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by ballard 13y ago
Yes, it can screw up caches and return unexpected content. Inserting an ad where an error should be is detrimental because the implementation often break standards endpoint and intermediate apps depend on (http code, DNS query answer/s
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by ballard 13y ago
I use mdnsresponder nomulitcastannounce -> dnsmasq 127.0.0.1#53 -> dnscrypt-proxy 127.0.0.1#54 -> an encrypted DNS proxy that does dnssec. All of which is locked down by a minimal whitelist leak-preventing fw ruleset like little s
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by ballard 13y ago
For anyone that hasn't seen it, Idiocracy goes after the present by exaggerating the future. It's a sad but true trend that people are too busy playing World of Warcraft to understand much less resist what is going on around them:
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by ballard 13y ago
The bigger issue is kids don't want to use the uncool social networks their parents use. Secondarily, that might come into play later as an afterthought.
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by ballard 13y ago
The bottom line is any paper made public will be examined and possibly turned into a story, so evidence and conclusions better be up to snuff or risk damaging one's and the institution's reputations.
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by ballard 13y ago
The bigger issue is trying to pass this off as somebody else's fault, which comes off as weak bullshit.
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by ballard 13y ago
If it wasn't made immediately, which could have ended the story, an appology is never happening because it's tantamount to an admission of legal culpability. Also few CEOs of large orgs have the spine to take any risk for the gre
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by ballard 13y ago
This sounds like building a dream rather than what people want. Validate the market first before building anything. This is a market segment that has had failure after failure, so there's probably a good reason or two this space hasn
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by ballard 13y ago
It's an appearance of freedom, but really, many public office officials do whatever they like so long as no one is watching. Scaling oversight past Tragedy of the Commons apathy is a must have in American public politics. (Sounds obt
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by ballard 13y ago
Has there been an official response?
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by ballard 13y ago
Having worked in a large profit center IT dept at an Ivy League, I know first hand how many bad apps are developed and how many hundreds of millions are frittered away (or in some cases tantamount to stolen). I think working with students
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by ballard 13y ago
This is an unacceptable, naked abuse of power. Any education institution blocking any site on political or anticompetitive grounds flushes away any vestiges of ideals of free speech and open learning. The administration should have known
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by ballard 13y ago
echo 'Amber Alert' | sed 's/Amber/Luke/'
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by ballard 13y ago
~40% of high-speed check processing machines run FreeBSD 4.x-6.x
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by ballard 13y ago
Backup personal stuff and code to Tarsnap. Videos would be too expensive, but downsampled home videos might be worth saving too.
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by ballard 13y ago
Good to see progress, but ram types have a long adoption event horizon. 384 GiB isn't whopping, 16 TiB would be considering there are 8 TiB boxes right now.
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by ballard 13y ago
RH may try to cripple CentOS, gather user statistics or advertise to promote more consumption of RHEL instead. "Keep your friends close, ..." because it's just business.
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by ballard 13y ago
http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1f.tar.gz.asc https://www.openssl.org/docs/misc/fingerprints.txt https:&#x
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OpenSSL 1.0.1f - 3 CVE issues fixed(openssl.org)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|2 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
The worst part is that most people don't want nor care to dig into the details, and accept whatever the calmly dispassionate talking head says at face value. I don't mean tinfoil hat but that which is being reported, especially i
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by ballard 13y ago
Software piracy, no matter where I or anyone stands on it, is part of the economy. It's a forced sale price of zero just as FOSS. The interesting bit is there may be support costs, server costs and other indirect costs associated wit
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by ballard 13y ago
As someone that writes a lot of code, both commercial product, contracts and FOSS, the two responses that make sense are: better copy protection or copy encouragement. One side boosts revenue while the other makes customer acquisition easi
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by ballard 13y ago
iOS has a similar (some may say the opposite) problem, especially when setting up notification-based APIs and and app which expects a notification to happen within a certain period of time (ie a user needs their location now to complete an
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by ballard 13y ago
Wearing nitrile gloves where possible might help since it's hard to be sure the grease, solvent and/or detergents you're using aren't toxic or carcinogenic. Both my grandfather and father had the same benign bladder can
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by ballard 13y ago
s/children/tulips/ would be the same argument
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by ballard 13y ago
That was first question: Have there been any studies on the bacterial resistance impact of EtOH gels? Natural selection will find a way to prevent cell membranes from being dissolved. Nature is a great hacker.
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by ballard 13y ago
My bad, the parent comment's logic contains multiple fallacies: False dichotomy of a slippery slope all-or-nothing boycott with the all option there is another false dichotomy of "limited alternatives." Sounds like rationali
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by ballard 13y ago
No problem: NetApp or ZFS-based solutions, Asana, Xen, Tarsnap and open source soft tokens. There are plenty of alternatives that include more alternatives (ie solving the problem by modifying requirements) than a narrowly-defined class of
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Compile OpenSSL without RnRand(gist.github.com)
2 points by ballard 13y ago|0 comments
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by ballard 13y ago
I've done ops consulting at about half of the major handset mfgrs. What's missing from many of the mobile open source phone projects is ruthless project management . Without getting to what customers need working most , first

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