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NedIsakoff··on Marriott Concedes 5M Passport Numbers Lost to Hackers Were Not Encrypted
The Chinese 居民身份证 works well for its intended purposes and has not back fired.
NedIsakoff··on An Astronaut Accidentally Called 911 from Space
How do you know he was calling Huston? He's Dutch. Maybe he was trying to call home?
NedIsakoff··on A foreigner's guide to WeChat payments in China
WeChat pay is a lot less useful then Alipay. I would recommend Alipay.
NedIsakoff··on Ask HN: What is your favorite mathematical law or scientific principle? Why?
"No free lunch in search and optimization" --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...
NedIsakoff··on I Was a Cable Guy. I Saw the Worst of America
I don't get why she says she refuses water when offered. I have offered bottled water to all the techs that came by our new home, no one rejected it.
NedIsakoff··on China Cracks Down on Churches
Are you surprised? China suffered 20-30 million deaths under the "Brother of Christ". It does not want another "Brother" or "Sister"..
NedIsakoff··on Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers
China will glady sell the Indian government GFW technology.
NedIsakoff··on Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards
"Fake but accurate"?
NedIsakoff··on At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet
One word: Exadata..
NedIsakoff··on 'Dark fluid' with negative mass could dominate the universe
Here comes the Alcubierre Warp Drive!
NedIsakoff··on Ransomware Infects 100K PCs in China, Demands WeChat Payment
You can't just signup for a WeChat ID right now. As of late 2017, when you signup for a WeChat ID it shows you a sign-up QR code. Someone who is a verified WeChat user (someone with WeChat Pay which has RealID) must scan and verify you before you are allowed.
NedIsakoff··on Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr
Is there going to be CP blocking? If not, have fun with your Android and iOS apps.
NedIsakoff··on Movim – Federated, open-source alternative to Tumblr
My wife does a lot of Tumblr stuff with her online Anime community, 95% of the people in the community are not technical. About 50% of those only have a phone.

So I'm looking at Movin, I see no iOS app. No Android App (Google PlayStore link is dead). I see DOL.

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Porn?
NedIsakoff··on Why only 2% of Chinese pay any income tax
The Constitution of the People's Republic of China also guarantees freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association.
NedIsakoff··on China's Great Famine (2013)
They claim: it wasn’t true communism.
NedIsakoff··on You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True
Medical device, need RX.
NedIsakoff··on You Snooze, You Lose: Insurers Make the Old Adage Literally True
Wow, that's still over priced. I'm in Canada, check out https://www.monstercpap.ca/ -- remember that 1USD = 1.32CAD
NedIsakoff··on China blacklists millions from booking flights as 'social credit' introduced
It will be used to promote good spending: money spend on Chinese goods and services. De-promote bad spending: foreign goods.
NedIsakoff··on China blacklists millions from booking flights as 'social credit' introduced
Money and lifestyle.
NedIsakoff··on A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off on Facebook
But its easier for politicans in that country to blame $FB then to blame their own country people.
NedIsakoff··on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product?
I once worked on a monitoring system (internal and for clients) that was build in house. Everything was configured in an Oracle database.

To adjust the parameter of a check? Edit rows in Oracle using SQL. Add a new check? Edit rows in Oracle using SQL. Edit the script for a check? Edit rows in Oracle using SQL.

My job was to make improvements to the scripts/checks/agents, but not the process.

NedIsakoff··on JAB Code – A high-capacity 2D color bar code
I use Alipay on a daily basis, all scanning QR codes.
NedIsakoff··on Alarm as China eases 25-year ban on rhino and tiger parts
"qualified doctor" as in qualified to pratice medicine by the government, which is not what you think
NedIsakoff··on EC2 Instances with 6, 9, and 12 TB of Memory
That's 8 nodes with 1 CPU each.
NedIsakoff··on YubiKey 5 Series with New NFC and FIDO2 Passwordless Features
I honestly think the better one would be: "Hit his wife and kids until he tells us the password."

Much more effective.

NedIsakoff··on Ticketmaster recruits pros for secret scalper program
Do what our glorious province did, make a cap on reseller pricing.
NedIsakoff··on 'Right to be forgotten' could threaten global free speech, say NGOs
Canada has already had court ruling forcing Google to delete pages globally (not just the Canada domain). So why not Europe?
NedIsakoff··on What drives IPv6 deployment?
Money. QED.
NedIsakoff··on Hackers sell data of 130M Chinese hotel guests on dark web for 8 Bitcoin
mapping of 居民身份证 to real names..
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