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by reeses 13y ago
"PS. Not to mention that Macs ship with broadcom wireless cards these days, which don't have very good linux support." You're saying that OS X has better hardware support than Linux? :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
I'm way ahead of you there.
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by reeses 13y ago
I think he's referring to the artificial security based on swapping SIMs into the same phone, since both can be tracked. In fact, with appropriate metadata[1], this could poison a number of SIMs and phones if they were ever passed b
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by reeses 13y ago
It is significantly more involved (I don't know if I'd say difficult as this is tough to judge) for a PRC citizen to enter HK than it is for, say, a citizen of the USA.
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by reeses 13y ago
Wha? It's been official presidential policy since the first Bush administration and re-asserted under Clinton. http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/pdd39.htm is an example of a presidential directive regarding extr
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by reeses 13y ago
It's annoying when the specialized versions release before the IDEA plugins are tested and released. Reading about the cool new features and not being able to find them in IDEA sucks. :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
As long as it's called Tristero, and the mail transfer boxes are cleverly labeled 'W.A.S.T.E.', I'm all for it.
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by reeses 13y ago
I would prefer not to call it this, merely because the combination of "snowden," "secrets," and "catch-22" really screw up search results.
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by reeses 13y ago
Gah, no one expects Finnegan's Wake. Ulysses (sort of) rewards the patient reader. FW abuses her.
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by reeses 13y ago
That's about when it stops. Once you hit 30, it's all about having enough information to regret everything you ever did in life. Then you just wait to die. Why bother trying to save this mess now?
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by reeses 13y ago
Every time a 'new' president does something that seems completely illegal on a national security matter, I have this little film reel (er, h.264? Youtube video?) that plays in my head. It generally begins in the Movie-Standard hi
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by reeses 13y ago
I also greatly enjoyed the claims that a pre-industrial society's building methods were "greener" than those used on a massive scale today. I think I sprained an eye muscle from the abrupt roll.
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by reeses 13y ago
Or aliens.
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by reeses 13y ago
There's a 'secret' URL in there that anyone able to decrypt the message will be compelled to click on, at which time the creator can claim either to have contacted Snowden, or to have empirical evidence that the NSA can crack
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by reeses 13y ago
Since the head of the NSA is a senior military officer, they are likely to be the most qualified to head the military's computer offense capabilities. Theoretically, there is presidential and congressional oversight to prevent them fro
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by reeses 13y ago
One of the biggest surprises has been the grudging increase in "open" support in web apps with execs and field support staff/salespeople adopting iPads. It's easy enough to tell someone "you can't use Mac/
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by reeses 13y ago
Hah, this shows what you know! If a browser plugin for IE6 causes problems, we just remove more sites from the whitelist on the proxy! You can Google, but you can't follow any of the results. :-)
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by reeses 13y ago
Playing devil's advocate, keep in mind that domestic computer security is part of the NSA's charter. Remember the rainbow books? It would be completely legitimate for MSFT to warn NSA about vulnerabilities in the most common desk
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by reeses 13y ago
If that were the case, we wouldn't have multi-level CPU caches and we really wouldn't care about misses stalling the processor. Everything is RAM speed bound when it comes to CPU and GPU.
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by reeses 13y ago
I was thinking about this as well. It would make sense to cluster these with a front-end node. The improvements to the scheduler, among other things over the past few years, would indicate a simpler way to build the equivalent of a VAXClu
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by reeses 13y ago
The Mac Pro has always been just about the worst platform for CUDA/OpenCL development. Lack of power, hardware driver support, and underperforming GPGPU (especially OpenCL) APIs have made it more of a prototyping environment than a pr
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by reeses 13y ago
That's what happens when you rely on contractors with the lowest bid. Billions in cost overruns and a forgotten schedule.
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by reeses 13y ago
It's not really that important for the CIA. They're pretty pragmatic, mainly because they have a huge hammer for minor offenses. They also believe in their ability to compartmentalize information. Most of the time, when you go t
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by reeses 13y ago
As Facebook, Google, and Yahoo! have demonstrated so far, a company can only make itself look worse by making any statement. Any denial will be rejected as dissembling or sophistry and admissions of complicity would be suicidal.
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by reeses 13y ago
Unfortunately, Oz is one of our spying partners, so your ASIO is probably just annoyed that the NSA can't keep its house in order.
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by reeses 13y ago
I suspect the primary reason we (in the USA) are focusing so much on it is that these are the people appointed, promoted, funded, etc., by people we elected. Some people think that has meaning while many are cynical enough to think that th
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by reeses 13y ago
If the US government were to take action on this, the mostly likely consequence is seizure of the funds. They'd target the site itself, which might give them a list of names (which, at the most, they'd lateral to the IRS for fun)
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by reeses 13y ago
I would never make it out of the house. It would be like contemplating your hand while in an altered state of consciousness. My wife would find me after a week, looking at the p-trap under the kitchen sink, saying,"whoaaaaa..." T
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by reeses 13y ago
It's pretty easy to figure the salary: 1) He's not on the GS schedule because he's a contractor 2) His clearance level 3) He works for one of the big 5 consulting firms that is considerably higher on the list if you rank by g
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by reeses 13y ago
I'm sure an Adwords campaign offering information on FISA would net you some data on who and where requests are being made. It wouldn't be explicit and the people wouldn't have to tell you WHY they are looking for informatio

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