smtddr

41 ms·

331.
by smtddr 12y ago
>> Don't be stupid, I'm not complaining about racism. But earlier you said: >>It'd be really interesting to find out the correlation between the users who down-voted and the color of their skin. I am pretty sur
332.
by smtddr 12y ago
Because giving a medicine, untested on humans, to an African during this time of panic and mistrust (justified, to be sure) is a ridiculous risk. Role a dice to see if you can save Dr.Khan. - If it works[<50%], awesome he lives and they
333.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>It'd be really interesting to find out the correlation between the users who down-voted and the color of their skin. I am pretty sure about the outcome. I downvoted you and I'm first-gen Nigerian in America. Just about e
334.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>That's why I don't like 2FA with SMS. How can you trust a password that's send in clear through multiple carrier. Hmm, maybe websites should allow people to select an "encryption" format for the SMS. Somet
335.
by smtddr 12y ago
Don't know if this works still today... but I've definitely used it before: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/
336.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>non-engineering. If you can't see the beauty of engineering here, nor have your mind race for any possible ways to defeat this - I don't know what to tell you. I've never seen anything like this before and I literal
337.
by smtddr 12y ago
I'd agree with you more if the "robbery" part wasn't in the quote. Too many factors are involved with the event of robbery; I can still envision a bunch of one-off people who had a lapse in judgement and/or fell on
338.
by smtddr 12y ago
I'm sure the "shock value" in this headline is the assumption that most people have in their heads: criminals in jail = bad people. One factor to note in this, is that there are a lot of people in jail who arguably shouldn&#x
339.
by smtddr 12y ago
Perhaps I'm just an old get-off-my-lawn skeptic, but the phrase "Learn To Code, get hired" really brings up bad memories. I was in school during '97-'01 and when I got my BSCS our dean gave the CS department a spe
340.
by smtddr 12y ago
Thank you. I'm pretty sure a8da6b0c91d was counting on people not googling it.... I've seen his posts before.... He knows what people will assume.
341.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>People calling for a block of the NSA, sanctions or even a complete dismantle don't have the slightest of the idea of what would happen to America if our wall of protection would fall down. Yeah sure, there are __some__ bad
342.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>I sold a boat once to a guy for $3k. ___once___, you did it once. Also, $3k < $800k+ cash from some shady folks. Also a boat is way more innocent than secret storage in cars requiring a digital incantation to open. I agree that
343.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>tech companies choose whether or not they'll store user data centrally ...until the USgov/NSA chooses for them. Also, while it's all great the Syncthing tool is open source I see that they have precompiled binaries.
344.
by smtddr 12y ago
Go ahead and list those alternatives for me. Please make sure they're immune to the power of USgov & NSA. Below is my list of tech companies that are immune to the USgov/NSA: ____
345.
by smtddr 12y ago
So, I get what you're saying. I have no intention of abandoning Google either. In fact, I still see Google as the good guys as odd as that might be to many people. In the short term I understand what Edward is saying, but I'm abou
346.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>Exploiting games for profit is not something to be proud of. If a candidate had on their resume a blog link with detailed explanation of a technical exploit in a videogame and how they profited by it... that'd be a +1 in my b
347.
by smtddr 12y ago
If you liked this, check out another project from Disney labs called "Touché" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tYpXVTjxA For some reason, the girl's reactions to the 2 bzzzt-wrong sounds @ 2:55 are hilario
348.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>The problem with the Golden Key suggestion here is that once your data is compromise it is game over forever. There's no do-overs as there is with DRM systems. For the game consoles there aren't really feasible do-overs
349.
by smtddr 12y ago
Indeed, perhaps your morals are different. I generally believe the whole CC industry is on extremely shaky moral grounds. More like sinking sand really. It only works because it can wreck poor and down-on-their-luck people. This[1] is the t
350.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>It will potentially help to identify candidates that are downright rude, arrogant etc. This sounds very dangerous to me. I assume when recruiters and/or lead engineers decide to reach out to me via LinkedIn, they did their ho
351.
by smtddr 12y ago
oh geez, "Somebody in Netherlands" is far from doxing. And that Somebody could be using a proxy. So all we know is that this person is human and located on earth... maybe. EDIT: Sama or Dang should should just delete this whole
352.
by smtddr 12y ago
First, Let me just apologize for commentors like ObviousScience[1]. Second, Guido's laptop for those that don't wanna search for it right now - https://adainitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09&#x
353.
by smtddr 12y ago
>>And I highly doubt that male chauvinism/sexism/harassment is the reason women aren't going into tech careers. Then you're wrong - http://fortune.com/2014/10/02/women-leave-tech-cu
354.
by smtddr 12y ago
FTA: >>Recent data from those companies and others like them confirm what everyone has long known: Most of their employees are white and Asian men. Note that, at least for the UK, asian includes people from India. I don't where
355.
by smtddr 12y ago
I shouldn't even get involved in discussions about sexism or racism on HN. It always turns into a 3 page meta-meta-meta debate with no resolution. The whole tech scene needs to collectively take a sensitivity training course to regain
356.
by smtddr 12y ago
Who hijacked my religion --- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQnxnYEVp4U http://www.newrepublic.com/article/119694/how-blonde-tattooe... >>Non-Muslims sometimes don’t realize how much hatred
357.
by smtddr 12y ago
WHOOOAAA.... I didn't know about the story feature. I thought it was still just a glorified MMS with an alleged unrecoverable-delete-in-10-secs feature.
358.
by smtddr 12y ago
I'm going to have to eat my words at this rate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6824666 ... I really don't understand this. What is so special about snapchat? What future does this thing have? Can Evan Spiege
359.
by smtddr 12y ago
This is the kind of attitude that makes it very difficult for someone who has made a mistake in life to recover from it. Nevermind the fact that the laws & bias application of them leading to many arrests are a mess. http://w
360.
by smtddr 12y ago
118.192.48.6 - - [28/Sep/2014:20:30:22 +0000] "GET /cgi-bin/authLogin.cgi HTTP/1.1" 404 767 " http://www.baidu.com" "() { :; }; echo X-Bash-Test: `echo iOGFtdnW7o`;" My app r

More ›