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by _wmd 12y ago
I'm not necessarily opposed to something along these lines, except that it's basically already been tried: XSLT was essentially the inverse of this, where data endpoints were annotated with some static rendering descriptors. To me
572.
by _wmd 12y ago
One of the boons of Java is its remote debugging support.. you can attach a profiler to a process when something like this happens, extract thread names & stacks, and so on. AFAIK you can also use the Linux 'perf trace' comman
573.
by _wmd 12y ago
Because it's kernel-side SMP support is basically from the 80s Because getting commercial support for it is hard Because getting drivers for it is hard Because .. Lots of reasons, nothing to do with feel-good or whatever else. OpenBSD&
574.
by _wmd 12y ago
OpenSSH is a fork of the original SSHv1 written by a Finnish guy.
575.
by _wmd 12y ago
Its pretty naive to think present market share is any kind of reliable predictor for the future viability of Firefox. Its most recent ideologically compatible competitor, Chrome, has recently (<12 months) been shown to have deeply rooted
576.
by _wmd 12y ago
Includes don't control linking, and traditional C did not require function prototypes, so most compilers (in non-C++ mode at least) will happily compile calls to unknown functions, it just assumes a default signature.
577.
by _wmd 12y ago
Such a waste.. probably ran some crappy spam/DoS drone on it, when binaries from that host are probably pulled and executed inside more or less every major financial institution on the planet.
578.
by _wmd 12y ago
GnuPG sounds like a prime candidate for Linux Foundation's core infrastructure initiative. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/programs/core-infrastructure-... If they're willing to fund a new NTP implementation t
579.
by _wmd 12y ago
It appears they've moved forward to Qt5 but they're still running on QtWebKit. This is a bad situation since QtWebKit has been deprecated (read: nobody has publicly committed to writing any new code for it, not least Digia) in fav
580.
by _wmd 12y ago
Basically because bindiff ( http://www.zynamics.com/bindiff.html ). The moment an updated binary is available, the clock starts ticking towards a vulnerability being reverse engineered from the update. A few years back, ther
581.
by _wmd 12y ago
I wanted to say this, but evidently it was pointless given that seemingly 80% the people on this thread have absolutely no understanding of change management whatsoever, or more importantly the problems you might face when customers have yo
582.
by _wmd 12y ago
Given that Microsoft had excellent reason to ask for an extra 2 days, I guess the real question is that for a data-driven organization, why Google think 90 days is such a good number in the first place, and why they insisted on sticking to
583.
by _wmd 12y ago
As another comment points out, unlike Google updates, Microsoft's occur on a particular day of every month. This allows end user IT departments to coordinate the updates as part of a predictable change management policy. In this case,
584.
by _wmd 12y ago
I imagine seccomp and ptrace have pretty similar performance, since they both wake the 'host' using a signal, and stay out of the way until their trigger is met. As for UML stability, Debian have been providing packages of it for
585.
by _wmd 12y ago
You could, but you almost certainly don't want to.. Network filesystems that try to emulate regular filesystem semantics fundamentally suck, not least because you basically can't do any useful caching, and the caching that is done
586.
by _wmd 12y ago
Because it's not obvious without glancing at the code, this relies on 9P-over-virtio to implement the filesystem, which means its pretty much always going to be limited to running Linux images. This sounds like a nice and clean solutio
587.
by _wmd 12y ago
NetBSD pkgsrc has supported OS X for almost a decade now, including a complete binary build IIRC thanks to Joyent
588.
by _wmd 12y ago
Their streaming site seems to be having reliability issues, but seems it's still there. You can watch the raw recording at http://streaming.media.ccc.de/relive/6112/ already
589.
by _wmd 12y ago
You could have said the same for the initial releases of Chrome and Firefox
590.
by _wmd 12y ago
Portable C significantly restricts the machine primitives available, e.g. no explicit SIMD, no explicit control over struct/memory layout, no obviously efficient way to represent type information (say, for implementation of a moving GC
591.
by _wmd 12y ago
Just as a side comment, the reason languages/tools are fun to learn is because it's usually quite easy to do so. You say you know R, but the depth of packages available for R is insane, and most of it requires a level of math that
592.
by _wmd 12y ago
This is a complaint about the Ubuntu 14.04 python3 package, not Python itself
593.
by _wmd 12y ago
Would a mod care to explain why this this link was demoted? I anticipated the title correction (in this case, counter-PR to security snake oil IMHO is warranted), but I cannot fathom any reason an uncontroversial story like this with few co
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N reasons why the spooks love Tribler(lists.torproject.org)
223 points by _wmd 12y ago|59 comments
595.
by _wmd 12y ago
SNTP is only useful as an option of last resort, e.g. you have no embedded RTC, and no storage to track drift. In all other cases a full NTP client is always preferable, since drift and corrections can be applied without causing jumps to th
596.
by _wmd 12y ago
As someone that used to be more interested in this stuff, it seems I missed the part where SS7 access became generally available. The first I saw mention of it, I think, was on an SMS provider's web site under a "Contact Us"
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A plan for a completely decentralized BitTorrent index(pythonsweetness.tumblr.com)
8 points by _wmd 12y ago|1 comments
598.
by _wmd 12y ago
"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" Since you can easily fit the Magnet hash in an OP_RETURN value, all required is to move the torrent's description (title, description, categor
599.
by _wmd 12y ago
The value of the rouble has collapsed over the past year, I think he means tech workers would only be too happy to leave.
600.
by _wmd 12y ago
This is a fairly minor nit, but a persistent one nonetheless: you keep claiming to have removed unsafe features from LMDB, yet you left the most dangerous one in there: NOSYNC provides no consistency guarantees whatsoever, whereas e.g. with

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