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by entropy_ 13y ago
Well, if the seller relies exclusively on eBay for sales(as appears to be the case here) then the threat of having their account terminated over ToS violation would be a huge deterrent against doing so. It still won't prevent you from being
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by entropy_ 13y ago
That doesn't make any sense. It's exactly like saying: "Oh sure, the credit card numbers were encrypted but if the encryption key is brute-forced then it's game over". The CC numbers were encrypted using a public key. The corresponding priv
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by entropy_ 14y ago
English is my third language(after Arabic and French) and that was still annoying to me. I know it's a nitpick, but I can't help being bothered by misplaced apostrophes. Props to the author for fixing it so quickly.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
That's true, but as value drops, there is less incentive to mine bitcoin so there'll be a lot less mining going on(not cost-effective with respect to the cost of electricity).
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by entropy_ 14y ago
All points correct except c). Egress filtering happens on the ISP side, there's nothing the DNS server can do once it gets a request with a spoofed source IP. But since operators of authoritative name servers are more likely to be sophistic
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by entropy_ 14y ago
No, the attack does not work by overloading target DNS servers. There is no benefit in asking a recursive DNS server to make a DNS request for you to overload another DNS server, you could just make that request yourself(or with whatever bo
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The attack as specified by the article would be pretty ineffective as recursive DNS servers tend to have a cache. So only the first request would hit the target DNS server. Also, you can definitely do this with authoritative servers only, w
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Could you elaborate on what happened in your case that you'd be so vehemently opposed to spamhaus(to the point of being willing to commit crime(s) to hurt them)? I'm truly curious on why the reaction to spamhaus being DDoS is so polarised.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
According to the article(s) the DDoS is so big that it is not just clogging up spamhaus' links as it is intended to but also the backbone leading up to said links. That would affect everyone and not just spamhaus. Also, the DNS servers are
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I think the onus for this one is on ISPs who don't properly filter outgoing traffic. It's pretty simple, really, you have a block of IP addresses you allocate to your customers, any outgoing traffic with a source outside of this block shoul
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Being offended by crude jokes(or finding crude jokes "wrong") is feminism? How so?
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well, yes and no. If you're the kind of person who sometimes, in some contexts makes lewd jokes and is not offended by them, then simply being in another context when hearing them shouldn't offend you. It might make you cringe at the incong
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by entropy_ 14y ago
That's a slippery slope fallacy, and no, it's not dangerously close to that. If you make a certain kind of joke, I would have a very hard time believing you were offended by that same kind of joke when those two events happened within hours
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by entropy_ 14y ago
"Recognizing that it is not politically correct in these parts to pose this question, I sometimes wonder if the Github team (which seems like a highly-skilled, competent team) regrets building on Rails." [1] Sarcasm maybe? In which case you
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by entropy_ 14y ago
It doesn't work on basic android(the article clearly states that). Only Samsung's braindead changes to android are the cause of this. I have yet to see a single instance where Samsung actually improved android with their changes instead of
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Unfortunately, only hope.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
This is not a product that is marketed as something still in testing. Rails is supposedly mature by now. A closer analogy would be if you were an airline and a technician from Boeing made some Boeing-recommended safety changes on a plane be
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by entropy_ 14y ago
That has nothing to do with it whatsoever. They specified why they hate about rails, the magic. Personally, I simply cannot stand magic in frameworks I use. That's because I don't become truly productive when using a framework until I fully
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I hope there are no medical devices(e.g. a ventilator) accessible from the public internet with a default password.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
Well from my experience at an American university(though not in the US, so this may not apply). Some professors will assign graded homework problems by simply referencing the page/problem number of problems to solve. If you have a different
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I'd say timezones is definitely something you want to have available as information. I've gotten needlessly excited about possible remote jobs way more times than I can count only to find out that they only want people within ~2~3hrs of NYC
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by entropy_ 14y ago
You will still fail to prevent cheaters using an approach like this one. Even a game that is only distributed as a binary but with no or few checks on the server for cheating will be compromised very fast. It only takes one person to figure
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by entropy_ 14y ago
As programmers we see this all the time when non-technical people make very bad hiring decisions. It's a chicken and egg type problem for a non-technical (co-)founder to build a good team because(or find a technical co-founder) he/she needs
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by entropy_ 14y ago
At least the gap at the beginning should be shortened. As that's not something you have any control over now.
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by entropy_ 14y ago
While I fully agree with your point -- This response rubs me the wrong way too -- when it comes to cars bad PR can be way more damaging than with phones. Check this out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Minutes#Unintended_accelerat... (ref
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by entropy_ 14y ago
You still need to know the IP. I use nc this exact same way, and it's definitely a hassle -- not a big one, but still -- to have to check ifconfig on one of the machines and then re-input the IP on the other. On internal networks where IPs
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by entropy_ 14y ago
So we're including things in the HTML spec just to satisfy hollywood lawyers now? We would be saddling a spec(and any browser wishing to implement it) for what will probably be a decade and possibly more just so hollywood execs/lawyers can
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by entropy_ 14y ago
The point is, that it is possible for someone who is technically savvy and who has a subscription to copy the streams right now. The reason they can't download the entire catalogue is probably because netflix/hulu have(or at least I hope th
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by entropy_ 14y ago
From the article: "Tesla data logging is only turned on with explicit written permission from customers, but after Top Gear BS, we always keep it on for media."
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by entropy_ 14y ago
I think this goes to show, that even what we may now look upon as dinosaurs no longer capable of innovation can do great things if they put in the R&D and don't scuttle their own efforts with shitty corporate politics. I really, really,

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