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by alexkus 13y ago
It's probably a typo (or copy-and-paste-o) but if your ls -l of the binary with setuid is showing "-rwxr-xr-x" then you're more than likely running a rootkit version of ls that hides setuid info. From your gist:- l
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by alexkus 13y ago
Seems odd, even with the interesting conditions (no hot water or no electricity in some rooms), that with demand allegedly so high the "rents" are still so low.
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by alexkus 13y ago
Not always (as long as you're talking about something they are in possession of, you're right if you mean you can't prove that you don't have some flash drive hidden somewhere but, then again, it need not be encrypted if
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by alexkus 13y ago
> People who can't read Wikipedia ask questions on Stackexchange. Not saying this is an example of this behaviour but there are also groups of people kudos whoring on SE/SO by shill posting questions and then providing very tho
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by alexkus 13y ago
Not really, they still make money from someone if they've had a mortgage for a minimum period. They're still making the interest every month until it is paid back, even early. If someone pays back money early then it means they ca
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by alexkus 13y ago
And trademarked by Barclays Bank in the UK.
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by alexkus 13y ago
Excellent, thank you. I shall ignore the fact that there will be other sized grids that are looking for solutions. Still, it's always interesting to see if one can develop something to come up with one's own solution.
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by alexkus 13y ago
Gah. Must...resist...getting...sucked...in...
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by alexkus 13y ago
If that's your 1-10 scale I'd say:- | bog standard, journeymen, CRUD programming in Objective-C | = 3 But programming and maths aren't analogous but they're also not completely orthogonal, so my answer would be in the co
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by alexkus 13y ago
Tilt shift photography.
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by alexkus 13y ago
True, but having every structure aligned to exactly the same offset into each page is extremely unlikely. Given a page size of 4KB then a whole bunch of 32 byte structures aligned in such a way would represent a huge waste of memory. No san
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by alexkus 13y ago
You can always write your own incremental allocator to provide word aligned (or whatever alignment) blocks of memory (from a large block of memory you obtain via a usual malloc() call) for the individual structures such that their page offs
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by alexkus 13y ago
> Maybe don't reveal the username unless that user has your phone number in their contacts? Sounds good. But how are you going to check? Snapchat would need to store every user's contact list, which HN also considers unacceptab
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by alexkus 13y ago
Have done "Live to work". 60+ hour weeks, using vacations to recover from (near) burnout, etc. Now doing "Work to live". Moved to a 4 day week. 3-day weekends. Any extra hours are my own choice (and rare). 27 vacation da
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by alexkus 13y ago
All true, but some people can be spurred/motivated/whatever into doing things they might not be in the frame of mind to really want to do at that point in time.
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by alexkus 13y ago
Haven't done any specific lifting for years. Having children means spare time disappears (not that I'm complaining; I just look back and wonder WTF I did with all my spare time before having a kid). There is a bench at the work gy
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by alexkus 13y ago
1 hour cycle commuting (30 mins each way) 4 days a week, 4000km a year just commuting, usually another 2000km a year on longer leisure/training rides (best year was an extra 6000km of long-distance rides). 5-a-side soccer twice a week
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by alexkus 13y ago
Indeed, but his track record isn't absolutely perfect if you remember his misguided analysis of the Bitcoin blockchain, a paper which was subsequently withdrawn[1]. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6804440
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by alexkus 13y ago
Closer to $1000, but that's not surprising really. I believe the "3.5GHz 6-core with 12MB of L3 cache" chip is this one http://ark.intel.com/products/75780 which has an RRP of $583. The difference in ret
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by alexkus 13y ago
No, you can prevent unbounded growth by using a pre-allocated cyclic buffer and just write into that. We have prototypes of this in our software (but not production code yet) with buffers that default to 50MB. That gives a nice amount of de
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by alexkus 13y ago
Don't BT end up getting some/most of the line rental money anyway; whether directly passed on or via a Wholesale Line Rental?
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by alexkus 13y ago
(UK at least...) You couldn't just point blank fire the bottom x% each year based on their ranking, you'd need to give the bottom x% warnings and put them on an improvement plan (so they have a chance to improve) and then, for tho
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by alexkus 13y ago
But, Bit^H^H^Halt-coins!
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by alexkus 13y ago
> "Even using conservative, realistic estimates... it's still possible that organisms could be swimming around out there in the oceans of Europa," she said. ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
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Dinosaur asteroid 'sent life to Mars'(bbc.co.uk)
58 points by alexkus 13y ago|46 comments
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by alexkus 13y ago
Fine, but how would you verify your read-only USB stick or LiveCD before use? Theoretically someone could sneak and replace the LiveCD with one that looks identical but is infected with the required malware[1]. Carrying it on you, or lockin
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by alexkus 13y ago
If you look at the photo it's just three sets of racks that have been mirrored to the other side; the ones with the orange lights and red cables. None of the other racks looked mirrored.
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by alexkus 13y ago
{ Server } = require 'ws'
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by alexkus 13y ago
Base64 of the encrypted php malware (after the initial decryption phase but before the XOR decryption): http://pastebin.com/YfcKSLQq I tidied up the code I used to analyse it and uploaded it here:- xor.pl: http:/&#x2F
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by alexkus 13y ago
Oh yes, although too many "alias" commands will mean that it's possible to search for the known plaintext of 'alias'. But the more non-ascii bytes there are the more it will put off my analysis which dependeds on is

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