SteveArmstrong
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
I've used KeePassX + Dropbox for 5 years across Windows, Linux, OSX, iPhone and Android. With Dropbox's restriction to 3 devices, and since this is the only thing I use Dropbox for, I'm currently looking at LastPass instead
SteveArmstrong
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11 years ago
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on: Mayday.us
I know I'm not financially liable, but when the bank has to cancel and reissue my card (with a new number), it's still annoying to have to go and switch it everywhere. Smaller surface area (so less places to change) helps with that pain too.
SteveArmstrong
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12 years ago
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on: Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home
I feel like I'm trying to decode a regex. Could you reword that a little clearer?
SteveArmstrong
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12 years ago
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on: Use different DNS servers for specific domains
That means they're less likely to have their servers and data seized by the US Gov't (assuming it's all hosted in Canada, and not an EC2-US instance), but the .com address is a US asset that can still be seized.
SteveArmstrong
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12 years ago
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on: Do we need a Human Data Project?
With the way the article compared it to donating organs, I figured this was a system for releasing information after death. In that case, the de-anonymizing problem is less of an issue. (Informed consent of this problem would still be needed of course)
SteveArmstrong
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13 years ago
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on: Space Monkey: Taking the cloud out of the datacenter
3. I think he was referring to aggregate file size (total amount stored) not a single file. If that's the case, his point still stands.
4. He was probably saying that, as the average age of the nodes in the network goes up, the chance of them failing goes up. Also, the duplication you say (hundreds of copies) is in direct opposition to usable space (hundreds of copies means you can only use 1/100 of the space on your node. Because of this, I don't think your files will ever be duplicated on the order of "hundreds", probably less than 10. Also, it's important to keep clear: My node will backup to hundreds of other nodes, but each individual file fragment will only be duplicated to 3 (or whatever) nodes. That smaller number is the important one that keeps getting discussed.
SteveArmstrong
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13 years ago
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on: New Persona Beta: Millions of Users Ready to Log In using Any Browser
They both know it was the validated owner of
[email protected], so if Service1 and Service2 compare their users, they will see the same e-mail address.
SteveArmstrong
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13 years ago
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on: Bitcoin Is Fundamentally Flawed
I think that's only true if it was known how many wallets were actually lost. As is, the fraction of worth captured in that wallet can never be re-distributed to other people who own bitcoins, because the wallet is never decommissioned, just dormant.
SteveArmstrong
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13 years ago
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on: Apple v. Samsung Verdict: Could Bill Gates Have Patented The iPhone in 1995?
They shouldn't be able to patent the idea of a holodeck, which I thought was the main argument in this article. The mechanics of using force fields (or whatever) would still be the subject of the patents if they were novel.
SteveArmstrong
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14 years ago
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on: Congressman blacks out his official .gov website
Yes, I agree. I've 'protested' my two senator's stance for PIPA, but I made sure to call and thank my House rep for opposing SOPA.
SteveArmstrong
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14 years ago
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on: Most laser printer printed pages have tracking watermark
The article postulates that there isn't a timestamp in the pattern of dots because the pattern is consistent on a specific printer, regardless of when the print happened.
SteveArmstrong
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14 years ago
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on: Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives
Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.
SteveArmstrong
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14 years ago
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on: Tumblr's anti-censorship message generated 87,834 phone calls to representatives
According to
http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/6134/135/, IP addresses issued by American Registry for Internet Numbers (the US regional IP issuing agency) is under the SOPA's jurisdiction. The problem is that they give out the IPs for US, Canada, and a bunch of the Carribean.
SteveArmstrong
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14 years ago
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on: Why every programmer should have a Tiddlywiki
I also hacked together TiddlyBox, which lets you leave your TiddlyWiki on your Dropbox and edit it directly. It's a simple WAR file that'll run in any Java container (Jetty, Tomcat).
SteveArmstrong
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14 years ago
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on: Introducing BrowserID: A better way to sign in
I don't see the OpenID here. I see them restricting me to only 4 third-party sites. Since there doing that, using OpenID or using each third party's system makes no difference. OpenID's supposed to be decentralized, but how do I log in with
http://stevearm.com?
SteveArmstrong
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15 years ago
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on: PlayStation 3 Hacker Must Allow Sony to Inspect His Hard Drive
And his point seemed to be a simple joke on how most people expect the justice system to work. No big deal.
SteveArmstrong
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15 years ago
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on: Official North Korean government web page for business
The "facts" on the reunification page are... interesting:
http://www.korea-dpr.com/reunification.htmIt's so far out there, I become suspicious that this is a joke. But then, most of the news I hear from N. Korea falls into that category.
SteveArmstrong
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15 years ago
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on: S4
I was hoping to find a "for example, S4 can be used to" line in there, but I didn't see it initially. I assume filtering the Twitter fire-hose of data could be a common use?
SteveArmstrong
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15 years ago
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on: More Ways to Stay Secure (Facebook introduces one-time passwords, global logout)
Doesn't this mean that if someone steals your phone, they can easily log into your facebook and take over the account (change your real password and e-mail)?
