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by ott2 12y ago
Thanks for a sensible explanation about the possible rationale of the actors. Perhaps a different way to distil your point: the film industry is stuck in a particular local optimum, and one needs to take into account the position of the ac
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by ott2 13y ago
Your first point is false -- in some countries bauxite is processed with power from coal-fired plants. Your other points seem valid.
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by ott2 13y ago
Since you claim not to be a statistician, pardon me if I also ignore your unsubstantiated opinion that the null hypothesis was "so shitty that they practically guaranteed p<.05".
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by ott2 13y ago
The takeaway of the article seems to be: when fighting limited-liability companies, being irrational is a good tactic. It is sad if guerilla warfare is the only option left when fighting corporate actions one disagrees with.
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by ott2 13y ago
Worryingly accurate metaphor: Unix is Christianity, complete with Linus as Luther.
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by ott2 13y ago
TL;DR: the "creativity" label has been grabbed by the ruling classes to justify their own social position, and has little to do with what used to be called creativity. (This may be an interesting insight, but I'm not sure th
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by ott2 13y ago
You cannot know whether the date the content was published will be relevant for a reader or not. It is not your assessment of timeliness that matters, but the reader's. So in the interest of doing the right thing, don't obscure
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by ott2 13y ago
Your summary is worth a thousand web sites.
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by ott2 13y ago
Check the date -- the proposal is a month old. So Bruce Schneier's comments may be relevant, but one can't really accuse Brian Smith of ignoring them.
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by ott2 13y ago
Some of the OpenSSH and IETF mailing list archives about SSH also make interesting reading. Exactly why does RFC 4253 mandate Group 1 and Group 14 as the only required key exchange mechanisms? (They were defined by RFC 2412, written by so
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by ott2 13y ago
So, Mr Smith wants to add a bunch of elliptic curve options (using the NIST curves, weakest P-256 first), while removing the widely used TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 due to "concerns" about "performance" and an unsubs
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by ott2 13y ago
It was fun playing the old Infocom games on Frotz (just add the Z3/Z4/Z5 sources using the file transfer feature on iOS). For iOS, the sources are at http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/ and http:&#x2
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by ott2 13y ago
As with any juicy enough collection of data, the relevant question is not "what if an adversary gains access" but "when".
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by ott2 13y ago
This is completely unmotivated. The author seems to conflate running a DNS server that is authoritative-only with running a server that handles recursive queries. It is a bad idea running a server running recursive queries blindly: as the
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by ott2 13y ago
The second main point: with declining volatility, there is less space for HFT strategies to profit. What I didn't see in the article was an explicit discussion of transaction costs. Transaction tax would increase those costs, but was part
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by ott2 13y ago
Another key point: "the SEC is sharing information with the FBI to probe manipulative trading practices by some HFT firms" and now has the infrastructure to detect anomalies.
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by ott2 13y ago
So if metadata is somehow distinct and separate from what it describes, does this mean that the shutdown of sites pointing to copyright-infringing content will stop?
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by ott2 14y ago
Missing option: http://www.vienna-rss.org/
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eBay Bans Sales of Spells, Curses, Advice and Other ‘Intangibles’(wired.com)
1 points by ott2 14y ago|0 comments
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by ott2 14y ago
Is there a reason to link to a cut-and-paste instead of the original at http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1729.html ?
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by ott2 14y ago
Search for constraint programming solutions to "nurse rostering" problems.
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by ott2 14y ago
The sensible treatment of a "secret question" is as a second password. Since it acts in parallel with the password, like a second door to your house, it should be at least as hard to guess as the "main" password. I would go further than sa
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Nano-scale art, smaller than grain of sand (Kickstarter project)(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ott2 15y ago|0 comments
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About that bubble: AppleMicrosoft+Google (market cap)(macrumors.com)
1 points by ott2 15y ago|0 comments
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Banks got bailed out, the 99% got sold out(necsi.edu)
1 points by ott2 15y ago|0 comments
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Free markets have costs: repeal of uptick rule led to Citigroup bear raid(arxiv.org)
3 points by ott2 15y ago|1 comments
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Why NFL teams are owned by the wealthy (except Green Bay Packers)(shaunagm.net)
3 points by ott2 15y ago|0 comments
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Derman: gradient of unequal opportunity > attraction of common destiny(blogs.reuters.com)
1 points by ott2 15y ago|0 comments
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Regulators systematically ignore evidence that deregulation has broken markets(necsi.edu)
11 points by ott2 15y ago|6 comments
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Recursive BIND 9 servers: remote denial of service, actively being exploited(isc.org)
1 points by ott2 15y ago|0 comments

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