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by atdt 9y ago
It turns out that Microsoft has the largest number of the top 500 Open Source projects for any one entity. Top 500 according to whom / what?
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by atdt 9y ago
> (Have a look at what dir() returns on a regex pattern object). Python 2.7.13 (default, Dec 20 2016, 16:00:28) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", &q
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by atdt 10y ago
Some musicians play with this deliberately. Sigur Rós sings some or part of their songs in Hopelandic, a kind of glossolalia that vaguely resembles Icelandic. The album booklet for '( )' contained blank pages for listeners to writ
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Authentication bypass on sso.ubnt.com via subdomain takeover of ping.ubnt.com(hackerone.com)
1 points by atdt 10y ago|0 comments
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WordPress download server is a SPOF for 26% of top 10M websites(openwall.com)
10 points by atdt 10y ago|1 comments
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Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by atdt 10y ago|0 comments
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Noam Chomsky on the Evolution of Language (9/24)(chomsky.info)
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by atdt 10y ago
I live in New York City and there are very few places outside the home where you can hold up your phone like a pocket mirror and speak into it without looking like an asshole.
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by atdt 10y ago
Per the spec[0], AMP pages must load the AMP runtime via a script tag that references a Google-controlled server, cdn.ampproject.org. This means you are handing over both your site security and your traffic logs to Google. This is a non-iss
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by atdt 10y ago
The servers on this list allow anonymous logins, which is not the same as being unsecured.
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by atdt 10y ago
> The shell now allows `time ; othercommand' to time null commands. Uh, what? Could someone explain this one, please?
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by atdt 10y ago
The manner in which children of diverse cultures and varied circumstances acquire language is extremely uniform. Children of accomplished academics in Cambridge pick up English at the same rate at which children of illiterate farmers in Ben
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by atdt 10y ago
> "I've volunteered to go to prison with the government many times," Snowden said in an interview with the BBC that aired Monday. "What I won't do is I won't serve as a deterrent to people trying to do the r
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by atdt 10y ago
Snowden's leaks were damaging to the members of this committee, because they showed the American public that the American intelligence apparatus is not subject to any meaningful oversight. So it is entirely predictable that the members
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by atdt 10y ago
I mentioned SELinux in a previous comment along the same vein.
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by atdt 10y ago
> The NSA can't make another federal agency improve its computer security. Maybe not directly. But the NSA could play a much more positive role in information security generally by moving out of the shadows and making more of its re
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by atdt 10y ago
Re-orienting the NSA's mission to focus on improving security through public research and technology transfer (like SELinux) is the most viable option for stopping the current arms race. There seem to be a shortage of people at the NSA
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by atdt 10y ago
I whipped up https://gist.github.com/atdt/e84483c70c078a72f5e08ead365c69f... based on the information in the report.
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by atdt 10y ago
No. The zip file contains a JavaScript file that the user has to click on to get infected. Typically, the target is Windows, which hides the file extension of known file types by default. So the user ends up seeing a file called 'trans
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by atdt 10y ago
Heh, reminds me of a bug I ran into a couple of weeks ago. Users on Wikipedia were complaining that typing into the editor <textarea> on certain pages was sluggish. I eventually narrowed it down to the presence or absence of an invisi
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by atdt 10y ago
This was covered by Motherboard[1]. The Tor Project put out the following statement in response: "the Tor network is secure and has only rarely been compromised. The Software Engineering Institute ("SEI") of Carnegie Mellon U
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by atdt 10y ago
I see your point, but 123456 is still a stupid password. A brain-dead password scheme like "1 <NameOfMyCat> <Domain>" (e.g., "1 Snuggles last.fm") is just as easy to remember, won't show up in rainbow ta
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by atdt 10y ago
I completely agree. I did not mean that it is not official JFK signage, and therefore OK. The fact that the picture was very likely found via an image search for "jfk airport" is just further evidence of deliberate impersonation.
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by atdt 10y ago
It is not. It was derived from the banner image on this page: http://airportparkingguides.com/jfk-airport-parking-guide/ I found it via a Google image search for "JFK airport"; it was the fifth result.
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by atdt 10y ago
One of the senses of "impersonate" is "to manifest or embody in one's own person". Thus the person in impersonate is the person assuming the identity, not the person or thing whose identity is being assumed.
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by atdt 10y ago
He may have not created the account with the intension of misleading anyone, but he lost moral authority when he started replying to tweets in a manner designed to reinforce confusion (for example, by using the pronoun 'we').
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by atdt 10y ago
My understanding is that Facebook has migrated most (all?) of its PHP codebase to Hack, which goes to show you: even the company that built a global empire in PHP can recognize it for the shitty, inadequate language that it is.
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by atdt 10y ago
There are four possible scenarios: 1. Ava's card is red, and Bruce's is black. 2. Ava's card is red, and Bruce's is red. 3. Ava's card is black, and Bruce's is red. 4. Ava's card is black, and Bruce's
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by atdt 10y ago
You can use the addresses that Google and Apple products use to detect captive portals. Google uses http://connectivitycheck.gstatic.com/generate_204 . Apple uses http://captive.apple.com/hotspot-detect.html
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by atdt 10y ago
If you can show me even a contrived example of a React app where the presence or absence of three kilobytes of debug messages makes a measurable difference to performance, I will be very impressed (and humbled).

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