wanderfowl

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by wanderfowl 11y ago
It's less public. There's actual fear of smoking in parks, pools, concerts, because it's still nominally illegal. After legalization in CO, public smoking went way up. I suspect it'll drop down again after the novelt
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I personally can't stand weed, mostly for the smell and allergic potential of public or shared-wall-dwelling smoking. At some level, it was a joy to move out of Colorado, to an "illegal" place where public and apartment smok
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
This is excellent, and sounds like the result of hard work and harder cajoling of the ad-men. Thanks, NYT, for doing your part.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
One thing I'm still not clear about is how much the ground crew knew about the damage. Did they have any idea there was a serious problem? Did the crew know that the ship was compromised? Was this ever seriously considered? Or is t
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Then again, this is wholly academic. It's not like, if it's A, the committer is going to say "yup im NSA u caught me lol."
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
The question is whether they: a) knew it was non-prime, and used it to weaken the crypto b) knew it was non-prime, and used it because they didn't think it needed to be prime (which is a massive sin of ignorance) c) grabbed 1024 bits o
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I already do that, actually, via Dropbox (shudder). But plaintext based systems, particularly the symbol-heavy ones, suck terribly on virtual keyboards.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Nice catch. Now, the real question is who committed it, and how they came up with the number. If it is a backdoor, it's pretty smart, because it's very deniable as a "stupid mistake". And if it's a stupid mistake,
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I love the idea of this, but sadly, it only works when your work is in Plaintext. I'm an audio and graphing sort of guy, and although I try to be in Plaintext as much as I can, it's a constant battle. One other loss is cross-devi
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I think you're right. But I also think this is more important, symbolically. This gives .onion a status which prevents outbacksteakhouse.onion from being plausible, and ensures that "Any domain ending in .onion needs to be route
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Interesting. I'm a big proponent of Xeriscaping instead of lawns, but Xeriscape can look great, or absolutely awful, depending on how well it's done, and I think that's part of the reluctance. The problem is that lawns are e
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I love the idea, and it's just the kind of thing I'm paranoid enough to own, but the price is a bit up there. Hoping it comes down over time. But if I owned a restaurant, I'd be all over this, in a "Break Glass" k
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
It's the newest, hottest thing in Crypto: Perfect Backwards Secrecy!
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Wow, that was amazingly condescending. "Too many students, not enough teachers" is real, and likely applicable here, but that could have been said in 40 words. And it sure as hell didn't need the air of "I'm God&#
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
It's patched: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Very speculative, but if this could some day be adapted to humans, I'm deeply curious how (if at all) this will figure into treatments for PTSD. Considering that debilitating nightmares are a common and harmful symptom (as it's ha
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I liked SpiderOak a lot for its security, but sadly, it was never very reliable as a backup or sync service. I spent more time troubleshooting and rebuilding databases and clearing serverside caches and so forth in 8 months there than I ha
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Etherium sounds like a great idea, and a great approach. But I'm afraid it's going to end up like GPG: Technically awesome, strong, capable, and useful - but completely out of reach of most of the people you'd want to use it
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Yep, all I could think was "Wow, that's a good deal fancier than a station wagon full of tapes". Cloud backup companies have had similar services for a while now, but it's nice to see AWS adopting it.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
This is pretty good, AMR inconsistencies aside. It's a nice resource to point people to who have no idea what a "Computational Semantic" is and why I do them. Also, props for including AMR at all.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Agreed. Beamer's excellent, but for a static PDF which is not your intended presentation copy, it's cruel and unusual to expect people to read a copy with all the build steps.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Agreed completely! And improving our mental health system would have the added bonus of giving more options to people who see a child/parent/spouse/friend clearly losing touch with reality and becoming dangerous, beyond our
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Be careful, though, with the natural swing the other way, towards the medicalization of deviance. Although there are no shortage of people who do terrible things due to impaired capacity, there are plenty of healthy people who cognizantly d
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Great article, albeit somewhat horrifying.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
We're not paying for it, so we can only assume that we (or more likely, all of our emails) are actually the product here.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
It's an interesting idea, and a great technology. There's no doubt that a blockchain will form the basis of many interesting new methods for validating transactions. But whether it's the blockchain, and whether it h
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I agree. When i read this email this morning, I came away feeling more secure with the company, rather than less. I hope that more companies do it this well, and realize that admitting the breach well can strengthen the trust.
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Yeah, the moral of this story was "Well, there goes one reason to upgrade"
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
If your site will be sending something of value over email, then people will want to use a real address, and you don't need this. On the other hand, if you just want a user ID, then it doesn't matter what they use, and you don&#x
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
The Time and Time Steel actually have lower waterproof-ness certification than the originals, IIRC. It's not a meaningful drop for everyday use, but they seem to be happy to lose that feature. And the Round is a festival of compromis

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