chadillac83

Abrkn's law was born.

Putting even the most secure and resilient backdoor should be considered a failure of freedom, privacy, and politics.

At the end of the day backdooring encryption does nothing but weaken everyone's security without actually helping intelligence agencies, at least in the face of serious actors.

Fine, agree to a global backdoor or all crypto with a handful of trusted key holders, how long until the algo or key is leaked, how long until a flaw in it's implementation is found, how long until some TSA agent is photographed with the password blinking on his screen in a news article.

All this will do for bad actors is ensure they assume whatever service provider isn't to be trusted in their implementation and just use a 3rd party process and/or open source tool chain to produce encrypted messages that will be routed over already encrypted networks. Great, your backdoor got you to a second layer of ciphertext that you still can't make heads or tails of, meanwhile you've weakened the security of literally every person on earth.

A backdoor is unacceptable, no matter it's perceived strength, value, or safety.

I'll be interested to see how they prevent theft of their source. It doesn't take long to get around obfuscation and such. If a person takes their HTML libs and slightly modifies the code and releases as an open source alternative to GreenSock... just curious how they'd go about combating that. Obviously they'd have to go after the site owner, but I don't think most site owners know what underlying frameworks go into their sites functionality. If they have thousands of sites using a port of their code and it was developed in India by a small team found online or something... where does the hammer fall?

Spam in your e-mail that is slightly annoying but not terribly terrible outside of excess bit and bytes on the net... Senate gets involved.

Spam in your real mail box which even at a quick glace effects:

- waste management resources

- recycling resources

- extra work for USPS (sorting, shipping, delivery)

- extra weight == more gasoline required

- environmental issues (litter, printing chemicals, trees = cut down)

And that is probably just the tip of the ice-berg on actual impact... nope, not an issue, this is how we make money.

I've had a problem with this for years, but there is no way to fix it besides charging the producers of such "mail" an arm and a leg.

Maybe we should push for the death of "Mailbox Neutrality"... or wait, should we support it so they'll kill it off?...

/rant

and 3 other times that I've seen...

African-american male Between 5'5" and 6'2" between 16 and 30 years old about 150 to 200 lbs.

Sprinkle some crack on him Johnson...

Serious question.

Why? For what exactly? How do you put up with that UI?

inb4:

- just remove them in production

- people have already written these

- I hate OP

- etc.

This is just a little util I wrote to make my life and my teams life easier and more resilient.

Use it, don't use it, fork it, pull and push it, etc.

Thanks!

I love this idea, I can't wait to default on all of my loans!

I think the "Dark" in "Dark Mail Alliance" is meant more in the sense that it's "off the grid" of NSA spying capabilities, not that it's meant to be used for nefarious purposes.

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insert disc 2/15

http://i.imgur.com/aIv6Y90.jpg

I was recently looking into some prebuilt libs for emoji support on web. One of them had a sprite, the other used data URI's in all of the background-image:url() parts of their core CSS. The sprite was crunched down to about 500k after some optimization tweaks (pngout, etc.) the data uri version could not be optimized, it's CSS file weight in at over 5MB.

The decision was pretty easy to make after that discovery.

wireless fiber?

seems like it essentially keeps data stored by catching data from ICMP (ping) packets, rewrapping them in another ping packet and shoving them back on the network.

Think of it kind of like network RAM, the data isn't stored anywhere persay and if either host fails to bounce back the payload the data is lost since it wasn't stored on any single machine and only kept alive in limbo.

SSL errors on the 2nd... seems... worrisome.

Maybe the happy medium is cutting the labels out of the deal, allowing artists to self publish on the platform and see larger cuts of the proceeds for their contribution to the network. $500/m and $1/bn aren't exactly chump change until you realize the artists are getting tiny percentages of those payouts. If Spotify were to offer a convenient distribution platform and enticing terms to ditch labels and self publish the might find a sweet spot. That being said, piracy is popular because it's easy and free, the artists aren't competing against it because everyone's a pirate, they're competing against it because it's a more convenient alternative. Skip out on the most popular platform and your fans will adopt the alternative with a path of least resistance.

Hopefully their talk will be replaced with a Q&A session with NSA reps.

