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by jervisfm 13y ago
Yes, I agree that using a password manager that auto-generates random password is the way to go for protecting against the attack of a compromised hashed password database table. Here is the thing I'm wondering though: in the case when
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> I always refuse the scanner Would you mind to share your reasoning as to why you elect to forgo this option ? It would appear to me having a machine scan you is less intrusive than a full body search by a human agent.
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> My kids can't break their windows machine, because I know what I'm doing and have set up a strong security policy. In my experience, I find that regardless of policy, windows computers are more likely to break down at one poi
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Letter to President Obama on Surveillance and Freedom(benlog.com)
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Youtube TV interface(youtube.com)
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> the primary motivation for MWI is to solve the Schrödinger's cat paradox, and that this is its only advantage. This is, of course, completely wrong. By MWI, I am assuming you mean the Many Worlds Interpretation. I am curious: Can
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by jervisfm 13y ago
> Now without utterly broken flash memory drivers that cripple performance after a few months of use and took a year to fix! I do not own any Nexus 7 devices but I do recall reading about issues related to degraded flash performance over
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With regards to the data collection, the thing to realize (which I did so myself) is that email truly is the glue that ties together most internet services. Take facebook for example. By default, almost any and all activity on the site is c
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> BTSync also does built in versioning which solves the backup issue. So for example, if a person was working on a thesis document and then accidentally overwrote that with a blank version which gets synced across all the nodes, it would
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What did you make ?
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IANAL but if the government is right by definition (on a legal basis), does that mean that the various suits now being filed don't have any teeth ?
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Another nice terminal emulator for windows is MobaXterm[1]. It comes a single exe and has out of the box support for connecting to remote servers using a number of protocols. One of the features I like is its builtin support for X-forwardin
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Agile Designers: The Best Design Resources in One Place(agiledesigners.com)
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Office used to have a rather handy (well-hidden) builtin versioning feature whereby new saves were not permanent. Instead only what changed was saved in a delta-fashion and so one could go back and access the different versions of a file (f
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Homomorphic encryption(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Secure Remote Password Protocol(srp.stanford.edu)
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I didn't realize that academia mandated a sign up for download of content. IIRC their position was that signup would be optional in order to differentiate themselves from traditional academic publishers who protect access to their cont
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by jervisfm 13y ago
This is an interesting concept but I am wondering how alieving relates to both believing and knowing in general. Is an alieve just a type of belief that is unjustified but hard to ignore or get rid of ? In particular if we take some of the
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by jervisfm 13y ago
It goes without saying that my qualifications in aviation matters are only as an aviation enthusiast and for the full cause of the accident, we'll have to wait for the NTSB report (which has access to vital black box data and cockpit r
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by jervisfm 13y ago
Yeah, I have listened in on some air traffic controller streams that are available online and it's always hard to decipher what it is they are saying. It all sounds like words slurred together with no clear demarcation. I am mostly ama
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At Least Two Dead in San Francisco Plane Crash(nytimes.com)
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The parent comment I think captures my own initial thoughts on the matter. If anything, it seems to me that the root cause of the issue is that AdBlock has the option for some websites to be whitelisted and allowed to show ads provided AdBl
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by jervisfm 13y ago
Dropbox is a cloud provider that hosts critical information for many people. Given this nature of their business, I'd expect that security is actually their number one primary focus (even beyond new features I'd say). With regards
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Introduction to Node.js with Ryan Dahl [video](youtube.com)
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Bing Ads Introduces New Ad Format With Windows 8.1 Smart Search Integration(searchengineland.com)
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The point about trusting hosting providers is an interesting one. Indeed, when renting a Virtual Private Server from a service provider, you have no choice but to trust them to keep your data safe. This made we wonder: would it be possible
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GoogleServe 2013: Giving back on a global scale(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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Open Source Platform For Cloud Based Development(eclipse.org)
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Bing at Build 2013: Weaving an Intelligent Fabric(bing.com)
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New Details on Skype Eavesdropping(schneier.com)
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