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by ballard 12y ago
It's easy to be an armchair critic dispensing unasked-for advice but harder still to just listen.
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by ballard 12y ago
In formal, established companies this does exist: it's called "decision support analysis (or researcher)." Whether a particular staff person is steeped in academic research, which they should, and whether a particular staff
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by ballard 12y ago
Impossible to calculate considering "truth" is not fact. Also war on drugs: http://boingboing.net/2014/02/27/us-prison-population-up-800...
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by ballard 12y ago
Contrarian clickbait for sure. Also couldn't load the page.
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by ballard 12y ago
For embedded/industrial applications the future is in domain-specific operating systems that are JEOS by virtue of not compling unneeded syscalls. OSes like Linux have way too many ABIs and internal machinery that just aren't nec
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by ballard 12y ago
Does "ultimatum" and "raft of complicated last-minute changes" not raise anyone else's tinfoil paranoia alarms? Those commits should get significant scrutiny, because it sounds like US/CA govt were given an ind
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by ballard 12y ago
Choose one of my adventures: - Deploying a financial app through 4 bastion hosts by keeping Russian doll ssh tunnels up (clients outsource IT bouncing across the world to get to the right boxes) - porting a 8 MLoC fortran nuclear reactor si
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by ballard 12y ago
Ah yes exactly. The "prove them wrong" part, it's important not to attack the accuser but demonstrate that their claims don't hold up. Also if there is something to claims, admit it quickly (kills the story) and show e
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by ballard 12y ago
Seems the same as google hangouts more/less. Looking for something that's 1:N anonymously without a viewer plugin... has a page somewhere that shows a live feed: vimeo, ustream or YT but free to stream.
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by ballard 12y ago
Denying something doesn't carry the same weight and it seems like a PR move, whereas "actions speak louder than words."
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by ballard 12y ago
Right now, researchers are putting together functional brain structure maps combining fMRI, SPECT and PET scans for Alzheimer's research. Apart from the inconvenience of wearing a giant magnet, pulling together one or more brain scan
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by ballard 12y ago
They're not, never will be. Especially if there were a concerted effort to put together a GNU/Linux like open source hardware stack to get rid of the fear, uncertainty and doubt of what's inside commercial processors and chi
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by ballard 12y ago
BusinessWeek (2013) also has a video interview at McMoon: http://businessweek.com/videos/2013-08-15/abandoned-mcdonald... Also yelp reviews of the former McD's (map position is wrong) http://yelp.c
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by ballard 12y ago
This is a dupe because it's already synced to git mirrors of openbsd sources. http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/tree/lib/l... "When I grow up..." Tandem multiplication
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by ballard 12y ago
Sounds good because it suggests sec industry disengagement. Probably simpler to do that and maintain it as a set of minimal patches to LibreSSL, because not many people need it. Either way, it should be secure by default.
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by ballard 12y ago
I guess it begs the question (FIPS mode seems to fail the "talk to a cryptographer rule"): why don't/aren't sec folks more involved to assure standards are meaningful? Was this a NIST-driven process or was it open
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by ballard 12y ago
Definitely. It'll be expensive commercial open source w/ a subscription and delayed to pass FIPS. And LibreSSL will still be more secure.
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by ballard 12y ago
Yup. And it's simpler and therefore more secure to support a smaller codebase without magical modes.
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by ballard 12y ago
FIPS mode is like a clipboard audit. It appears to fulfill a requirement like A+ certifications do for hiring qualified candidates, but instead puts blind faith in process ahead of content.
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by ballard 12y ago
The problem is that being abrasive without displaying a clear, correct opinion won't lead to greater influence. The latter stance is the important bit. Security projects need adversarial discussions to keep them honest, but that'
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by ballard 12y ago
Abrasiveness and being opinionated are mostly orthogonal. I think this is more of a correct opinion (to reduce whale blubber) than intentionally pissing people off.
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by ballard 12y ago
This is great news. FIPS mode is as my grandfather would say: "eyewash." Something that appears to address something by checking boxes on a clipboard audit but doesn't provide anything but security theater.
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by ballard 12y ago
FIPS mode is as my grandfather would say: "eyewash." Something that appears to address something by doesn't. (FIPS mode is a "clipboard audit.")
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by ballard 12y ago
There's three kinds of corruption: - apparent when there isn't (false positive - mistaken) - apparent when there is (obvious) - not apparent when there is (false negative - not obvious) I'd define corruption as a pattern of p
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by ballard 12y ago
Some of the OpenBSD CVS repos as Git repos: http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/ Or DIY: http://cynic.cc/blog/posts/working_with_cvs_via_git/ Does anyone know where LibreSSL sourc
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by ballard 12y ago
I'm interested in this. An app that shares your work-mode laptop to the web more/less all the time would be interesting. Is there anything that can do this in 1-to-web way for free (or willing to exchange for feedback) and where
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by ballard 12y ago
This suggests future work on assistive devices that may be able to "speak for" a patient by ML and manual algorithmic adjustment... Huge quality-of-life improvement potential for people with limited/impaired vocal-ability. B
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by ballard 12y ago
Richard Branson had/has critics that accused him of all sorts of things. His advice, which is similar to Napoleon Hill's, would be to demonstrate actions that are discordant to the accusations. (The bigger of a celeb / more
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by ballard 12y ago
There was a great report on BBC World Service about folks wrongly accused and/or convicted of crimes they didn't commit (in one case, a man was on death row for a couple years). A false accusation is as damaging as authorities not
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by ballard 12y ago
Sounds more likely to shock the pranker than the prankee.

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