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Petition: Remove the platform restriction on Microsoft NuGet packages(visualstudio.uservoice.com)
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by ethomson 13y ago
I had thought it was common knowledge that E-ZPasses were used to collect real-time traffic estimates; certainly I've known for years that i-Pass (the Illinois equivalent) was used for this purpose. Unfortunately, some quick googling
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by ethomson 13y ago
Which competitors in particular are you suggesting might be DDoS'ing them?
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by ethomson 13y ago
I don't think these changes are about expense, but about security. I suspect there will be little cost savings, at least not immediately. Instead, you're just shifting the workload from (manual) system administration to automati
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by ethomson 13y ago
Absolutely stunning that Occam's Razor won out.
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by ethomson 13y ago
I see. I've not seen authoritative JTTF credentials, or if I did I didn't look at it closely. I have seen a JTTF badge printed on an LEO business card, but I hadn't actually considered that there might actually be a legit J
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this exactly. What does "federal credentials" mean? JTTFs are manned by both federal and local LEOs. The Chicago JTTF, for example, absolutely includes detectives from both Chicago Police Depar
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by ethomson 13y ago
Seems significantly more likely than what was claimed in the original story: 1. The NSA using monitoring technology against civilians in the country, against their charter. 2. County sheriffs deputies who are members of the Joint Terrorism
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by ethomson 13y ago
Her twitter: https://twitter.com/inthefade States: "Pro tip: don't do a search for pressure cookers right after your spouse does a search for backpacks if you don't want the FBI at your door." Before lat
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm glad you found this. I don't doubt that some law enforcement officers from some agency showed up at her doorstep for some reason. And I can accept that there were - at some point - questions about bombs for some reason or ano
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by ethomson 13y ago
While I see where you're going with this, let's take a moment to remember that the Joint Terrorism Task Force is made up of individual law enforcement officers, not agencies. That is to say that not all members of the Whatever Co
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by ethomson 13y ago
My takeaway from this article is that it was a piece of realistic fiction, not reported as fact and thus not a "hoax". The author, Michele Catalano lists herself as a political writer not a news reporter. http://michele
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by ethomson 13y ago
Funny, I read this as "I blame C [the language]". I was taken aback because obviously "null" in C is a 5 byte character array and would never be confused for NULL.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Your cynicism was unfounded and the update was legitimate - the job advertisement remains.
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by ethomson 13y ago
No, it does not sound like the parent doesn't know the difference between public and private IP addresses. What it sounds like is that you expect Ford to take the time and energy to renumber their entire network just because they pre
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by ethomson 13y ago
Can you cite that from the article? Because I don't see that anywhere. What I see is: > ... the alleged metadata program is fully consistent with the Fourth Amendment ... Because the Fourth Amendment is not breached, it follows t
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by ethomson 13y ago
And how I read it is that somebody who shows up drunk to a job interview does not use good decision making skills and is likely unreliable. I love a beer in my time , and I would be happy to enjoy a beer with my coworkers in our time , bu
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by ethomson 13y ago
Which is just fairly typical legal maneuvering in any case - the complaintant files an injunction, the defendant writes that the injunction should not proceed and that instead they file a motion to dismiss summarily. If we have a process
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but to say that this "cannot be challenged in court" is a pretty terrible interpretation. The government asks the court system (where this is, in fact, already being challenged) to deny an injunction stop
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by ethomson 13y ago
I don't think that Google, or any of these other companies, can simply bail and go into hiding while continuing to do business from the unincorporated portion of a Russian airport.
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by ethomson 13y ago
I love the dialog box prompting the user to authenticate their "buddy" with the caption: > Why is this security dialog (present in other encrypted messaging tools) missing from Skype? Why? Because that dialog is horrifying. Fi
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by ethomson 13y ago
Just because it was correct doesn't mean it was appropriate.
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by ethomson 13y ago
IANAL either, but there's a obvious difference between a vehicle search without your knowledge and you knowingly handing your vehicle to someone who acts as an agent of the government in performing a search: > We also noticed a larg
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by ethomson 13y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the FDIV bug - or heck, even the much more recent (1997!) F00F bug - might not be so contemporary or represent the state of the art of Intel processors.
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by ethomson 13y ago
Do people use curl from the command line directly? Maybe, maybe not. But this article is really about libcurl's performance. And libcurl is used quite extensively to download all sorts of things, including binaries. Git, for example
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by ethomson 13y ago
That you're condemning Azure based on the name of the business unit its produced in and the location of sales and marketing people in a company makes me think that even if we'd named it "JOnAgain's Special Cloud!" t
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by ethomson 13y ago
Why is copying and pasting to be discouraged?
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by ethomson 13y ago
There's a division called "Cloud" being headed up by Executive VP Satya Nadella that encompasses Azure and the apps that build on top of it (Office 365, visualstudio.com...) That seems pretty first-class to me.
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What's the line you're drawing between an OS and a distribution? I certainly would have said that these various different Linux distributions you reference were different distributions of the same Operating System . Which is t
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by ethomson 13y ago
It's easy to miss specific units when they enumerated so many of the organizations of such a large company. We haven't really moved: > Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group. Satya Nadella will lead development of our back-end

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