Jwarder

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by Jwarder 8y ago
> Pay-per-hour would lead to shorter, more thoughtful games, rather than long grindy ones. I'm not sure about that. Currently tons of people pay monthly for grindy MMO games. Expanding that sort of revenue scheme to single player
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by Jwarder 8y ago
I have to wonder how toxic the human body is. I have read that bioamplification of pesticides and heavy metals can be a problem for fish and birds. A quick google only shows me vague possibilities when reviewing humans. Is it worse for u
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by Jwarder 8y ago
I don't want to put words in their mouth, but I think it might be a bundle vs a la carte argument. For issues that tend towards short term treatments (eg a handful of antibiotic pills to mitigate the risk of wound infection) then you
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Somewhat. We've eyeballed the cost of living where we want to retire (NorCal Redwood Coast) compared to the many asterisked expected 401k returns and everything looks reasonable. The big gotcha in my mind is that I expect that once w
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Your attitude seems common, but I'm quite curious just how common it is. Personally I totally happy with my current income and don't have any real interest in making more. I can pay my bills, buy anything that catches my eye, max
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Speaking personally: I trust a random password per site more than I trust every site I use to handle my Google credentials correctly. Login with Google seems like it is begging for a phishing attack.
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Is there an actual list of approved languages? Rust is listed a little higher in that link in the section about avoiding unsafe implementation languages. Given that they list it as a counterexample of things to avoid I would assume that me
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Someone totally needs to write some fan-fiction where bitcoin running on mechanical computers prevents the rise of fascism.
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Any intimidation might also be aimed at potential informants. A journalist might see this action as a sign to dig in deeper, but an informant might see this as proof that the local authorities will know if you try to spill the beans.
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Your comment about leaning makes me think that advertising might be a positive (ish). This situation becomes a repeated lesson that not everyone has your best interests in mind. For advertising aimed at kids the stakes are low (bugging you
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by Jwarder 8y ago
A lot of those criticisms seem like a not seeing the forest for the trees argument. Yes, not every Spanish mission was successful, but those that lasted are important. Yes, not all diseases come from domestic animals, but those that do ca
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by Jwarder 8y ago
> also because the safety egineer blidnly trusted the software runnign the car My understanding is the opposite. Uber's software was generating a lot of false breaking events so they set it up so it wasn't controlling the brea
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by Jwarder 8y ago
I've used nmap to check for open ports. Not 1:1 for running applications, but an easy way to check for mistakes when making a machine public. I've also seen plenty of references to shodan.io, but I have no experience with it.
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by Jwarder 8y ago
It looks like a measurement issue. The problem we want to eliminate is sexism and racism. Counting the number of times people are actually affected by a negative -ism is difficult. We don't know what people are thinking unless they t
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by Jwarder 8y ago
I'm totally confused by your argument here. The simple fact that myself and others posting here don't treat "concentration camps" totally equivalent to "Nazi extermination camps" seems like ipso facto proof th
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by Jwarder 8y ago
But they are literal concentration camps. Concentration camps have existed before and after the Nazis; that's not some idea they invented. The horror of the Holocaust is focused around the death camps more than the concentration camp
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by Jwarder 8y ago
Another issue is that the classification can change future behavior. For example, if a new system says you're at high risk of a heart attack then you're likely to want to take medication, change your diet, etc. From that point o
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by Jwarder 8y ago
> Also that clause appears to apply to Youtube using content from the site to promote Youtube's service I'm not sure about that. The preceding statement of "including without limitation" to the mention of promotion s
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by Jwarder 8y ago
I've seen the reCAPTCHA issue a few times this month on other sites. My guess this is a result of Google shutting down the reCAPTCHA v1 API.
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by Jwarder 9y ago
> If i understand the article correctly it's discussing using natural keys as primary keys. I'm not sure about the author's intent here. In the prior section they dismiss the necessity of primary keys. However, the autho
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by Jwarder 9y ago
I'm curious how often people share e-mail addresses. I used to see it a lot for people who used their ISP's mail system. Most people who are even slightly tech oriented have gmail, hotmail, etc these days, but now I can't h
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by Jwarder 9y ago
To expand a little on your last point: one of the guide lines I try to follow is expect your system to be successful. If your club is popular then it will eventually have two people with the same name. Don't waste people's time
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by Jwarder 9y ago
I've seen this come up in EMS. There is the question for certain types of patients if it better for the EMTs to provide care on scene or just get the patient to the hospital soonest. To help determine what's better they pick day
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by Jwarder 9y ago
Speaking of questionable TLDs: does anyone know what happened to Togo's .tg registry? I see that there are bunch of SSL certificates revoked due to "registry problems" [1] this month, but I haven't seen any news or warn
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by Jwarder 9y ago
> Side Note: the reading experience on this blog is one of the best I’ve seen on mobile. Although I think they sacrificed a bit too far there. The features checklist is just an image with a "link" to supported devices that doe
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by Jwarder 9y ago
> as a pentester was that "storing passwords in plaintext" would be a low-severity finding I suspect that's because you're viewing the situation as a pentester not a user. A plaintext password (on its own) doesn&#x27
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by Jwarder 9y ago
You might want to review the scheduled tasks. My system had "OfficeBackgroundTaskHandlerRegistration" set to run every hour. It only pops up for an instant, but it would grab input focus and thus do bad things to my blood pressu
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by Jwarder 9y ago
That's because they use a government cert as the root. The US Government's PKI isn't always setup as trusted because they don't go through all of the audits that other Certificate Authorities do.
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by Jwarder 9y ago
I have to wonder how much of an effect local producers/sellers has. What is the cross over point for the benefits of economy of scale a large corporation operates at vs the cost/pollution of transporting the goods nationally or i
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by Jwarder 9y ago
I don't follow your logic about the breach risk. If you're using unique passwords per service (and you really should) then I would expect any breach that involved passwords would have less of an effect. If there is a breach with

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