hyperplane

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by hyperplane 13y ago
Or they're simply under investor pressure to put on those big boy pants over achieving feature parity.
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by hyperplane 13y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but who is doing the blocking? Is it American sites willingly censoring for legal reasons, or is the Cuban government blocking them for the country's own ISP?
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by hyperplane 13y ago
For as much as AMD shows promise in their graphics line, if one thing is clear it is that the Bulldozer architecture has been a humiliating failure on the CPU side: extremely high TDPs and terrible performance vs. equivalent Intel *y Bridge
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by hyperplane 13y ago
Nope. Unless it's something I need to keep around (taxes, insurance, usual "business of life" things,) I don't keep any of my email, messages, etc. for more than a few months at best. Nostalgia can prove to be an enemy o
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by hyperplane 13y ago
The current basis for this is John Gilmore's speculation[1] on a cryptography mailing list. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123...
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by hyperplane 13y ago
The original essay on Stross's blog that led to that FP article is linked in Schneier's post.
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by hyperplane 13y ago
Does OpenVPN support ECDH parameters yet? openssl supports ecparam[1], and polarssl is now supporting it in their development branch[2]. [1] http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ecparam.html [2] https://git
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by hyperplane 13y ago
If this is going to become a pattern, it probably makes more sense to allow the browser chrome to be manipulated in a way so progress bars aren't redundant (i.e. 'pjax' style loading uses the same bar as if you did a real pag
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by hyperplane 13y ago
> Maybe there are better ways of monetising than forcing multiple pages of ads down your users throats? :) Kill the CPM model and your wish will come true. Unfortunately, advertisers often first ask "Well how many pageviews does y
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by hyperplane 13y ago
> Intrusion prevention via fail2ban and rootkit detection via rkhunter. Semantics, semantics, but rkhunter is intrusion detection, not prevention. I don't know what rkhunter would do to stop an intrusion, and fail2ban stopping a bru
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by hyperplane 13y ago
> The cost of healthcare alone makes subsistence living impossible. No. Subsistence living is entirely possible - there are millions of people doing just that somewhere in backwoods wherever, across a multitude of political systems and s
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by hyperplane 13y ago
You don't see it in Singapore because Singapore is a heavily-controlled state where tons of things are capital offenses and you are subjected to physical violence (caning) for things as minor as vandalism.
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by hyperplane 13y ago
Nice opinions, but the primary feeling I get from this is "Designers are closed-minded prima donnas, and the only way to work with them is to talk their language and care about the same things they do." As far as I am concerned, t
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by hyperplane 13y ago
Brilliant advice, but I would (optimistically) assume that Coinbase is doing some or most of these things? Fraud is a pretty well-solved problem for most payment processors. It's a "user-friendly" feature that sacrifices some
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by hyperplane 13y ago
It would be nice to have a better explanation of the types of problems being solved here, because the security space is so massive. Is this websec? appsec? Reverse engineering?
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by hyperplane 13y ago
"I'd like to know what exactly is entailed in becoming compliant with money transmitting and laundering regulations." This. Someone with more understanding of financial regulation, please step in and explain what it is the go
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by hyperplane 13y ago
According to Facebook[1], they exist to "give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." I think it is arguable that Facebook has improved the human condition based upon anecdotal evidence of it mostly
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by hyperplane 13y ago
You think your cognitive dissonance is bad? You're heaps ahead of where the people that "don't care" are. I try to evangelize privacy to friends and family all the time, and 60-80% of the time I am written off or ignor