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by chias 11y ago
This is in reference to "<br />" not "</br>" The "/>" is syntax for a self-closing tag in xhtml (e.g. you were supposed to use <img src="" /> etc). You see &qu
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by chias 12y ago
Interesting aside - I went down the rabbit hole of trying this just a few days ago. Called support to ask where I could find the Windows product key so I could do a wipe/install. Mark from Lenovo "informed" me of several
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by chias 12y ago
Ah, I misunderstood your intention. That makes it clearer to me, thanks :) And I agree with you fully, in particular that this idea doesn't increase the guarantees or cryptographic assurances that you have in any real way. Then again I
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by chias 12y ago
The threat model that any salting procedure is dealing with is if someone has, e.g. downloaded your database (i.e. is performing an offline attack). So things like sleep(0.5) or rate-limiting become irrelevant. So, you now have a database o
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by chias 12y ago
As a user I find having to do this incredibly annoying. Maybe my phone is just a little zealous with the zooming, but it loves to zoom into the top-left corner of the textarea. The first thing I do uses three pinches' worth to zoom bac
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by chias 12y ago
> Only when using GNU rm and its descendents, as far as I know. FreeBSD and OS X's rm neither require that option nor support it. Indeed. Although I would argue that since we are talking about Suicide Linux , you would in all likel
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by chias 12y ago
These days you'll actually need to commit rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
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by chias 12y ago
Not useful for tracking unless used in ECB mode, and if they're encrypting anything larger than 120 bits (AES block size) then AES in ECB mode would itself leak information about the encrypted information. The real thing to do if they
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by chias 12y ago
> What Rails is to Laravel, Sinatra is to lumen. Nothing more than another copycat idea from the ruby/rails world. I must be misunderstanding your point, because the way I read what you wrote, you are insinuating that incorporatin
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by chias 12y ago
Thank you for the link :)
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by chias 12y ago
I'm a lecturer at a large university -- my class sizes are usually on the order of 75 students. During my office hours, I use this style almost exclusively whereas in my lectures I am much more predicate-based. I agree with you -- this
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by chias 12y ago
Putting aside the question of legality, a port scan that does not have prior authorization is pretty generally considered "impolite". As an analogy, it's certainly not illegal to touch someone else's laptop screen, and i
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by chias 12y ago
Tell that to Zimbabwe, who still doesn't have a national currency because of exactly this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_Zimbabwe
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by chias 12y ago
> when people realize the only value Bitcoin has is in the belief that Bitcoin has value For the record, people said the same thing about paper currency. And again when paper currency stopped being backed by gold. And this periodically
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by chias 12y ago
All of those properties are binary things -- it's either reliable or not reliable, ordered or not ordered, etc. The notion of mostly ordered or mostly reliable we sort of get "for free" with UDP. So then your question becomes
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by chias 12y ago
> When you are running a SOCKS proxy through ssh, you are not doing TCP over TCP Are you sure? SSH uses TCP, and encapsulates the web traffic which also uses TCP... in what way is that not TCP over TCP?
707.
by chias 12y ago
Next step: something that can scan the ink printed to the page and recreate the music that the printer played when printing!
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by chias 12y ago
I see a lot of "should"s. When push comes to shove, though, a notification is not going to change the behavior of the network. There's a lot of complaints I have about how some networks (especially mobile ones) deviate from R
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by chias 12y ago
So sitting at starbucks with my laptop -- what do i do? I am not aware of an option to have SSH run over UDP, although I do know that some VPNs allow you to use UDP instead of TCP. Unless there is a relatively simple way of getting an encry
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by chias 12y ago
unless different OSes provide different versions.
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by chias 12y ago
> It's never a good idea. I disagree with that profoundly: I read the article. Yes, TCP over TCP include unnecessary performance-harming features in certain circumstances, because you have two unrelated collision avoidance systems r
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by chias 12y ago
Not just you, I had the same thought, but also included: MMM: I myself shared many of these misconceptions (to where I mentally included deMean and disMiss as Ms as well)
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by chias 12y ago
That's a great way to get your IP flagged for entering CAPTCHAs every time you want to google anything :\
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by chias 12y ago
My ex-girlfriend was just very nervous about saying "lie" because it's "bad". So "I'm just going to go lay down on the couch" because "I'm not lying!". Which results in amusing scenario
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by chias 12y ago
The author isn't saying that it's a bad thing, or something that good employees shouldn't be doing. Rather that it's a thing that happens, and is important to your employees, so if you don't address it or aren'
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by chias 12y ago
This is really cool! I'd love to have such a thing in my apartment. But since I just read the link on HN about removing ducks: "Caution: the photographs on this site are real and unretouched. They are not computer renderings.&quot
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by chias 12y ago
Not so - it's a little hard to parse out of the prose, but the author does make an attempt to touch on this in the example of the 2-square chess-board. Anyway, in the full chessboard implementation described here, if the board is alrea
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by chias 12y ago
Is this materially different from requiring the user to have some random characters in the password, but for some reason making them type these characters into the username field where it'll be cached by the browser's autocomplete
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by chias 12y ago
First, to answer your question: that's not how vaccination works - a vaccine is not 100% effective. So if you get your vaccination, you maybe still have a 5% (just pulling that number out of the air) chance of not being immune, at whic
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by chias 12y ago
I keep trying to sign up but the verification link doesn't seem to do anything? Just plops me back to the homepage, subsequent logins fail, and subsequent registration attempts with the same info succeed (to the point of sending me the

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