IsThisObvious

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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
So you honestly believe that if someone kidnapped the Duke of Cambridge's newborn son, it wouldn't be international news, because "it happens too often"? I routinely get stories about single families in China who have ha
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Many humans "thrive" in conditions that are illegal to put humans in to. I don't really see your point, since it doesn't even remotely talk about the relative rates of the two populations or compare what would happen wit
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> What was targeted was the hosting provider that was hosting 95% of child pornography in the deep web, and that hosting provider also happened to host Tormail and a bunch of other non child pornography websites. What the government did
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
The child's parents were, a fact you seem to be ignoring in your analysis; I expect we'd see international headlines at the kidnapping of Michael Jackson's child or the kidnapping of the new son of the Duke of Cambridge. Do y
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Some other species: things like raccoons, crows, cows, pigeons, rats, mice, dogs, house cats, etc are all likely to thrive.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Michael Jackson's death drew a worldwide audience.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> We're already seeing the first stages. Can you support this? We're not seeing any mass deaths which are sufficient to even slow the population growth rate, and instead, seem to simply be seeing more statistically unlikely eve
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> I doubt having a line drawn that says you're not an adult until you're 18 years old, and until then you're still a child will keep working in this century. It worked when social dynamics between teenagers and adults were
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
How is paying me money any different if my only option if I quit was live on the streets and starve?
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Maybe the answer is to have a program that adds low scale random noise to as many images as it can before upload to the internet. It would be easy enough to make a one-click batch process, and would help provide cover noise for real communi
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
I agree with what you said, just wanted to add an aside about privileges: You can set up a situation where a team has shared access to a particular folder, and install the necessary programming tools there. ie, set PREFIX to /projects&
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
I say Ballmer is a bad CEO because of the stack ranking employee evaluations and the rampant smothering of prototype technologies that later turned out to be valuable in favor of "core" technologies - you know, the two behaviors t
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
I pay for Tumblr by providing information they use for various purposes. Information has value, and is being exchanged for a service.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> Obviously we worry about more things in this society than body counts, like civil liberties and the liberty to live our lives out of the shadow of bombers. Yes, all it really takes to stop the terror of terrorism is to not play along b
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> Mind you, I am not defending the NSA strategy, I don't know if it is justifiable, I am just saying that Greenwald doesn't make any effort to let some opposing views to be presented. Here's some fun statistics: There are
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Yep. This part of what the legal system is up to is clearly what people should be upset about and protesting in the streets.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Pressure equipment, specifically sort of mid-scale items for laboratory and small-batch use. Our low level code (ie, directly controlling machines) is written in the SPARK environment. This code tends not to get updated often, and has a hig
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
The code generator we use (at my job; not crypto) was written in Coq and formally verified to generate code with certain properties, given properties of the input. I assume that the crypto group I know, who developed most of the code genera
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
We go beyond unit tests to verify that the algorithms can't create certain states by any execution path, etc. Formal verification of software properties is an interesting field.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
I know people who write crypto software that must conform to formal verification of the algorithm, requires detailed design documentation before a single line of code, etc.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
I help write microcontroller code for pressure equipment management. If something goes sufficiently wrong in heating/fails to properly vent, an explosion can occur, endangering everyone in the area. Even unrelated code is heavily audit
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Yes, avoiding my point by picking at the word choice when the context made it clear that I was talking about oversight by the population, not indirect ones is a totally valid reply. Similarly, if word never filters back, they can't exe
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Except that, you know, this effectively removes any citizen oversight, which is core to democratic societies.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> The obvious counterpoint is that off-the-shelf crypto has been available for 20 years, and effectively nobody uses it. Sorry for the delay, I just saw your comment and wanted to respond to this: The point isn't that /everyone
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> I'm not a pro-cryptographer, just a lowly pentester. Not sure what I'll do now.f Release it with a big "WARNING - EXPERIMENTAL" at the top and don't claim it's a secure solution for end-users? That seems t
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
> And that is okay for most software, but not cryptography. I'd be fine with it if they just slapped big red letters across the top saying "WARNING - EXPERIMENTAL". Why? Because people do need to experiment with topics and
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Another domain where you have things like this is embedded systems related to safety, ie, the micro-controller managing pressure equipment.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
Except that they don't actually need that data to do the following: * Being able to retrieve a stolen car * Not being blown up by terrorists * Practice any religion I choose * Fly safely between 5 states and 5 different countries * Dri
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
What. The. Fuck.
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by IsThisObvious 13y ago
The debate is partly this: forcing you to produce an encryption key /also/ testifies that the drive belongs to you (or you had access to it). You are not necessarily obligated to testify to that fact for the police, and unless the

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