charonn0

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   by charonn0 11y ago

   That's not a good analogy. Viewing a web ad is more akin to inviting a traveling salesman into your living room, where he has the opportunity to paw through your unmentionables, steal your valuables, and even burn your house down if no
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   This reminds me of an Isaac Asimov short story named Nightfall[1] where (spoilers!) a species living in a trinary star system only sees the stars every few thousand years. The stars (indeed the very concept of "night" itself) are
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   > The Chinese government, which has long used its country’s vast market as leverage over American technology companies, is now asking some of those firms to directly pledge their commitment to contentious policies that could require them
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   I checked the https demo using libcurl, and it failed unexpectedly with error code 35 (Unknown SSL connect error). I was expecting curl error 60 (untrusted certificate).
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   > Alternatively, we could get the boot tape out and rebuild the root filesystem, but neither James nor Neil had done that before, and we weren't sure that the first thing to happen would be that the whole disk would be re-formatted,
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   > Because that's part of the cost of doing business in the EU where we have laws to protect individuals from companies. This is not an answer to my question. Allow me to clarify: What is the justification for the EU law requiring se
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   > Can she never move on? Why should Google (or other search engines) bear the responsibility for covering up the mistakes of others? Should libraries be forced to remove unflattering articles from their newspaper and magazine archives?
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   There's already an Ars Technica article. [1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/oracle...
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   by charonn0 11y ago

   It's trying to display a lightbox advertisement that is too big for the viewport. So, scrolling gets disabled but the lightbox doesn't render until/unless you enlarge the window.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    I'm not sure why you would bring up Windows 95. Aside from being two decades old, it never claimed to be secure or a multi-user OS. Security-wise, I don't see how it was worse than Apple's contemporary System 7.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    How have either of those broken HTTP?
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    I don't think that would work so well, since you could never prove how many intermediary cash-only transactions the bill has gone through before it was seen by the bank again.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    I think the major security concern is over blackmail, considering the stolen data concerned people with US government security clearances.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    Proof once again that if the headline is a question the article invariably answers "no".
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    I assume that you can prove that your ancestors migrated here legally.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    It's a toy project. It's for fun, learning, and stimulating new ideas that can be applied to "real" projects.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    Thanks, it makes much more sense sense now.
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    by charonn0 11y ago

    Am I missing something here? It's just a couple of sentences of some BS about negative rings.
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    According to the article, ABP claims that 90% of the whitelist did not pay to be on it.
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    It sounds like conspiracy theorist fodder, but it's not: http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/95mkultra.pdf
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    This might be acceptable if the scan was entirely voluntary and optional, and the results could not be used to increase punishment (reduction is OK.)
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    Not unless they do something incredibly stupid like install a certificate authority and hijack every SSL session. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfish#Lenovo_security_incid...
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    That's sufficiently vague to be useless. Would you care to elaborate?
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    > So why not create a lifetime rent control that is tied to the occupancy of the current tenant That's already how it's supposed to work.
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    I was able to load up the page a few minutes ago, but now it says the hosting account is suspended.
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    > HTTP/1.0 is basically dead and has been for years There are probably a lot more active HTTP/1.0 clients than you think. Just slap a `Host: foo.com` and `Connection: close` header onto the request and your HTTP/1.0 client
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    Evolution by natural selection is the original genetic algorithm.
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    I experienced a significant connection delay. I assume it's due to the traffic surge from HN.
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    This is exactly how I like to think of DNA: a twisted mass of legacy code. Rife with Heisenbugs, the slightest change can have profound side-effects in seemingly unrelated subsystems. Even sections that are literal "junk" must be
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    by charonn0 12y ago

    Wouldn't they need to have the file already if they know its hash?