jamieb

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by jamieb 12y ago
Why buy a computer from a company that has ties to the US government, an authoritarian government that supports dictators in Africa, the Middle-East, South America, and East Asia, including torture, drug smuggling, misogyny, and has itself
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Popular electricity smart meters in Spain can be hacked, researchers say(reuters.com)
6 points by jamieb 12y ago|1 comments
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by jamieb 12y ago
"“The thing we try to help people acknowledge is that anonymous doesn’t mean untraceable,” says Byttow.
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by jamieb 12y ago
Am about to buy/build PC right now. It will be a six-core socket 2011 CPU with a couple of 780s. All the CPUs are little 1150s. Guess I'm not your target audience?
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by jamieb 12y ago
A response from Jonathan Ellis, via jancona: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/how-not-to-benchmark-cassan...
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by jamieb 12y ago
Here's another quote: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." My experience, anecdotal as it is, is that an open space per team is the most effective. This being science, when has the
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by jamieb 12y ago
"TDD creates bad architecture". What is good architecture? I subscribe to the idea that we are doing software engineering and as such there are some "generally" understood principles such as SOLID, the Law of Demeter, Cy
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by jamieb 12y ago
Isn't some part of their culture "be disruptive"? How does that square with "OMG Don't fuck it up!"
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by jamieb 12y ago
Will they start doing that to my phone line too? Selling my call history to third parties?
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by jamieb 13y ago
when someone gets your $197,000 house for $134, they can sell it for $71,000 and take $6000 in legal fees, interest etc, as documented in the article. The owner loses $130,000. Don't be surprised if the person buying the house for $71,
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by jamieb 13y ago
>We have a standardised desktop operating system that is familiar to nearly every computer user on the planet, And then there's Windows 8. Also, while we're on the subject, my 8 year old can put together an amazing Keynote pres
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by jamieb 13y ago
Hi. My team is responsible for the checkout process at a large company. I won't give exact numbers, but more than $100m goes through our teams two pages. >by the time I'm entering my credit card details, I'm already "
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by jamieb 13y ago
That's my point.
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by jamieb 13y ago
Yes. This is my point. =) Only by actually working out all these details can we have just laws, and IMHO, we would discover that most of our laws are not just. We want law that prevents criminals from breaking into banks and stealing your c
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by jamieb 13y ago
Yes, we should have black and white laws, and unit tests for them. So someone could write a unit test for "Will this allow the NSA to create a secret court that is outside the rule of law?" or "Does accessing a university com
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by jamieb 13y ago
From your source: "Illicit drugs were detected in 344 cases (34%)"
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by jamieb 13y ago
>That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not. Do you have a link for that?
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by jamieb 13y ago
I think there needs to be an acknowledgement that the NSA, the FBI, and the government in general are not staffed by angels or robots, but by human beings, and that some of these human beings are criminals. The very fact that Snowden got al
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by jamieb 13y ago
Side question: has the State now successfully argued that I can secretly record all conversations provided that I do not listen to them until I later get a warrant or court order? Personally I think the two-party consent laws for recording
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by jamieb 13y ago
FTA: "Take the example of a tester, or a 3rd line support analyst – in the main their ranks are filled with the below-par programmer. They help the process by reduce the programmers’ work load and don’t cost as much to the CFO’s bottom
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by jamieb 13y ago
Belief: >It doesn't produce bad habits or bad intentions, because this is totally dependant on the persons character. Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
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by jamieb 13y ago
>but the U.S. government stepping in to FORCE employers Sounds like you're against the US Government. >Unfortunately, because you are replaceable you don't have pull and SHOULD NOT have pull. A clever businessman would organ
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by jamieb 13y ago
"Lifetime" because his position is a lifetime position. Congress may in future change the law, but for now, his role in "shaping" the security state is Lifetime. Right now, this statement is accurate. The fact that you c
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by jamieb 13y ago
Seems perfectly accurate to me. You seem to be quibbling over "lifetime" and "power to shape" while at the same time getting bogged down with legal issues. I find this strange since you have a reputation for being good a
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by jamieb 13y ago
"Freer"? The number of citizens in prison has vastly accelerated in the last 20 years [1]. This alone is proof that we are not freer. No need to shoot someone in the head when you can throw them in jail for a joke on facebook [2],
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by jamieb 13y ago
"We have to...protect the general public and specifically, in this case, with it involving school children, we have to act." This is disgusting. If someone says what he did it means one of two things: 1. He really meant it, and is
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by jamieb 13y ago
Wikipedia again: "Originally a neutral term, since the mid-1960s it has acquired a somewhat derogatory meaning, implying a paranoid tendency to see the influence of some malign covert agency in events.[5] The term is sometimes used to
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by jamieb 13y ago
Watergate "Scandal". From wikipedia: "On September 15, a grand jury indicted them, as well as Hunt and Liddy,[9] for conspiracy , burglary, and violation of federal wiretapping laws." I find it interesting that when the
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by jamieb 13y ago
2001: Planted Linden Trees. (hmmm. maybe toxic to bees) 2002: no dead bees. 2003: no dead bees. ... 2012: no dead bees. 2013:6/17 Sprayed Lindren trees with insecticides toxic to bees 2013:6/20 25,000 dead fucking bees Conclusion:
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by jamieb 13y ago
Seriously. Let's be honest. We used to torture people in extreme cases, but the person doing it knew that (a) it was illegal, and (b) if they were exposed they would be disavowed. (Of course, they might get away with it if they had som

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