sho

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1921.
by sho 18y ago
Oops. Seems I erred a bit there - I was trying to make a general point but dirtied it up by applying it to you personally, and in error, obviously. In my defense, I did say "if he finds that site offensive in some way". Re-reading your blog
1922.
by sho 18y ago
It depends on who you're trying to protect against. I immediately assumed the government trying to find out who searched for $STRING, implying they have full access to everything else as well. Seeing that you have the hashed IPs, I assumed
1923.
by sho 18y ago
Well, I agree, but I don't think he meant Manna to be taken as a realistic story - more like a hypothetical exploration of extreme best-case and worst-case scenarios. I found it pretty interesting and certainly thought-provoking. I'd need a
1924.
by sho 18y ago
Amen. Proper computer vision would revolutionise .. well, an awful lot of things. Let's just hope it doesn't turn out like Manna, though .. http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
1925.
by sho 18y ago
Huh? Hashing an IP address protects anonymity? Against who? You do realise an IP address is 4 bytes? You could brute force guess the thing in a few minutes, and generate a rainbow table for the whole possible set in an hour or two, much les
1926.
by sho 18y ago
"But in their eyes, it was a valuable use of their time to harrass a 20yo girl" Ah, out comes the "girl card". I instantly understand why you were trolled, then. Demanding special treatment because of gender or race is an excellent way to i
1927.
by sho 18y ago
I would advise that unless you have a very good reason to not use it, you should go with Passenger. It's way simpler to set up, less moving parts, and you don't have to worry about monitoring mongrel, configuring proxies, and all that junk.
1928.
by sho 18y ago
Good point. It would be pretty hard to imagine a popular line of jokes based around images of things succeeding. But that's just an unusually pure case of a general rule, I think. Maybe I'm unwittingly biased but almost all the jokes I hear
1929.
by sho 18y ago
There's a sliding scale between being the type of idiot child who thinks that anything at all, no matter how obnoxious, is funny, and being a boring goody-two-shoes who can't take even the slightest joke. Mr. Cangiano seems to self-identify
1930.
by sho 18y ago
IMO, the core problem is that our whole concept of humour revolves around negativity.