isn't really part of the equation though (I know this is orthogonal to your point). From the Constitution (emphasis mine): "[Congress shall have the power] to promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts , b
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by poet 16y ago
No idea why this comment has so many upvotes. This is an awful comment because literally every single point in it is factually incorrect. > Unix was designed from the start to run multi-user environments, whereas Windows grew out of D
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by poet 16y ago
That testing is only worthwhile if your threat model does not include the government itself, which has a vested interest in breaking all encryption, whether or not it has been "certified" by them. The government also has a vested intrest
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by poet 16y ago
How about a third option: they use a method of communication that wont get them killed. You're presenting a false dichotomy.
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by poet 16y ago
Do you avoid software like FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and all other software that fits the criteria of your post? Point is, you have shitty reasons and probably aren't consistant in your application of them. Government funding and a commit
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by poet 16y ago
I don't know where you got the idea that nation states are the only ones who use cryptography. Plenty of activists, along with other non-state actors do so all the time. We're not talking about users, we're talking about attackers and dev
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by poet 16y ago
Nope. If the trustworthiness of all browsers was zero, people would do their banking in person. You're trying to get away with arguing only the relative and not absolute trust of browsers is the only thing that matters. Not gonna happen.
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by poet 16y ago
The difference is that with cryptography the actors are nation states v. nation states. With steganography the actors are activists v. nation states. Also, what makes you think activists have the technical expertise available to know what t
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by poet 16y ago
A comprised web browser or operating system gives the attacker your email credentials, which by proxy gives them the rest of your life. You're trying to argue that an untrustworthy browser/OS is not as significant as an untrustworthy Tor.
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by poet 16y ago
Stealth circumvention tools are even harder to write than just plain old circumvention tools, which we already are struggling with. It's a disaster waiting to happen. See Haystack and this comment by Thomas: http://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by poet 16y ago
Strongly disagree with (2). I use Tor because anonymous communication is essential in a democratic society. This has been known since the Federalist Papers were published anonymously in 1787-1788 [1] and has been constantly reaffirmed by ou
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by poet 16y ago
Sorry, just saw this reply. One this is that professors will be pretty forgiving if you fail. Just show that you are working really hard and people will understand if you over extend yourself. That type of flexibility goes away in grad scho
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by poet 16y ago
It's shit like this Zed... Two basic claims: Tor is tainted because (1) the concepts the software is based on were developed with partial funding from the military and (2) Zed thinks one of the committers is untrustworthy. Guess what? That
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by poet 16y ago
A recent ruling in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that the government must get a warrant to read stored emails [1]. The opinion was in large part based on the "fundamental similarities between email and traditional forms of communi
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by poet 16y ago
Wrong tax cut: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html .
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by poet 16y ago
Awful, awful manipulation of statistics. I'm not even sure what subcategory of military spending Military Construction represents. How about we just consider all defense related expenditures instead of just the slice that fits your preconce
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by poet 16y ago
Patently false. Gates introduced these changes in April of 2009: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/06/gates.budget.cuts/ind... . I'd be interested in any sort of proof that Gates was working on changes like this during the Bush years, be
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by poet 16y ago
0.) Dude, wrong tax cut: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html . You'll laugh when you read the article, you're way off base here. 1.) Agreed. 2.) Agreed. 3.) Agreed. 4.) Strongly agreed. 5.) Disagree. Marriage is not
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by poet 16y ago
What, like the fact that he didn't replace Gates like had been done with almost every single Secretary Of Defense in the past? Note how in recent years new presidents typically have appointed a new SoD [1]. Not replacing Gates was a de
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by poet 16y ago
Let's lump (2), (3) and (6) under a category of idealogical disagreement. I think if you believed in the ideology behind them you would agree these steps represent concrete progress being made. Although I will say you're objections to (6) d
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by poet 16y ago
Of all the things to pick, you picked accountability and the reduction of the MIC as points of criticism?! I wonder what you think about Obama's Secretary of Defense, who is one of the most fiscally conservative SoDs in recent history, push
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by poet 16y ago
Right... 0.) Cut taxes for 95% of America (EDIT: not referring to the most recent tax legislation... these are tax cuts Obama passed a while ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/us/politics/19taxes.html . They truly are the tax cuts no o
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by poet 16y ago
If so than they can anonymously leak their identity themselves. It's still not necessary to have someone else do it for them.
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by poet 16y ago
Recent comment by PG on the outing of startups who anonymously post jobs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022335 . In my eyes such a thing falls in the "not-unethical-but-something-you-shouldn't-do" category. There's nothing strictly
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by poet 16y ago
all the founding fathers thought a Christian religious foundation was essential to such a system working What? You're misinformed. Adams didn't believe that for one. A quote from the Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the Senate in 1797 and s
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by poet 16y ago
Pinboard is a service I've been wanting to purchase for years, but I never have because of how I've seen pvg (one of the founders) act on HN. The anti-hive mind attitude is desperately needed, but it's not a blanket license to disagree with
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by poet 16y ago
The text is not online as far as I know. It's available here for like $10 shipped: http://www.pendlehill.org/bookstore?page=shop.product_detail... . That's where I got my copy. It was republished in a collection of essays in 1971, so imagi

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