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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Yeah, that dig is unfair. Sneakers didn't have a universal key that broke all crypto. They had a device that could break a certain kind of crypto that happened to be used by the US (in the movie, the Russians state that it doesn't
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I don't think qubes comes anywhere close to what the GP was asking for. It's awesome, but it's far from being a minimal linux system to bootstrap qemu. dom0 is a full Fedora install, and it uses Xen.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
I looked at the RNG in TempleOS out of curiosity. I assumed he was mixing in some noise sources that could be explained as some kind of universal communication subchannel from god. Here's the relevant code (in HolyC of course): I32
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
One of the longstanding issues the Tor project had with their reproducible builds was that the windows builds, built with Visual Studio, would always have a small piece of data in the same place that differed for each build. It took months
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Ugh, bug bounties being used for developing stronger DRM. Well, I guess we have to take the bad with the good.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Yes, either that or a dedicated sudo-enabled account. It's a slight step up from the older setups where they had a dedicated account with a common password known to all the second-level and higher techs. It's because 90% of users
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> I once spent an evening talking a friend down from a really nasty spell of paranoid dissociation after she ate the recommended dose of a legally purchased pot cookie in Washington. > I suspect quality control at my friend's bak
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> Will the Qubes Team be sharing a portion of their commercial profit with members of the Open Source Community who have previously contributed to Qubes OS? As one of the people who has contributed code to Qubes, I don't see why the
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> however the OAuth token should not be in clear text. How would you suggest to store it in a way that prevents someone with root access to the phone from reading it? Any encryption keys stored by the application would surely be just as
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Good points. > But when riding a bike, they shield the eyes. In my experience, they shield the eyes from sand and small debris, but they also tunnel the wind in from the top and bottom with more force, resulting in constantly flowing tea
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> The most scary thing for me is that both political left and political right is nowadays for increasing surveillance Right, because like many important but sparsely discussed issues this one doesn't fit into the left-right distinct
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
It would be great if that were the result. But it remains to be seen. The requirement is that humans decide to change their economic system. If we don't do that (and human society is really good at staying on autopilot until problems h
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Of course it shouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately humans are still humans, and judgemental attitudes abound. Hence the advice. As an example, right now the pirate party in Iceland is being smeared with a picture the press found of one
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Yes, it's by design. It's to stave off the inevitable flood of legal threats and takedown demands. If someone requests content be taken off, they instruct them to update their robots.txt. The content is not removed but will not be
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Not the OP, but I imagine he has something like namecoin in mind. Domains are tied to cryptographic keys which are also used for encryption+authentication, and the blockchain stores the mapping of names to keys. It's not ready for prim
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Seems weird to tie it just to the Hong Kong office though. These guys are trading on the Ernst & Young name to get the positive reputation associated with it, why should the negative publicity not flow the other way? They still have the
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Really hope PCem gets network support at some point. There was a branch implementing ne2k support but it's old and didn't apply to master cleanly last I checked. Setting up an OS on it was a bit of a pain in the ass, the only way
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
The Archos Jukebox was the player that introduced me to Rockbox[0]. Great player for the time, but as you said it was huge. I think I even put in a larger drive at some point. These days I run rockbox on an iPod. The hardware is better but
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
The bundled software was always crappy. Luckily the protocol was simple and people reverse engineered it quickly. I used some linux command line tool to manage files on it.
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
What is your definition of 'win'? They're currently polling at around 20-25%. The traditional conservative party is polling at similar numbers and other parties have less. Obviously no party will take the majority of the vote
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Oh yes, a real successor to SMAC would be terrific. I liked Beyond Earth but it wasn't Alpha Centauri. I tried playing SMAC the other day but I had trouble adjusting myself to the dated interface, even though I spent so many hours play
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
For me, the entire reason for being excited about these developments is the hope that we'll reach fully autonomous ("level 5" autonomy) vehicles, as that will be game-changing. No more need for driving ed or licenses, mobilit
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Just started this yesterday. I like some of the new mechanics, multi-tile cities especially. That AI though... declares war on you for no reason. In my first game, five AI players decided to declare war on me out of the blue within the spac
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> The latency to the screen is fixed with no jitter. The human mind can adapt. In addition, latency is cumulative and after a certain threshold becomes extremely annoying. Adding network delays to the already-present latency elsewhere in
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
LibreSSL is OpenSSL with some of the ugly bits stripped out. It's still aiming for compatibility, and so it retains many of the warts and will continue to do so. It's not a modern library though it may be a bit better than OpenSSL
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> One of the annoyances of having just moved from SV to Munich is that credit cards are often not accepted and you need to use cash. The benefit is lower prices. Credit cards have high transaction fees, and the contracts generally prohib
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> We're copying useful features while avoiding copying the bad parts. This robot's not going to get cancer or die of old age, and we can replace its limbs with a screwdriver. Well, it won't get cancer, but the memory will
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Qubes VMs cannot get the battery state. Assuming that the user didn't install custom fonts, the font list should be the same across all the installs. I think Qubes closes most of the low hanging fruit in this space, but completely prev
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
Most of my career I've been the guy people come to when they get stuck and need a second pair of eyes or just advice. I enjoy it, we all have to start somewhere. For the most part this has been considered a positive by my bosses, becau
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by throwaway7767 10y ago
> As moxie said, it's about raising the defaults of the world, not about making it secure for the crypto nerd. The thing is, the attacks in the "crypto-nerd paranoia" category tend to become everyday attacks over time. Pre

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