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by sseveran 12y ago
I believe Microsoft was one of the few companies to challenge the NSA in the early 2000s. If I recall correctly Ballmer thought that the NSLs would eventually become public and Microsoft needed to be on the right side of history by challeng
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by sseveran 12y ago
Alrich Ames was eventually busted for spending money that the soviets were paying him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldrich_Ames
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by sseveran 12y ago
It relies on the data being commutative. If the data is not commutative then we need, wait for it, drum roll please, some consistency, which by your own admission is not provided. The consistency is the hard part which is why there is an en
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by sseveran 12y ago
Its up to you to prove your algorithm is correct, not everyone else to prove that its wrong.
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by sseveran 12y ago
I am not quite sure where to begin. I read your wiki. The casual disregard for years of distributed computing research struck me as a bit scary. It would be fine if the website did not claim "Data integrity is now a breeze." but i
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by sseveran 12y ago
We can have them work on getting people to click on ads.
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by sseveran 12y ago
Next time the IRS calls I will just tell them not worry, "It was just poor record keeping."
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by sseveran 12y ago
Which is of course the problem with departmental policy. We routinely see SWAT teams investigating themselves and finding that everything they did was in line with departmental policy.
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by sseveran 12y ago
AWS is HIPAA compliant ( http://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ ). The CIA selected AWS for a large ($600MM) buildout. Strategy and design documents are already in the cloud organically via OneDrive, DropBox and Google Drive.
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by sseveran 12y ago
Why wouldn't you take advantage of everything your platform gives you? This goes for your OS as well as your infrastructure.
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by sseveran 12y ago
This will change over the next decade. James is correct, the costs are simply dropping too fast. The existing constituencies like IT departments with existing data centers will increasingly have a hard time justifying their budgets. This wi
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by sseveran 12y ago
In my experience users don't want to be educated, they want software that just works and is easy to use. They want transparent access to their documents wherever they are on any device without thinking about it. So to achieve this goal
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by sseveran 12y ago
Maybe companies could stop using reversible encryption to store passwords and use a salted one way hash like grownups. I have so many different passwords that for sites I use irregularly I just have to reset them everytime. Also 2-factor au
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by sseveran 12y ago
Why would a non-nation state actor need a lawyer? I could see returning the Taliban fighters to Afganistan since they were representing some sort of government. For people who have been picked up as part of Al Qaeda and its affiliate networ
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by sseveran 12y ago
If you are an agent working in a black operation you by definition cannot talk to a lawyer.
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by sseveran 12y ago
In finance non-compete clauses are enforced with an army of lawyers. It doesn't really matter to them if they lose in the end or not, you may be in court for years. The flip side is that you get paid for this time. One of my friends le
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by sseveran 12y ago
If you worked trading earnings it would not be news to you. Computers are also polling other places (like company websites) to see if the content is just hidden but still available or gets accidentally posted early.
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by sseveran 12y ago
I burned a couple of weeks trying to setup a replicated freeipa environment. I was amazed that I could start with a brand new instance, run the same script and end up with different problems every time.
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by sseveran 12y ago
Yeah. I will probably never touch yesod again after what it put me through.
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by sseveran 12y ago
CalPERS has too much money to effectively invest in hedgefunds. Good article here: http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-09-16/calpers-has... Hedge funds are not the only people that benefit from carried inte
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by sseveran 12y ago
Won't work. If the choice is pay tax or spend money it will get spent. Earnings may go down but the players will adapt to minimize their tax burden.
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by sseveran 12y ago
The ability for a business to use the government to its own ends its directly proportional to the size and power of the government. One of the best examples I can think of is Gazprom. While technically a private company its really just an e
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by sseveran 12y ago
Yes and don't skimp. You want someone who has experience litigating and will be able to accurately advise you on your chances of succeeding. You will probably want to use at least midsize firm if you are not located where they are sinc
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by sseveran 12y ago
The competitive teams will field a variety of front and rear wings tailored to different tracks.
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by sseveran 12y ago
It turns out that is what judges do. When there is a disagreement about the terms of a contract a judge or jury has to decide what to do.
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by sseveran 12y ago
It may be reasonable that they should settle, but they are not required to. This particular fund has a group that specializes in litigating against countries to exploit an issue with debt structure. For me this comes down to whether the law
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by sseveran 12y ago
They can not like it all they want, the judge enforced the law. Since there was no clause to force restructuring in the original bonds and there was a clause to prevent any bond holders from getting a better deal then the restructured bonds
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by sseveran 12y ago
No. No it is not. See the Amazon paper if you want an overview.
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by sseveran 12y ago
If you don't know how to use a model checker you have no business creating a distributed algorithm. Either implement someone else's or do it right. The world has enough broken distributed algorithms and we really don't need a
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by sseveran 12y ago
thats not the real issue. The issue with model checkers is verifying that production code actually exactly implements the model.

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