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by tekacs 13y ago
CloudApp has already been mentioned (and the 'counterpoint' of anonymity has come up), but I might suggest that it's worth at least a cursory look, if nothing else because its copied links: http://cl.ly/image&
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by tekacs 13y ago
Context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dYlbz77uzI (started by Hank Green of VidCon/vlogbrothers fame)
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Subbable - a new way to support the people who make the content you love(subbable.com)
1 points by tekacs 13y ago|1 comments
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by tekacs 13y ago
You don't actually have to share those details publicly if you don't want, to be fair. :/ Edit: for comparison and openness's sake, my profile: https://plus.google.com/116103902550362700148/about I
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Bamboo 5 Bridges the Dev-Ops Divide - Build-Deploy(blogs.atlassian.com)
1 points by tekacs 13y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 13y ago
A lot of American companies make high quality, often cheaper-than-domestic goods. Favouring them is hardly a matter of subservience.
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by tekacs 13y ago
Just having security clearance doesn't mean that he absolutely didn't necessarily do any 'hacking' to get the data - he may well not have had direct access to the data in question, clearance or not.
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by tekacs 13y ago
Haha I'd heard this anecdote before, so it's my own fault for missing it. :) Thanks for the great article and indeed fun references!
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by tekacs 13y ago
Upon reading this comment had to skim the whole thing looking for more (hadn't yet finished reading). No more maths references than tau found yet. :/
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by tekacs 13y ago
Just as well I searched for 'Gauss' before commenting. :) (so, yes. :P)
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by tekacs 13y ago
Heads-up in counterpoint to the second footnote: I was most definitely considering academia at 19 (I was near dead-set on it). Then I got to university and got a good look at academics, doctoral students and the environment for myself - I&#
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by tekacs 13y ago
Co-operation between multiple government agencies you mean? The FBI and NSA getting along? Ha! :P
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by tekacs 13y ago
Immediately upon seeing this I found myself jumping to click through - the idea is somewhat flawed (subjectivity (which people call 'beauty in the eye of the beholder' :P)) but an enjoyable one nonetheless. To anyone who hasn&#x27
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by tekacs 13y ago
Up 60 floors perhaps, but getting it there required only bringing it a few miles from the nearest depot (having been brought there en-masse) rather than a giant star (or worse) network, replicating the same effort 1000 times to transport sa
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by tekacs 13y ago
It's very pointedly not their obligation (nor even standard practice for any drive company) to go through the expensive process of recovering your data for you for free. Taking backups is your own problem and responsibility. They shoul
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by tekacs 13y ago
Again, I don't doubt, but one has to ask whether the value of that data is in fact all that substantial to anyone of malicious intent - there would, I would think, be far, far easier ways to obtain that data and again, the volume of it
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by tekacs 13y ago
Oh I don't doubt that it will somewhere - this is a reminder that others aren't going to stop doing it, though and also that of all the places, the NSA seems like an unlikely source of such leaks. Also, whilst they undoubtedly k
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by tekacs 13y ago
Compartmentalisation in intelligence is rather more established and effective than in private sector companies, to the best of my knowledge, though.
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by tekacs 13y ago
As much as it might feel nice to make suggestions such as this, it's probably worth remembering that this sort of data is probably gapped from the external network (no data flow outward). If anybody knows (and has experience) well enou
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by tekacs 13y ago
Or just some other zero-knowledge proof mechanism, of which there are many , including those involving little more than cryptographically secure hashes. :)
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by tekacs 13y ago
It very much doesn't, not least because it does nothing to alleviate the issue that everything typed into a browser page is currently available for access to the site in question and should a MITM attack or similar attack occur, JS can
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by tekacs 13y ago
Fuel is indeed rather more expensive in Europe (certainly UK, plus single person's sample abroad). :/
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by tekacs 13y ago
Unfortunately or fortunately, I think much of the world would disagree with you and argue that such behaviour would be 'meddling' and gross overstepping by the government, right now. Perhaps this sort of governmental 'help' would be possibl
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by tekacs 13y ago
How about a cheaper pro printer? :P
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by tekacs 13y ago
Points at his own comment elsewhere: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5795016 Essentially: surely that depends on your notion of value?
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by tekacs 13y ago
I'm pretty sure food falls into that category. :P Edge cases aside, surely 'learning how to think' or indeed just learning is tremendously valuable - surely the ultimate value that all other kinds are implicitly converted to (cf. heat in th
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Auto Tag Songs in the Background with Shazam for the iPad(macstories.net)
1 points by tekacs 13y ago|0 comments
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OmniPresence(joecieplinski.com)
1 points by tekacs 13y ago|0 comments
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by tekacs 13y ago
So the company blog post was posted to news a few days back[1] but somehow there was no discussion or thoughts on the advantages of the service: (open source client and server, over WebDAV against Apache (most any solid WebDAV service shoul
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OmniPresence, Omni Group's new cloud sync service, hits all the right buttons(macworld.com)
1 points by tekacs 13y ago|1 comments

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