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I like this comment. We are guilty of letting this happen. I doubt stating that will change the average person's willingness to go out and vote and get involved with politics, but it is important to acknowledge our part of the blame. We can't be Halocaust-deniers, and we can't pretend we didn't have some part in this surveillance overreach. We let our fear play into their hands - and their hands have stayed busy since 2001.

~ don't give in to apathy, no matter how depressing we must stay involved in politics ~

All I see when I look at a car is a very costly set of risks. I'd rather pay for someone else to manage those risks. Car subscriptions++

I am of the opinion there are very few people who can be thoughtful, at least in that long-term sense..

There's a middle ground between your statement and the experience the fellow above had. I'd prefer a good community college with a career counselor that pushes you to make the necessary steps toward employment after graduation.

This is a very well-written response that is both thought provoking and elegantly projected.

Hey, remember that time we gave up regular expressions and went back to writing grammars? Right tool for the job..

The US is the best government to oversee DNS in a way that isn't corrupt and awful. That said, the US has seized domains in the past without proper due process - so it's really that "for the most part" we expect our freedoms to be respected. I think the situation would be far worse if left to several countries who don't share our progressive values. The Internet is only as great as it is because it became a "thing" here first. It would be fucking awful having Iran or China manage DNS - even as partners.

I was just yesterday called to schedule an interview... >.>

As a Lehman... the only thing I don't like about Veracrypt is it seems to have a different on-disk container format than the original Truecrypt. I don't like having to remember to check "Truecrypt compatibility mode" when unlocking a drive. I only use the Truecrypt format because so many other tools exist (like tcplay) and because dm-crypt supports that format natively. If Veracrypt does take over the community of those who used Truecrypt, I hope its format gets supported upstream so we'd be at the same level of cross-platform portability. (really I'm only talking about what I had previously on Linux, though)

However much I hate the politics surrounding Docker and systemd, they have done a LOT for Linux to provide a standardized way to configure most distros and reliably deploy apps/stacks. I still feel that tuning Linux for networking is not an easy thing to learn about.

In my experience, the BSDs used to be trusted for their reliability and performance. Linux has come a long way in terms of reliability and configuration cost - though performance is harder to tune for. Docker has enabled a lot of trusted deployments. 6-8 years ago I remember the question "Why don't companies use Linux as much in production as FreeBSD?"

Maybe I'm sheltered.

Oh behave. ;p

I'm not saying people won't install desktop apps - I just like that there is a diminishing reason to do it outside the browser. [High performance] games, browsers themselves, video players (VLC), and dev environments, are some of the last things left...

It's very hard for me to envision a future I want to save for where I'm not the owner of a house - of my own space. That said, I imagine subscription car usage will be a shift that happens over a generation or two...

I hate installing things. :x I get pretty turned on by offering up something like Google Sheets as a webapp that installs and is usable in seconds over the Internet. I used to really love Lua but even though it was <1MB to install people didn't want to download it and then run my script on its interpreter. I remember I made the choice to play in Lua after Python because Python was a large install at the time (60MB for interpreter + standard libs). I honestly feel like the desktop experience is moving into the browser. It's very convenient to "install your runtime" by going to a web address. I love being somewhere near the front lines of that. :3 </zealous-panting>

I used to write C but now I do Coffeescript/JS. When I was just starting in C (as a teenager) I'd get really excited to learn the GNU's C standard library. I wanted to know how to make better and better console applications and networking applications. It felt like there was a huge learning curve to using graphics toolkits. Now that I do JS I feel like Web APIs are the new "C standard library". I can make console or apps with a GUI. I can do more because there already exists a large amount of interfaces abstracted over things that would take me a while to learn. At the same time, people are always figuring out new ways to abuse existing web standards for fun and profit - like how page visibility was done before the Visibility API existed: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Page_Visibi...

I like being a JS dev. It's a very fun runtime to poke around... I'd almost prefer all apps to live within the heavily sandboxed browser. It's the best effort made toward portability and it's been a community effort. :x

I wonder if there is a legally-protected expectation of privacy when NAT is used, vs without.

IPv4 LANs vs IPv6 LANs.

1) Global trade was not as established prior to WWII - there is a market incentive to maintain alliances. We don't even have the production means to make everything we need anymore - we're too inter-dependent.

2) Facebook and Snapchat and other social venues made possible by the Internet make it hard to sew mutual distrust among the nations of the world. If the Cold War happened today we'd see the propaganda from both sides on Twitter - I think it would be harder to mislead people with 2+ perspectives.

Every generation does think it can do better than the last - but I personally think there are a few major differences to set us apart. :>

Learn the tools and languages you hate the most.

That's my cheap advice. It's terribly annoying but you always come out on the other side having learned something valuable from the perspective you didn't want. Always.

From my very not-a-crypto-person perspective, I had thought compression was fine as long as you don't pad it to the expected block length before encrypting?

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I was happy to see the disgust people had for the CIA black sites operated in other countries when that came to light during the Bush presidency. Not because of the torture, but because people here expected alleged terrorists to have the same rights as detained American citizens. I feel this is important to note, because we have a large population of young voters who I feel have concern for everyone - not just the US. This is very different from how my grandparents vote and I do think it's split along generational lines. In regards to overreaching surveillance: It's not ideal, but we over here do think of you when we vote.. I do.

I kind of want an 802.11z that does wifi over Bluetooth for sub-802.11a conditions. Am I weird?

What gets me is once we know who the ex-government people are, they sure as hell become huge targets for people still working for the gov.

I wonder how many times arma has been approached.

I hate saying it, but I do feel like ex-gov is fruit of the poisonous tree.. at the same time I think these people specifically would understand the need for tor.

I'm thinking this might become pretty important with IPv6, no? My ISP advertises a prefix I can do SLAAC with, but they won't allow you to assign an arbitrary address outside that prefix (which seems reasonable-ish for routing). GeoIP databases will have a harder time with IPv6, but if ISPs only use prefixes like this then it'll still be manageable..

I'm actually using the responses here as a hunting ground for companies I'd like to work for.

Carry on...

The FBI seems like the least careful of all the agencies penetrating computers. NSA > Secret Service > CIA > FBI

They're either messing up an investigation or destroying their public image.

1) Accidentally resetting the Bernadino terrorist's iCloud password

2) Withdrawing its demands from Apple after significant backlash

3) Asking for the ability to inspect browser history without a warrant

4) Modifying the computers they're "lawfully" allowed to breach - can we trust this evidence in court?

Wouldn't trust them with more authority that's for sure.

Dude... You deserve a lot. :(

Take all their red staplers.

As a California resident, I have the impression I live in the technology center of the world, that I am part of the 6th largest economy in the world, and that California is a beautiful place to live - and more importantly, that once you move out of California you will not be able to move back.

Also we have Feinstein so that's... that's a joy.

PS: I love it how there's a desperate need for cheap housing, and developments are approved - but always priced for big-earners.

I was initially confused thinking "how would they get the NAT information from my home router.. from the ISP?", then I remembered some providers do NAT at their level now. Sucked when AT&T did it - made it impossible to view the entry-level IP cameras we had remotely (well, I could have set up a VPN...)

Are you one of those 'special little flowers' ignoring the impact you might have on others? - the physical impact that follows threatening violence?

Seriously wtf.