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by wnight 15y ago
How so? The phone is largely someone else's device and as such not as trusted as your own PC. Also, phone taps record what you say in one particular case versus PC trojans which could record everything you do or say near the computer, and e
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by wnight 15y ago
> please give an example of something you could destroy through fat-fingering. Destroy as in magic smoke? No. But have to take back to the store to have it reset. Yes. This initial language prompt the computer booted to didn't have a ba
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by wnight 15y ago
Which would work for anything you'd let ride on a game of dice. But for serious things you're going to get together for the victory celebration and shoot the human behind the drone army. This sort of thing does give more room between shouti
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by wnight 15y ago
You could use a keyboard as a data-storage device. Simply cat stdin into a file. That file would be a two-way communication program using the Caps Lock and other status lights for the reverse link. At that point it's as good as a drive, but
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by wnight 15y ago
Especially if when mounted this way it kept much of the regular data and the true-crypt partition (appearing as random noise) was 1-in-4 interleaved throughout making it look like a uninteresting read error on a bank of chips.
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by wnight 15y ago
Darkness is good... If someone was ransacking your apartment/work they'd need light. In places you wouldn't, like the server closets. A timeout would be good - like the backup drive won't appear until the lights have been off for six hours.
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by wnight 15y ago
> He basically wants people to reject most modern software/technology/services No. If he wants anything from the average person, instead of for them, it's that they pay attention to the value of their freedom (to keep using your sof
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by wnight 15y ago
> That is the hole a "Steve Jobs of free software" could fill. How? By writing drivers for undocumented hardware? > it doesn't just need to be as easy to install and maintain as Windows Have you tried to install Windows recently? Fa
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by wnight 15y ago
> Ever heard of "blame the game, not the player"? Yeah, it's ridiculous. The "player" makes the choices, they get the blame. Every time I see someone talking about how they just do what they have to do to feed their kids someone else st
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by wnight 15y ago
> It is not legitimate for the mass of HN to be "in grief" because of Steve Jobs's death. You may be sad, but certainly no grieving period should be necessary for strangers. You seem to have missed a critical piece of the message.
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by wnight 15y ago
> It is not legitimate for the mass of HN to be "in grief" because of Steve Jobs's death. You may be sad, but certainly no grieving period should be necessary for strangers. > When was this decided? And by who? Did I miss a memo? Yo
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by wnight 15y ago
As you say, they've all got limitations. The difference will be if they're straight-forward with their customers and let them know of policies long enough before they're implemented so that they could plausibly leave the service if they dis
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by wnight 15y ago
Heh. We could revoke their right to use publicly funded wires and let them try to become a wireless ISP overnight or go bankrupt, and meanwhile give their cushy near-monopoly position on the developed infrastructure to a more worthwhile com
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by wnight 15y ago
> Sure, none of you should be thrilled about the situation because as technically-oriented people with generous motives the system is not set up to serve you. But that's not a failure of the system, except maybe from your own individual
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by wnight 15y ago
No. The only way to be a bad guy is to exploit the vulnerability. He didn't do anything wrong, he did something very right that most people couldn't and wouldn't have done, and he was rebuffed for it. It's not like they're owed this. If n
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by wnight 15y ago
The hacker didn't want to use Twitter either... And what do you think the doorman/receptionist is for?
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by wnight 15y ago
Why should he? The company was trying to be hard to reach to control costs. It cost them in another way. Life is tough. This is financial infrastructure, there's a higher bar. I think the government should mandate that we give the hacker wh
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by wnight 15y ago
> it's not a failing of Amex that the system is so. Actually, it is. They failed. Their system was open for years in secret, and at least hours after someone tried to point out the problem to them. It's not the CS rep's fault. But it is
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by wnight 15y ago
The software industry is holding back the tech industry like you cannot believe. If not for Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC during the 80s and 90s tech would be far more prevalent. Almost every security bug in an MS product was already n
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by wnight 15y ago
> Now ask yourself, with the Greek government in its current position, if it came to you today and asked you to lend it money, not to invest it in some thing or other but merely to pay back previous creditors, would you do it?! Yeah, me
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by wnight 15y ago
Meh. Our governments (USA, Canada, EU) waste more, they just give it to lobbyists. At least this is a bottom-up instead of our top-down theft. Given that the lower income you have the more of your income you spend, giving stimulus packages
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by wnight 15y ago
IMHO the answer is to show Turkey what they're missing. Open our borders (Canadian specifically, but all ideally) to their mistreated (and those from everywhere else) and let them live happy productive lives. Accelerate the brain-drain unti
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by wnight 15y ago
> investors will no doubt assume that financial institutions are state-guaranteed They are state-guaranteed. Too big to fail. Every piece of financial machinery for the debt circus is required and they can't get rid of it or let it fa
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by wnight 15y ago
Hey, learn from our mistakes. Don't stop when corruption is down to manageable levels and pretend it's all good. Go all the way. Don't stop till you've got a transparent society and then come help us get one! If the company that employed yo
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by wnight 15y ago
That was a pretty lame justification in the 1960s. And now we've got macroing text editors and general purpose compression that can recover the space.
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by wnight 15y ago
Thanks to Wikileaks, I don't think traditional government is possible. It probably never worked, but it certainly isn't now. Just government would require the death penalty for politicians who deal in secret. Until the citizens are actually
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by wnight 15y ago
The problem is that there's no agreement. It's kept secret because they know the people don't want the law. There's no need to keep just laws secret, because they don't offend the citizens in whose name the country is ruled. ACTA is a corru
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by wnight 15y ago
Why won't you name the company? I don't get this, it's not like you accused them of a crime or something. Why would it matter?
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by wnight 15y ago
Part of the job is being able to do your job in a meeting, or with a client. You don't need to be perfect, just don't freeze.
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by wnight 15y ago
I'd like that. I always feel a little skeptical, applying for an open position, that I'll be seen. But with a test I know it'll weed out the thousands of applicants and the company might actually be hiring on merit. You could mention the ex

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