thomasjames

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by thomasjames 13y ago
I feel like that, among Perl startups, DuckDuckGo is the elephant in the room these days.
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by thomasjames 13y ago
He is already a civilian and will not be court marshalled, which is why Bradley Manning is in a military prison. Ellsberg enjoyed the full rights of being a civilian when he leaked from RAND Corporation. The thing that a lot of people do no
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by thomasjames 13y ago
I don't think this is actually getting data from Wikipedia. How could C have been influenced by Java?!
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by thomasjames 13y ago
It indeed was so widespread and lasted so long that the Arab world developed a really clever standard transliteration system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet
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by thomasjames 13y ago
They think this on the grounds that he would have been tried as a civilian whereas Manning was court marshaled. I am surprised Ellsberg didn't mention that distinction. I do not know how the trial would work, though, given its sensitiv
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by thomasjames 13y ago
FISA theoretically had restraints as well (50 U.S.C. § 1803, Pub.L. 95–511, 92 Stat. 1788, enacted October 25, 1978), but it did not stop the process from being corrupted and automated. When the capability is there, there is nothing stoppin
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by thomasjames 13y ago
My comment was more along the lines that only being angry when one country does it is very thinly veiled nationalism.
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The Lives of Others(economist.com)
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Why is it only bad when the BND works with the NSA? If it is just intercepting all day to flow across Germany's borders via DE-CIX it is potentially equally problematic.
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Again, this is not surprising. European politicians have just been caught with their pants down: on the one hand drumming up populist support by pandering to anti-American sentiments when the opportunity presents itself, and on the other be
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Yeah, I agree with their move here. If the EU really wants to start getting into issues that deal with fundamental sovereignty as opposed to the environment or labor and capital flows, I can think of a number of countries that would be out
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by thomasjames 13y ago
You'd think that intelligence and defense was outside of the scope of the EU or something...
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Is the irony of this not lost on anyone else? In light of recent events it appears they'll be able to get the data anyway, whether or not it is sent over.
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by thomasjames 13y ago
I wonder how he was able to amass thousands of documents within two months of being in his current position while still screening them for information beyond the scope of what he was trying to leak. The possibility that there is confidentia
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by thomasjames 13y ago
From Schneier in "Applied Cryptography" (1996): "Longer key lengths are better, but only up to a point. AES will have 128-bit, 192-bit, and 256-bit key lengths. This is far longer than needed for the foreseeable future. In fa
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by thomasjames 13y ago
That is good because, provided there is not some enormous leap forward in number theory in the meantime, they can keep working on trying to break 256-bit key RSA encryption "indefinitely" as well thanks to a higher law by the name
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The Naming of Hosts is a Difficult Matter(queue.acm.org)
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by thomasjames 13y ago
In the meantime, I just used PDFtk: pdftk preface.pdf toc.pdf ch*.pdf index.pdf cat output Aho_Ullman_1992_Foundations_of_Computer_Science.pdf
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Ten TRILLION bytes... It's okay, Nature, the word terabyte doesn't scare people and is indeed now part of common parlance...
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by thomasjames 13y ago
I think the fact that we are talking about "innovation" so much is a sign of an excessive degree of self-awareness. People used to be at peace with having a specific interest and true expertise and were not thinking "okay, I&
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Gordon Bell on the Building Blocks of Computing - IEEE Computing Society Video(youtube.com)
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by thomasjames 13y ago
It is only for cars manufactured in such a limited time frame. This is part of what it means to be a responsible auto maker. Tesla is growing up, and this is par for the course. I seriously doubt this will have any long-term significance in
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by thomasjames 13y ago
The reverse Alan Colmes of print media...
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Bell Labs was one of the country's greatest resources and the model of what a corporate research facility should be. It was a decidedly domestic phenomenon, and also could work on sensitive topics freely. Its now being foreign has everythin
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by thomasjames 13y ago
This just highlights how much it pains me that Bell Labs is now in the hands of a foreign firm like Alcatel, which has also been quick to hijack its history.
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by thomasjames 13y ago
The IEEE Computer Society had a great interview with Stroustrup where he tries to outline your exact point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fJ5rZhw4Fc
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Yeah, it was called the crack epidemic.
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Cause Greg K-H posted it on Google+ today...
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by thomasjames 13y ago
Even though a lot of infrastructure (i.e., Deutsche Bahn, Deutsche Post, Deutsche Telekom) has been privatized, it is interesting how the former state monopolies are just still de facto monopolies within Germany. They also compete well inte
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by thomasjames 13y ago
A similar project using Emacs and really clever use of Python and Dragon Naturally Speaking SDK was my favorite presentation at PyCon this past year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYaI

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