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by JakeSc 14y ago
Tor essentially provides the same plausible deniability to its end-node users, without needing to simulate human behavior.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> The reason web developers hate IE is when we have to build sites for older versions of IE because people can't or won't upgrade. It's not just older versions of IE that we dislike developing for. It's been the current version of IE a
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by JakeSc 14y ago
This is a great guide. Especially awesome for me was: 26. Change input mode to vi $ set -o vi This command changes the key bindings to vi's. If vi's your favorite editor, you'll love this. I'll cover the vi mode in more details in the next
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> Really? Someone downvoted my explanation?!!! Yeah, but don't let it bother you. Your comment is appreciated, but it's off-topic and doesn't provide conversational value, so I'm going to downvote it. I'm just curating for the next user
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by JakeSc 14y ago
I think you're being downvoted because people disagree with you. The EFF, being the Electronic Frontier Foundation, aims "increase popular understanding of the opportunities and challenges posed by developments in computing and telecommun
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by JakeSc 14y ago
This great that Heroku is doing this. It's nice to know that your cloud provider is aware of and preparing for disasters like this.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Quite true! I am surprised to read this, and thrilled that the technology industry is having an impact for Palestinians as well.
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Philips Announces LIFx Competitor: WiFi-based Hue(meethue.com)
2 points by JakeSc 14y ago|0 comments
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Why not? NYT has now been deemed "illegal" in the eyes of Chinese rulers, just as these torrent sites have been deemed "illegal" in the eyes of US rulers. Both cases are forms of speech. Neither is free.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> I always figured at some point they would slap a proper navigation UI on the ipad (the icon grid offers a really poor ux) Do you have any suggestions for something better than the canonical icon grid?
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Just the statement that one's organization is "seven years ahead in terms of computer security" implies a fair amount of technological ignorance. How can an organization be seven years ahead of everyone else? Do they have Norton Antivirus 1
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Stuxnet showed us that offline networks can be attacked and have real-world consequences (e.g., exploding enrichment plants). Almost all of our critical infrastructure is offline, and many of our infrast
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> Doesn't look like anything too critical was hit though. Except, you know, the password hashes of everybody.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
The University of Michigan database dump here, on the other hand, is legit.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> There is no message in my email that I care more about than the one that might give you access to my bank accounts. This is very well phrased. Email sort of serves two purposes these days, each with very different security models: tex
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> I think the ship has mostly sailed on email You're right. Gmail does an excellent job with ensuring account integrity. I've lost and subsequently recovered access to Gmail accounts, and I must say they do it right. And like you said,
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by JakeSc 14y ago
That's correct. However, the security of any Persona-enabled site is tied to your email account's security through Persona "forgot password". This is my concern; a compromised email account means a compromise of your account on every Person
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Yes, most authenticated web services offer a "forgot password" option, and their security is thus tied to your email account. However, each one of these decentralized services on its own is not as valuable as the entire ecosystem of Persona
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by JakeSc 14y ago
My major concern with this, beside the eggs-in-one-basket issue, is that this places even more value on my email account. Years ago, my email account was simply used for exchanging short pieces of text with acquaintances and companies. Now
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Given that the Pentagon now sees cyberattacks as "acts of war", I wonder what the public response will be.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Were most people using rainbow tables or brute forcing do crack the hashes?
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by JakeSc 14y ago
> Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% for an archive. That's pretty impressive. I wonder how many bytes they lost to lose that .0000000001% of data.
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by JakeSc 14y ago
Yeah, it would be awesome to see prompts like: > Duplicate this line or > Move the cursor to the beginning of this line|
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by JakeSc 14y ago
http://thefuckingweather.com/
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OpenShift - Red Hat's Brand New Scalable Cloud Platform(openshift.redhat.com)
1 points by JakeSc 14y ago|0 comments
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by JakeSc 15y ago
As others have pointed out, this game is a bit of a prank. For example, the "CONNECTIONS" value is randomly generated: numPlayers+=randomInteger(1,5) Though there is indeed some WebSocket communication between your browser and the se
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by JakeSc 15y ago
How does a slow start-up time on the author's laptop make him think that the company is decaying? It's nice that the author is sharing his experience with one of Apple's products, but I was hoping to read an article about how "Apple started
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by JakeSc 15y ago
I'm curious, do you use a library to generate the pronounceable URLs?
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by JakeSc 15y ago
Thanks for your work! The explanation on how the extension works was enlightening. Perhaps I missed it, but would you mind including the explanation on the download page?
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by JakeSc 15y ago
Or, more realistically: not economically viable enough to warrant dropping millions of dollars into R&D that may never be profitable. Google's piles of cash change this.

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