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by asymptotic 15y ago
I was about to agree with everyone about this being a lazy question, but now I feel like an idiot because I never knew Amazon offered "AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)" ( http://aws.amazon.com/iam/ ), which is a godsend. What's a sh
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Designing a cluster-based covert channel to evade disk investigation(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by asymptotic 15y ago|0 comments
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by asymptotic 15y ago
FTA: "So to answer the post: yes, the street programmer is generally better than the CS graduate - at programming because CS courses are often so woeful. And the professor will beat the street programmer hands-down in the black arts of chu
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Hackers and Fighters(lambdassociates.org)
4 points by asymptotic 15y ago|1 comments
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Memories of the Melissa virus(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
31 points by asymptotic 15y ago|1 comments
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I'm surprised noone's pointed out the obvious - the US have obligations under stategic nuclear arms reduction treaties such as START I that compel the US to chop up B-52s, put the parts in the desert, and leave them there long enough to all
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by asymptotic 16y ago
The actual introduction page is far more enlightening: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/profile_mode.... The work is published under an application called "Perflint". Here's a link to the PDF for the paper: http://0-portal
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by asymptotic 16y ago
This seems to be a prevalent misunderstanding. Amazon's EC2 SLA of 99.95% applies at the scope of a region. A region may contain more than one availability zone. Hence, deploying on multiple availability zones still only affords the 99.9
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by asymptotic 16y ago
If the Reddit web server admins took availability seriously they would have chosen to deploy across more than one region. Do you disagree? Why do you disagree? I'm being honest, no snark involved in my questions.
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Amazon's EC2 SLA is extremely clear - a given region has an availability of 99.95%. If you're running a website and you haven't deployed across across more than one region then, by definition, your website will have 99.95% availailbility.
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by asymptotic 16y ago
One could consider PyLine to be the Python equivalent to Pipeable Ruby: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/437932-pyline-a-grep-lik... Or funcpy: http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/funcpy
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I take my comment back, I apologise. I've just realised that the Apple App Store does not clearly tell users what permissions a given application requires. Go to any application on the Android Market, e.g. https://market.android.com/detai
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Was it just me or did anyone else think of "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell? The author of this article implicitly assumes that all the participants of the game come from similar cultural backgrounds. Read: http://bokardo.com/archives/what-
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I can only speak for Android, but no you cannot deny the application access to certain aspects of the hardware. You must instead refuse to use the application as a whole. On the plus side, Android is very clear about what parts of your pho
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by asymptotic 16y ago
FTA: "Of course, the use of your microphone with these apps is well understood by users, because that's the main purpose of the app. The new apps are often sneakier about it. The vast majority of people who use the Color app, for example, h
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Snooping: It's not a crime, it's a feature(computerworld.com)
14 points by asymptotic 16y ago|15 comments
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by asymptotic 16y ago
[Insert comment scolding the sexist comment but which is, in itself, subtly even more sexist.]
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by asymptotic 16y ago
In a nutshell: "An article about computational science in a scientific publication is not the scholarship itself, it is merely advertising of the scholarship. The actual scholarship is the complete software development environment and the c
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Reproducible Research(reproducibleresearch.net)
2 points by asymptotic 16y ago|1 comments
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by asymptotic 16y ago
The name is rather unfortunate, but the project is quite interesting. I had no idea Vuze, which used to be Azureus, had re-packaged itself as an abstracted DHT provider. I'm disappointed the author chose to tightly couple their implementat
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I'm sorry you were downvoted. However, at the end of the bug information there's a link to Mozilla's official documentation on WebSockets: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebSockets There is a large, clear warning at the top: "Warning:
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I've also finished Part 2: http://www.asimihsan.com/articles/zero_to_hero_erlang_on_aws... This series is taking me far longer than I anticipated; I haven't even started talking about Erlang or OTP yet because of having to set up all the
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Zero to Hero Series - Erlang on Amazon Web Services - Part 1(asimihsan.com)
3 points by asymptotic 16y ago|1 comments
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Due to the sheer volume of responses to this article the author posted a rebuttal to many complaints here: On craftsmanship http://dannorth.net/2011/01/15/on-craftsmanship/ His rebuttal is, as the author admits, better edited and more pit
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I studied Electrical Engineering at university. I have an enduring memory of sitting outside at a restaurant, on a beautiful day, with my roommate, who was a political science major. At one point he started pulling out his notes and an es
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by asymptotic 16y ago
Almost a dupe of: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441553
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by asymptotic 16y ago
This article is based on a report release by NSS Labs titled "Network Firewall 2011 Comparative Test Results", released Q2 2011. Unfortunately the report costs USD3,500. For more details about the attack consider reading: The TCP Split Hand
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Hacker 'handshake' hole found in common firewalls(networkworld.com)
40 points by asymptotic 16y ago|17 comments
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by asymptotic 16y ago
The site in inaccessible. http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.maqetta.org How could IBM screw up a web hosting solution? And how does that reflect on the quality of this web UI tool?
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by asymptotic 16y ago
I got a bit excited and registered straight away, but then I realised that I have no idea where you guys are physically based. Is this a competition that requires physical presence, and if so where is this competition being held?

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