vox_mollis

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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Timing correlation attacks would be much more difficult if Tor users were more willing to tolerate higher latency. But they're not. Everyone wants their cake and eat it too.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
As a developer you'd still be a fool (or just loaded with elbow grease) to attempt developing with a chrome book The Chromebook Pixel running Fedora is a lovely development platform.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
The problem there is that Google will likely release an updated Chromebook Pixel soon, also. With coreboot enabling installation of Linux on the Pixel for developers (And stock ChromeOS for regular users, of course), there is no reason to p
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Knuth wrote TeX over a decade. Some might call it a "big, complex project" for a single developer whose day job is teaching and researching.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Then you're pretty fucked for a long time Depending on amount owed, this may not be true. Any unsecured default under ~$10k, the only consequences are usually a credit report hit and incessant calls from debt collector call center wo
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Presumably, an application would need to enumerate audio capabilities before even offering the option.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
aren't up-front about slower than expected R&D progress Why are people so quick to dismiss obvious fraud in terms like this? At what point do people begin to understand that peddling snake oil in this manner is securities fraud,
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
That was CVS.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
The belief that PRISM is targeted is 1. in contrast to the leaked slides, and 2. the determination of the PCLOB, which was appointed by . . . the executive branch of the US Government. The findings of the PCLOB are about as useful as lung c
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
There is a large difference between being a PRISM partner( broad hoovering of all data )and a party to a narrowly-scoped warrant or subpoena, as Amazon would be. Meyer would do well to cite the specific statute that makes noncompliance into
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
There is a very simple out, here. Google could simply claim that they do all audio processing in the cloud. They wouldn't need to hide it.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Perhaps, but bear in mind that Google is a PRISM partner, whereas Amazon is not. The NSA will likely record every sound from your house, if you own this. Edit: Downvoters, please educate me on where I am wrong. Thanks.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Nope. Site still completely saturates a core, but only during scroll, not during idle.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
The exam showed that Doe accessed or attempted to access more than 20,000 files with file names consistent with obvious child pornography Is nobody else alarmed that OS X apparently logs any and all( or at least 20k records )file accesses
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
HN tends not to approve of comments that smell even a whiff like conspiracy theory crazytown, so I'm not surprised. tptacek's positions hold outsized influence here, so even after his public concession on Dual_EC_DRBG, it's s
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
What other reason could there be? There is one, big, obvious government-shaped reason.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I'm a 60% developer / 40% small team lead. Do it all remotely with trips to California every two months or so. Plenty of positions are available for remote workers. From what I've seen, it's not the employers, but rather
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I live in a town in the US where the median household income is roughly $36k and the median household size is 3.9. Most adults own their home here. I know most HN people tend to see urban/suburban areas as the only habitable zones, but
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
PGP is entirely useless if you wish to hide metadata about origin, destination, precise timestamps, etc. Use cases exist in which you need to communicate securely and authenticated, but can NOT leak the above. Some combination of Pond( mess
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I'm responding to the article that the author linked to, which does mention static typing. This comment is an attempt at a hypothesis for why some developers dismiss the importance of such features/tools.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I've come to the conclusion that those who defend weak/dynamic type systems and other unsafe toolchains simply buy into the fallacy of the uber-developer: the belief that while other, lesser developers need static typing and analy
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Something tells me Matt Prince would sooner shut down CF than bow to NSA demands.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Toxic in what sense? Edit: It seems you mean career toxicity. Thiel, being able to write his own ticket, would founders really be unwilling to work with him on the basis of his political positions?
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Yes, and this one will suffer the same fate.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Quite interesting that two highly-active posts on this topic have been very rapidly removed from the frontpage. Clearly something the community would like to discuss; clearly something HN doesn't want discussed.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Indeed. If systemd were just a parallelized init system with better unit management, far more would be okay with this shift. But that wasn't enough. They had to hijack bootloading, logging, device management, network, etc. For reasons
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
If this is indeed an inevitable and predictable luminosity curve, then orbital solar shades or albedo augmentation are obvious solutions.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
Based on title, expected to see the article analyze lithium mining capacity, packaging constraints, limits to manufacturing efficiencies, P&L analysis of growth capital requirements, etc. Got "Toyota is better" instead.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
"You" being you, among others. Wouldn't have happened without your drum-pounding, Thomas.
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by vox_mollis 10y ago
I think you're missing parent's point. The benefits of staring at text all day with >30yo eyes also applies to Linux. I use Arch and Fedora on high-dpi displays and I'd sooner give up programming than ever return to ~72dpi

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