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xcallmejudasx

19 karma · joined December 7, 2011

Student, Hacker, Activist, @xcallmejudasx

Interested in security, politics, cyber law

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xcallmejudasx··on Do We Need a New Pottery Barn Rule for Cyberwarfare?
This wouldn't work though. The government is immune(or at least heavily protected) against things like class action lawsuits for this very reason. Unless we can get past this giant political and bureaucratic hurdle we won't be able to do much except throw money into our own security. Even then, how is the best persona/corporate security schemes and policies going to withstand something developed by the brightest mathematicians and security experts money can buy?
xcallmejudasx··on Eclipse Juno released
I haven't done any large projects in Sublime Text but it's definitely my go-to editor now for looking over code in any language or putting together scripts and short bits of code. It has a ton of cool keyboard shortcuts and syntax hi-lighting for a couple dozen languages. I would definitely recommend playing around with it and seeing how you like it.

My only complaint is that it didn't support SaSS hi-lighting so when I was learning web design I'd get funky half CSS hi-lighting.

xcallmejudasx··on The codebreaker who saved 'millions of lives'
Cryptonomicon is a long but very good read. There's enough technical details to keep us hackers intrigued without scaring away the non techie folks. My dad read it and even though he didn't get some of the more subtle crypto jokes he very much enjoyed it without having any history of computing or security.
xcallmejudasx··on Biz Stone Explains Why Twitter’s Co-Founders Are Betting On Vegan Meat Startup
Can you site some proof that we are physically meant to eat meat that doesn't use observation as the main reasoning? We are usually characterized as omnivores because of a vast amount of observation of people eating meat, however our bodies aren't exactly designed for it.

For starters, the small intestine of carnivores is much shorter than non-carnivores and has a higher level of acidity in the stomach. This is because the nutrients need to be extracted and the waste expelled before the meat rots inside the body(which it partially does in a human body since our intestine is much longer by comparison than other carnivores).

There's also the issue of short, dull, canines and much smaller temporalis muscle that powers the jaw. This is why we have to spend more time chewing and grinding meat down into smaller pieces instead of just tearing off chunks and swallowing it whole like most carnivores. We wouldn't be able very easily bite through hide and tear chunks of meat off nor would we be able to digest (most)raw meat without getting sick.

Most of our carnivorous traits are remnants from evolution that were never replaced. We more closely resemble a herbivore that has maintained some basic primal ability to process meat than we do a carnivore that has adapted to process vegetation.

xcallmejudasx··on Redditor Does 'I have Cancer' AMA & Gets Over $9k in donations
An attractive girl is flying out to have sex with him. That's definitely a plus.
xcallmejudasx··on Retailer uses 3D QR codes and the Sun to time limit discounts
How difficult would it be to have the sculpture on a lockable swivel? Every month or so you just go out, realign it, and lock it back in place.
xcallmejudasx··on Computer Science is Not Math
That's exactly the comparison I was looking for.

Sure the blacksmith and the SE can build the final products but without the CS or metallurgist to build the foundation they wouldn't have a job.

xcallmejudasx··on Computer Science is Not Math
As much as I agree that everyone is just quibbling about semantics it is something that needs to be finalized and agreed on.

In some states it's illegal to say you're an engineer unless you specifically have an engineering degree. Most CS degrees are offered as a science degree with an alternate Software Engineering degree being an engineering degree. There's also a noticeable gap in what you're taught depending on which path you take. Friends of mine who majored in software engineering ended up learning more practical languages, how to use source control, software engineering practices, and never had to take a class related to the theory side of it. Whereas half of my classes were information theory, and abstract or theory based math classes.

Does this make them better programmers because they know more languages and tools? That's subjective. However, there are times when you need a computer scientist and not a software engineer but most companies and even developers themselves couldn't tell you the difference between the two.

Purely hypothetical at this point but suppose you were tasked with creating the first ring based authentication system. This involves a decent understanding of group theory . I don't doubt for a second that a software engineer would be able to accomplish this after first teaching them self about group theory but my first bet would be to go to the person with the CS training. Sure they might not be able to code it as well but once the idea has been developed and proven to be mathematically sound it can just be sent off to the engineer.

xcallmejudasx··on Chrome extension to randomize your User Agent (Underpants)
No I don't use the same IP. I do however brows Hacker News, Facebook, Reddit, etc from both work and home.

Interesting, thank you for the information.

xcallmejudasx··on Chrome extension to randomize your User Agent (Underpants)
What happens if I use Linux while browsing at home and Windows while browsing at work? How does your company handle this? I can see a couple different scenarios and am curious which is closest to practice.

1) Track data while at work. Display only at work. 2) Track data while at work. Display at home and work. 3) Track data at home and work. Display at work 4) Don't track data at all.

Of course there's a few cases I missed but from what you said I don't see the reason they'd track me at home and display at work or any other various combinations excluded.

xcallmejudasx··on Poll: How long have you been programming?
Started my freshman year of high school with QBASIC and C++. Moved onto Java 2 years later and finally C, Haskell, Python, and Assembly once getting to University.
xcallmejudasx··on How can PrivateSky not see your data?
The short answer was supplied at the end of his response. He gives a step by step run down of how the encryption and decryption works. The only thing most people not familiar with crypto would probably have an issue with is understanding D-PKG(Distributed-Public Key Generators) and ECCSI(Elliptic Curve-based Certificate-less Signatures for Identifier Based Encryption).

I personally wasn't familiar with D-PKGs but his response allowed me to understand what they were pretty easily.

xcallmejudasx··on Trivial Artificial Neural Network in Assembly Language
How long did it take you to put this together and how much of that time was coding vs researching?
xcallmejudasx··on Socialcam hits 3M downloads
@Socialcam, I noticed one of the comments on your page stating that the videos are removed from the phone and not retrievable but haven't had a chance to test this. Is there a reason for doing this and if so why?