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by ademarre 12y ago
> if you buy in to certain services, say, any AWS architecture beyond EC2, failover to another provider becomes a lot closer to impractical if not impossible. Yes. I say this all the time and continue to be amazed that this is such a f
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> the IETF can now claim relevance and victory by conceding practically every principle ever held dear in return for the privilege of rubber-stamping Google's initiative. What principles does he claim the IETF is conceding here?
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I like the idea of presenting leap seconds as a change in timezone or time offset. But instead of redefining all the UTC-offset timezones, e.g. redefining EST/EDT from UTC-5/UTC-4 to TAI-05:00:35/TAI-04:00:35, what if we rede
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An example of what he calls "Enumerating Badness" and "Default Permit" is seen today in web application firewalls (WAFs) that try to block XSS payloads. It conceals the real problem, which is a vulnerability in the web a
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Is the Magento codebase fully compatible with HHVM?
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> It's not a problem when you can pretend the components are actually one single component, which is obviously not possible with service architectures or proprietary code. Yes. It seems Stallman is mostly trying to highlight a pro
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So their conclusion is that LaTeX is best saved for documents with much mathematical content. But it's also worth considering that LaTeX workflows offer better compatibility with revision control systems. The change tracking features i
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Agreed. Whichever meaning it invokes, it's not a good name.
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Is slur really a good name for this type of thing? I generally want my information to be clearly spoken, not slurred speech.
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> Marriott has said it had an obligation to protect guests from “rogue wireless hotspots” that could lead to hacking. Oh please. It's too easy these days to hide behind security and user protection as a motive. FUD mongering.
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Google and Microsoft Oppose Hotels’ Effort to Block Personal Wi-Fi(wsj.com)
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Cached confirmation bias
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Egocentrism Over E-Mail: Can We Communicate as Well as We Think? (2005) [pdf](faculty.chicagobooth.edu)
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> We know that people do not generally perceive the absence of a warning sign. Yet the only situation in which web browsers are guaranteed not to warn users is precisely when there is no chance of security: when the origin is transporte
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SSL Labs API Documentation(github.com)
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Webinar: Bruce Schneier and Jon Oltsik, Year-End Review and Predictions(attendee.gotowebinar.com)
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Reminds me of this: http://avc.com/2012/01/scarcity-is-a-shitty-business-model/
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> The ten commonest verbs in English... Until reading that, and subsequently confirming accepted usage, I never would have used commonest as the superlative of common .
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There's also the wonderful Australian romantic comedy film Danny Deckchair. Danny flies away from his problems in a deckchair-balloon aircraft. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337960/
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Yes, you're right. Somehow I thought you were suggesting that the issue was posted by someone from CoreOS. My fault. Nonetheless, I don't think it's written strongly at all. It's a succinct, plainly worded feature reques
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by ademarre 12y ago
The issue you're quoting is from GitHub user SnakeDoc. I don't think he is affiliated with CoreOS.
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> Especially when the request was not worded as "we're trying to standardize this, want to help out", but "we ARE the standard, comply with us". Maybe I missed it, but I never got the impression that CoreOS was
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A side point observed while reading this article: > Google + Containers > Not (google+) but rather google using linux containers. This is the kind of confusion that results when you name a product with a dangling binary grammatica
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That's like flying because you like airline food. No one flies if they don't have a destination. No one will put a captcha on their site if it doesn't tell computers and humans apart; that's its primary job.
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The fact that this works shows that distorted-text captchas are no longer effective. From the Google's blog post: > our research recently showed that today’s Artificial Intelligence technology can solve even the most difficult vari
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> Automated and instant CAPTCHA image solving How do they do that? This sounds like whitehat use of blackhat tools. Are they using captcha-solving farms?
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This problem is often referred to as user enumeration , which seems like a misnomer to me. Whatever you call it, it's good to keep in mind that Google, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter are vulnerable. The most interesting facet to user en
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The easy house number tests are for users with established sessions because the system already has a high degree of confidence you are a human. Delete your cookies or use an incognito window and I expect you'd see the traditional captc
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I've been using AWS for years, and I think it's great that it's getting to be mature. I'd be cautious about comparing cloud vendors by the number of services they offer though. As cloud users and developers, we should be
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Like provemewrong pointed out, 2560x1440 is 16:9. I also much prefer 1920x1200 over 1920x1080, but I find it's not so much a preference for 16:10 over 16:9, but rather 1080 simply isn't enough vertical space. I think a 25" 25

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