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by jccc 8y ago
There were of course other major hackers at the time, but were any of these nearly as well known as Mitnick outside of law enforcement and hackers who would already know of these people?
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by jccc 8y ago
Were there others as high profile at the time? He might have just been the first widely known when “hacking” and the Net was new for a lot of people.
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by jccc 8y ago
You should inform the maintainers of CentOS, to take one example. CentOS 6.9 (supported until November 2020) runs 5.3 with backported security and maintenance updates. Newer versions are not available from them for 6.9. The issue is not tha
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by jccc 8y ago
I'm genuinely happy for you that your work doesn't labor under the constraints that many, many (many) environments in the real world require. But that doesn't mean those places/organizations/projects don't exis
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by jccc 8y ago
> The team began this investigation more than a decade ago, when an F-Secure employee had a laptop stolen from a hotel room. Some of the staff began to wonder how easy it would be to hack the keycard locks This seems like a very breezy
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by jccc 9y ago
What in the world are you people talking about? Hed, dek, lede, graf, etc. were all used in drafts when I was on the morning daily newspaper in J School specifically because they'd get caught in spell check. Still used on occasion now
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by jccc 9y ago
This kind of breezy dismissal is really frustrating. Developers and admins in the field are dealing with this situation for the reasons I gave above, and not out of simple ignorance.
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by jccc 9y ago
Please see point #2 if you're still confident that 5.3 to 5.5 should give a host like mine no trouble: "PHP 5.3.3 (with backported security and bug patches) remains the default in CentOS 6.9, which is supported until 2020. More re
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by jccc 9y ago
> When I upgraded my projects to PHPa7 ... The universe of developers with PHP projects to maintain is filled with people who do not share the same goals and constraints that you might enjoy. There is an enormous amount of lousy PHP
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by jccc 9y ago
Really? For how long? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/28/us-custom... http://www.businessinsider.com/john-kelly-travel-ban-social-... https://privacysos.org&#x
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by jccc 9y ago
> A lucky set of circumstances led to the iPod dominating the digital audio player market: bold marketing, a smaller HDD form factor, high-speed FireWire connection, and a great integration story on Macs. Which of these four things are
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by jccc 9y ago
I didn't say that people should pronounce Missouri only as "Missour-ee" and that other pronunciations are incorrect. I offered my observation (intended with good humor) that it's not really true that Missourians by and l
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by jccc 9y ago
I lived in the middle of Missouri from 1994 through 2014 and never once heard a voice say Missour-ah that wasn't coming from a candidate for office on TV. (To be fair, there might have been some people in rural parts of the state who d
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by jccc 9y ago
And in Missouri we have New Madrid ("New MAD-rid") and Versailles ("Ver-SAILS") among several other similar re-pronunciations. Many locals pronounce Johnny Carson's teenage hometown Norfolk, Nebraska as "Norfor
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by jccc 9y ago
The opening line of the article is: "10 PRINT[1] is a new book which explores the magical power of a single line of code." [1] https://www.amazon.com/10-PRINT-CHR-205-5-RND-ebook/dp/B00C9...
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by jccc 9y ago
You're arguing a different point from the one being discussed. The argument from the beginning was not about where the U.S. ranks in goodness vs. evil compared with other countries. Many people say Chomsky is full of it when he focuses
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by jccc 9y ago
The quote directly addresses your point. What should U.S. citizens do about the crimes of other governments? By contrast, what should U.S. citizens do about crimes that are the doing of their own government, regardless of what proportion th
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by jccc 9y ago
Somewhat related, from Chomsky: "My own concern is primarily the terror and violence carried out by my own state, for two reasons. For one thing, because it happens to be the larger component of international violence. But also for a m
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by jccc 9y ago
Do you think if they come wearing Verizon hats that means they're Verizon?
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by jccc 9y ago
The materialism being referred to is the cosmetic perfection of the kids' teeth (presumably beyond ensuring their health). "Tawdry little baubles" does not refer to the children themselves.
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by jccc 9y ago
My reply did not assume that he saw the image before his comment.
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by jccc 9y ago
> Either way, I think calling attention to his skin color in the way you did is petty and rude. This line was not in the reply I got by email (via HN Replies). I'm glad I caught it here because it illuminates a core problem with t
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by jccc 9y ago
His photo is provided with the story. Is that what you see? http://stmedia.stimg.co/08_473691_TASED082914_30709587.JPG?w...
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by jccc 9y ago
Taxpayers cover the bill, police (and the corporate tenant) vindicated, they all move on and everything else pretty much stays the same? Maybe a better ending would move the needle at least slightly in favor of preventing this kind of thing
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by jccc 9y ago
Immediately reminded me of this from 2014: http://www.startribune.com/man-arrested-in-st-paul-skyway-su... A father waiting to pick up his kids from day care sits in an ambiguously public-ish place. He refuses when an emplo
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by jccc 9y ago
I think those people are saying -- reasonably -- that the word app is recent in the mainstream popular language, not that it was never ever used by anyone until the iPhone.
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by jccc 9y ago
There are vast numbers of programs that run without a UI for people to use. There are also vast numbers of programs designed for action entertainment. Then there are programs like spreadsheets and word processors that are "applications
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by jccc 9y ago
He addresses this in the video: For whatever personal reasons, uprooting his family and moving them is just not an option right now.
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by jccc 9y ago
I would guess because he's in the middle of building his company and raising his kids, and doesn't plan to keep this arrangement forever.
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by jccc 9y ago
Interesting comparison/contrast, linked from right in the middle of the article: http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170221-the-gruelling-six-... * Six hours <-> six hours * Try to use the downtime <-

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