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You seem very confident of this, so I'm going to assume you're either a lawyer, or have knowledge of some sort of legal precedent here, right?

I'm a renter for the foreseeable future, and I don't know anything at all about home ownership and all of the nuances so maybe I'm off base here... but surely this number includes people with mortgages that haven't yet been fully paid off?

If this is the case, then to me this data simply illustrates that up to 2/3 of American households were able to obtain bank loans. Perhaps I'm being too cynical, but recent history has shown us that being able to obtain credit doesn't necessarily mean you can afford the underlying thing.

comms director says this is false: https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1595089406322417665

Just one guy's opinion, but to me it sounds like you're making intelligent, healthy, and entirely logical choices about your life and how you choose to spend your limited time.

The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care.

The comment you're replying to is making the same point.

I'm not saying you shouldn't always strive to learn new things (for your own personal growth and curiosity), but I think it's important to point out that the link between being a developer and knowing about these things-- esoteric topics of applied Mathematics-- is pretty weak.

Imagine a carpenter spending their time getting a chemistry degree in order to better understand how wood glue works.

It's not.

Well, to accomplish that with HTTPS traffic, you'd have to tell your device to accept (for example) Burp's CA certificate. Many applications (especially sensitive applications such as banking) nowadays use certificate pinning to verify the expected certificate and prevent this kind of MITM from happening. So you'd still need to do some sort of lower-level manipulation, such as manually hooking the certificate validation functions, to even be able to get this proxying to work.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to really see what's going on without a jailbroken iPhone, or rooted Android device.

Why wouldn't it be?

s/exercise/transportation/

I personally find it a little difficult to believe that this was a security researcher. Exploiting a vulnerability (against the rules of engagement), _and_ uploading a web shell?

Seems more likely that Facebook wasn't thrilled that Orange included the details of an existing, unknown Facebook compromise in his write-up.

And on the flip side, deep understanding of the technology stack in question doesn't necessarily lead to implementing it securely. This is division of labor at work.

I always hear people say things like "we don't have debtors prisons in the U.S.". If enough people start doing this, I have a very strong feeling that that will change. As student loans become more of a crisis, we're sure to see more people simply deciding not to pay. What recourse to lenders have if this happens on a large scale?

> My experience of HN screwing up my life isn't a whole lot different from intoxicants screwing up theirs.

Except the fact that you can just stop doing it at any time with literally zero physical side-effects.

The NSA accepts the reality you've presented. Is that what we want?

> The common narrative in discounting any involvement of North Korea is that they're too famished and uneducated to perform such an operation.

This is the common narrative? Every narrative I've read bases their skepticism on problems with the language used by attackers.

What's the point of this comment? Some of us don't browse reddit.

Out of curiosity, were you an officer? The idea that private officer chat might be sent to just any guild member's client is hilarious.

It's really "what should have been an emergency patch", if they're referring to MS14-066. Article is kind of confusing as to what vuln they're actually referring to, though.

On an equally irrelevant note, I'm young and have programmed in C.

The tragedy of this entire way of thinking is that being one of the top 25 in your honors physics program is perfectly fine. He was still excelling.

People get hung up on the slight variations that make the difference between first and second place, completely ignoring the fact that there are plenty of extremely high levels of achievement aside from being "the best". To think that you shouldn't practice something you love just because it's easier for the guy above you is absurd.

>The plan here seems to be to build all Windows phones and tablets with x86 chips to eliminate battery life.

FTFY

Not at all... Black Hat is one of the more commercial, "industry" security conferences out there.

Just more Google marketing. Trying to win hearts and minds, while like Facebook, profiting off of the sale of user data.

These comments are infuriating, but not unexpected. So many people who have likely wasted their last 115 days attempting to find every fault with someone who clearly hasn't.

OP: Excellent work, and keep it up. I hope you take the criticisms and disbelief for what they truly are: incontrovertible evidence that you're doing something very right.

Realize you can't have everything...

Maybe people's expectations of Microsoft are just so low that no one actually thought they'd try to compete.

I'm sorry, but you're kidding yourself if you think there's a lot of value in being an "idea man", or if you think that there aren't people who have both great ideas and the ability to see them through to completion.

Well, you've kinda missed the point. The point is that this isn't a deserted island. It's a carefully structured system, one purpose of which is to give individuals the foundation to be as successful and innovative as Carmack has.