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by xoa 1y ago
> What is the answer? WHITELISTING. It's utterly infuriating the obvious, time tested strategy with all the technological pieces already in place and an easy slot-in for government isn't at the tip of everyone's tongue. J
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by xoa 1y ago
> As far as I understand, the key material for any post quantum algorithm is much, much larger compared to non-quantum algorithms which leads to huge overheads in network traffic and of course CPU time. Eh? Public-key (asymmetric) crypt
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by xoa 1y ago
FWIW and depending on where you are this could be down to local regulations. A lot of (most?) polities do not allow insurance companies to simply set prices based on their assessment of risks and the market, but rather place extremely heavy
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by xoa 1y ago
> The government not funding something isn't persecution So you're not just getting down votes, worth noting that you are incorrect to state this as an absolute, as a matter of both law and common sense. It is very well establ
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St. Paul, MN was hacked so badly that the National Guard has been deployed(arstechnica.com)
9 points by xoa 1y ago|1 comments
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Bankrupt Futurehome suddenly makes its smart home hub a subscription service(arstechnica.com)
21 points by xoa 1y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 1y ago
> Also, going back to get the tools or change the vehicle is incredibly stupid because: 1) crews already know what they're going to be dealing with before they leave They have precognition and can see into the future and know that
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by xoa 1y ago
Yes, the article does sort of half-heartedly acknowledge that, though via Google stating the obvious vs any journalism on the BBC's part: > "Google says the system is supposed to be supplementary and is not a replacement for na
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by xoa 1y ago
Yes, very good you're capable of a simplistic wikipedia search. Now I'd like you to try thinking about the paragraph you just linked for a moment: is "Hawaii", the "300 streetlights", "numerous burglar ala
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by xoa 1y ago
> Few big nukes are enough to take out all satellites. Um, no. Not even vaguely remotely. "Thousands of satellites" is a lot by historical human space standards, but compare that to the number of cars you see every day and the
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by xoa 1y ago
> Opt in means nothing in the face of a legal subpoena Or scarier, a National Security Letter the government claims the company can't even talk about except maybe in secret court. Or perhaps scariest, a """"Nati
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by xoa 1y ago
Yes, this is my take as well, and I think it's the correct one from both a technical and legal POV. It's one thing for the government to try to compel an organization or person to create a feature they want from scratch. They have
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Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras(eff.org)
381 points by xoa 1y ago|193 comments
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by xoa 1y ago
> I was under the impression that iOS devices were prevalent among wealthy and aspiring wealthy Americans, but that middle class and lower class Americans were much more likely to have Android devices. I think your impression is pretty
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by xoa 1y ago
> Only possible AC is those single hose mobile units which are wildly inefficient and close to useless while burning energy. FWIW at least in the US (and I can't imagine they wouldn't be available worldwide) there are also dua
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by xoa 1y ago
> I am really struggling to see the technical solution here. Are you? Comments are full of obvious solutions like using your own hardware, which you clearly understand. > We’re talking about a device in a home that the owner doesn’t
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by xoa 1y ago
> You can’t solve social problems with technical solutions. Sure, this has a fair amount of truth to it. However, security is not a social problem, it's an economic one. No one, not even the most well funded and skilled organizatio
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Against Ironic Detachment(techdirt.com)
5 points by xoa 1y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 1y ago
> The Defense Production Act exists. Perhaps you'd care to elaborate on what you think this means? Title 2 of the DPA did indeed allow seizing of private property, but like 4, 5, and 6 expired and no longer exists under present law
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by xoa 1y ago
> A private space industry exists despite their plans not because of them. No, this is completely opposite to reality. The current US private space industry was absolutely the result in large part of a rare modern spell of good policy d
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by xoa 1y ago
> It seems likely that the Pentagon will soon force SpaceX to merge into another contractor I'm sorry but what? SpaceX is private, not public, and regardless the Pentagon has zero power to force any such thing. It's making gob
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by xoa 1y ago
> So they do all that (and iPhone sales alone cover basically everything Apple does), and they are "entitled" to charging for a business transaction that happens between users and non-Apple businesses? Yes, absolutely they are
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by xoa 1y ago
I can't speak for OP but I too use per-company or per-service emails, and no they have zero connection to my main email (not even the domain actually, domains are cheap so I have multiple ones for different purposes). Since I started d
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by xoa 1y ago
> I'm always astounded by the self-centeredness humans are capable of. In this instance I'm sorry but this is the wrong take. The fantastic article directly addresses that in fact, and it jives with what I was taught as part o
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by xoa 1y ago
Geez what a cluster* of a comment. You mix in a bunch of theoreticals you came up with in 5 seconds that cover different domains and then don't actually go to the effort of critically examining your own statements, which is appreciated
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by xoa 1y ago
> however, you would immediately have a civil case against the person and/or their representative for their false claim. That's not spelled out in the bill but it should be obvious. Wow. Not sure if this is ludicrously bad fai
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by xoa 1y ago
> This is what I don't get about tipping percentage based. It makes no sense to me. Of course it makes sense and I think you understand it even if (very reasonably!) you don't like it: it's a rough but effective effort at
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by xoa 1y ago
> but the prices would also be commensurately higher. No, the prices would be more transparent , not higher . You've made clear in other comments ITT that you believe tipping to be mandatory ("If you don't want to tip,
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by xoa 1y ago
> On a less academic note this is a major problem for science that relies on surveys, because even when anonymous people have an awareness that they're "speaking" to someone and being "judged" in some way. People
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by xoa 1y ago
Agreed, in general I'm disappointed that so many government regulations (on both sides of both ponds, this is one issue that's pretty universal) are just simplistic hard coded numbers. Even with carve outs I think that's much

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