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by woodman 10y ago
> What's got energy expenditure to do with logic? Nothing, but it has everything to do with the point immediately proceeding - evolutionary pressure. > ...it would have to have been logically evaluated before it became subconscio
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by woodman 10y ago
No, people suck at it - just look at your first sentence. There are a lot of likely reasons, my favorite being evolutionary pressure: 10,000 years ago two men see the tall grass twitch, while one scrambles up a nearby tree the other consid
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...a person openly said they're ex-CIA. It was my understanding that he first misrepresented himself as a State Department employee, then for some reason came clean several years later. I think filtering that sort of behavior out
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by woodman 10y ago
Hear, hear! We mustn't allow others to buy things that we don't approve of from markets not easily bent to our will by force! Who would want a baby that has been in dirty bathwater?
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by woodman 10y ago
If they actually use cold storage - as they say they do, then those bitcoins aren't going to be stolen. It would be far more likely that the system that accounts for ownership would get attacked, and that is a risk that existed long b
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by woodman 10y ago
An appeal to the masses and an appeal to authority in just the first two sentences - I've never seen that done here before now.
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by woodman 10y ago
> In any case, NSA can already do what you mentioned given leaks mention active targeting. I see it as a massive difference: dragnet scope, loss of forward security due to precomputed magic numbers, etc. While the threat is hypothetical
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by woodman 10y ago
We certainly share an interest. > Yet, the Tor project themselves answer this one: it's vulnerable to a global, passive adversary. Vulnerable to traffic analysis, I'm sure certain organizations wouldn't mind seeing that vu
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by woodman 10y ago
> Makes it funny they're so worried about bringing CIA in. Except for the fact that the USG actually buys into the concept of NOBUS, as evidenced not only in the classification system - but also foreign policy (the proliferation of
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by woodman 10y ago
0) Carnivore. I imagine the NSA would have preferred that to have not happened. To anthropomorphize the FBI: it is like an officer of Planned Parenthood who frequently goes off message, talking about head measurements and quoting Margaret
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by woodman 10y ago
"You have the power Mike Please make it stop" -- Paul Christoforo, while being crushed by the internet hate machine.
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by woodman 10y ago
I've seen this happen before at a company that I'm too embarrassed to name, where leadership started to behave irrationally like ants infected by zombie fungus. The CEO wanted laptops to be stocked in checkout aisles - where impu
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by woodman 10y ago
This happened on the other link to their message board, and it doesn't surprise me - the CEO has plopped himself in the middle of a very charged issue, making it difficult to discuss the issue without it getting personal. HN is great,
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by woodman 10y ago
The use of "I" vs "we" has been studied by a lot of people in a lot of different contexts, and intelligent people have arrived at very different conclusions. So I have no idea what a complete lack of attribution means,
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by woodman 10y ago
> Most CEO's hide... As they should when they're so divorced from reality that they provide the justifications that this guy has. Open dialog is nice, but it doesn't mean much when the underlying message is that of hostil
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by woodman 10y ago
Reddit is more of a high fructose corn syrup traincar than an apple pie.
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by woodman 10y ago
Anytime I see this kind of personality, a self promoting businessman, get pissy on the internet - I cross my fingers and hope for another Ocean Marketing. This and cat pictures is to the internet what apple pie is to America :)
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by woodman 10y ago
> metaphors I count two metaphors, used only because the direct explanation failed to get through to you. > Whatever. Are you interested in a constructive discussion or not? I think it is clear that won't happen, "Whatever&q
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by woodman 10y ago
Even when correctly manufactured they do have crappy lifespans, relative to most other things they share the board with. I wouldn't count on most wet capacitors lasting more than 10 years, even when handled with kid gloves. I've
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...there was an ongoing debate about the proper response... I don't know about subway specifics, but the matter was settled a long time ago for buildings - and it didn't take long to arrive at the conclusion. Containment is
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by woodman 10y ago
Martyrdom... the dumbest way to measure the correctness of one's argument.
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...needed to make something sound absurd vary? Sure. That is your point, not mine. I'm saying that you're focusing on the wrong part of the equation. Imagine a machine with two variables that you have influence over, calibr
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by woodman 10y ago
Subtract 588 million reserved IPs, as well as 2 from each subnet (0 and 255). There are also a lot of blocks that are publicly routable but see no use on the internet. If I were to build a rainbow table, I'd start with blocks assigne
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by woodman 10y ago
This wouldn't work without some really bizarre implementation that would make it less of a hash and more of a cipher. The range of potential values is too small and highly structured, generating a rainbow table would be braindead simp
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by woodman 10y ago
> slippery-slope fallacy ... sound absurd by taking it to a far enough extreme. Assuming that you actually value logic, given your choice of words, how do you not see that the magnitude of the absurdity is directly related a faulty premi
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by woodman 10y ago
I don't know if it is overblown, but it is certainly real. I've only experience motion sickness under two conditions: helicopter flight on moonless nights, and developing software for the original rift. It was a real bummer, aft
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by woodman 10y ago
As I understand it, the motion sickness is directly related to rendering lag. Outside of VR there isn't much of an incentive to reduce that lag - as the only people who really care much about it now are the most enthusiastic of PC gam
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by woodman 10y ago
The things you listed are pretty much everything you learn on the way to adulthood, which for a lot of people occurs when they move out and go to college, so you might want to consider that. I worked as a programmer long before the formal e
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...I can't agree with your overall point that using PAM = problem solved. I don't think we have the same problem definition. I'm saying that it solves the problem of authentication implementation details - where the jus
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by woodman 10y ago
> Security and privacy may become an essential product offering. So I used to think that this was an issue of unknown unknowns, but I'm now of the opinion that it is an issue of OPSEC valuation. Experience is the best teacher when

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