drchaos

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by drchaos 13y ago
I do (however I'm not logged on to SO most of the time so I don't get the badge). As I said in another comment, googling for something is faster nowadays than anything else, except maybe a cheatsheet printed on paper, and often en
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by drchaos 13y ago
In my experience, just googling a (simple) question is much faster than trying to browse any documentation by some other means. One could say that the web is the docs nowadays and Google is just the frontend.
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by drchaos 13y ago
While agreeing this is a useful feature, it can be offered by marketplaces just as good, if not better. For example, Silk Road (where everyone was necessarily anonymous) had an escrow service which worked just fine.
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by drchaos 13y ago
> it's not very difficult to trick a GPS sensor into thinking its somewhere else as long as your signal is a lot better then the ones coming from the satellite and that's probably the reason why they include a gyro and shut dow
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by drchaos 13y ago
I agree in principle, but since mobile spectrum is in itself a government-granted monopoly (oligopoly), some regulation might be acceptable or even necessary, to prevent against exploitative business practises (I consider the absurdly high
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by drchaos 13y ago
As much as I hate the outrageous high roaming charges, I'm not sure regulating them completely away is the best idea. Dictating companies how much and for what they can charge is one of the strongest possible market intervention, and m
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by drchaos 13y ago
Other than passwords, client certs cannot be guessed or generated with wordlists, they can not be used to authenticate to other sites even if stolen, and they cannot be forgotten (at least I tend to forget passwords for rarely used sites wa
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by drchaos 13y ago
> if it only gets this way with money, I'm glad to spend it. I'd be perfectly okay with that if you only spent yours, not mine. Since when has socialism and planned economy become acceptable on HN?
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by drchaos 13y ago
How exactly do you think Germany (as a whole) could profit from this? With the EEG (Energie-Einspeise-Gesetz), the German government created an artificial solar bubble which is costing electricity customers several billions of Euros each ye
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by drchaos 13y ago
I think the word "rewrite" is misleading in that context. ABP does not rewrite existing referrers (which would in fact be "mafia style"), instead it adds its own referrer when correcting/rewriting links with a typo:
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by drchaos 13y ago
I use the sender/client/HELO restrictions from Postfix to block misconfigured spambots (no FQDN HELO etc.), and a custom rule to block submissions where the sender domain equals to one of my own domains. This alone catches quite some spam,
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by drchaos 13y ago
Dovecot + Roundcube hosted on a cheap VPS, with Thunderbird (on the Desktop) and K9Mail (on Android) as client works pretty well for me. Dovecot 2.2 implements several new IMAP extensions, so you can do serverside fulltext search, threading
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by drchaos 14y ago
Claiming that getting a tax credit is equivalent to taking "your" money is a totally absurd notion. Neither it is your money, because you didn't earn it in the first place (the person receiving the credit did), nor would eliminating the tax
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by drchaos 14y ago
I don't think the nameserver (or the upstream NS) is the target of the attack, but the (spoofed) IP which appears to be sending the queries: * Attacker sends (small) query to a lot of resolvers, spoofing the source adress to be the IP of th
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by drchaos 14y ago
I'm not a networking expert, but how would turning off recursive DNS queries mitigate this kind of attack? A nameserver must still answer queries for the domains it is authoritative for, so what prevents the bad guys from using only author
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by drchaos 14y ago
For $500 one could easily install roundcube, add some branding to the default skin, and still have some budget left for ramp-up support or doing some additional tweaks. From this point of view, the project and budget is actually quite reaso
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by drchaos 14y ago
I think the exact opposite may eventually work. Offer some storage for £250 (or even £500) per year, along with a convincing narrative about how much wine deteriorates if not stored properly, and why your storage is better than anything els
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by drchaos 14y ago
> anonymity is not the main selling point of BTC To expand on that: the main selling points of BTC are that it's easy to transfer and that there is no central bank, which makes it impossible to tap into your funds by increasing the mone
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by drchaos 14y ago
Almost every new technology is more expensive at first, may be difficult to deploy and requires additional effort to be made interoperable with existing stuff, so what exactly is your point? BTC solves some hard problems in an interesting w
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by drchaos 14y ago
nice idea! A possible extension would be to allow POST to LOGIN_URL as an option, so users could log on (but not edit anything).
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by drchaos 14y ago
Also, it's probably easier to get a designer to improve the default theme (or make a new default theme), than to patch possible improvements into the core (when there is no theme engine). Separation of concerns is always a good thing. edit:
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by drchaos 14y ago
There's a in-browser version of LibreOffice being worked on since quite some time (first announcement was in 2011[1]), but there's not much information online about the current status. They have video[2] and a wiki page[3] which at least sh
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by drchaos 14y ago
http://caniuse.com/#search=video The percentage of users not able to use <video> is roughly equivalent to the percentage of users running IE8, which is about 20% right now, and probably will stay there in the near future, as XP us
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by drchaos 14y ago
The idea behind that is probably that a fax or written message is "less anonymous" than an email.
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by drchaos 14y ago
"In September of this year, McAfee published a diary in three parts of his recent "adventures" in Belize on a private message board" Does anyone have a link to the original source?
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by drchaos 14y ago
The obvious difference is that you cannot use FreeDOS for typical desktop activities (like surfing the web, reading mail, Facebook), whereas you can use Ubuntu for almost everything, except Gaming and Photoshop. From my experience with "nor
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by drchaos 14y ago
> PayPal operate as a bank in some places While this is technically true, at least in Europe (PayPal Europe has a Luxemburg bank license), I cannot imagine any regular bank freezing accounts at random , then requiring you to change you
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by drchaos 15y ago
Well I for one hope they roll out this "feature" in Skype too, ASAP. I've been preaching to (some of) my buddies for years now why it is not a good idea to rely on a closed, centralized platform for communication, but they keep on telling m
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by drchaos 15y ago
The 'customized GNU/Linux distribution' is actually a rebranded Mint 10.10, and it's so incredibly ugly and overloaded with visual bloat that I cannot imagine anyone would use this for anything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeoEuYxwMMk