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I would advocate for legal rights to use an adblocker! If we don’t, it’s going to be banned under CFAA in the future. Ads suck! Nobody has the right to force these on me!
Re:Crypto Zealots on Friday March 09, 2018 @06:30AM (#16551077)
What ongoing cost? This is absurd. It’s $0, the automation is free, and the config is free. Stop spreading FUD.
This seems intuitively correct. Neutrotisicm is associated with risk-averse behavior and thus less likely to engage in risky life-threatening activity. A highly neurotic personal can be paralyzed by enumeration of every conceivable outcome, and as such not ever do the dangerous thing. There seems to be a positive correlation of intelligence, so the individual may make long term conservative bets that further increase longevity.
Re:Earn a Pirate Certificate from MIT on Saturday February 17, 2018 @12:26PM (#16401638)
I would go to MIT over other great schools just because this course alone.
This is wrong. bitshares and steem both handle more tx’s than ethereum.
Hugs are more hygenic than handshakes. Hug greeting for the 21C!
Re:Same day ACH: moving payments faster in the USA on Friday August 25, 2017 @06:52PM (#15102897)
Paypal doesn't serve many countries. Has high fees. Can arbitrarily lock you away from funds or freeze accounts. Censors Transactions. Banking law does not apply as they are a transmitter, not a bank. Many many reasons not to PayPal.
Re:JavaScript is Eating the World on Thursday August 24, 2017 @10:51AM (#15090541)
We live in dark times.
XTS mode for block storage. Can't be CBC or CTR, where would you Store the IV or counter/nonce?
Re:Bitcoin just passed $4,000 on Sunday August 13, 2017 @12:35AM (#15001507)
Because something is happening. Large trades from Korean exchanges are driving very high prices worldwide. It means people are fearful of the existing financial system and are pouring their savings into "cryptocurrency".
Re:Ethereum Scam Database on Friday August 04, 2017 @09:55AM (#14928650)
Should just display a giant asterix.
How about end to end encryption in your products to protect your users from governments, both good and bad? Can't disclosure what you can't see.
Re:Little Alchemy on Saturday June 10, 2017 @09:20AM (#14527217)
I like the pyromania version "little inferno"
Re:Quantum-secured blockchain on Saturday June 03, 2017 @12:14PM (#14477026)
I agree that we need to implement postquantum computing algo's for both hashing (proof of work function) and signing (transaction authentication). I don't agree we should build a QKD network of p2p fiber to er this. SIDH is looking the most attractive for the postquantum signing, at least.
Re:The scourge of web analytics on Monday May 29, 2017 @05:47PM (#14441648)
What about running your own service like piwik?
Seriously? Mate, you can be sure there are billions of people doing things you could never imagine.
Seriously, screw google home and Amazon echo. If I wanted a wiretap, I'd go to FISA court.
Re:The Case for Ubuntu Phone on Sunday January 15, 2017 @09:53AM (#13404205)
I own a Ubuntu phone, Aquaris E4.5, imported from Spain via a EU dropshipper. Wouldn't use it as my daily phone until it supported full disk encryption.
Re:Cards Against Humanity is digging a hole in the earth on Saturday November 26, 2016 @10:30AM (#13044007)
There is no such thing as empty land. From the billions of microbes to the insects, worms; the fungi, the grass... something just lost their home or food
Re:Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over' on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @11:13PM (#13028011)
The fun and games are just getting started, it's just the stakes have been raised.
Re:Spotify excessively writing to drive on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @06:04PM (#12915744)
How does this not break the signature on the binary and stop execution?
I just started on 1.6 2 weeks ago and enjoying the freedom of this, as well as the ability to control my intake.

I need a vegan alternative.

Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:17PM (#12791714)
You register a domain by spending namecoin in a reg tx, which becomes immutable in the bc. Problem is that when a court says Cocacola.blockchain_namespace is the legal property of the Coke, and the owner is some kid in China who won't hand over the keys, no Corp would use it for DNS.

Names should be strong to prevent spoofing but not so strong that squatters and unlawful holders of keys can disrupt their legitimacy.

Re:Distrusting New WoSign and StartCom Certificates on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @05:12PM (#12791685)
Yeah old java6 TLS stacks have problems with SHA256, amoung other legacy systems used by the old guard
Re:Google backtracks on privacy promise with messaging service Allo on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @09:46PM (#12553729)
Disagree. The average user is not savvy enough to make this call. Secure end-to-end so I can have secure conversations with less technical people, and know we are both safe. It only take one party to escrow the logs to the server and all those conversations are no longer private. E2E||GTFO
GFW detects erroneous SSH sessions that contain large data flows. You need to go full protocol obfuscation to untracked destinations.
I was walking down 3rd ave at 2am a week ago. I saw a homeless man with headphones listening to music on YouTube on a link. He had a little chair and was rocking out. It was beautiful.

We might give up a lot, but maybe those with nothing to give have plenty to gain.