machinesofn
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10 years ago
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on: Stop-And-Seize Turns Police into Self-Funding Gangs
Who are you referring to? Trump and Carson are both pretty far right of center (both are pursuing massively reduced taxes, and Trump takes an extreme (even by GOP standards) view on preventing illegal immigration.
machinesofn
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10 years ago
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on: StarCraft: The past, present and future
I think this actually demonstrates a common mistake people make in thinking about video games. There's room for a lot more diversity in experience, and talking about them as a single type of art is sort of like lumping together films and novels. They run the full spectrum between tight text-based interactive fiction with two boolean decisions in the whole work, and Minecraft. Generalizing games as a special case of interaction design works for a subset, but certainly not the entire medium.
As a more personal counter example: There have been many games where I have hated the mechanics and continued playing for the story or art, and I know many people who are the same way.
machinesofn
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10 years ago
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on: How Many Times Has Your Personal Information Been Exposed to Hackers?
The best part about the credit monitoring services is that they're inevitably going to get hacked too. Especially Lifelock, which just got fined for having atrocious security practices (reading between the lines a bit, it looked like they were using unhashed passwords on the backend).
There really is no hope.
machinesofn
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11 years ago
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on: D-Link patch doesn’t address all bugs listed in their own security advisory
TCP did that with their smart bulbs. They removed the local web interface in a silent update, bricking the bulbs for a lot of users. It's really bad manners, and I wish they would at least have options to re-add the missing features. It ultimately just alienates customers.
machinesofn
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11 years ago
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on: China's Great Cannon
That would work, assuming there isn't a workaround. If they were really serious about the attack, though, it's easy to imagine ways around that, especially if you add the possibility of browser caching and exploits in the injected script.
machinesofn
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11 years ago
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on: China's Great Cannon
That's correct. I work at a company in the US, and visitors to our website were giving the "Malicious Script" alert because we had Baidu analytics installed. Defending against this is much more nuanced than just blocking all traffic from China.
machinesofn
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11 years ago
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on: Ask HN: How do you do home security?
There aren't many safe neighborhoods. I live in a gated apartment complex in a nicer part of the Bay Area, and I came home one day to a completely destroyed front door (they didn't get in thanks to the thick fire doors, but it could easily have been looted). On top of that, our car was broken into and they looted everything that wasn't bolted in.
machinesofn
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11 years ago
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on: Hands-On with Microsoft's New Holographic Goggles
The goofy look is really just an image processing problem. If it has a camera watching the face (I know it has one watching the eyes), it wouldn't be impossible to reconstruct what the face looks like without the goggles.
