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by tga_d 10y ago
I grew up by a lake in the bay area that was a very popular spot for Canadian geese, to the point they are considered a pest and have to clear them out every so often, and I currently go to UWaterloo. I can assure you that the geese behave
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by tga_d 10y ago
... this would not be it.
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FBI Harassment(blog.patternsinthevoid.net)
284 points by tga_d 10y ago|228 comments
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by tga_d 11y ago
It wasn't wiped, it was disabled. They actually did get the iCloud backup data, but from about a month and a half before the phone was seized. Instead of waiting for another iCloud backup to occur, they reset the password, which disabl
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by tga_d 11y ago
>If I run a website for a small town public library that only serves information, ie no user accounts and no logins on our domain, is there a valid reason for me to go through the process of https and certificates? Absolutely. The privac
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by tga_d 11y ago
As someone who was raised in the bay area, the idea that these experiences meant that homelessness was at an all-time high in the city struck me as the thoughts of someone whose rose tint was fading from their glasses. One of my earliest me
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by tga_d 11y ago
I'm not sure why you think bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency, things like digicash existed since the early 90s. In any case, did you even read the post? The author explicitly describes the failings of bitcoin's political process
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by tga_d 11y ago
For those who don't follow these things, Chaum is known as being both brilliant and... well, not so brilliant. A famous example of this: https://cryptome.org/jya/digicrash.htm
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by tga_d 11y ago
>It worked pretty well for DirecTV You're going to have to explain what you mean by that, is there some story of DirecTV successfully preventing people from analyzing firmware?
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by tga_d 11y ago
This is just the same old issue of DRM as before: create a system that works when the user is running it like they're supposed to, but doesn't reveal anything when they're not. And it's never worked. Probably can never w
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by tga_d 11y ago
I would take issue with the view of somebody's home as a commodity or an investment. Yes, it gets treated that way legally, but this is where people live, where people raise their families. There is a huge amount of emotional investmen
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by tga_d 11y ago
Looking at the list here: [1] Most of the top employers are hardware companies, and therefore likely to contribute mostly driver patches. For example, the rankings by LoC for this release list AMD as over a third of the contributions, almos
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by tga_d 11y ago
I see a lot of people posting things to the effect of "It's probably not a huge deal, just a firmware patch." That strikes me as unlikely. If that were the case, then why would VW take this risk in the first place? Clearly, t
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by tga_d 11y ago
>They seem to imply that source code is required for independent testing. That is most certainly NOT what the EFF is implying. They are asking for an exemption to the DMCA, not access to anyone's original source code. When they say
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by tga_d 11y ago
That Coursera link should be https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto The first course happens regularly, while "part 2" has been "2 months away" for at least a year now.
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by tga_d 11y ago
>ah, that's why we couldn't solve that -- because we proved it is in NP, and P isn't equal to that, so we can chalk our failure to solve it up to that. Except that line of reasoning is completely incorrect -- both in its u
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Pointer Events Now in Firefox Nightly(hacks.mozilla.org)
65 points by tga_d 11y ago|20 comments
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Tesla Energy(teslamotors.com)
1162 points by tga_d 11y ago|566 comments
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by tga_d 11y ago
Your Tor session should change exit nodes at least once every 10 minutes.[1] Ignoring everything else (e.g. pressing the new session button on TBB, restarting the browser, failed connections etc.), this gives us p(using a bad node)=1-(.
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by tga_d 11y ago
Nit: I think that should be 1-(1-.0.27)^25 ~= 0.5. Obviously it ends up being about 1/2 either way, but you're measuring the chance that you used one of the nodes, not that you avoided all of them.
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by tga_d 12y ago
Mitch Kapor is one of the founders of the EFF; both charities are self-serving in that regard.
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by tga_d 12y ago
No, just requires a phone number. It's still under development, but if you're curious you can check out install instructions here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure-Browser/blob/ma...
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by tga_d 12y ago
Was Malcom X a "terrorist"? Are the looters in the Ferguson riots "terrorists"? Are the countless people who are in prison all "terrorists"? "He tried to beat up an old man in a restaurant"? Really? W
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by tga_d 12y ago
Linux support is pretty ambiguous. The download link says "Download Google Earth Pro for PC or Mac," the minimum specifications link gives specifications for Linux, the actual download gives you a binary called GoogleEarthLinux.bi
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by tga_d 12y ago
"Fair" reminds me far too much of the horror that is FRAND. It simply provides far too much leeway on the part of the company, who would almost certainly get the largest say in what is "fair." For example, they could eas
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by tga_d 12y ago
A 10 digit number sequence has 33.2 bits of entropy. 3 diceware words has 38.7 bits of entropy. I don't think 10 numerical digits is easier to relay than 3 words. Although either would be far short of the ~90 considered fully secure, I
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by tga_d 12y ago
Overly optimistic over the course of 20 years is one thing, but I find it pretty difficult to believe that translation between major languages won't be mostly solved in 100 years. The difference between what is available today and 20 y
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by tga_d 12y ago
>Actually they have thrown out people even in Paris McDonalds for wearing a Google Glass. The incident you're thinking of was Steve Mann being assaulted and thrown out for wearing his own custom digital eye glass, about a year befor
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by tga_d 12y ago
Just like every other empire that ever failed stopped all other empires from ever forming again? As Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and the like fall further into historical curiosities, things like Putinism and whatever you call what goes on
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by tga_d 12y ago
"the role of a jury is not to rule on the merit of a motion such as this, but rather to decide the facts of a case" I don't think that's correct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_nullification

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