woodman

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by woodman 8y ago
> Evidence of the NSAKEY being a backdoor includes some description of how the backdoor might work... It would only work one way with an API relying on a PKI with a single CA, zero transparency, and trusted keys named after spy agencies
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by woodman 8y ago
> The entirety of the NSAKEY evidence is "it has NSA in the name." Your comparison is out of line because of ridiculous characterizations like this. Microsoft said that it was a backup key, which either means that they have th
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by woodman 8y ago
The demand for evidence in the wake of all the NSA leaks is laughable.[0] What does evidence of the NSAKEY being a backdoor look like to you, a provably malicious CSA shim, signed by the key, hand delivered by James Clapper? I'll tell
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by woodman 8y ago
It was a debugging symbol that a Microsoft developer either negligently or heroically included in a public release... so that explains away the "nobody would be so stupid" argument. You are aware of how the Intel ME killswitch wa
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by woodman 8y ago
> I'm sorry, but this seems a little naive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY . I thought everybody already knew that US corporations serve as an extension to the surveillance apparatus. Remember all the cor
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by woodman 8y ago
This is one of those situations that makes me wonder at how obvious the right way to go is, and how unlikely that is to happen. Offense/defense costs are not even close to being symmetrical, it is insane that the USG would advance the
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by woodman 8y ago
This, unfortunately, occurs so infrequently that it can safely be ignored by 99.9% of the economy. Businesses have really enjoyed having their cake and eating it too with the transition away from a highly involved acquisition process that
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by woodman 8y ago
> > "If every investor..." This is already a thing, and it is starting to look like an incredibly bad idea. Well over a year ago I had lunch with my financial advisor and he tried to sell me on a portfolio balanced on some
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by woodman 8y ago
Google "Richard Prince copyright". This is not a new issue, not even close. BTW... She is using a still[0] from a video that CNN owns the copyright to, and section 3 of their tos[1] explicitly forbids doing what she is doing - wi
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by woodman 8y ago
ctrl+f 'transformative'... No matches. I'm surprised by the sympathy I'm seeing for this position. You people know that she is effectively complaining about fair use, right? This is not something that can be budged on,
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by woodman 8y ago
There is a good chance they subscribe to a blocklist, so you could be blocked by anyone of a thousand people. Image the old PGP web of trust, but for crafting perfect echo chambers. I wonder if anybody has ever done the math on that.
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by woodman 8y ago
The insane spike is for low traffic sites, so I'm guessing a blog platform defaulted RSS.
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by woodman 8y ago
Wow, to base such a lengthy article on a google trend search of "rss"... Queue rekt.webm: https://trends.builtwith.com/feeds/RSS
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by woodman 8y ago
I'm curious, how are you defining "the like"? The list of people denied service looks a lot more like those you wouldn't want preceding your Coca-Cola ad buy. Why would Patreon care? Because payment networks care.
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by woodman 8y ago
I'd say the former, but it really doesn't matter - the point is the subjectivity of collective "good" and "correctness". Also, a lot of people are under the impression that these things are numerically based -
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by woodman 8y ago
One literally defines the other, so no. Unless you are speaking from a universal perspective, which unfortunately isn't really part of the collective consciousness - and therefor inconsequential to daily life and the issue at hand.
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by woodman 8y ago
Wallstreet. My financial advisor tried to sell me on this new socially conscious index, years ago. Political correctness is great for business - very predictable, very manageable. https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/arti
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by woodman 8y ago
Ouch, feeding probabilistic models training data scored with a gradient of truthfulness tags generated by humans and all their biases... surely this won't end horribly and simply serve as a method to algorithmically institute the tyran
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by woodman 8y ago
I think you're right about the lack of power being the biggest contributor to the problems we had - which remained even after they tried to reduce the feature set (emergency magazine-well, user selectable gas tube aperture). I think it
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by woodman 8y ago
Hopefully it gets better with time for you. My complaint wasn't with pain, but numbness. I developed this problem very early on, in SOI, and kept it to myself because I knew that it would get me medically discharged. Thankfully I ne
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by woodman 8y ago
It sounds like you never got to use the original SAW barrel. We got issued those stubby paratrooper barrels while in Iraq, which are nice for maneuverability, but it was at the cost of accuracy. The M249 was always a piece of junk when it
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by woodman 8y ago
I disagree. The USMC doctrine on this matter has remained the same for generations, so that doesn't explain the increasing loadout. Also, and I don't know what the official Army guidance is on matter, but we took over an AO wher
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by woodman 8y ago
For a long time I was pretty irritated about landing in a line company instead of a mounted weapons company... but after a combat tour, where the majority of KIA was from roadside IEDs, I didn't mind walking so much. The loadout did g
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by woodman 8y ago
I actually wrote an essay that dug pretty deep into this topic, many years ago, after I finished my enlistment as a Marine infantry machinegunner - likely the most overburdened MOS. I'm surprised this didn't get a mention in the
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by woodman 8y ago
> In WWII they leaned on understanding from British occupations across the world. Nah. The Corps has had plenty of opportunity to acquire the experience organically: "During about 85 of the last 100 years, the Marine Corps has been
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by woodman 8y ago
Where, in the Netherlands? I can't think of a way to say this that doesn't sound rude, so I'll just say it: how informed is your opinion? Roughly how big a company are we talking? Have you managed security, or managed secu
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by woodman 8y ago
You would be surprised how much effort businesses put into building a relationship with local police, that is a big part of a security director's job. The more people they have on site, or the higher their inventory value, the more th
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by woodman 8y ago
Sure, so long as he isn't misleading shareholders - and that generally requires fraudulent filings. I'd say that he is much safer pumping the stock than he was, almost exactly a year ago, when he very publicly stated that he thou
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by woodman 8y ago
> Where do I do that? "I assume 'diversity of thought' refers to expressed thoughts..." > First, I am struggling over how to identify 'diversity of thought' during the interview process. I think we'v
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by woodman 8y ago
> This was in the context of hiring, and I gave my operational definition... That is actually a helpful reminder - the context of the conversation is a blog entry that struggles over the objectives of quotas and the utility of using race

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