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by robryk 10y ago
This assumes that moral systems that people have are selfconsistent. It's really hard to have a selfconsistent moral system.
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by robryk 10y ago
Does it require you to perform any physical actions on the dongle? If not, why can't I straightforwardly extract keys if I own the machine the dongle is attached to?
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by robryk 10y ago
In many cases you can just shine bright light through the envelope with the letter inside.
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by robryk 10y ago
Nitrokey claims on their homepage that the firmware of the Storage version of NitroKey can be updated by software. This seems to mean that there's someone out there with a key that can sign arbitrary code that can be loaded as an updat
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by robryk 10y ago
I wouldn't use it, but it's still an improvement over unencrypted data. This requires an active attacker to do anything, whereas unencrypted data allows a passive attacker to eavesdrop.
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by robryk 10y ago
For that purpose you'd want to add typos that would be "corrected" into the wrong word by a typical spellchecker or that are actually correct, but atypical in context, words. Otherwise passing the document through a spellchec
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by robryk 10y ago
Size of debris is not that important: lots of small pieces will cause a similar amount of damage as the same mass in a large piece. Two important roles of flight termination are: 1. Cause the rocket to stop thrusting (and thus prevent it fr
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by robryk 10y ago
As my siblings are saying, the same molecule but different concentration. This is the reason why you should handle dynamite in gloves: otherwise you absorb nitroglycerin through skin, lower your BP and faint.
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by robryk 10y ago
Nit: flight termination system does not cause the rocket to magically vanish. It will still continue on its current trajectory and impact Earth somewhere. It just causes the rocket to stop thrusting and, IIRC, disperses the fuel/oxidiz
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by robryk 10y ago
Also, we really don't want to have all the communication satellites to have the same bus, and find out years later that they have some bug that causes them to malfunction after years in orbit.
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by robryk 10y ago
This also detects when the GPS is used. If the phone has GPS and cell radio (for reception and transmission) disabled, it's a lot harder for any malware to figure out its location (not impossible -- there is some research about identif
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by robryk 10y ago
Do you think that there should be a blanket prohibition against causing harm to other people by making false statements, even if the person making the false statement doesn't gain anything by doing that? This would be a stronger prohib
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by robryk 10y ago
Alas, there are significant differences between the Swiss and US one. Most importantly, law in Switzerland specifies exact coverage criteria for basic health insurance and prohibits excluding pre-existing conditions from it. I'm not su
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by robryk 10y ago
What would be the layman-evaluatable criteria for using it on a person with no history of allergy?
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by robryk 10y ago
"Cure for cancer" or "cure for that particular cancer"? First one sounds bizarre (cancer is a set of diseases that are generally similar, but very different in specifics), second is essentially already true for some kind
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by robryk 10y ago
This would require a test that is (a) cheap (so that it can be applied to basically everyone) and (b) has extremely low false positive ratio (because a particular kind of cancer is a rare thing). Repeat for every different kind of cancer. F
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by robryk 10y ago
I wonder how much of that data is downloaded in digital form from somewhere and how much is digitized specifically for this collection (e.g. movies recorded in a cinema, magazines scanned from print, etc.).
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by robryk 10y ago
I've once heard an argument that one of the desirable properties of the legal system is that its decisions, even if bad, are considered as final by everyone. This sounds kinda similarly.
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by robryk 10y ago
This depends on the throughput of spamming that's going on. The throughput can be quite large if there's a significant amount of people cooperating. Also, this means that admins have to spend a nontrivial amount of time on such wo
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by robryk 10y ago
Disclaimer: I know noting about this particular case. It is possible to fool FB into removing a page or some content. One way that is sometimes attempted (with some success) is to spam the comments on the page with objectionable content (ho
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by robryk 10y ago
And yet we make the actual prison experience worse than how it is perceived by a typical person.
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by robryk 10y ago
> (...) non-lock-in alternatives (...) There is an opensource reimplementation of App Engine's interface. That said, I have no clue about its completeness or buglessness. https://github.com/AppScale/appscale
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by robryk 10y ago
If you need to cause glitches in a few precisely chosen moments in time, while _not_ causing glitches in some other moments in time between the former, it gets a lot harder. It gets even harder if the response to a wrong sequence of glitche
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by robryk 10y ago
See http://hackingdistributed.com/2016/02/26/how-to-implement-se... for a write-up on (I think) the exact thing you propose.
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by robryk 10y ago
When that person goes to the cold storage wallet, the only trustworthy information they have (assuming compomise of the online system) is how much money they are transferring. This means that this arrangement succeeds at making a trustworth
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by robryk 10y ago
Is it still an independent third party if they chose her and are paying her? This is normally enough to say that she has a conflict of interest.
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by robryk 10y ago
OTOH it's much better if you're authorizing single operations. My bank in Poland has a scheme where it sends me a one time password together with some details on every mutating operation I do (e.g. on a transfer it sends the amoun
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by robryk 10y ago
> He didn't live there for decades unlike his neighbors. How is the length of time one owns some land relevant?
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by robryk 10y ago
Did the study involve a control, in which the man himself wouldn't be aware if the gun could be fired? There are many silly side channels that could have been used by the crows (related e.g. to preparing the gun to be disabled or enabl
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by robryk 10y ago
What was gained by regular nickname changes?

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