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Thanks for a sensible explanation about the possible rationale of the actors. Perhaps a different way to distil your point: the film industry is stuck in a particular local optimum…

Your first point is false -- in some countries bauxite is processed with power from coal-fired plants. Your other points seem valid.

Since you claim not to be a statistician, pardon me if I also ignore your unsubstantiated opinion that the null hypothesis was "so shitty that they practically guaranteed p<.05".

The takeaway of the article seems to be: when fighting limited-liability companies, being irrational is a good tactic. It is sad if guerilla warfare is the only option left when fi…

Worryingly accurate metaphor: Unix is Christianity, complete with Linus as Luther.

TL;DR: the "creativity" label has been grabbed by the ruling classes to justify their own social position, and has little to do with what used to be called creativity. (This may be…

You cannot know whether the date the content was published will be relevant for a reader or not. It is not your assessment of timeliness that matters, but the reader's. So in the i…

Your summary is worth a thousand web sites.

Check the date -- the proposal is a month old. So Bruce Schneier's comments may be relevant, but one can't really accuse Brian Smith of ignoring them.

Some of the OpenSSH and IETF mailing list archives about SSH also make interesting reading. Exactly why does RFC 4253 mandate Group 1 and Group 14 as the only required key exchange…

So, Mr Smith wants to add a bunch of elliptic curve options (using the NIST curves, weakest P-256 first), while removing the widely used TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256 due to "con…

It was fun playing the old Infocom games on Frotz (just add the Z3/Z4/Z5 sources using the file transfer feature on iOS). For iOS, the sources are at http://code.google.com/p/iphon…

As with any juicy enough collection of data, the relevant question is not "what if an adversary gains access" but "when".

This is completely unmotivated. The author seems to conflate running a DNS server that is authoritative-only with running a server that handles recursive queries. It is a bad idea …

The second main point: with declining volatility, there is less space for HFT strategies to profit. What I didn't see in the article was an explicit discussion of transaction costs…

Another key point: "the SEC is sharing information with the FBI to probe manipulative trading practices by some HFT firms" and now has the infrastructure to detect anomalies.

So if metadata is somehow distinct and separate from what it describes, does this mean that the shutdown of sites pointing to copyright-infringing content will stop?