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SteveBellovin

@SteveBellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org

I'm a computer science professor and affiliate law prof at Columbia University. Author of "Thinking Security". Dinosaur photographer. Not ashamed to say that I’m still masking, because long Covid terrifies me.
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

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mattblaze, to random
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I’m still stuck on the fact that “I shot and killed a puppy simply because I didn’t like it” is HER side of the story.

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze @20002ist Is she also the one who shot the deputy?

SteveBellovin,
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@20002ist @mattblaze I'm just trying to plumb the depths of her evil. It's hard; my sounding line seems to be far too short for that.

plragde, to random
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@thatdawnperson Are you reading Maria Dahvana Headley's translation of Beowulf? It really is quite marvellous.

SteveBellovin,
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@plragde @thatdawnperson It is indeed!

carlmalamud, to random
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I apparently have a quite mild case of Covid. I don't enjoy all the benefits my friends who are frequent fliers have who are Platinum Level in the COVID CLUB™️.

SteveBellovin,
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@carlmalamud Ouch. Be well. As my wife has noted, “it’s still swishing around out there.”

SteveBellovin, to random
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I have questions…
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112326402687724234

jkl, to random
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I can't even remember the last time I posted something and now I'm re-learning the ropes over here! @SteveBellovin I emailed you earlier saying I was looking for my Mastodon account - I found it!

SteveBellovin,
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@jkl Welcome!

SteveBellovin,
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@jkl Staying? I was sane before?

mattblaze, to random
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Trump's been practically daring the judge in his hush money trial to lock him up for contempt. He may be hoping to campaign on it as an example of the "witch hunt" he's facing.

But I suspect a night or two in a holding cell at Central Booking (adjacent to the courthouse) might serve as a serious reality check for him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money-prison.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mk0.X13m.7K-8eyTNNnFK&smid=url-share

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze Maybe. Or exponentially increasing fines—$1,000 per incident is petty cash for him.

SteveBellovin,
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@WildEyedBoyFromFreecloud @mattblaze Per Matt's citation, that's capped, too (and probably rightly so).

SteveBellovin, to random
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This campus lockdown sounds like they're blaming the demonstrations on outside agitators. Somehow, I think I've heard that phrase before.
https://press.coop/@nytimes/112320871735808066

SteveBellovin,
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@20002ist I know. Apart from the most obvious target, Minouche Shafik (the president of Columbia, who by university tradition is the one who delivers the primary address, rather than some outside celebrity), one of the honorary degree recipients (a former CS prof and engineering school dean) is an Israeli-American. I will not be surprised if they set up magnetometers at the entrance to campus that day.

aka_pugs, to random
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OTD 1968: Applied Data Research is granted the "first software patent". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_Data_Research I had a part-time job at ADR for a few months around 1977.

SteveBellovin,
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@aka_pugs The “first software patent”? Maybe, but see https://osf.io/4pgu6/?view_only=026a1cd10a2f4ace863ad8d1ea6cf37f

Teri_Kanefield, to random
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I am now going to share the recipe for how to make perfect matzo balls.

Legal and political analysis PLUS recipes.

Joan (my favorite person) made the best matzo balls. A few decades ago, I was assigned the task of bringing the matzo balls to the Seder. Naturally, I called Joan for her recipe.

I’ve been using her recipe ever since, and now I am the one famous in our family for the best matzo balls.

Here is the trick. . .

1/

SteveBellovin,
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@Teri_Kanefield I think there are some folks on some cable networks and social media who very strongly believe that mushy matzoh balls are the correct type, which has their followers enraged at people like you and me…

lauren, to random
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I don't believe in string theory.
I am skeptical about dark matter.

SteveBellovin,
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@lauren I summarized an anti-string theory book by saying that its theme was "God does not play cat's cradle with the universe”.

SteveBellovin, to random
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Submit your stories to CFAIL: The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in Cryptology: https://www.cfail.org. (I'm proud to say that I've presented one of my own mistakes there.)

mattblaze, to random
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Saw Civil War today. It was a well executed gut punch that I'm still processing. So while I can't really talk about the plot or the acting or the directing yet, I'll focus instead on the cameras and lenses used by the two photojournalist characters, all of which I've personally used and have opinions about.

Short thread.

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze If I recall correctly—it's been a fair number of years—my FE had an M90 shutter speed, with "M" for manual at 1/90 second; I don't think it required batteries on that one setting. And of course, exposure back then was purely mechanical. You need a decent eye for lighting, but even I had that and I'm not a pro. Also, it took button cells, which are small and easy to carry, and lasted a very long time.

SteveBellovin,
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@20002ist @mattblaze I learned film photography in high school and have been doing it ever since. I got my first SLR in early 1972, which is why I was able to take those photos of the demonstrations at Columbia. I frankly do not recall if it had any sort of autoexposure, though I doubt it. I bought a Nikon FE in 1981.

carlmalamud, to random
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I’ve been in this lounge for a few hours, am about to leave. Seen a few hundred people belly up to the bar. It is an open bar for business class. Bartenders are whirling dervishes, working really hard. People asking stupid questions like “do you only have India wines” and “may I taste it please?” Not a single person tipping. No wonder the bartenders remember me. What’s the matter with people? One of the iron clad laws of nature is “always tip your bartender.”

SteveBellovin,
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@wendyg @carlmalamud I've been at private events where the host took care of tipping the staff. The usual cue is whether there's a glass on the bar with cash in it.

mattblaze, to photography
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Queensborough (59th Street) Bridge, NYC, 2019.

Groovy pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/48418025131

#photography

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze Also on the caps of the new Mets “City Connect” uniforms! https://www.mlb.com/news/mets-unveil-city-connect-uniforms

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze I do take the 7 train or the LIRR. As for the Triboro—it’s also been renamed, for RFK (and NOT RFK, Jr.) As Tom Lehrer fans know, RFK was Massachusetts’ third senator …

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze Yeah, but the GCP doesn’t go to Brooklyn. And who’d want to have their name attached to the BQE? It’s second only to the Cross Bronx as a disaster of a highway.

SteveBellovin,
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@rsalz @mattblaze Yes, there's the Long Island Expressway, the world's longest parking lot, and I've spent more time than I care to think of stuck on the Southern State. But I stand by my statement…

SteveBellovin, to random
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I also found some ancient Usenet maps.

A map from April 15, 1981, showing noticeable growth, though in the same areas.
A June 1 map, with even more slow growth. It’s mostly the same areas, but more sites in each. Quite notable: a link over the ARPANET.

SteveBellovin,
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@MartyFouts Unfortunately, my time machine is down (or will be down…) for maintenance, so I can't get that fixed…

peterhoneyman, to random
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vatican city

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SteveBellovin,
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@peterhoneyman Looks like a water tower. You can check by seeing if it has a picture of pjw.

SteveBellovin,
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@mattblaze @peterhoneyman In Italy, shouldn't it be Kilometers Davis? They use civilized measurements there.

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