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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
> Parallel construction does NOT allow law enforcement to I think we're beyond this point now. There is no "what we are allowed to do" vs "what we are not allowed to do". From what we have seen in the past few mo
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
See the comments above about mobile networks and persistent sockets.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Because AFAIR, you need to point to two working implementations of a spec before turning it into an RFC.
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JSON Mail Access Protocol Specification (JMAP)(jmap.io)
98 points by alfiejohn_ 13y ago|61 comments
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
No Google-snooping, and there never will be.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Wow, great comment. That's the first time I've wanted to buy someone Reddit Gold on Hacker News!
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Microsoft on the threshold of deleting ‘appalling’ Windows 8(thetimes.co.uk)
2 points by alfiejohn_ 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft on the threshold of deleting 'appalling' Windows 8 software (theaustralian.com.au)
1 points by alfiejohn_ 13y ago|0 comments
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
I've read a few and they have been really good reads. If there were more swear words, I would have said that Zed Shaw was his ghost writer.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
I just have to say that you're one of my favorite bloggers. Thanks for all your posts.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Thanks cypherpunks01. I flagged it for my to-read list for after work. I'm an idiot and didn't RTFA.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Did your post have to go through some sort of internal review before you were allowed to publish it? I find it weird that you're allowed to blog, let alone blog about the NSA.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
This reminds me of: http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/laura.asp
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
"You mean everybody had to sit down and watch the same thing at the same time?" -- kids of the tomorrow
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
This isn't where the line was crossed. Far from it. Even though eavesdropping on the everyday citizen is a pretty damning thing to do, in their eyes it isn't illegal so they can't understand why everyone is complaining. The l
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
When someone without knowledge in the markets tells you to buy something, it's time to get out. They either heard that golden advice either on TV, the radio or read it in a newspaper but the common denominator was that it was probably
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
> These sorta articles invalidate what I make just because I FEEL like making them. Not sure what to feel about that. Maybe it's because I'm getting old, but I've learned something... stop caring what others are saying and
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Without a doubt turning on the following was the biggest win for me and Vim: set relativenumber
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Gee, she is pretty hard on herself in the post. “Right, well, it’s because you’re young and female.” But I don't think that was the reason... "After lengthy negotiations including a bump to VP, an increase in salary and signing bo
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
We're already in Iceland - from http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/07/03/a-story-of-leaping-second... "We have a complete live-spare datacentre in Iceland. Eventually it will be a fully operational centre
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Like what Bron mentioned above: 'Which comes back to the point I've been trying to make all along here. In the most serious extreme, nowhere in the world is "safe"' Do you have any suggestions for countries that hav
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
"I can only imagine just how incendiary such headlines might become: US Seizes Australian Servers in NSA/FBI/Scary-three-letter-name US Agency Sting Operation. That'd go over real well, especially among Commonwealth nati
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
We're no longer Norwegian :) http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/09/25/exciting-news-fastmail-st...
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
A 14 minute video on how to wake up early? Without watching it, here's my strategy: 1. Set alarm 2. Wake up
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Before deleting my account, I unsubscribed from several groups. Yet two weeks later I was still getting daily updates from the unsubscribed groups. Also, even though I had unsubscribed and they were not on my group list, they still showed u
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
We can already rule out the extra silicon costs. Don't forget that a program like this one would be subsidised. If you can't trust a chip with one instruction, why trust it with the others. I'm in no disagreement with you her
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Instead of saying put up or shut up, let's think if this is within the capabilities of Intel or an impossible feat. First off, the RNG doesn't have to reside in RAM as it could already be in cache. So you're already not going
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Aren't the next instructions going to be in the code cache? So "detecting the code sequence" would seem trivial.
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
Great, but I hope it doesn't follow the book... "Algorithms in C" by Sedgewick is a great book, which uses C to implement the algorithms talked about in the book. "Algorithms" also by Sedgewick, which looks like thi
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by alfiejohn_ 13y ago
This. When the Patriot Act was passed, there were a lot of European companies who were very skeptical about DHS/NSA snooping on their data. Now we've got solid proof that it's happening. Regardless of what the US does now, pe

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