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by ax0n 16y ago
I was going to ask the second part of your second question. The answer is, that by the time anyone knew a "cyber 9/11" was happening, the President himself could do nothing to stop it. Further, this sort of security theater (or is it Securi
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by ax0n 16y ago
May we finally start laying the blame for this on AT&T for their craptastic website vulnerability that enabled this, instead of on Apple who simply provided the hardware? Also, details are vague... This didn't affect any of the WiFi-Onl
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by ax0n 16y ago
Since this has turned partially into a discussion about rhetoric and semantics, I figured I'd join in. I kind of disagree with The Schneier's sentiment, quoted thusly: "Hacking is primarily a mindset: a way of thinking about security. Its p
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by ax0n 16y ago
Chrooted Apache on OpenBSD for my public-facing web servers, thank you very much. Can't sleep. Skript kiddiez will kill me.
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by ax0n 16y ago
that was also new to me. It also doesn't work on most of my (non-Linux) systems with their bsd-derived find.
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by ax0n 16y ago
A lot of this sounds like what my wife's been going through for the last 3 years. Dozens and dozens of tests from the most mundane to the most exotic of disorders have turned up nothing. Her last physician told her to go to the Mayo Clinic.
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by ax0n 16y ago
y'know, I always wanted to say "Riposte!" in response to these, figuring it would be a clever, original use of a homophone. Then I got to thinking about how many hackers I know who are, oddly enough, into fencing or other swordplay. Leave t
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by ax0n 16y ago
I kind of wondered if this was coming, due to the very specific nature of Twitter's job postings as of a few months back that kind of treaded on al3x's turf. Best of luck to him. Also, I think I want in. On being a customer, not an employee
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by ax0n 16y ago
Well, yeah... but it's some dude I've never heard of who thinks he's somehow important enough that a significant subset of hackers should have heard of him. Cursory Googling shows he's "The cube of M" guy, and I couldn't care less.
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by ax0n 16y ago
Max who?
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by ax0n 16y ago
Yes. Also, portrait mode will help you maximize your use of space. Furthermore, it depends on the kind of job you want, but if you're looking for a career within a company (as opposed to a career spent consulting), it really doesn't look al
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by ax0n 16y ago
Not always AFK, but I like Technical writing, including gathering easy-to-understand data (taking photographs, screen shots, etc). Photography, bicycling, listening to and playing music, wrenching on anything mechanical (currently putting a
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'd need to dig in order to find it, but it is, indeed, possible to make the brakes act MUCH different than the driver intended, once you have patched the ECU firmware. I'm not 100% certain you can completely shut off the brakes (as in, dri
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by ax0n 16y ago
The "Free" part will work for me. Although I dual boot my Mac with Windows 7, and I've always wanted to try Portal, I never really got into it. That will change when I get home.
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by ax0n 16y ago
it --> 11
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by ax0n 16y ago
Discard immediately any shard of confidence you have that your employer might possibly be loyal to its employees. Look out for your self and your family. Basically: think with your heart. It sounds like the decision's been made. And damn th
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by ax0n 16y ago
I'd be okay stripping the title of "human" from rapists and murderers.
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by ax0n 16y ago
This makes me sick. There should be no room for human rights and comfort in a place for those who unabashedly trampled the rights and lives of others. Also, I think prison should be ONLY for those who unabashedly trampled the rights and liv
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by ax0n 16y ago
Part of a message I sent my mother, wherein I went off on a fax machine tangent: "[ ... ] can we all finally agree that fax machines are a bad idea? I print a digital document from my computer onto a sheet of paper, perhaps scribble somethi
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by ax0n 16y ago
Most people can go a pretty long time without actual food, so long as they have water and a few key vitamins to help the body metabolize its own fat stores and proteins. People only last a few days without any water. Water + vitamin fasting
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by ax0n 16y ago
I have a few e-Tools too, but nothing like this. And the outdoorsman in me would really like one of these, versus the two anemic and subpar e-Tools I already own. So to all you guys who are like "oh yeah, just swing by REI" or "yeah I have
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by ax0n 16y ago
These women did some cool things, but I haven't heard of any of them. After reading a few interviews, I'm left wondering who, exactly, they're influencing. I'm not saying this to be sexist. I married a hacker chick. I just don't know where
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by ax0n 16y ago
While there are less "start a thread without a URL" discussions on the HN front page these days, I still value greatly the HN discussion about the links.
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Xauth Overload(statusq.org)
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by ax0n 16y ago
I don't know about "feeling bad" as I have discovered certain kinds of humor I like using that almost guarantees a downvote, even if my comment was valid. I pretty much learned to embrace the downvoting when I post something like that, beca
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by ax0n 16y ago
Define "too much," please. :P I research things I'm interested in and passionate about. I want to know more. I'm an infosec guy by career and I can tell you that there is no way one can master all aspects of it. This should come as no surpr
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by ax0n 16y ago
That entire series is positively fascinating
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by ax0n 16y ago
Crazy lightning fast! Much appreciated.
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by ax0n 16y ago
It's not nearly as much power (watts) to drive, but many of the EL backlight panels in cheapo digital watches require 60-100vac to drive them.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I've never seen that before. When I was in college, I named all my machines after songs by Orbital. This worked pretty well since they were, back then, cranking out a new album every couple of years or so. I added chime, midnight, and halc

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