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by rotrux 9y ago
Well thanks for being polite about it. I lost like 10 points over this lil' tidbit so point taken. I promise to try.
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by rotrux 9y ago
IMO: Geopolitically/economically, Canada should be thought of as America...'cept there are less repercussions 'bout posturing & the Arctic.
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by rotrux 9y ago
I know we're talking about European demand-allocation, but check out what our little-brother to the north is up to: https://www.neb-one.gc.ca/nrg/ntgrtd/ftr/archive/2011/index-...
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by rotrux 9y ago
> ~ Anticipated A's ~ > YES. IT'S LIKE THE MATRIX BUT INSTEAD OF ROBOTS IT'Z LIZARD PEOPLE. > THIS ISN'T A QUESTION BUT GOOD POINT. WE R BEGINNING THE MOVE UNDERGROUND.
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by rotrux 9y ago
Phooey & patooh! Obv the internet population doesn't know what's good for them. Politicians are WAAAAAY smarter than normal people. Everyone knows this. One must simply route their VPN traffic through Eritrea => Thailand =&
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by rotrux 9y ago
IMPORTANT: The date of disclosure is ALSO the date that demand for hacked data explodes. It's good practice to have a staged-disclosure procedure for leaks of this nature. For example: your bank should be told to start fine-tuning its
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by rotrux 9y ago
Oh but don't worry! As soon as someone breaks www.cookbooksRus.com's "Encrypted Media Extensions," you or someone totally benevolent will be able to help render ANYONE's www.cookbooksRus.com browser-experience! Serv
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by rotrux 9y ago
Several small devices with low-powered microwave-beams might be able to do interesting things at beam-intersection points: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
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by rotrux 9y ago
They're based in Russia which obviously says a lot without needing to go into more specifics. They still do good work though, they're one of the most respected disclosure-publishers in the world. I do wonder "why now?"
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by rotrux 9y ago
there are about 20 multi-hour pluralsight courses for free here. There's also no signup necessary...you just click on the link and a traditionally $30 course begins. I'm kind of taken aback that this exists.
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by rotrux 9y ago
I'm not sure I'm a fan of all of the evaluation-criteria. Specifically the 1st one: "High Level: A good FPL should not have constructs that concern machine internals and possess no semantic value[18]" This is a subjectiv
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Free Azure Pluralsight Courses(azure.microsoft.com)
2 points by rotrux 9y ago|1 comments
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by rotrux 9y ago
We're all screwed. But at least we're all screwed together!
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by rotrux 9y ago
Really good read; I especially like: "With written content, we instinctively frame our engagement in terms of the individual behind the content rather than the content itself. And I think this is the reason behind much of the undesirab
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by rotrux 9y ago
So one thing I do like about the landing page is how it shows the constant activity on the website. But oh how treacherous & subtle an art it is catering to the lizard-brain! Imagine blackjack, but where 17, 18, 19, & 20 are all bus
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by rotrux 9y ago
I think I see the points that both @_aaya & @adventured are trying to make.(Either of you guys please correct my recapitulations if I misunderstood.) I think @_aaya is saying that: while the initial landing may be intimidating for any g
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by rotrux 9y ago
This was an unfortunate experience despite having potential. Great example of the 2-sided nature of mass-anonymity.
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by rotrux 9y ago
"...because I'll start reading the search results, then based on this come up with a new query and start typing it..." This is a great example of how, from an ML/NLP standpoint, Instant-Search promoted confirmation-bias.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to set up secure bare-metal IaaS in the cloud?
2 points by rotrux 10y ago|0 comments
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AT&T Claims Breakthrough in Multi-Gigabit Broadband(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by rotrux 10y ago|0 comments
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Ted Cruz Spearheading Movement to Keep the Internet American(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by rotrux 10y ago|0 comments
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by rotrux 10y ago
Am I correct in assuming that this paradigm would make it possible for hardware to, via encryption, arbitrarily segment/obfuscate any of the software sitting on top of it?
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by rotrux 10y ago
For those of you worried about your aws workloads, this may help make ya feel a (slight) bit better. https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=739485&t...
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Buddhist Opinions on Virtual Reality(buddhism.stackexchange.com)
2 points by rotrux 10y ago|0 comments
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by rotrux 10y ago
I put "Stanford Research Park's* Kestrel...:" I was being a bit of a click-wh*re (-_-) oops.
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Projects at Kestrel Institute(kestrel.edu)
33 points by rotrux 10y ago|3 comments
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by rotrux 10y ago
Thank you! Terrific response.
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by rotrux 10y ago
I wasn't, but kudos on the research! That was me giving my actual, relatively uneducated, position. Don't worry, I was corrected quickly. I misunderstood the nature of the exploit. I thought it was intrinsic to the way tor works,
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Why does playing devil's advocate loose you HN karma?
5 points by rotrux 10y ago|7 comments
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by rotrux 10y ago
I remember reading an doctoral paper from MIT about it, and the general principal involved a combination of large swaths of man-in-the-middle tor nodes, combined with algorithms resembling physics formulas which use statistical mechanics to

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