Thorrez

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by Thorrez 10mo ago
Obama bailing out banks, and banks giving loans to Netflix, then later Netflix making a movie deal for Obama is not corruption. Did Netflix in any way ask Obama to bail out the banks? How many other businesses were those banks giving loans
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by Thorrez 10mo ago
Wow, thanks for the deep dive!
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by Thorrez 10mo ago
Wikipedia is pretty convinced Berkeley sockets are from 1983[1]. Here's another site saying the same thing[2]. Do you have a source saying 1979? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_sockets [2] https:/
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
git was released in 2005. >The term socket dates to the publication of RFC 147 in 1971, when it was used in the ARPANET. Most modern implementations of sockets are based on Berkeley sockets (1983), and other stacks such as Winsock (1991)
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Do you live in an area where it snows frequently?
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
400,000 items is feedback is a very large number.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
I've only experienced that on embedded videos, not on youtube.com . Are you experiencing it on youtube.com ? I tried it just now, and was able to view a video on youtube.com , pause it, and keep reading the subtitles with no recommenda
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
>There is no probable, verifiable solution here, not any more than when talking about human employees, contractors, friends. Well when talking about employees etc, one model to protect against malicious employees is to require every sens
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
CVS was released in 1990. Subversion was released in 2000. Google still uses a clone of Perforce internally (and various wrappers of it). Perforce was released in 1995.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
You can put whatever name you want there when you post a comment. You don't need to have a registered account.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
This video describes how, in the past, certain item sets, which included hats, gave stats boosts when worn together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZDIqnS0FcI
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Running Linux?
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
It doesn't sound right away to me: >The brothers found six comic books, including Superman #1, in the loft underneath a stack of newspapers inside a cardboard box and surrounded by cobwebs in 2024, Heritage said. > They waited a
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
In this specific case the university was in the UK.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Does the existing law say that if someone creates a cookie banner like that, then the person can be sent to jail? If not, then the 1st step to jailing people is to change the law.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
You can't lock people up if they're not doing anything illegal. The first step is to write a law making what they're doing illegal. Then if they keep doing it, you'll be able to lock them up.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
It's #36 right now. That's on page 2. https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=2 This search also shows it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h&page=0&prefix=fals...
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
I still don't think it's a wealth tax. I guess you could say deflation is less good for the wealthy than inflation, but it still doesn't result in the wealthy losing anything, so I wouldn't call it a tax. If the deflatio
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
I don't understand how deflationary policy is a wealth tax. The wealthy wouldn't lose anything, would they? Inflation + capital gains tax is effectively a wealth tax, but deferred until the gains are realized. And it's possib
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
>"no one will burn their DDoS capabilities on you!" You don't need to burn a DDoS capability to launch a DDoS attack. You just need to pay a few bucks to a booter service. A few minutes of searching turned up these: https
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Good thing he didn't just do that, because we got a some good information from Scott's reply.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Would bent sheet metal have any sharp corners or edges? For kids it's probably best to avoid those.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Go is getting more complex over time though. E.g. generics.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
I'm pretty sure nearly 100% of IDA Pro usage by underground hackers is pirated.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Wouldn't those get pirated by malicious attackers? I though only legit companies paid for the license.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
I assume the forums you're talking about are cybercrime forums. So I think that counts as "marketed for cybercrime". I'm asking if there's anything not marketed for cybercrime.
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Do you have a source that the Google hack was related to David Petraeus? This page doesn't mention it[1]. Does the timeline line up? Google was hacked in 2009[2]. The Petraeus stuff seems to have happened later. Disclosure: I work at G
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
Facebook was hacked in 2013. Attacker used a Java browser exploit to take over employees' computers: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/exclusive-apple-m... Facebook was also hacked in 2018. A vulnera
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
There's no vulnerability per se, but I think the Salesforce UI is pretty confusing in this case. It looks like a login page, but actually if you fill it in, you're granting an attacker access. Disclosure: I work at Google, but don
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by Thorrez 11mo ago
>It isn't illegal to create premium software that could in theory be use for crime if you don't market it that way. Who is making money off of selling premium software, that's not marketed as for cybercrime, to non-governm

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