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   by feld 10y ago

   I was actually working on the casino floor for a year and configured, repaired, diagnosed, and twiddled with these machines all day. It was a terrible job, but gave me something to do while hunting for my next IT adventure. Other interestin
2. 182.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   Yes, when you setup a slot machine you select in the configuration menu exactly which percentage payout you want the machine to have over its lifetime (~3-5 years). In Wisconsin accessing this menu is highly secured: security guards, camera
3. 183.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   what you want is the Cinema Discusso subforum on SomethingAwful
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   by feld 10y ago

   Thanks for the info!
5. 185.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   I hate to be negative, but this feels like an invitation for very poor bug quality reports where now you have to debug an application AND an OS (the container).
6. 186.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   Russians did this with the German Giant Schnauzer and created the Black Russian Terrier. Their Giants are also significantly larger than the ones with German heritage, but both are recognized as the same breed.
7. 187.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   I have FreeBSD systems that use gigs of swap with gigs of memory free. If you have a Linux system with that much swap usage it's usually about to crash (as it struggling under memory pressure) People should stop monitoring swap usage
8. 188.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   Yes. And I believe Solaris was the first to discover this. Here's a paper Netflix put out covering their first attempt. Measurable gains, hopefully more coming in the future. https://openconnect.netflix.com/publications
9. 189.▲
   by feld 10y ago

   They have to know for fraud investigation. I believe it's also why many companies can't upgrade: they need a new POS that can log the transaction as stripe, chip or NFC/Apple aPay
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    by feld 10y ago

    Funny, but Linux is the only unix-like OS I've ever run where using swap means you have a problem. Other OSes have much more intelligent memory management.
11. 191.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    Yes you can. You report it on oss-security mailing list and request a CVE and one will be assigned to you.
12. 192.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    Planned Parenthood is being eradicated in this country.
13. 193.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    no, the web app / desktop app UI is terrible. The android and iOS apps are pretty usable.
14. 194.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    Why is there a lack of screenshots of the clients on the Riot.im website? sigh
15. 195.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    Instead of discussing the merit of these exploit mitigations this has turned into a complaint forum about Windows update. Mods?
16. 196.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    You seem to attribute backdoor with malicious intent. Step back for a minute and consider the power of PR spin.
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    by feld 10y ago

    You can't prove whether or not it was intentional. Marketing speak can spin this as a convenience for the user. It's still a backdoor until they fix this. I don't believe Moxie has the actual insight into Facebook's true
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    by feld 10y ago

    Yes, Trusted UNIX where you have a very complex MAC framework
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    by feld 10y ago

    Because local ISPs are terrible at running DNS. They're slow, usually vulnerable, poorly scaled, and not very redundant. I've seen a lot of ISPs in the US have "outages" that are merely "our DNS servers are down, so
20. 200.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    This is the most unintuitive approach to 2FA I've ever seen
21. 201.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    Meanwhile irssi just removed support for DANE in the irc client which I believe means that there are now zero irc clients that will attempt to validate you aren't talking to a rogue irc server. Wasn't irssi the first and only to i
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    by feld 10y ago

    Instead of asking "what IP is Google.com?" to your configured DNS server, you traverse the whole chain. First, you refer to your list of root zones: which servers can answer about .com? Ok, ask them which DNS servers google.com sh
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    by feld 10y ago

    The most recent comment I've seen on this is lukewarm at best: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.0/03374.html
24. 204.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    They don't want it. Even if you got the patches accepted to the kernel they'd never accept patches to GNU Coreutils to support it.
25. 205.▲
    by feld 10y ago

    Ace Hardware also has a lifetime warranty on ACE branded tools. "Ace Brand hand tools are guaranteed for life. Our full lifetime warranty states that if any Ace Brand hand tool, used for its intended purpose, fails to fulfill your expe
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    by feld 10y ago

    Apparently some Cisco routers were crashing due to the leap second as well https://quickview.cloudapps.cisco.com/quickview/bug/CSCvb017...
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    by feld 10y ago

    Even it's a duplicate CD in their catalog they still have to rip it. I'm not sure if they're allowed to store the digital copy with deduplication, but if someone sends in 50 of the same CD they have to pay someone to rip each
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    by feld 10y ago

    I've kept these in my GitHub for a while now https://github.com/feld/technical-writing
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    by feld 10y ago

    Which is actually referencing old Netcraft reports
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    by feld 10y ago

    Even the best script kiddie would get bloody fingers trying to type in every possible phone number or iCloud address There's no API. No real way to automate.