Maxious

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by Maxious 12y ago
Two things like this; my tomcat config got reset to max 128mb JVM stack and ubuntu seems to have switched from -virtual to -generic kernels but the latter isn't booting for me.
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by Maxious 12y ago
prgmr.com also got inducted 2 days ago http://blog.prgmr.com/xenophilia/2014/09/prgmrcom-now-on-xen... Xen has previously had problems with people leaking embargoed security issues http://www.gossa
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by Maxious 12y ago
"At present, public disclosure is scheduled for Wednesday, 2014-09-24 14:00 UTC. We do not expect the schedule to change, but we may be forced to revise it." http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q3/650
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by Maxious 12y ago
BuzzFeed has the story of a guy named José who could not get callbacks until he changed the name on his resume to Joe http://www.buzzfeed.com/adriancarrasquillo/meet-jose-zamora-...
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by Maxious 12y ago
There are easier ways to annoy HFT: "Every day for up to ten minutes near the London Stock Exchange, someone blocks signals from the global positioning system (GPS) network of satellites ... timestamps on trades made in financial insti
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by Maxious 12y ago
Australia: 146 registered Remotely Piloted Aircraft operators and counting http://www.casa.gov.au/scripts/nc.dll?WCMS:STANDARD::pc=PC_1...
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by Maxious 12y ago
The story goes Makerbot got really big on Open Source Hardware, this attracted investors, the investors demanded that the company lock everything down and some founders quit http://josefprusa.cz/open-hardware-meaning/
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by Maxious 12y ago
In Australia a casual fast food/takeaway employee gets paid a minimum of 3 hours per shift, even if the shift is cut short. http://www.fairwork.gov.au/Employee-entitlements/hours-of-wo...
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by Maxious 12y ago
Press coverage of the Syrian internet outage at the time: http://www.cnet.com/news/blackout-syria-vanishes-from-intern... "The Middle Eastern country has been experiencing an Internet outage for several hours, an
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by Maxious 12y ago
They have trained their agents on how to respond to complaints about speed... https://twitter.com/CyrisXD/status/489950468483731458/photo/...
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by Maxious 12y ago
"Under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 (the Act), the AEC must conduct all elections for office in registered organisations unless an exemption has been granted by the Fair Work Australia." http://elec
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by Maxious 12y ago
http://blog.angrygoats.net/2014/01/25/counting-the-west-aust... uses those files I think and is cited in the FOI review as an example of how someone could reproduce their "trade-secret" algorithm us
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by Maxious 12y ago
This request came after an election in Australia where during a recount 1375 votes originally tallied were unable to be found http://www.aec.gov.au/media/media-releases/2013/e10-31.htm An investigation was co
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by Maxious 12y ago
The Australian counting system is VB6 on embedded MSSQL upgraded from a COBOL implementation. "Two AEC data entry operators enter the same ballot data into the system separately, so their counts can be compared to verify that data entr
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by Maxious 12y ago
"Your activity looks suspicious to us. Please prove that you're human."
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by Maxious 12y ago
Vodafone acknowledge that management and legal have no idea what these secret requests are and what pressure is placed employees who push back on governments requests when they violate their internal code of conduct, "Obligations on in
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Livestream for Google Glass Now Available in MyGlass(livestreamblog.squarespace.com)
1 points by Maxious 12y ago|0 comments
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by Maxious 12y ago
> who has access to it You can get the ANPR database under FOI https://github.com/johnschrom/Minneapolis-ALPR-Data
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by Maxious 12y ago
Probably an administrator troubleshooting, www user should also have a nologin shell by default which cannot be changed by a normal user via an uploaded script. Maybe default settings are production settings after all!
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by Maxious 12y ago
Ah yes "ChromeIntegrationDragAreaMaximized". Why didn't I think of enabling that by setting it's integer value to 1!
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by Maxious 12y ago
Pushbullet https://www.pushbullet.com/ does this for Chrome/Android. Odd about the Bluetooth Low Energy and having to be "in range", surely the device has to be powered up enough to be communicating over TCP&
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Dropbox drops the security notification ball, again(zdnet.com)
8 points by Maxious 12y ago|0 comments
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by Maxious 12y ago
eg section 802 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libor_scandal shows the value of logging private IM in a financial context.
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by Maxious 13y ago
"We fixed the flaw on Monday March 31, 2014 for all CloudFlare customers, with public notification on Monday April 7, 2014, after the researchers' public announcement." https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/e
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by Maxious 13y ago
The words "Maximum Capacity" at the bottom of the page expand when clicked to reveal "If your messenger refuses delivery due to size/value/fragility or possible illegality, a cancellation fee will apply"
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by Maxious 13y ago
Kind of like a modern swyft card, eh? http://hackaday.com/2014/04/06/vcf-east-the-swyft-card/
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by Maxious 13y ago
On page 53 of the "Adventures in Automotive Network and Control Units" paper there's a photo of what happened to the researchers garage after a command to run diagnostics on the brakes left the vehicle unable to stop even at
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by Maxious 13y ago
Some interesting discussion going on in this ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7524
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by Maxious 13y ago
Yep http://www.shareholder.com/visitors/event/build3/stage/stage... Best quote from Zuck: "We're clearly not a hardware company. We're not gonna try to make a profit off of the devices lon
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by Maxious 13y ago
>“if your employees reach out to us or vice-versa they’re fair game.” Not quite.... > "Not to pursue manager level and above candidates for Product, Sales, or G&A roles — even if they have applied to Google;" http:&#x2F

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