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> Download it now, whether or not you need it, because it adds noise. Why would I download a security specific image? If you want to be as secure as possible, download the smallest…

Hmm, I use perks as a significant way to judge a company, but more isn't necessarily better. You must always ask what? why? Do the perks fit with the industry and intentions of the…

The default installs of shells and window managers are likely to reveal whether the command has either ever or recently been run.. Disabling the defaults is also "suspicious". I do…

That is how the legal system works, so do you seriously plan to arrest the NSA? But the topic here is about maintaining a secure system. You must prove beyond a reasonable doubt th…

Perhaps Germany could create a program of secret renditions to fetch them...

If people believe that your state is actively using whatever data it can obtain for economic reasons (for example to give foreign trade secrets to local companies,) then clearly no…

Interesting to think about, but the publicly searchable web seems like the only meaningful number to me. Ok, there may be a whole bunch of social media in some language each access…

Groups brokering exploits is definitely scary stuff. But the non-privatized government researchers have existed long before them and are better at keeping silent and therefore larg…

> Why should employers be responsible for the transit habits of their employees? Because an employer is responsible for the transit habits of an employee which determines the capac…

The US town I last worked in was not at all happy about the traffic externalities of office space. Their attempt to remedy it were complex and entailed a lot of overhead for everyo…

Xing is still very popular among German speakers, though linked in has been making quick progress. A professional looking portrait photo is essential here in Switzerland, and age b…

I enjoy both javascript and scala. For work and anything I would want to put on a web site it is more practical to write javascript and when I've had time for my own projects I've …

> Stuxnet? Probably not, once a vendor is aware the bug has a relatively short life and using it increases the possibility of detecting your attacks. To avoid constant maintenance,…

> Reinhart-roghoff was not submitted to a peer reviewed journal. Yet among 400+ other citations, it was self-cited in a paper to the American Economic Review (see google scholar,) …

If you are able to get at the entire physical media then a certain combination of high and low bit writing is necessary or one can read some previous bits with specialized hardware…

Please forgive my total insensitivity.. 3%+ of total population sounds like enough people to pressure at least one video card vendor to offer equivalent remapping. So why is this a…

The next step would be an ipython notebook verses showing the student the debugger console with prepopulated state in Javascript.. In fact, later lessons as modules to interact wit…

> it may be that they had a good notion using length-of-commit as a measure for expressiveness. Replace "expressiveness" with "author's anticipation of reviewer difficulty based on…

I have been taking MOOCs continuously since the Stanford ones started (and took some non-video online classes years back at my University) and I am rather concerned about the affec…

> He does describe interesting models/theories, but I don't > actually think they're relevant. I have to agree. Google is very efficient at profiting from casual users unwilling to…

Yes, I'd say privacy is actually much more of a problem for the elite. How many investigations dig up infidelity, etc, in the normal population and then carefully step around it in…

Greater Boston is mostly non-barrier cabs, but I don't recall the specifics for Boston proper vs Cambridge, etc. I was referring to the idea that the medallion in Boston is a safet…

Well, they spent a lot of money buying the rules.

You could tax energy instead of labor.

Having worked mostly remotely for a company that was going slowly down the drain, I can say that I was more productive.. But I was the first to jump ship when their buyout looked u…