RobAley

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by RobAley 14y ago
Which is good.
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by RobAley 14y ago
Start by changing your SSH port from 22 to something else. It stops 99% of automated attacks. Beware that it is obscurity, not security though. That said, it does help clear some of the "noise" to focus on the other 1% of attacks where the
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by RobAley 14y ago
If helps if a) you've misconfigured your "office only" rules, or b) someone has breached your office network/one of your local machines (but hasn't discovered any of your keys/passwords yet) and is trying to get into the server. It also hel
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by RobAley 14y ago
I've never tried this, but could you enable access from a given hostname rather than IP address, and then use a dynamic DNS system like http://www.noip.com/ to automatically update a hostname when your IP address changes? Two downsides I
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by RobAley 14y ago
Bear in mind that in small company, developer == dev op == sys op == network manager = testers == toilet cleaner. i.e. they do everything, dev or production. As regards to unattended upgrades, again in small companies the choice is usually
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by RobAley 14y ago
Does it support Verified by Visa or Mastercard SecureCode? Not that I like them much, but they provide some protection for merchants against chargebacks.
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by RobAley 14y ago
>Well murdering people is on an entirely different level. It is a different level, but dishonesty (particularly continuing and for the purposes of self enrichment) is still nothing to be proud of. > I admire him purely for the abili
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by RobAley 14y ago
Nobody who builds something on the back of a lies deserves, or gets, my respect. To me, it would be in the same vein as saying, "All respect to him, he kidnapped and murdered people, but he makes 10 times the amount I do and hasn't been cau
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Apple loses shareholder vote lawsuit and drops plan(bbc.co.uk)
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by RobAley 14y ago
As a former UK police officer, I can tell you that UK violent crime stats usually include any kind of crime that includes legally defined force, e.g. - "common assault" (includes slapping, spitting at, pushing) - threats of violence - domes
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by RobAley 14y ago
I can't talk for the IA, but in the UK the situation is absolutely yes, they would be taxed. Any payment of any kind, or any benefit in kind, is taxable (and the tax paid in cash, not bitcoins!), apart from a few specified exemptions.
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Paypal launches chip-and-pin device(m.bbc.co.uk)
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by RobAley 14y ago
A privately owned website that is generally available to the public most certainly does constitute a public place (in the same way that standing in a pub saying "who fancies a shag for £50" wouldn't get you off the hook. If you're solicitin
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by RobAley 14y ago
Nope, advertising online (or anywhere else) is illegal (offering sexual services for money). Pretty much the only time its legal is if two adults who have otherwise met come to a spontaneous agreement to have sex for money. E.g. if a friend
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by RobAley 14y ago
It may sound more impressive, but it's simply wrong. It's not even ambiguous. If they had said some thing like "with advanced algorithmic distribution of load instantly as you scale", its wishy-washy enough that its technically correct and
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by RobAley 14y ago
Its not an abstract point. My costs may go up, without my income going up, if I need more repos, which I can't necessarily predict in advance. I then either have to eat the extra cost or go cap in hand to the client because part way through
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by RobAley 14y ago
I don't think he's saying that its too much, its that there is a cheaper option with better financial predictability, and that is why he's not using github. Its more of a heads up to github, paraphrasing : "if you want our business, this is
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Every change breaks someones workflow(xkcd.com)
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by RobAley 14y ago
You (as with most of us) probably spend so much time on the web now, shuttling around many many different websites, that you don't notice (or remember) that a large proportion of the myriad of native software, beyond a few well polished exa
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by RobAley 14y ago
No, thats my point, it may only be usable internally, and if modified only if you trust your staff
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by RobAley 14y ago
If you're using http, you can use the range parameter in curl to restrict the number of bytes you download.
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by RobAley 14y ago
If you're looking to use it for anything other than unmodified internal use, be aware that it uses the AGPL license (the "A" at the start being quite important), and may place restrictions on what you want to do, much more-so than the GPL.
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by RobAley 14y ago
When someone, particularly a beginner, is reading the code and come across, say, an unfamiliar function name, then they know straight away whether to look for it in the language docs or a definition somewhere else in the code. Not essential
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by RobAley 14y ago
Have you got any examples of these?
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Google searches expose racial bias in search ads(m.bbc.co.uk)
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Single nuclear plant decommissioning reaches £67.5bn and still climbing(bbc.co.uk)
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by RobAley 14y ago
They have been doing for a while, at least for non-user-initiated ajaxy data : http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-googlebot-ajax-javas...
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by RobAley 14y ago
Google uses a crawler (allegedly) build on Chrome's internals, and renders a lot of Javascript/AJAX content just fine.
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by RobAley 14y ago
For most people, it doesn't solve a pain point they have. This type of social network, for most people, is simply just nice to have, but not worth paying for. For some people, it's exactly what they need and solves their pain (or at least w
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by RobAley 14y ago
They may all be "obviously" infringing, but they're not all "actually" infringing. For instance, one I clicked on with the name of a well known movie led to an .exe file, which was a virus and not the movie in question. There's also one cal

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