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by vancan1ty 9y ago
March 24, 2017 -- "During the past year, Let's Encrypt has issued a total of 15,270 SSL certificates that contained the word 'PayPal' in the domain name or the certificate identity. Of these, approximately 14,766 (96.7%)
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
my point is that TLS can still be useful without the participation of a certificate authority. but you have to be careful.
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
- protected from third parties reading the data in transit - protected from alteration of the data in transit without either end's knowledge and, IF you have a means to authenticate the owner of the certificate outside of the regular c
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
Whatever happened to telecommuting eventually making it relatively unimportant where you live? Will this happen in the forseeable future, or will the best tech jobs continue in this trend of centralizing around major hubs?
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
While bitcoin abc is the main bitcoin cash implementation for now, the plan is to have multiple "independent development teams" for BCC [ https://www.bitcoincash.org/ ]. It is true that BCC will be a continuation of
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
Despite the browsers' dire warnings, you are still far more protected visiting a website with a self-signed certificate than visiting a plain http website.
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
Considering that this was apparently one person doing investigative research, and a very small fraction of each code base (freebsd apparently has about 9 million LOC, openbsd 2.9 million), I do not think it is reasonable to state that freeB
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
In response to: "could be interpreted as a violation of his oath of office" The oath of office of the president of the united states is as follows: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
but that is not what happened. from the original washington post article: "The Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardize important
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
So, regardless of whether it is illegal for a US president to discuss specific classified ISIS terror threats with another country, do you agree with me that the person who leaked the ISIS terror threats to the press doubtless committed a c
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by vancan1ty 9y ago
The claim is that Trump discussed information about a potential ISIS terror threat with russian diplomats (Russia is fighting ISIS and supporting Assad in the Syria conflict). Then, some anonymous source which apparently either wiretapped t
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
Benchmarks with Intel vs AMD here: https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/Ashes-Singularity-G... Whatever they did for AoS significantly increased 1800x performance while keeping 6900k performance essentially fl
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
No law was passed in the first place.
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
If legal opinion is now that the FTC does not have the ability to regulate internet privacy, it is not the fault of congress, it is the fault of the 9th circuit's ruling ruling last year [1], which has effect over its area of jurisdict
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
One thing that I think is being ignored and was not mentioned in the article is that the referenced regulations were passed by the FCC near the tail-end of the Obama administration and never actually went into effect. So, strictly speaking
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
Something that is not mentioned in the article is that the FCC regulations in question were passed in October 2016 and have never gone in to effect. So, to be strictly accurate, the vote does not roll back any regulations which actually ev
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
The title is misleading. Their "error codes" are not simple C error codes but are rather structs which they are dynamically allocating upon error occurence. Their "create_error" function below is very inefficient compa
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
Those of you who run your own email servers -- do any of you run it from a residential connection with dynamic ip address? Or do you pay extra for a static ip address/host using a VPS?
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
I think BASIC! for android by Paul Laughton is a modern good modern alternative for an entry to programming. It comes with good documentation and examples, and is a classic basic-type language. link: https://play.google.com&#x2F
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
Come over to Pale Moon [ https://www.palemoon.org/ ] (firefox fork continuing XUL) and FossaMail [ https://www.fossamail.org/ ] (thunderbird fork based on Pale Moon Goanna engine). These products aren't pe
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by vancan1ty 10y ago
You can definitely buy a 4k IPS monitor for less than $1000, the amount they spent on a monitor. Source: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Is...
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Taken from this link: https://libreboot.org/faq/ "The ME firmware is compressed and consists of modules that are listed in the manifest along with secure cryptographic hashes of their contents. One module is the o
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Based on these links which we traded, while you appear to be incorrect in your claims about literal CO2 emissions (which was what I originally commented on), perhaps what is more important is that you are correctly alluding to the effect of
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Note that these links are talking about total greenhouse gas production, not just CO2 as was originally stated in pitchka's comment and questioned in mine. Pitchka's "18%/51%" estimates are not actually talking abo
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Do not reproduce, encourage others to not reproduce. The 100% most effective way to reduce the human effect on the planet is to reduce the number of humans on the planet. But of course if you follow that philosophy that probably just means
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Can you provide a link supporting your claim that animal agriculture has >50% of the CO2 footprint or that the American continents produce much more CO2 than China? The first claim seems to be incorrect at least based on simple googling
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Did Lee Sedol have access to a dataset of AlphaGo games in preparation for this match series? I wonder if it would help him if he could study the computers moves and strategies in other matches.
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
Does Lee Sedol have access to AlphaGo training games and/or matches?
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
If Google really wants the March matchup with Lee Sedol to be fair, it should make available a number of AlphaGo's training games for Sedol to evaluate. Otherwise, we have a similar situation to Deep Blue vs Kasparov, where Deep Blue
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by vancan1ty 11y ago
From the article: "The Lua standard library uses the POSIX C library, making it portable; but that also means that you can’t use sockets, it doesn’t support signals or timers, and all OS calls block the thread. Using the POSIX C librar

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