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  1. Re: What use? on Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails · · Score: 1

    Can I have your private key?

    (Pretty sure you meant 'public key' there.)

  2. Re: What use? on Facebook Now Supports PGP To Send You Encrypted Emails · · Score: 1

    What if they show you your public key, but they show others their public key they created to proxy for you, And suggest they mail you at the @facebook.com email address they rolled out years ago?

    Yeah, they'd get caught in a heartbeat, and it'd never work in practice, but for the paranoid it might be a worry...

  3. Re:I went the other way. on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that the software that the company I work for is writing (NFV stuff) will put networking professionals out of jobs before too long...

  4. Re:Just wondering on Why Detecting Drones Is a Tough Gig · · Score: 1

    Well, I think of "drone" and UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U... ] ) as synonymous, and at least Wikipedia there says there are two classes of UAV, autonomous and remotely piloted.

    So, I guess it's a question of definitions...

  5. Re:Just wondering on Why Detecting Drones Is a Tough Gig · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What about an autonomous drone which is just flying to certain GPS coordinates and then detonating? Or even just using inertial guidance and image processing?

  6. Re:Why is this dribble on the front page? on Creationists Manipulating Search Results · · Score: 2

    The real problem is, in an infinite, probabilistic universe, even the smallest chance that God exists is a certainty.

    Not any god that a christian would accept. Their god is outside the universe, and created it.

  7. Re:A two factor device on Yubikey Neo Teardown and Durability Review · · Score: 1

    I don't feel they really demonstrated such, but yeah, I've got a backup in a safe place and encrypt stuff with both keys.
    Here's an anecdote to counter-example the article:
    https://twitter.com/drunky_bea...

  8. Re:Can I turn features off? on Choosing the Right IDE · · Score: 1

    because the minute you switch to something else (the browser, E-mail client, putty terminal, LibreOffice or anything else), muscle memory results in errors.

    I don't understand this bit. Why would you switch out of emacs for such things? Emacs has web (eww, w3), email, tramp (remote editing/shells), TeX modes, etc.
    No need to tax your muscle memory, it's all there in emacs.

    Besides, on a mac, most things do Emacs keybindings :-)

  9. No, but there might be an increase in latency...

  10. Re:Durability concerns valid, but... Tampering? on Yubikey Neo Teardown and Durability Review · · Score: 1

    I'd love a yubikey neo (nfc) with the form factor of a Nike Fuel Band, but a bit lighter/slimmer. Something I could wear and even shower with, so I'd never worry about my auth token taking a walk. For bonus points make it difficult to unclip (so I'd wake if someone tried to take it off), and have a slide-switch to disable the NFC, so no one could read the auth token at a distance and replay it...

  11. Re:All they really need as a compelling feature is on Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television · · Score: 1

    I don't think you can get 4K projectors yet.
    Also, my long long room with peaked roof wouldn't be ideal for the projector.
    Otherwise I'd be interested.

  12. Re:Stupid question: how do you use it? on Yubikey Neo Teardown and Durability Review · · Score: 1

    You can use it to store your GPG keys and then have GPG act as your SSH agent, so you can require the physical token to ssh to servers.
    I've got my Mac setup so I need my Yubikey for sudo as well.

    At work we use the GPG key on a Yubikey stashed _inside_ a server to sign our software releases. Someone could hack their way onto the server and if they became root could sign software with the key, but they couldn't copy the key to use later.

  13. Re:Durability concerns valid, but... Tampering? on Yubikey Neo Teardown and Durability Review · · Score: 1

    Sure, but if they have to destroy the key to get the secret, and are not just able to non-destructively (side-channel power attacks were published and Yubico added mitigations) get them, then I'd probably notice and use my offline revocation cert to revoke my credentials.

  14. Re:A two factor device on Yubikey Neo Teardown and Durability Review · · Score: 2

    I don't use it for the Yubikey auth stuff, I use it for my PGP/GPG key. My key was generated on the device, and can never leave it (firmware bugs aside), so I feel it's more secure than one where the private bit of the key is on a computer.

  15. Re:They're right you bunch of freetards on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 1

    No, they are the free labor which creates the content which attracts the eyeballs.

  16. Why do I have to ask? on What To Say When the Police Tell You To Stop Filming Them · · Score: 1

    Can't I just start to walk away? If the officer says "you are not free to go", then I'm being detained.
    My point is the presumption shouldn't be that I am being detained, it should be that I'm a free citizen.
    Further, if I'm not being violent and I'm compliant after being detained, the officer's first action should be required to be to explain under what statute/authorization they are detaining me.

  17. In other news... on House Panel Holds Hearing On "Politically Driven Science" - Without Scientists · · Score: 1

    In other news, monkeys in zoo throw feces.

  18. Re:Quake-Catcher? on A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System · · Score: 1

    I was thinking this too. I signed up a while back, but still haven't got my sensor installed (still unpacking, running wiring and getting the network setup after a move).

  19. Re:Kindness of strangers? on A Cheap, Ubiquitous Earthquake Warning System · · Score: 1

    If they do, they have to buy replacements to leave behind. In CA you can't sell a home without smoke and CO detectors.

  20. Less space (12GB vs 16GB) than AMD
    No DisplayPort 1.3
    No Wireless
    Lame.

  21. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    You can also get progress by making sure people pay their fair share by refusing to let them externalize costs.

  22. Re:Progressive Fix 101 on Cheap Gas Fuels Switch From Electric Cars To SUVs · · Score: 1

    I wonder whether the road wear depends more on the weight of the vehicle, or the PSI of the pressure the vehicle puts on the roads?

    That is, a heavy car with fat, low-pressure tires vs a lighter car, but with narrow, high-pressure tires for fuel economy. Which is worse for the roads?

  23. Re: Warning!!! on 'Let's Encrypt' Project Strives To Make Encryption Simple · · Score: 1

    No, the "right thing" is what evolution comes up with as the heuristic for what's best for genes in the long run.
    And that's why it varies from species to species, and environment to environment.

  24. Re: What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Garages will be converted to storage sheds

    Ha ha, what the hell do you think they are now? When was the last time you saw a car in a garage? :-)

  25. Re:What an Embarrassingly Vapid Article on Focusing On Tech Alone, You Miss How Autonomous Driving Will Change Society · · Score: 1

    Or maybe parking will become a smaller business as fewer and fewer people own cars, preferring to dial up a robotaxi, which is much cheaper than a human driven taxi. Mass transit goes away as personal transit takes over.