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by sigmar 9y ago
The GFS model has been embarrassingly bad in comparison to Europe's ECMWF models. Here's to hoping it will be more competitive in 2019.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>There's no point adding another padlock to the outside wall of Fort Knox. Strongly disagree. No single defense measure is infallible and defense in depth has proven one of the most important topics in computer security.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Anyone that thinks ISPs don't mess with traffic, should check out this malware research https://www.virusbulletin.com/conference/vb2017/abstracts/la...
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by sigmar 9y ago
I've had JS off for non-TLS sites for a while. Any site that wants to run JS should have the chops to know how to set up a cert. and my machine shouldn't be running JS that could have been MiTM'd
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by sigmar 9y ago
2007 budget gets passed in 2006 though.
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by sigmar 9y ago
I think Title II is a fine solution (why shouldn't internet be a utility?). There are a ridiculous amount of people in these comments that are trying to thread the needle between "I support NN," but saying "it is fine th
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by sigmar 9y ago
>The program morphed to the infamous bread and circuses, subsidizing a city of a million people that ultimately collapsed. Rome did not collapse because of UBI, if that is what you are suggesting.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>because the apps that I use more often are "free" Can you imagine that these apps being zero-rated might make it less likely you'll try competing services (that aren't zero-rated)? I understand that it seems like &qu
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Often I wonder if Apple has any security people at all. It just feels like they don't since they don't let their security people have social media presences. For example, their recent hire Jonathan Zdziarski
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by sigmar 9y ago
Flagship Androids definitely have low margins (relative to iPhones). Largely because of a lack of vertical integration and the need to compete against other brands in a heavily saturated market.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Right, high cost is not mutually exclusive of having thin margins.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Read Tim Wu's recent piece. There absolutely will be legal challenges due to the process that has occurred. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/opinion/courts-net-neutra...
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by sigmar 9y ago
>The iPhone X is such a bold step forward What is "bold" about it, specifically?
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by sigmar 9y ago
One of the journalists of this AP piece (Satter) also wrote a medium post containing a short Q&A about the "notification gap... between what’s known privately about cyberespionage and what’s said publicly" https://m
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by sigmar 9y ago
Do others read this as an indication AG Schneidermann is getting ready to sue the FCC to get info on the fake comments?
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by sigmar 9y ago
There are absolutely people in their 70s and unhealthy that commit acts of sexual harassment and statutory rape. You have no concerns that there will be more victims? >Then his eyes lit up and he asked me, "Did we work out?" ^
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by sigmar 9y ago
>* iMessage still uses end-to-end encryption for messages in China. Do you think Apple would refuse to swap out the public keys if ordered to by the government? Have you ever wondered why iMessage doesn't allow out-of-band key verif
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by sigmar 9y ago
Mods changed the article title from "A new study shows how little tax the super-rich pay". "The often used counter argument is that top 1% pays almost 50% of total federal income tax." But ^ is a discussion of "how
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by sigmar 9y ago
This article is about tax evasion in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Very little to do with US tax policy. It helps to click before commenting.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Good riddance. It had low adoption and pales in comparison to what will be achieved with Certificate Transparency. DNS redirect attacks (common/easy due to social engr) combined with malicious HPKP could result in some nasty ransoming
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by sigmar 9y ago
I used it for SSH and scripts like youtube-dl. Also for the short time that I played Pokemon Go, I deployed a flask server (to track pokemon overlayed on gmaps) in termux and accessed it from Android's browser. It was sweet.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Also like in Duolingo, where you pay 2 "lingots" to place a double-or-nothing bet that you will practice every day for the next week. Most of the time I bet even though I know I'm likely to lose the bet, since it is slightly
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by sigmar 9y ago
Huge fan of LineageOS, but this isn't a great comparison. While Google probably found out about Krack earlier than the Lineage team. They aren't going to break their normal monthly security release schedule for it.
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by sigmar 9y ago
How about the SEC opens an investigation into whether Twitter is defrauding investors/advertisers by including bot accounts in user metrics? Or is that too hard to prove?
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by sigmar 9y ago
To the generations that traveled the world on boats, constructing flying machines that move faster (and required more tech/maintenance) also probably seemed like an unknown of whether it would be prohibitively expensive or not. I'
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by sigmar 9y ago
>so putting them in a low-pressure tunnel is not a major revolution. >evacuated train tunnel with air or magnetic tracks does not require new science. The hard part is evolving the tech to be reliable and cheap so that people will use
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by sigmar 9y ago
Though "4" doesn't scale well for small transactions. I'm not going to sue the 200 individuals that purchased $25 of water and aren't returning my calls.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Odd that there wouldn't be a public explanation for this. Poking through board_config I found support for the A10X (T8011), and for the three Apple Watch chips, but not for the new A11 SoC (T8015).
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by sigmar 9y ago
Looking at how the current share structure works[1], it seems possible that he knows some Class B will be sold to someone new and his % of vote control will go up. At least that's my speculation. Following this to a crazy extreme (to m
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by sigmar 9y ago
>The attack vector used in this incident occurred through a vulnerability in Apache Struts (CVE-2017-5638), an open-source application framework that supports the Equifax online dispute portal web application. https://www.equi

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