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by bm98 11y ago
As I posted in a previous discussion of this two years ago [1]: The very first comment below the article (correctly) contradicts the author's claims about SELINUX sandbox. The author acknowledges the comment, and criticizes the SELINUX
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by bm98 11y ago
> a bad actor is purchasing large amounts of botnet capacity in an attempt to significantly damage Linode’s business. I wonder what size investment this is taking, and what the end-game is for the bad actor. Unless Linode's mitigat
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by bm98 11y ago
In many cases the decision to go with Oracle was made decades ago, and the cost of migrating large, legacy databases and codebases away from Oracle is higher than the cost of continuing to use Oracle. Oracle licenses can be very expensive,
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by bm98 11y ago
Fedora and Red Hat (+ the Red Hat clones like CentOS) have a "sandbox" command which uses SELinux to sandbox applications or entire X sessions and the applications inside them. For more info see [1] [2]. I've used it for a
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by bm98 11y ago
I've run Firefox in a Red Hat/Fedora SELinux sandbox [1] [2] for the past 5 years or so. It is a little more tedious for things such as file uploads/downloads and cut-and-paste -- but worth it, IMHO. [1] http://da
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by bm98 11y ago
Ctrl-a Ctrl-k in Emacs moves to the beginning of the line and then erases the line. In screen, that key combination kills the current window! At some point, screen added a "Really kill this window [y/n]" which was a terrifi
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by bm98 11y ago
It's worse than that. They've trained users to ignore the RED "X" on the little lock and the RED strikethrough on the "https" that Chrome shows for sites with SHA1-signed certs that expire after 2016[1]. Reas
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by bm98 12y ago
My experience is that the Avast installation process will install its Trusted Root certificate if the "web scanning" option is enabled (which is the default) during installation. Even if Avast browser extensions are disallowed, a
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Why Is 'avast Web/Mail Shield Root' Listed as CA for Google.com? (2014)(security.stackexchange.com)
2 points by bm98 12y ago|2 comments
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by bm98 12y ago
The very first comment below the article (correctly) contradicts the author's claims about SELINUX sandbox. The author acknowledges the comment, and criticizes the SELINUX implementation, but does not dispute the fact that SELINUX san
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by bm98 13y ago
So are you going to sign Business Associate Agreements with your customers? They won't be HIPAA compliant otherwise, under the latest HITECH rules. That's where the analogy to PCI breaks down.
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by bm98 13y ago
The "creepy questions" -- in the USA at least -- are just another revenue stream for the three credit reporting agencies. They (or third party companies paying them for the data) pull data from your credit report and then ask multiple-choi
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by bm98 14y ago
Agreed, but I think you're selling yourself short on your percentile: http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/data/set1clinical/cj41l021.p...
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by bm98 14y ago
It's the "knows enough to be dangerous" problem. It applies to a lot of professions. We see it applied to the legal profession all the time here on HN. No lawyer likes to find out that the Accounting Dept. has been drafting contracts, any
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by bm98 15y ago
An 1869 MIT entrance exam was posted here a while back and the typesetting was similar: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1967040 http://bm98.posterous.com/did-they-have-latex-in-1869
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by bm98 15y ago
Stallman comments on HN are so heated, in part, because a big part of his message is that developing non-free software is unethical. Not just wrong or misguided or foolish, but unethical . Morally wrong. What percentage of HN readers deve
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by bm98 15y ago
Actually I would say 5GB is a more reasonable minimum. I recently installed an old XP Home CD in a VM with a 4GB disk. The only way I could get enough space for SP3 + updates was to compress the disk. AFAIK, there is no easy way to resize
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by bm98 15y ago
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22now+find+the+umbrella%22
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by bm98 15y ago
You clearly aren't trying to be anonymous, since you named the company and your patent is easy to find. Congratulations, I guess, for being the first to patent the idea of authenticating a web app based on a password plus a cookie from a p
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by bm98 15y ago
The top three winners were all in the health sciences. Had they been in engineering, physical science, or computer science then it would have been more newsworthy given the gender gap in those fields.
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by bm98 15y ago
I'm surprised that there isn't more talk about Flash efficiency and its impact on global energy consumption and the environment. My desktop CPU burns an extra 50 watts when it is pegged at 100% (and in a typical day, Flash is the only th
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by bm98 15y ago
If I am the only person who has access to the app, it will get me off the street and into a spot faster. If everyone has access to the app, then nothing will change. Think about it. How quickly are open spots snatched up in downtown Sa
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by bm98 15y ago
> "If you prevent cheating by having a person who's job it is to catch you then you feel like if you don't get caught you have won." Given the time of year, when I read about cheating and the honor system, my first thought is about taxe
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by bm98 16y ago
OK, now I'm confused. The average karma on my HN profile is blank. After reading "hey, the average karma score is gone"[1] I thought that HN had done away with it, but now I see that pretty much everyone has an average karma except me. C
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by bm98 16y ago
My favorite Linux bug (since fixed): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=97373 (System UPTIME reported incorrectly): "Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot Linux system; 2. Go away for 497 days; 3. check uptime"
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by bm98 16y ago
FYI - I just received an invitation to a baby shower with a reference to www.amazingregistry.com. Your site looks much more pleasant than theirs, and you have a more narrow focus... but since their URL ended up on a real baby shower invita
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by bm98 16y ago
It depends. When "Unlimited" service is sold with a Terms of Service that includes an "Excessive Use Policy" like Mozy's [1], the heavy user is operating in an ambiguous zone where continued use of the service at the advertised price is at
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by bm98 16y ago
The individual insurance market is not quite so bleak for _everyone_ in the US. Some US states, such as New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, have "community rating" or "guaranteed issue" laws on the books. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by bm98 16y ago
One of the beauties of programs that teach Scheme and ML (or OCaml or F#) in introductory CS is that they level the playing field. The typical high school computer hot shot has never seen anything like functional programming before, and is
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by bm98 16y ago
People between the 70th and 90th percentiles feel squeezed by a lot of expenses that cost less for those lower on the scale, due to price discrimination, progressive taxation, subsidies, etc. College tuition is a good example. It's high e

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