fuqua

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by fuqua 12y ago
If you read the bottom of NIST's press release, they've tasked their Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (recently co-chaired by Vint Cerf) to do a review of NIST's crypto standardization process. Their review will be
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by fuqua 13y ago
"Attackers used a well-known method to bring down a system known as Denial of Service (DoS) - in which huge amounts of data are forced on a target, causing it to fall over." Really? If it's so well-known, then perhaps Dave Le
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by fuqua 13y ago
Yes, for sure. As someone who works there, there's nothing more annoying for staff assistants sitting through hundreds of irrelevant calls from uninformed people reading a script. It's not a problem to call offices already in su
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by fuqua 13y ago
This is the right question. ICANN likes to put out these happy press releases, but they don't give us the details. It's necessary to name and shame the TLDs that are behind the curve.
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by fuqua 13y ago
I can't get it to work in Washington, DC. I smell a conspiracy...
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by fuqua 13y ago
So, what's your plan re: pushing legislation? Have you identified who in Congress will serve as a champion for your cause? Are there any lists of specific demands that any good legislation would address? Changing your avatar on Face
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by fuqua 13y ago
Here's the difference. The banks control something critical: the financial system. What's the critical system for the tech companies? The Internet. Tech companies don't control it, so they don't have as much leverage
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by fuqua 13y ago
I'm just curious -- What do you want to do with your design/coding knowledge? I'm in the non-tech world and have the desire to learn for the sake of learning, but I also want to know what the hell I'm going to do with i
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by fuqua 13y ago
It's blocked by my work firewall. Oh well!
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by fuqua 13y ago
Sounds like a personal problem.
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by fuqua 13y ago
So, what are you working on?
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by fuqua 13y ago
The HN DDoS attack strikes again...
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by fuqua 13y ago
"Keep in mind here that Chehadi was appointed by the US government, who has remained silent on this matter." No, he wasn't. ICANN appoints its own President/CEO. There is no US confirmation of that position. None.
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by fuqua 13y ago
No mention of their funding from the National Science Foundation that helped them get off the ground? http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=100660 http://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show
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by fuqua 13y ago
Basically everything beyond Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid is discretionary spending. If you get rid of those, then yes, military spending looks huge as a share of discretionary spending. There are dozens of sites breaking down
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by fuqua 13y ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/... Will hurricane "Jim" really make people think about Senator Inhofe? I don't think so.