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by trotsky 13y ago
Yes. The daily national intelligence briefing content is worlds away from anything that senators get. The only people privy to anything close to the same content would be the members of the intelligence select committee, but they receive pe
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by trotsky 13y ago
Based on some experience with clan gaming back in the day, if you're counting imaginary points on the internet and you're doing really well it's difficult to describe it as disheartening.
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by trotsky 13y ago
They are Yc alum
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by trotsky 13y ago
I know this is all in good fun, but you all are uncomfortably close to describing things that will soon get added to the practical threat landscape. As long as you have a flexible hardware platform that lets you crank up some of the voltage
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by trotsky 13y ago
The answer depends on what kind of key material and applications you use. Sadly there is no one size fits all system. https://www.opensc-project.org/opensc/wiki/OverView this would probably be the place to start,
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by trotsky 13y ago
When I wrote that I definitely debated whether to include tpm in the list because of concerns along those lines. But in the end it's a widely deployed example of that type of technology which makes it a good example. It definitely woul
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by trotsky 13y ago
Every now and then I start thinking that Poulsen is starting to get the hang of honest journalism and some amount of professionalism, and then something like this comes along that makes it obvious he's still the same pathological atten
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by trotsky 13y ago
If you want a realistic chance of not losing control of your private key the only real answers are hardware based - using a tamper resistant smart card, hardware security module, tpm or similar systems in which the signing is done inside th
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by trotsky 13y ago
disclosure of investments, assets and other sources of income is an annual requirement for everyone (or nearly) that works at these agencies. The forms are very thorough and clearly get examined carefully and checked against other sources -
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by trotsky 13y ago
These weren't fp intensive workloads at all - mostly your typical IT IO workloads. I don't know the internals to say exactly what or why, but something seems to go really wrong on bulldozer when you try to schedule two different v
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by trotsky 13y ago
sorry for the late reply - that machine was using bulldozer cores, not piledriver. Also I was exaggerating for effect I guess, that thing has left a bad taste in my mouth. What I really mean is that when compared to a mainstream i7 it sucks
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by trotsky 13y ago
Sorry for the late reply. I am just guessing that it was the shared fp, since that's what i thought the major shared resource was. The workloads were bog standard kind of stuff, so i assume mostly integer work, so it's absolutely
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by trotsky 13y ago
Early access to the knowledge of vulnerabilities is just good customer service when you're talking about your biggest customer who is also very security conscious. It allows them to protect themselves. The fact that the same knowledge
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by trotsky 13y ago
I agree that the blame is shared - the appeal of ubiquitous surveillance and related is just too great for any executive branch to resist at least right now. I'm not entirely sure about congress, I think mostly they're just easily
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by trotsky 13y ago
In a state where even corporate malfesance is rarely pursued and even more rarely punished beyond fines that can be considered a cost of doing business, exactly which of our agencies, representatives or judicial systems are we expecting to
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by trotsky 13y ago
Based on how bulldozer performed, it'll end up that sure it's 5ghz, but did we mention all our instructions take two times the number of clocks now? Virtualiztion host performance on our 8 core bulldozer (esx 5.1, private kbs from
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by trotsky 13y ago
It's true, but at least an older generation sees any kind of out of band disclosure as a fundamental attack on their views ob punishment. My father, for exmaple, recently retired but still works in the intelligence community. He bloody
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by trotsky 13y ago
There is so much demand in maryland for IT that has a clearance that it bids up the price of anyone reasonably competetant.
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by trotsky 13y ago
I've honestly never really quite recovered from watching the dreams of the cypherpunks die so hideously and completely. I guess it's because the ideas / movement / whatever bubbled up when I was at that age when you thin
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DoJ Fights Release of Secret Court Opinion on Unlawful Surveillance of Americans(slate.com)
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by trotsky 13y ago
I'm not on ubuntu right now, but this should be done by an ubuntu specific extension that places the menu bar in the global menu bar area that unity creates in essentially the same place it is on a mac. Should be installed by default on unt
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by trotsky 13y ago
I haven't checked, but I assume the OMGPOP deal was stock. If your CEO was selling stock like mad and your stock is currently worth a fraction of what it was valued at when you did the deal that is a strong piece of evidence that you never
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by trotsky 13y ago
I can't quite parse what you're saying about the reward to risk level being too low for lock in, but having worked with a number of startups that were 100% aws and paying dearly for it thge lock in was their major problem - ec2 ancillary pr
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by trotsky 13y ago
so do they get paid to run ads like that, or are they just stooges the same as reddit?
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by trotsky 13y ago
while there are any number of reasons a trading halt can occur, few of them are particularly beneficial to zynga. In this case the most likely candidate is public disclosure requirements by the SEC. It is tricky to announce things uniformly
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by trotsky 13y ago
It wasn't very long ago at all that there was an upper bound of (16x5) = 90 - ~10 pre installed = maximum upper bound of 80 or so apps on ios? And yet now the average number of installed apps for ios's lifetime is higher than that? Or maybe
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by trotsky 13y ago
By the same token wouldn't farming be worthless because we know the sun will explode in the future?
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by trotsky 13y ago
How could the installed base for ios be 83 apps per device? Out of 8 or 10 mobile devices I doubt I've ever installed that many apps on any one of them. Would that be doing something like counting the same app multiple times if you wipe and
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by trotsky 13y ago
you don't think government spending benefits anyone but politicians? So for instance, medicare only benefits politicians?
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by trotsky 13y ago
Doesn't that just sound like "we're" pro citizen?

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