In some breathing exercises I've done as part of a self defense and training course we focused a lot on breathing, especially controlled breathing under very stressful situations. We'd spend good portions of the glass matching breathing with strides, punches, and grappling. That being said it really showed me the importance of breathing, even for random stress. We always did in through the nose and out through the mouth. The nose is a bit more restricted so it allows your diaphragm a little more resistance and seems to allow deeper more controlled breathing, plus it just feels good. When under heavy stress we often would take little bursts of fresh air through the nose and out of the mouth to help get oxygen to the muscles that needed it under said stress.

I didn't really stick with the class after finding some flaws with it but I learned some stuff in the long run, and the breathing thing has stuck with me after feeling it's effects.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz-PkaaImCE

This was my instructor, dude had a pain threshold that was unbelievable. You can see him using the techniques while being... abused. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4_RfEmWBg

From 4 minutes to instantly? I would say anything under a few seconds is feasible so long as it's easy to use.

There are also learning disabilities. I've struggled with Math my entire life, from simple arithmetic in elementary school all they way up into high school mathematics. I believe I suffer from "math anxiety", although I've never been diagnosed. When doing math problems it's almost like dyslexia for me, the numbers get jumbled in my head... I know the basic processes I need to come to an answer, but everything in between gets twisted and mixed up along the way.

README files have been .txt for years... the only time I would expect an extension on one is if it's NOT a .txt file.

If you're a novice programmer and you're working with a library that has a README file you'll only be confused 1 time, after that you'll know. If your OS gets confused... well, that's your fault for your OS selection and you should be used to using "open with...".

I think the Dorner thing has some factors you're not quite taking into account.

1. He was a trained professional 2. He knew their hand, their next move even 3. He was an outed cop on a rampage based on inequality in the ranks of the LAPD

I don't think Dorner was ever going to be brought in alive, the LAPD didn't want him to have a soap box to preach from or to give him hero status. I remember shaking my head as I listened to police scanner while they started to set the cabin on fire.

This was a scared confused kid hiding in a boat with the nation watching and wanting to hear what he had to say. The other seemed more like a shut it up, sweep it under the rug, the guy is a nut, let's all just forget this happened kinda thing.

We can, it's just a little more tricky... example being while looking up plane ticket information for an S.O. I'm usually her "personal assistant".

That is a reality that I guess I just naively assumed wasn't possible. This bit really kind of shook me. I've always thought of terrorism much like the author and the aforementioned poster you're replying to, a seemingly random and rare event. I'd never thought about what living in a society where it has become common place. I imagine it's a bit like when school shooting sprees line up in the States, each one on the news results in a "god dammit, another one, what an asshole, seriously?" We move on, and become desensitized in the long run and "overcome" time and again, but that doesn't make the situation any better or less negative.

I have no solution to that dilemma that won't put us as a society as low or lower than the terrorists we're fighting...

I tried explaining this to someone earlier... apparently it's not a numbers game because of assumed risk. There is little to no risk to watching a marathon, whereas living in Iraq or speeding on the highway there is implied risk.

I'm not trying to discredit what you're saying, just pointing out why people (my friend and probably a lot of others) go into hyper sensitive reactionary mode.

Feeling bad about having a legitimate stance in the face of a tragedy isn't cause for self censorship. It might be social pariahism, but it's not cause enough for one to bite their tongue.

One could say the same thing about the Amazon experience, or the ROM community with projects like MIUI. As far as I'm concerned it's healthy for the mobile eco system and in essence is exactly why the Android OS was built the way it was.

Well for one, I shouldn't need to. My account is healthy and in good standing across every other line of Amazon products. The ONLY service I use it for is currently KickStarter. To top it all off, I really don't care all that much. I just threw this post together after thinking about what adopting third party services for core features of my own future products and what unseen pitfalls that might entail.

I'm honestly not sure I can answer that. I could argue either direction. I think it boils down to how important the functionality is to your application. It seems like risky business to rely on a single third party for mission critical components of your operation. Also the assumption that ALL users you'll encounter will have an Amazon account is... optimistic. At least a payment service like PayPal offers a login or a blind CC processing option using the cards details. This lowers the bar, I've had a PayPal account for almost 10 years, I've processed multiple payments with it PayPal. In the past 4 years I haven't logged into my account to do so, I'll type in my actual card information rather than deal with remembering my password, recovering my password, updating my stored card information, etc.

Running ad block, was confused why every 3 slides there was just this generic black and grey wavy pattern.

tl;dr install ad block