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by cxseven 11y ago
Me too, for the most part. I'd always ask for the "out the door" all-cash price, all taxes and fees included. Two dealerships wasted my time by revealing more fees after I'd already driven out, but that was fine because
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by cxseven 11y ago
I'm glad to see someone else echoing my anxiety. I had the impression that Uniform Resource Locators were meant to be treated as bookmarks into a web of knowledge, so it's like brain damage when they break. It's too bad it ha
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by cxseven 11y ago
"Oh, you can't go back to knowing who is allowed to send what number. Things are too mixed up, and it'd break many services. Including many uses of 9-1-1. It's far more difficult than, for instance, preventing spoofed IP
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by cxseven 11y ago
Out of curiosity, what's the best solution to this? One thing I noticed is that every loop will pass through an entry less than 100, so you only need to remember the last 99 numbers below 100 when checking what's been seen-so-far.
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by cxseven 11y ago
If only the government could create a honeypot network full of simulated traffic and meticulously faked communications designed to mislead the would-be snoopers... Then this article could be another step in the ruse. That would probably too
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The problems of a guy named Null, a guy named Void, and a band named “The, The”(reddit.com)
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by cxseven 11y ago
I wonder if it's possible to use a USB cable as an antenna.
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by cxseven 11y ago
You made the right choice.
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by cxseven 11y ago
Self-guided experience "trains" many people, and some of them infer a rule that double clicking is for opening things. Older people especially can fail to notice that many widgets respond to their first click and continue with the
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by cxseven 12y ago
Meanwhile, following the Sony hacks, the executive branch is pushing a "Tough on CyberCrime" bill tripling penalties for all sorts of nonsense that has become felonious "unauthorized computer use", e.g. sharing HBO passw
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by cxseven 12y ago
It's funny, the NORAD command center in WarGames was an over-the-top set (the director called it "NORAD's wet dream of itself") meant to visually impress the audience, but it became the blueprint for command centers ever
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by cxseven 12y ago
"we now have to be in the business of maintaining a list of authorized CIDs we can send on a specific trunk line" Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Similarly, some ISPs have implemented egress filtering to reduce abuse. At le
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by cxseven 12y ago
I don't know if you've ever tried to report a nuisance call, but, as the article hints at, there's a wall of apathy at the phone company and law enforcement end to overcome. If they go the extra step to look up ANI, well, tha
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by cxseven 12y ago
Most Asterisk VOIP services easily allowed setting the ANI last I checked.
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by cxseven 12y ago
That's still not a technical reason why the barn door needs to be wide open. Google being able to set the originating phone number should be the exception rather than the norm. Just like money transfers, there could be an obligation fo
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by cxseven 12y ago
For all of you feeling that the huge expansion of gTLDs is incautious, wait till you get a load of unicode in DNS: http://unicode.org/faq/idn.html Oh yes, and this is happening in gTLDs now, too. I'm amazed how ma
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by cxseven 12y ago
WRT electronic countermeasures: You can get a bunch of motion detectors and controllable outlets for cheap through Insteon/Smarthome. BestBuy has a decently priced starter kit with a hub, which uses both X10 and wireless transmission f
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by cxseven 12y ago
They could make the packets stand out less, but there'd still be the overlapping reply from the legitimate Baidu host, unless the attackers went full MITM. In case anyone is confused: we're now talking about the TTL of the packets
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by cxseven 12y ago
This won't work because it's browsers outside of China that are being hijacked when browsing Baidu Analytics-using sites.
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by cxseven 12y ago
The current attack injects two TCP packets containing javascript that makes a person's web browser perform endless requests to the two Github URLs that host the apparent targets. This is a huge amplification. Also, the attacker is hitt
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by cxseven 12y ago
Netresec should be able to gradually increase the TTL of their packets going to Baidu to see which hop or link is doing the hijack. They mention someone did this earlier with the iCloud hijack by using mtr and tcptraceroute, but it looks li
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by cxseven 12y ago
How did it fail?
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by cxseven 12y ago
Unless DNSSEC is used, email, DNS, and URL verification amount to almost nothing. I'd guess that there is at least one CA that is not using it and leaving the door wide open. I'd also guess there are plenty of domains depending on
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by cxseven 12y ago
It's no better unless the domain and all such CAs are using DNSSEC.
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by cxseven 12y ago
These problems in SSL and the kludges in HTTP/2 to avoid connection overhead would be greatly reduced by moving to a proper dnssec, ipsec, and tcp reimplementation.
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by cxseven 12y ago
There's a general pattern of trying to dumb things down to a simple, inflexible interface, too often with half-baked "AI" bolted on. Good products still need attentive human supervision. I installed Insteon motion detectors a
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by cxseven 12y ago
There's a general pattern of trying to dumb things down to a simple, inflexible interface, too often with half-baked "AI" bolted on. Good products still need attentive human supervision. I installed Insteon motion detectors a
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by cxseven 12y ago
The concept of Nash equilibrium doesn't apply to a poker player facing two or more human opponents at the table, since they are likely not playing optimally or even non-cooperatively, e.g. if there is a communication channel such as fa
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by cxseven 12y ago
John Draper, AKA Cap'n Crunch, made a great case for it: "It was a perfect coding environment, coding in jail. [...] Those long nights without the computer really got my smarts in top gear, as I really focused in getting the code
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by cxseven 13y ago
It's probably the smell of ozone and ions causing particles in the air to adhere to surfaces, cleaning it like how electrostatic air filters work. http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1998-08/897083302.Ch.r....

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