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by bhauer 10y ago
As someone who has only spent enough time to superficially comprehend this threat, I am left wondering why Windows does not have a mode wherein I would be UAC-prompted to activate any newly-attached USB device, regardless of what it is. I&
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by bhauer 10y ago
As someone who champions a re-decentralization of the Internet and remembers the era of peer to peer communications, I am saddened by the assumed centralization behind your statement.
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Buying stuff on your phone still sucks(cnet.com)
1 points by bhauer 10y ago|0 comments
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by bhauer 10y ago
Oh is that what we're talking about? Yeah, WinRT was needlessly limited. But it's also a distant memory. Speaking about it today is about as relevant as discussing iOS 6 or Android 4.1.
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by bhauer 10y ago
Surface didn't work? Its current generation is making a profit and is well-reviewed by users and tech journalists alike. For what it's worth, Surface products are exactly what I want in a portable computer. I find both tradition
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by bhauer 10y ago
Yes, and if your environment can be configured with two or three monitors, a portrait orientation can be great. With just a single monitor, 1440x2560 would probably seem too narrow. Obviously individual tastes will vary. If your environ
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by bhauer 10y ago
I have an OLED television, but I don't own an OLED computer monitor or laptop. My desktops use several IPS LCDs and my laptop is a Surface Book. That said, my understanding from credible technology reviewers (e.g., [1]) is that OLED d
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by bhauer 10y ago
I wish more geographies had 150 megabit (or even better) symmetric residential service. I will never understand how residential service became asymmetric by default. At my address, the best upload speed I can get is ~5 Mbps, which is utte
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by bhauer 10y ago
That is what some people have conjectured is in the works with a "Surface Phone," although it's really anyone's guess at this point. But it certainly is very appealing. With this new emulation news, the use-case could
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by bhauer 10y ago
Encrypted rclone [1] with multiple cascaded self-hosted peers. [1] http://rclone.org/
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by bhauer 10y ago
After Round 12, we had to find a new physical hardware environment. ServerCentral [1] stepped up and provided some (older) physical hardware for the project. However, the new hardware doesn't match the performance of previous rounds.
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TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks Round 13(techempower.com)
16 points by bhauer 10y ago|4 comments
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by bhauer 10y ago
> Pitting "ranked choice" versus "approval" (versus "range") voting is not really the way to think about it. Consider a "relaxed" version of ranked choice where voters are allowed to give multiple
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by bhauer 10y ago
Same here. I have a few prefixes that I allow, so that randomly guessing an address doesn't just arrive at my inbox. As you point out, the ability to blackhole any of these one-off addresses makes the approach a great way to deal with
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by bhauer 10y ago
Hours (2013) with Paul Walker was quite good [1]. As far as I can tell, having followed this writer for a while, a lot comes down to opportunity and demonstrating talent within the spaces you are given opportunities. [1] https:/&#x2
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by bhauer 10y ago
> For the ultimate experience, I’d recommend listening to the incredibly uplifting soundtrack while reading on… In particular, skip ahead to 33:54 to start with the "Dawn" fanfare followed by Wind Waker's fantastic Ocean
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by bhauer 10y ago
Actually, the LA Times made a fairly big deal about forecasting correctly. https://twitter.com/latimes/status/796360500091252736
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by bhauer 10y ago
I don't personally agree with the author's point, or the article in general, but my reading of that sentence was a suggestion that all three are things that the practitioners talk about at length. Each is a lifestyle choice or ho
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by bhauer 10y ago
I think that is intended to represent your "current" laptop that you need to replace. The premise being you have an older one and want to consider some options other than the 2016 MacBook Pro. Lower down the page they show someth
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by bhauer 10y ago
For what it's worth, as just a plain user of computers, I personally find Microsoft's industrial design way more appealing to my sensibility than Apple's industrial design. I prefer: * Smaller radius corners. The Mac and iPh
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by bhauer 10y ago
The Surface line-up provides a similar feature for User Access Control (UAC) prompts via Windows Hello facial recognition (or the available fingerprint scanner for older Surfaces). It's a pretty slick and natural application of biomet
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by bhauer 10y ago
FWIW: Concurrent with the arrival of Surface Pro 4 last year, Microsoft released a Surface keyboard that included a fingerprint reader that could be used with Surface Pro 3 devices. This was done as a token gesture to Pro 3 users since the
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by bhauer 10y ago
I strongly agree with your sentiment. As a Surface Book and Lumia 950 user, I have watched the Surface product line receive good attention and necessary quality improvements. Meanwhile, the phone space is all but ignored, with a curious c
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by bhauer 10y ago
I appreciate the support. But FWIW, I don't think Kalium was trolling. Although he (I assume, but correct me if I am wrong) and I disagree on the risk versus reward of extending the time-to-live of cached resolutions beyond the autho
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by bhauer 10y ago
Kalium, I really appreciate your responses. If my adversary can steal an IP from Facebook, create a valid certificate for facebook.com, and provide bogus DNS resolution for facebook.com, I feel it's game over for me. My home network i
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by bhauer 10y ago
> Also, that cache would need to only kick in when the server was unreachable or produced SERVFAIL, not when it returned a negative result. Negative results returned by the authoritative server are correct, and should not result in the
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by bhauer 10y ago
Yes, but there's one piece missing. > Here's the attack: > - Compromise IP (maybe facebook.com) - Attacker generates or acquires counterfeit facebook.com certificate. > - DDoS nameservers > - facebook removes IP
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by bhauer 10y ago
FWIW, since the comment was a reply to my message above: It provided value by answering my question concerning serious downsides to providing optional post-TTL last-known-good caching within a DNS resolver. The answer is implicit in that a
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by bhauer 10y ago
> A low tolerance for DNS response times, and suddenly large chunks of the internet are failing a lot... Hang on a second. I feel that you're piling on other resolver changes in order to make a point. I'm not suggesting tha
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by bhauer 10y ago
True. I am not aware of any web services POSTing sensitive data over the public Internet that don't use HTTPS. If your service is sending sensitive data over HTTP without TLS, I feel the problem is bigger than a potential long-lived

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