LogicX

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by LogicX 15y ago
How about Slashdot?
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by LogicX 15y ago
Most of them have an SMS option now. Bank of America offers the token or just one-time-use SMS'd security tokens.
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by LogicX 15y ago
Troll feeding He'll get a new expiry date. Credit card companies don't issue you a new number unless they really have to (card was use fraudulently) Instead they just issue you a new expiry and CVC - and often even update merchants who ar
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by LogicX 15y ago
There was a vulnerability in dd-wrt a few months back, allowing anyone to get your router's mac addy -- then presumably they can lookup your MAC using a service such as this or skyhook to get your EXACT location (not just an IP address appr
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by LogicX 15y ago
Unfortunately there's no universally accepted pre-defined list of occupations which are common knowledge to enough people to make that happen.
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by LogicX 15y ago
Here's a fun anecdote which I think summarizes why people don't ask for help: Two days ago I read an article about a local company; deciding my wife may find enjoyable work with them, I decided to visit their website and careers page. The c
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by LogicX 15y ago
Dreamhost was doing a ceph beta with testers over a year ago. I see there's a number of blog posts about ceph on their site.
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by LogicX 15y ago
I like that you used Stripe for finish weekend itself... we just leveraged Stripe in our project for a finish-weekend-esk hackathon in Boston: http://www.vampirehackathon.com We created http://hipay.me - a simple credit card invoicing s
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by LogicX 15y ago
earthclassmail.com - one address; they scan in your mail so you can check it online from anywhere.
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by LogicX 15y ago
Yes, you're looking at ITA's InstaSearch product, which delivers near real-time results, compared to the traditional QPX product. There were many articles about Google's acquisition of ITA, and various stipulations around InstaSearch: "As a
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by LogicX 15y ago
Over 95% have been great. I effectively pre-screen out the weirdos so they don't make it to the house. We've just had a few cultural differences with guests which made it 'annoying' to have them. Guests have their own bathroom, we share th
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by LogicX 15y ago
Except this same scenario happened if you recorded off TV; or used a DVR like Tivo. Now imagine the benefits of a torrent option where they have the option of updating the ads every 6-12 months; and releasing fresh torrents (or even better
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by LogicX 15y ago
As a current AirBNB host; I'd like to chime in on why the sublet prices seem high. Everyone on AirBNB currently has their places setup for a nightly rate which is competitive against hotels, then potentially offering a slight discount if th
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by LogicX 15y ago
This is irrelevant. LoJack (by Absolute) is in the BIOS. If you reformat, it reinstalls itself. Numerous sources can attest to this, but here's a generic reference: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/LoJack#LoJack... As you me
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by LogicX 15y ago
"most college students".... as defined by the outcome of a 30 student sample at one university.
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by LogicX 15y ago
Since no one has brought it up yet -- I figured I would. The entire time I read this article, I was thinking of Clipperz ( https://www.clipperz.com ) Their entire product is based on the model of in-browser cryptography of your credential p
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by LogicX 15y ago
http://alternativeto.net/software/prey/
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by LogicX 15y ago
See also AutoSSH: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Autossh "Autossh is a program to start a copy of SSH and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic."
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by LogicX 15y ago
Yes, the new filevault does make things tricky in this sense... however its just a matter of time til someone improves prey project to install to the new OSX Lion un-encrypted install (the one your system boots to, and prompts you to enter
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by LogicX 15y ago
... why not do exactly that; but ALSO have a guest account, and prey installed. (Also re: not instantly formatting; put firmware and/or hard drive passwords on to slow them down -- most thieves are not computer experts) I think you under-
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by LogicX 15y ago
Agreed -- I've exchanged many many emails with the developer to try to resolve my issues, but eventually gave up after trying for weeks to get it to sync a photos dir between my laptop and desktop (30,000 photos, 60GB). Really hope they wor
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Measuring and Managing Honesty Online(blog.socialsci.com)
24 points by LogicX 15y ago|2 comments
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by LogicX 15y ago
And the other side of the equation: 1973: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Roe_vs_wade See Also: Crime charts.
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by LogicX 15y ago
I would propose that being a landlord, and hosting on AirBNB have the potential to be quite different things. My father is a landlord, he shares similar stories of disaster. He also rents out in a low-income, remote area. My AirBNB offeri
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by LogicX 15y ago
They already have host and guest reviews and feedback. Granted, most people are new to the system, and don't have feedback. As an AirBNB host, I screen potential customers all the time, and definitely seeing positive reviews from others is
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by LogicX 15y ago
You're giving thieves and vandals far too much credit. For most, if they had the intelligence to get away with the crime, then they'd have the intelligence to know not to commit it.
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by LogicX 15y ago
We spent some time working on this for the security survey at SocialSci during signup -- since we don't associate your email to your account; its the only way for our participants to recover their password. We did a lot of research and came
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An example: being mentioned on Reddit(blog.socialsci.com)
89 points by LogicX 15y ago|18 comments
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by LogicX 15y ago
Except apparently less than 10% actually read said channel: http://www.allfacebook.com/shocker-3-to-7-5-of-fans-see-your...
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by LogicX 15y ago
I think the key here is that this is a trojan installed by the user. Education is the greatest weapon against this type of attack -- not trying to keep up with users reinfecting themselves with each variant.

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