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by brainfire 10y ago
The PC release of No Man's Sky apparently was built to use SSE4.1 instructions, leading to unexpected problems for users with older processors that would otherwise have been fine. We have in the past received different binaries from ve
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by brainfire 10y ago
I always respond to the pop-up newsletter signup solicitations with "abuse@(sitedomain.tld)".
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by brainfire 10y ago
I don't know where you're from, but my personal experience in my area (Maryland, USA) is that everything in your post is incorrect.
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by brainfire 10y ago
None of these are an argument against HSTS. They are ways you can attack DESPITE it, IF you put in the extra effort or have specific favorable circumstances. The only way your proposed solution (secure-only protocol) avoids your identified
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by brainfire 10y ago
The Firefox reference is in the second vulnerability discussed in your link 1, and is unrelated to your link 2 and parent submission. That second vulnerability apparently only affected the version 4 line of the Firefox plugin, which is mark
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by brainfire 10y ago
Mid-2015, the US White House Office of Management and Budget released memorandum M-15-13, stating that "Agencies must make all existing websites and services accessible through a secure connection (HTTPS-only, with HSTS) by December 31
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by brainfire 10y ago
Gross negligence AND the actual loss/spillage of the information would, together, be sufficient under section f. Is there evidence of the latter?
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by brainfire 10y ago
Your parent post is talking about the (already illegal) negative effects that follow from the presence of a transient population.
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by brainfire 10y ago
Who's implementing it and why would it cost me less than paying a sysadmin to use sudo?
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by brainfire 10y ago
Why enable auditing when you already get the information you want with your current setup?
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by brainfire 10y ago
I add the entire domain of those sites to my blacklist and never look back. I don't have the time to deal with websites where the operator considers the actual content to be secondary.
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by brainfire 10y ago
Sure, but you could have it delivered sans signature to an empty house and grab it off the step. Or bounce the money through people who click on those "I made $234k last month working from home" ads. Brian Krebs has written a few
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by brainfire 10y ago
They said conservatives but they meant Republicans. It's exactly the sort of manufactured outrage they've excelled at milking recently- create a scandal, claim the "patriotic"/change-resistant side, and use it to cr
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by brainfire 10y ago
Are scalable web hosting costs really a significant portion of the operating costs of most news publishers with websites? Additionally, losing visitors means losing the links they share on social media, so ad revenue may not be stable eithe
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by brainfire 10y ago
There are actually already physical barriers throughout the governmental parts of Washington DC to prevent this sort of thing. There are permanent walls, blocks, and poles along the edges of the roads (often well-integrated into the archite
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by brainfire 10y ago
What about the trans man who's now stuck in the women's room? Now everyone's uncomfortable. Oops. Or, more realistically, if your presented gender doesn't match your birth sex, or if you're "weird" and som
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by brainfire 11y ago
I assume everyone who argues that there's no right to employment is also arguing in favor of a guaranteed income - decoupling survival from employment.
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by brainfire 11y ago
> It's my information to be stolen, not yours. Many computer logins protect information other than the password-bearer's- for example, any business or government. As a result it's best to consider it, then discard as your
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by brainfire 11y ago
Really, without details like that it's just unverifiable FUD.
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by brainfire 11y ago
Or Germany ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/germany-hands-ove... ) or Spain ( http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/spain_encrypted_email_... ), or...
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by brainfire 11y ago
I spoke to someone at Google on the phone about a problem I had with Google Music. There is a "request callback" link in the help/support section. I've also asked questions on the phone regarding purchasing videos from t
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by brainfire 11y ago
I imagine my electric company sees low usage of Chrome- because their site doesn't actually allow you to log in using Chrome.
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by brainfire 11y ago
"knows what they are doing" I'm not sure that necessarily applies to most large companies.