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by charonn0 14y ago
Port 22 should only be used if the SSHd needs to be accessible to strangers; I think a lot of people use alternate ports. Go a step farther by running Kippo[1] (or other SSH honeypot) on port 22 to accept SSH traffic and waste attackers' ti
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by charonn0 14y ago
California law and regulation incorporate by reference[1] standards and regulations devised and drafted by groups outside of government like the International Code Council[2] and National Fire Protection Association[3]. This isn't bad per
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by charonn0 14y ago
It will be very interesting to see the administration's response, which is, remember, all that's promised. When they were in the early decision phase that resulted in the petitions website, they certainly would have realized that such a sys
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by charonn0 14y ago
The explosion of Android as a platform has shown quite clearly both the power and flexibility of the Linux kernel, and the usefulness of hiding the complexity and providing a platform-neutral API. The VM-backed programming environment is wh
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by charonn0 14y ago
I don't see the advantage for the customer. Surely Amazon coins will be less useful than actual money, being less liquid and not acceptable anywhere else, and not even valid for all digital transactions made via Amazon (e.g. subscriptions.)
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by charonn0 14y ago
I think I see a problem with the reasoning on the very first page (second para.): > The President has authority to respond to the imminent threat posed by al-Qa'ida and its associated forces, arising from his constitutional responsibili
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by charonn0 14y ago
Not to appear a shill for Amazon, but this is one of the things I like about my Kindle. I subscribe to several newspapers via Amazon, and they're pushed out to my Kindle as e-books each morning. This doesn't solve the problem of URIs or of
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by charonn0 14y ago
"Beauty", in science and mathematics, is not a quality of the object regarded so much as it is a pattern-recognition response in the one regarding it. Patterns which are predictable are naturally pleasing to us because our pattern-recogniti
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by charonn0 14y ago
The value of artwork (or other non-utilitarian object) is very much subjective. Human value judgements can become absurdly skewed (e.g. [1]) by our interpretation of an object as a status symbol, which can lead us to value in the extreme ot
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by charonn0 14y ago
Upon reflection, I find that it's not at all surprising that IRC is so widely used in the military establishment. Military operations are, by definition, carried out by different coordinating groups sometimes thousands of miles apart. IRC i
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by charonn0 14y ago
This sort of thing pisses me off too. Until/unless a widely-adopted global user uniqueness authentication system is developed[1], we'll continue to see web properties use third-parties to provide a semblance of this utility. For the moment,
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by charonn0 14y ago
I've experienced this under Firefox, and on hardware that has no excuse for breaking a sweat on any webpage. It's usually pages where there are a large number of animated GIFs (e.g. [1]) Once all the GIFs are loaded and complete one animati
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by charonn0 14y ago
MS Paint under Windows (since Vista) saves all images by default as PNG.
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by charonn0 14y ago
If we tax by the seller's location then the sellers will move, at least on paper, to those states whose laws are most convenient. Much like various island nations today list fortune 500 companies in their chambers of commerce. Also, Delawar
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by charonn0 14y ago
The bill sounds like a reasonable idea. I can see taxing purchases according to the sales tax rates of the buyer's state. There might even be a business niche among payment processors, providing geo-location (or customer-provided) tax looku
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by charonn0 14y ago
Here's a rather more ancient modem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9dpXHnJXaE
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by charonn0 14y ago
Programming languages all posses one thing that most (perhaps all) natural languages lack: a 1:1 equivalence with some mathematical construct, or an abstraction backed-up by such a construct. In order for a natural language to be useful for
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by charonn0 14y ago
>at the mercy of a remote faceless bureaucracy that can decide your fate and enforce it. Welcome to the American-style of governance. Please see the DMV for your drivers license and then stop by the IRS to try your luck at the tax code.
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by charonn0 14y ago
I see safe browsing and default search related settings. Why would this be surprising?
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by charonn0 14y ago
At least not the last part. In any case, I wouldn't be handling these files as root.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Reminds me of https://xkcd.com/932/
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by charonn0 14y ago
I hadn't realized the Copyright Office is under Congress (though that might explain its dysfunction.) But you're right, this petition is outside Presidential power to act upon.
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by charonn0 14y ago
Not to my knowledge. But then, 90% of the petitions are frivolous[1] or beyond the power of the Executive branch[2] anyway. Serious proposals (e.g. [3]) rarely meet the "publicly visible" threshold, let alone the (now 4x higher) response th
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by charonn0 14y ago
Would the (many, many) games I've already purchased on Steam work on Linux? Will Steam for Linux ship with WINE or something similar? If not, I don't see the real value for someone like me.
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by charonn0 14y ago
It was on the front page for me.
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by charonn0 14y ago
In many (most?) early pianos the colors were reversed.
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by charonn0 14y ago
The criminal actions[1] of Wachovia, Lloyds, Credit Suisse, Barclays, HSBC, et al have shown that the megabanks cannot be trusted to follow existing laws. The robo-signing debacle[2] has demonstrated amply that the financial sector can't
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by charonn0 14y ago
My first reaction to hearing the term "too big to fail" was "then make them smaller." I'm surprised that it's taken this long for such an idea to be seriously considered.
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by charonn0 14y ago
I find it hard to believe that video games (or movies, songs, novels, etc,) even extremely violent ones, could compel someone to murder unless they were already seriously mentally ill. Such an ill person, deprived of violent media, would no
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by charonn0 14y ago
Work in residential property management. Either your salary is decent enough for SF (the higher ups), or your rent is free (the front line managers.)

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