DarronWyke

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by DarronWyke 9y ago
They never sold out, stop spreading this misinformation.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
And it can be turned off. It's not a big deal at all. People are making mountains out of molehills.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Even before reading the article, my first thought was 'need to expand the range of the vehicle'. Yes, advances in battery technology means even the lowest-common-denominator consumer will get better battery life without having to
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Except they didn't install whatever software they want. They said they can install software to check metrics and more. Which is what this is.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
>ToS terms that aren’t either expected by the user, or explained in plain text without having to click through anything, are considered null and void in the EU. You mean like the TOS and EULA you agree to when you install the browser? Th
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
>Back then, you'd sit and stare at your buddy list waiting for that person you liked to come online so you could say something witty, and then stew with worry if they didn't respond but remained online. Or you'd get a frie
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Has it already been pulled? I was hoping to do something tonight before it was shut down.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
I'm in a similar boat. I met my wife on a website with a mutual game interest, and we started chatting on AIM. Come to find out she's not too far from where I lived and I started visiting her once a month. Now we're married.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Hahaha. You gave them permission when you agreed to their TOS. But you didn't read it, did you?
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Ghostery will also block disqus if you have the Commenting tracker section selected.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
A fair caveat here is a lot of this will depend upon what field you're buying from. A lot of what you've said is true. There are plenty of others where a "luxury" name carries far more weight with regards to reliability
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Yes, this is something well known. Chat platforms have long since been used as botnet infrastructures. IRC is/was a big one for a long time because it's very lightweight and the protocol is well known (with a little know-how you c
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Exactly, that's all this is -- planning. Consider the world of information security, which I'm involved in. What's the best way for blue team (defenders) to protect their assets? Look at what the red team (attackers) are doi
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Yes, because Adblock Plus works. It's what I've always used. A lot of the wailing and gnashing over "zomg they can be bought!!!1one" was just misinformed users whining about discovering the "allow some non-intrusive
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
The US has never been a democracy.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
They did make a Hexen 2 though. It's not bad. Uses a different engine so you can't throw the WAD into something like Doomsday or jDoom.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
I have a stock set that I use anytime I use Firefox or Chrome. They're there for security and privacy. Adblock Plus NoScript Ghostery Privacy Badger I've also added HTTPS Anywhere lately. For Firefox only, though, there's mor
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
What are some things to be aware of when switching? I'm a 3T owner and I'm done with the OS (still love the hardware). Hesitant to simply flash new firmware onto it without knowing what I'm getting into.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Remember when they nearly broke the internet back in IIRC '06, when they had that peering dispute spat with Cogent?
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Not quite true. Currently it requires physical access with a JTAG debugger. Presumably eventually it could be weaponized enough to allow access with any sort of USB device, and potentially remotely, but the latter is very unlikely.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Honestly, a lot of the CS/delivery issues are somewhat dependent upon the consumer market that the company targets. Some communities are very word-of-mouth and reputation based. One of the ones I'm involved in is the firearm commu
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
This also takes me back to watching some modems have bad implementations of the USR protocols. Some were so bad that they'd actually watch the packet traffic for commands. I remember seeing people getting knocked offline from someone t
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
And working remote can give better focus. Sure, there's always the risk of distractions by home events. I personally have slacked off while working remote -- when my workload was nil (ie, tasks are waiting on other people now). But at
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
It's multi-faceted. It shows your ability to think quick and how you solve multiple problems. If you stop in the middle of the list and try over and over to come up with an answer, how will you react to a real problem? Or do you just g
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Sysadmin/infosec guy here. We do the same thing. I was shown this a while ago and I use it on other candidates I've interviewed. Propose a problem, then as they start working through it, throw other wrenches into it or state that
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
They already did that when they went anti-GG and started taking cues from people like Brianna Wu. That was the start of the decline for them.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
How about writing and publishing actual facts rather than hit pieces? I've seen El Reg push out several articles about non-UK things that were patently wrong -- and that their userbase ripped them for. No apology, no retraction, no u
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Not found anything worthwhile really. Slashdot is still decent. Of course HN. User-run sites tend to be better. But I stopped reading Ars and The Register a while ago due to slippages in journalistic quality and various other hit pieces.
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
Of course I'm not shocked that Ars picked it up. Their journalistic quality has majorly slipped over the last few years. AMD is punching way above their weight class lately. It's causing competitors (or really competitor since I
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by DarronWyke 9y ago
As I told someone over Twitter the other day: mindset isn't something that can be readily taught, which is why STEM is still so in-demand with a gross labor shortage. For most people it's something you either innately have or don&

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