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Or they're simply under investor pressure to put on those big boy pants over achieving feature parity.

Forgive my ignorance, but who is doing the blocking? Is it American sites willingly censoring for legal reasons, or is the Cuban government blocking them for the country's own ISP?…

For as much as AMD shows promise in their graphics line, if one thing is clear it is that the Bulldozer architecture has been a humiliating failure on the CPU side: extremely high …

Nope. Unless it's something I need to keep around (taxes, insurance, usual "business of life" things,) I don't keep any of my email, messages, etc. for more than a few months at be…

The current basis for this is John Gilmore's speculation[1] on a cryptography mailing list. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg123...

The original essay on Stross's blog that led to that FP article is linked in Schneier's post.

Does OpenVPN support ECDH parameters yet? openssl supports ecparam[1], and polarssl is now supporting it in their development branch[2]. [1] http://www.openssl.org/docs/apps/ecpara…

If this is going to become a pattern, it probably makes more sense to allow the browser chrome to be manipulated in a way so progress bars aren't redundant (i.e. 'pjax' style loadi…

> Maybe there are better ways of monetising than forcing multiple pages of ads down your users throats? :) Kill the CPM model and your wish will come true. Unfortunately, advertise…

> Intrusion prevention via fail2ban and rootkit detection via rkhunter. Semantics, semantics, but rkhunter is intrusion detection, not prevention. I don't know what rkhunter would …

> The cost of healthcare alone makes subsistence living impossible. No. Subsistence living is entirely possible - there are millions of people doing just that somewhere in backwood…

You don't see it in Singapore because Singapore is a heavily-controlled state where tons of things are capital offenses and you are subjected to physical violence (caning) for thin…

Nice opinions, but the primary feeling I get from this is "Designers are closed-minded prima donnas, and the only way to work with them is to talk their language and care about the…

Brilliant advice, but I would (optimistically) assume that Coinbase is doing some or most of these things? Fraud is a pretty well-solved problem for most payment processors. It's a…

It would be nice to have a better explanation of the types of problems being solved here, because the security space is so massive. Is this websec? appsec? Reverse engineering?

"I'd like to know what exactly is entailed in becoming compliant with money transmitting and laundering regulations." This. Someone with more understanding of financial regulation,…

According to Facebook[1], they exist to "give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." I think it is arguable that Facebook has improved the human con…

You think your cognitive dissonance is bad? You're heaps ahead of where the people that "don't care" are. I try to evangelize privacy to friends and family all the time, and 60-80%…