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by woodman 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluggable_authentication_modul... That is pretty much the first thing I do when I inherit a project with authentication. You don't need to make another company your application'
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...instead relying on another service for authentication. If you are suggesting something like on-premises Kerberos, I agree - better yet: just design with PAM in mind. But if you are suggesting something like "login with faceboo
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by woodman 10y ago
Is this a funny joke, a possible accusation of equivocation with no further information?
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...there's an existing mechanism to deal with it: government regulation. Lay your hopes on a monopoly on force to solve an economic monopoly? That doesn't seem like a well founded long term solution.
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by woodman 10y ago
Ah, well you might want to stick to a more defensible complaint - because two sentences is all it took to make you look like an uninformed loon.
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by woodman 10y ago
> That's not a likely enough occurence to justify... Neither is the "mass shooting" likely enough to occur to justify a major curtailment of the second amendment. You are more likely to drown in a paint bucket. You aren&
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by woodman 10y ago
So utilitarian... you know that "self defense" covers scenarios that involve more than one aggressor right? Are you proposing a more democratic form of self defense, where the mob is effectively always right? That is ignoring th
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by woodman 10y ago
Again: "So while the US is not a war zone, when does such a moral principle kick in?" Concerns over moral principles might be totally irrelevant to you though, if you are a utilitarian/end-justifies-the-means sort of guy.
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by woodman 10y ago
When I was in Fallujah we let each household keep one AK (which was almost always full-auto). Why did we do this? Because it is immoral to strip an individual of all means for self defense, especially when we knew that we couldn't pr
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...would it really be an infringement on the author's rights ... he would need to have 3 separate guns for sporting, hunting, and use of force? How do you imagine that is even technically possible? A venn diagram of those gun cla
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by woodman 10y ago
> Isn't that what war is all about? Boys and testosterone? It's that simple. Boys and toys. I have to assume that you aren't even half seriously suggesting this. What about all the war that happened during the majority of
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by woodman 10y ago
> \1 I think you have below average reading comprehension. Adjacent sentences aren't necessarily conflated concepts. > \2 Not football?
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by woodman 10y ago
It isn't appropriate for cubism though, which is an attempt to render multiple perspectives to a single point of view. In this case time is the only extra dimension available, so it is a missed opportunity. But if the goal isn't
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by woodman 10y ago
I don't think any further examples of the association fallacy are necessary. Isn't it obvious that such analogies are debate tools, not useful in actual conversation? Do you expect someone to further the conversation about FreeB
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...you can almost never narrow them down... That might be because the "antagonists" are motivated by something more complex than whatever bulletpoint you're focused on... like the concept of free software. Try to think
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by woodman 10y ago
> If your build hasn't changed very significantly... Change one character in one file that gets linked at the end of the build, the syntax check would go from 7 minutes to 3.5 on average - still too slow. You're also overlooki
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by woodman 10y ago
Have you got a specific beef with Friedman, or are you just generally complaining about prominent conservatives from the 80s? What position did he take that would support civil asset forfeiture?
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by woodman 10y ago
The fastest I've ever seen clang compiled, with ccache and in memory fs, was 7 minutes - which is a long time for a syntax check. Just browse any buildbot dashboard. You could use libclang for interactive evaluation - but boy does it
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by woodman 10y ago
I know that you have a good grasp on security, not only is it in your name - but we've discussed the issue before... so the position you're taking on this is surprising. You've never seen an employee blatantly violate securi
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by woodman 10y ago
Yes. There are a lot of rational explanations for why you'd break security protocols, there is no good reason to come into work wearing a wire. Would you rather have to explain a login to IT security, or explain the pinhole camera ta
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by woodman 10y ago
The concern is a plausible cover for action. Your suggested solution would be a little difficult to explain away - especially considering the kind of coworkers you'd have at the NSA. Instead of explaining why you're archiving al
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by woodman 10y ago
"An NSA official offered up several options for dealing with NBC News, only one of which was left unredacted..." I understand not wanting to make public internal conversations, but this sort of redaction really sets the imaginatio
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by woodman 10y ago
Technically it is, colloquially it isn't.
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by woodman 10y ago
I did read your entire post - several actually. So if you were not referring to the slide with Al-Qaeda related operational details (referenced in your John Oliver link), what did he neglect to redact? If that is not the thing you want to
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by woodman 10y ago
> he was quite literally dealing with matters of national security Do you think that Al-Qaeda is a greater threat to national security than a spy agency run amok? Justifying prosecution with such logic... it reminds me of the story abou
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by woodman 10y ago
As the others have said, indivisible operations. This is important in the context of race conditions, imagine two threads incrementing a counter with no locks. Using non-atomic ops to read, increment and then store the number will lead to
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by woodman 10y ago
What details did you have in mind? Even if we were to ignore the nature of the state as envisioned by his party, the President's actions clearly demonstrate that he is a proponent of state secrets - a pardon would directly undercut th
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by woodman 10y ago
I suppose that depends on how you define "legitimate" in this context. If you mean communist infiltrators, none; if you mean government workers leaking information to journalists, all. https://www.propublica.org/s
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by woodman 10y ago
More prosecutions under the Espionage Act than every prior administration combined... I don't see a pardon in the cards. Also, a trial balloon wouldn't be Holder calling for a trial - that has been said many times by many politic
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by woodman 10y ago
What a load of BS. He praises him for "raising the debate", but condemns him for "...the way he did it -- was inappropriate and illegal..." then going on to invite him to "Go to trial, try to cut a deal." The

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