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by daxelrod 10y ago
Yes, via the HTTP Referer header.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
And also if you say something controversial.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Thank you for elaborating on the appeals court's findings. I'm really happy that the HD-to-RAM argument was thrown out.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
In the US, debit cards are ATM cards tied to a bank account that can also be used at a merchant; when the merchant charges the card, money is deducted directly from the bank account. Debit cards usually have no rewards or bonuses associated
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by daxelrod 10y ago
You may be interested in MDY Industries, LLC v. Blizzard Entertainment, Inc.[1] (the WoW Glider case). World of Warcraft's Terms of Use prohibited bots. The court found that users who used the Glider bot with WoW were violating the Ter
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Visa and Mastercard are the two biggest card associations in the US (American Express is another card association). Credit cards are usually issued by a card issuer (bank) and are co-branded with one of the card associations. For example, t
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Anecdote: In my US workplace, Vacation Days are planned in advance. Unplanned leave comes out of a smaller pool of Personal Days. (There is no separate category for Sick Days, Personal Days can be used for whatever the employee wants, inclu
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by daxelrod 10y ago
They've been selling GitLab Enterprise Edition for quite a while. Were you concerned that this wasn't enough of a revenue stream? https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ee/
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Thunderbolt eGPU, perhaps?
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Perforce is mostly a better Subversion. The two have an extremely similar model, but Perforce handles merges much better and gives more flexibility in slicing and dicing your local view of the repo (extremely useful for huge monorepos). Dis
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by daxelrod 10y ago
> If name resolutions were encrypted, we would be good, or ? No, HTTPS Server Name Identification[1] means that domain names are still sent in the clear so that multiple HTTPS sites can have one IP address. They can also see how much dat
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by daxelrod 10y ago
And the VPN's ISP.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Are you aware of PowerShell? Pipelines act on full .Net objects.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
I've maintained prose in git with the default diff algorithm using one sentence per line, and it's worked pretty well. My specific use case was a document tweaked for two different audiences, and I've been able to make change
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by daxelrod 10y ago
The excellent short film MORE by Mark Osborne is about similar reality-editing glasses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeeTfsm8bk
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Please read this article[1] about how exactly chroot jails function as a security measure. If you have a process that's already not running as root, all a chroot jail does is decrease the attack surface a bit by giving that process a m
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by daxelrod 10y ago
> it's rarely actually OSS-licensed It seems strange to worry about licensing in a community predicated on violating a term of an OS license. Is this a problem because source code isn't available?
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by daxelrod 10y ago
If you're visiting a culture, you generally try to adhere to its norms as much as reasonable, to avoid causing offense.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Sure, but if you're not used to tipping, it can be confusing to figure out what services you should and should not tip for.
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by daxelrod 10y ago
It's never quite clear where the back button will take you I have an Android phone where the back button is drawn on the screen, not a hardware button. Why can't it display some additional information about where it goes
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by daxelrod 10y ago
the vast majority of stuff is people posting articles from various blogs and talking about them If a user were to only discover those articles via Facebook, and only see them within the Facebook app's browser, would they
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by daxelrod 10y ago
Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe lets you calculate the nth binary digit of pi without calculating 0..n-1. You would not need to store the entire number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9... You
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by daxelrod 10y ago
LexisNexis provides all sorts of databases. I had an experience where I was shopping for car insurance, and just before I signed, my rate doubled from what was previously quoted by the same company. It turned out that a LexisNexis database
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by daxelrod 10y ago
For capturing, encoding, and transporting the stream, you can use OBS https://obsproject.com/ , which is what tons of streamers use. Are you looking for a web frontend for RTMP that you can host? http://www.proje
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by daxelrod 10y ago
I was under the impression from reporting on the sting that Playpen was an onion site, not a clearnet site. If that's the case, traffic wouldn't be going through an exit node to get there, right?
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by daxelrod 10y ago
What law in the US makes it illegal to circumvent an encryption system? I can think of the DMCA's prohibitions against circumvention measures for DRM, but that's specific to protecting copyrighted works. This FindLaw article http
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by daxelrod 10y ago
How does the threat model where employees are the enemy differ from the threat model where malware running inside the network is the enemy?
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by daxelrod 10y ago
How are any of the things you listed undermined by corporate MitM? Everything you listed is information that the company already has access to. Why isn't it sufficient for there to be access controls by policy, the same way the company
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by daxelrod 10y ago
I believe that Roku handles billing for various streaming services: https://support.roku.com/article/208756478-how-do-i-manage-o... . Apple will also do the billing for streaming services that you sign up for via its a
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by daxelrod 10y ago
It does, but I believe you need GitLab EE with ElasticSearch turned on: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/elasticsearch.html

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