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by rdxm 12y ago
as someone who lived through/participated in phase one of the "ticket disruption" to include secondary markets, i'm skeptical this is relevant and really i think the vc dudes just flushed a bunch of money down the toilet
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by rdxm 12y ago
Privacy is a much larger topic than Google. The point I am making is that it's a bit past disingenuous to hold forth on a topic when you are not an honest broker in the overall topic itself.. Find the down votes interesting though...he
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by rdxm 12y ago
Sorry, but who can take The Guardian, and by extension the NYT seriously while they are sitting on a bunch of the Snowden material? Whining about Google when you are withholding the stuff on privacy that really matters due to a lack of
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by rdxm 12y ago
Does anyone honestly believe that the current administration which has: 1) doubled down on the Bush admins attack on the Fourth Amendment; 2) attacked the 1st Amendment directly (something even Bush/Ashcroft didn't do..) and 3) ru
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by rdxm 12y ago
Seems to me ingesting any chemical compound cooked up in an unknown/uncontrolled environment, whether that enviro is the design or manufacturing side of things makes you an active seeker of the Darwin Award. What's irritating is
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by rdxm 12y ago
yes, there are scenarios where you are limited by the terrain, bad guys, etc w.r.t. routes from the IP to target, and the only way to get suppression onto the necessary locations is shooting over the IP to target route. A10 pilots are bit
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by rdxm 12y ago
it comes down to this: you should be training like you are gonna have to fight (i.e. in real world you won't always have the luxury of having suppression assets perfectly positioned. and yes, I am blowing a little shit at my brothers i
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by rdxm 12y ago
as an Infantry Marine, I can tell you unequivocally that when it comes to fast movers, the A10 is the only platform you really want covering your ass in a tight situation. It is mind blowing to many of us that the USMC didn't buy up
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by rdxm 12y ago
Here's the 64k dollar question. If Snowden hadn't dropped the dime on the douchebaggery going on not just at NSA, but also w.r.t. the complicity/cooperation by all the biggies(Google, FB, MS, etc), would MS be doing this?
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by rdxm 12y ago
One can only hope our friends at UHC are undergoing a proper procto-scoping by the regulators at this point. As for the reporting side of this (note I did not use the word 'Journalism'...)..this is the quality level that has becom
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by rdxm 12y ago
every now and then i go into the library and read a chapter out of my hardcover set of these. my kids do the "geeez dad" thing when i make them sit with me and look at them. classics.. to be sure.... edit: i almost feel like these
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by rdxm 12y ago
holy crap...before everyone spooges all over themselves and this guy mike. might it not be a good idea to step back and understand what it means to turn the ship at the federal level!?!?!?! it's embarrassing enough that someone in the
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by rdxm 12y ago
yes, i know what the acronym is, that was a typo. even if they only are going to function as what's referred to in HIPAA as the "Business Associate" standard, if you really dig into it they'll essentially need the same l
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by rdxm 12y ago
how can you even consider launching a service like this without being fully audited for HIPPA and ISO 27001. all i see on their site is boiler plate sec that in no way addresses the reality of the business domain they want to operate in. yo
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by rdxm 12y ago
Sorry, but I don't see how yet another attempt at an abstraction layer on top of the existing protocol is even remotely interesting. It's time to move on from email as it exists in its current form, and towards a new fundamentally
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by rdxm 13y ago
Ever wonder why there are not 100 different exchanges out there providing services to the equities/options/bond markets??? Simple, it's fairly costly and complicated to 1) meet regulatory requirements, 2) achieve a level of l
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by rdxm 13y ago
too true. i'm being forced to do this to my team at another very large tech company. the large data-set curve approach is completely toxic in small teams that are destroying themselves to meet crazy goals.
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by rdxm 13y ago
The average user has no idea just how broken email is w.r.t. the concept of secure and private communication. Google's entire business is built on this broad ignorance. So for that matter is the the internet ecosystem in general if you
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by rdxm 13y ago
when you run over a pedestrian or cyclist because you are distracted, I suspect the outcome will be significantly more costly, like life-altering. The data on distracted driving is incontrovertible. If you can't bear to be without your
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by rdxm 13y ago
i like this post/article/statement. it reminds me that as technologists we tend to want to reduce things to algorithms. that just doesn't work when you get to aesthetics and the human side of the equation.