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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
> The business model behind the service is simple: the bad guys keep 10% of the ransom. Creating a ransomware is indeed not a very nice thing to do, but IMO the ones that deserve the most to be called "bad guys" are the ones th
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Also, the amount of coins unaccessible due to lost private key or forgotten password must be significant.
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
But everything else is the same price. If my rent is twice the price of yours, should I really have twice your salary? If the formula for salary was (basic expenses * life factor) + (benchmark * role * experience) I would understand, but we
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Side story, I shortly worked for a big game company that dived into mobile games, and learnt from the market team that the most bought packages where the cheapest and the most expensive ones. The intermediary ones were nearing 0 sales. So t
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
I don't care about having to enter my password once at home. I care much more about having my navigator at work (which syncs all my personal accounts, including bank & government) being unlocked all day long, and much more when I&#
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Alright. Is anyone else here using Firefox's master password and found a solution in FF57? I have been using Master Password+ extension for a very long time, but without it using a master password is hell. I had a lot of other modules,
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
I tried to switch to the open source Disconnect when I heard Ghostery was acquired by an ad company, but it wasn't on Ghostery's level. The redirect / social button blocker with the "allow once" option is really ple
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Wow. Having an ID card seems so normal to me that I would never have thought that the US didn't have any. I've been to the US before and never even noticed. Thanks for the link.
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
I recently built a C++ meta-programming monster for a side project. I want to make an article about that in the near future, and I am somewhat afraid that some people might think of reusing it in a real project. I had a lot of fun doing it,
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
I'm not sure about "don't roll your own parachute" as it should be common sense, but well, in 1912 a parachute inventor died while testing his creation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Here is what NIST has to say about allowing the user to display the password on screen: > In order to assist the claimant in successfully entering a memorized secret, the verifier SHOULD offer an option to display the secret — rather tha
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
To give some numbers, Steam has 96% Windows users. Source: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
> They also stopped publishing the track number on the website — so going back to scraping was not an option either. So the only way to gather the data would be manually from the station.
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
> price per guarantee-year This is an interesting lead. Increasing consumer awareness would also incentivize companies to increase guarantee years, reducing perceived price.
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
The worst part about "Skype for business" is that it replaced Lync, which was much better IMO. It was simple but effective, and I don't remember having any kind of problem with it
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Are you doing this for money, or for learning maybe? I think defining your goal is really important in order to work toward it. I'm doing projects for learning, so I only care about adding new useless features that are technically inte
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
No idea if this is the real reason, but it's still very annoying. My previous printer did this, and my current Canon refuses to boot when any cartridge is missing or empty.
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
On the other hand, I've seen a lot of internal websites (mostly HR tools) being "optimized for Internet Explorer 9", and indeed neither Chrome nor Firefox worked for theses.
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by karrotwaltz 9y ago
Honest question, where do you think your daughter learned this expectation from? Medias/advertising, other childs' parents...? How would one go about preventing this from happenning without segregating the child?
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Also, I think salary negotiation is partially responsible for the man / woman wage gap. I think men are more inclined to agressive negotiate their salaries, and women might be less prone to lie or hide their current salary too.
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Talking about clichés, I can confirm that (in my circles at least) we almost always talk about food while eating, and it's usually completely unrelated to what's in our plates.
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Google is also doing this with Universal 2nd Factor working on Chrome but not on Firefox (which supports U2F with an addon). Can't tell if this is intentional though.
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
"stuff" isn't far behind
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Related topic: "Production AWS keys on GitHub" ~ 3 years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7411927 By just looking quickly, it seems that you can still find many recent live keys...
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Wouldn't negotiating down this delay make your employer think that you plan to leave the company shortly after joining?
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
IIRC you can set at most 12 contiguous hours for active hours, and that just doesn't fit for me, I was still getting automated reboots. There are other workarounds indeed, and I found my own way to deal with it, but it's only doab
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Windows having forced updates you can't schedule and can discard all your unsaved work (long live Sublime Text) is enough for me to want to drop it completely... Too bad there are still so many apps I need that can only run on Windows.
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
Searching "moz://a", neither Google nor DuckDuck shows Mozilla's website on the first page of results... and the SEO company is first in both indeed.
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
From what I can read in patch file, it seems to be doing something different on April fools day.
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by karrotwaltz 10y ago
I feel like this is exactly what is happening in France too... The media tries so hard to stay "politically correct" at all times that it is absurdely biased some times. An exagerated example: if an immigrant commit a crime, the m

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