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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
And what is the cause of the difference in the amount of damage now vs. then? (Hint: It's not the arson.)
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
So, your suggestion is that the dry forests cause climate change? Or is it the fires? Or does a common cause cause climate change and dry forests and fires, but the forests drying out has nothing to do with temperatures? Like, are you serio
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Sorry, but I have to call BS on that. Having lost ~50 lbs last year (after my blood pressure started getting scary), I can tell you it's all about planning and self-discipline. Ah, I see, you have the highest possible qualificatio
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
The hard part isn't the "FKSE API", the hard part is for the "FKSE driver" to be able to do anything other than talk to that API. Like, scheduling, talking to storage, the network, whatever is needed to actually imp
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Wouldn't a long string of failed predictions be indicative of failure to understand...? No, the number of failures is completely meaningless, just as the number of successes is. The only thing that is relevant is the ratio of succ
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Stamps on paper cards are more prone to fraud Given how much fraud is happening with customer data (that is: it being acquired under a pretense and then used for a different purpose), I very much doubt it. > require more physical pr
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
That isn't actually true. It would be perfectly possible to build a payment system where the participants by default don't know the identity of most other parties. Like, it would be perfectly possible for a merchant to encrypt the
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
Except the _website_ doesn't have to know the IP address? It is perfectly sufficient for your IP stack to know it while the connection is established, and then immediately forget it.
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
Except there is absolutely no problem with loyalty programs. There is only a problem with collecting data for loyalty programs. Loyalty programs used to be done with stamps on paper cards, if you had a card full of stamps, you could get a r
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> how is it ethical to attempt to restrict another person's freedom? By preventing greater harm to others that would result if you didn't. Seriously, that wasn't obvious?
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
You have it all backwards. What a string in any language means is defined by the language specification. If the JSON spec doesn't say that '01' is an octal number, then it's not an octal number. What you would like it to
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Remember when I mentioned "cyber"? That's because I'm using the terms in the context that professionals do in cybersecurity contexts. What that means is that the pudding analogy is irrelevant. 1. Well, one thing tha
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Yes, it's a security problem when they can do something without your permission. (So I'd argue it's less a leak and more a disclosure when they do have your permission, as is the case here). Well, but do they actually ha
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> People are quite aware (imperfectly , but still pretty well) of what can go wrong, and they 've decided that losing some liberties is a small price to pay. In other words: They do not understand that they are losing all liberties?
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Yes, but not when talking about cyber-things. Yes, precisely there. > Generally, we only enter the realm of security of the information leak is secret or unintentional, neither of which is the case here. So, you are telling me the u
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Thankfully, liberal democracies are free enough so audiences in the west are informed of the consequences of surveilance (humiliating border controls, incarceration, police brutality), and they are largely OK with it. I don't see
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Yes, i think they are at this point. "Nothing to hide, nothing to fear" is the dominant ideology. The world's most expensive, desireable cities are also the most surveilled. This might be taken as a sign of democracies s
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Surveillance democracy is a thing, as is surveillance communism/putinism/erdoganism. The difference is that democracies have found a way to manufacture the consent of the majority, while in autocracies it's easier to pin
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Phones can be tracked? So can anything if the interested party is rich enough, powerful enough or dedicated enough. In other words: Nothing is dangerous, because there is always another way to achieve the same thing if your resources a
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Authoritarian control has gotten hold of both democracies and non-democracies and people are fine with it. And how is democracy doing in places where authoritation control has gotten out of hand? After all, you are claiming that democr
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> I am much more concerned about someone being able to impersonate me Well, great?! > (security) Erm ... no? > than to know what I'm doing (privacy) Privacy is not about what your software knows, it's about who else gets
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Security is distinct from privacy. No, it's not. Security is not a goal in itself, it can not be, security is only about guaranteeing other goals, there is no security absent all other goals. What it means for software to be insec
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
For one, the law is not being applied consistently. The abusers are still not in jail. Rather, the abuse is still going on, still breaking the law. But also, actually, it would be a problem, because the law would still be broken, because th
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> This has nothing to do with preventing the reveal of mass security violations and everything to do with laws put in place to disincentivize bad actors who are in a position of trust from profiting from the leaking of state secrets. So,
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Otherwise anyone can do a few years in jail and then make $x million by telling what he saw while working for CIA/NSA etc. Why do you think that the only two alternatives is to allow people to sell secrets to foreign governments a
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> It's counterproductive from a security standpoint. From what kind of twisted security standpoint is it counterproductive to allow someone to reveal mass security violations? I don't think it is useful to participate in the
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> It's a frustrating situation because intelligence agencies obviously do need to keep secrets Or do they? I mean, it's not that there can not be advantages to doing so, but then the same can be said about torture, about killin
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> Liability: If a customer repairs a machine improperly and it causes more problems, or someone gets hurt, it can paint the manufacturer in a bad light. Many farmers know how to operate a tractor safely, but might not know how to disasse
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
> if I flip a coin, I know exactly the odds of getting heads, but I don't know whether I will get heads unless I can exactly predict the future state of the world. No, that is a fundamental misunderstanding of what odds are. Odds ar
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by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC 7y ago
You are definitely not a scotsman.

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