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by majelix 13y ago
> It's worth pointing out that you don't need to work "for the NSA" to be contributing to state surveillance. The flip is also true: you're not necessarily contributing to state surveillance just because you work
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by majelix 13y ago
Perhaps this is why this bothers me: the Feds don't need any help from Defcon. If anything, it's the other way around.
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by majelix 13y ago
> Not true at all. It entirely depends on what you're building. No it doesn't. He's making the same argument terrorists sometimes use to justify their actions. We're not innocent -- that by paying taxes, voting, and o
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by majelix 13y ago
> Sadly, making driving licenses is not too hard The hard part, I imagine, is testing that's a good-enough fake. Standing in front of the passport agent or getting pulled over are probably the worst possible times to learn your prin
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by majelix 13y ago
Cute, but I[0] don't think the law is that straightforward to interpret. At least according to Wikipedia[1], "cruel and unusual punishment" is a legal phrase all into it's own, regardless our lay interpretation of the in
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by majelix 13y ago
> is that you get very little feedback on this. Are there any easy-to-implement tests for this sort of thing? For example * For mathematical functions, I can trivially test for an expected value, a too low value, a too high value, and no
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by majelix 13y ago
If I had to guess, it's http://careers.boozallen.com/job/Honolulu-Systems-Administra... . At least you have a starting point for salary negotiations, and an easy talking point on ethics.
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by majelix 13y ago
As others have mentioned, it's not really the technical aspects of SMTP that make hosting your own email difficult. It's the entire deliverability ecosystem that's developed (ostensibly to protect from spam), such as most residential provid
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by majelix 13y ago
It's a fairly subtle way to dramatically change the behavior of your code. Frankly, it's a timebomb threatening to run testCode() in your production site. The low cost makes it useful for quick development, sure, but for stability's and san
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by majelix 14y ago
> but I find the idea of anyone with access to my local machine being able to access my server with 0 additional credentials really disconcerting. You could hook whatever locks your screen to also clear your ssh-agent then. This is prob
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by majelix 14y ago
> There are security standards which mandate certain kinds of passwords (complexity) and are silent on asymmetric keys, so you couldn't use keys in those environments. Every single auditor I've worked with has given a pass when they saw
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by majelix 14y ago
Expiring an ssh-key is easy, just remove the public key from authorized_keys. Dealing with theft is also straightforward: just add a passphrase to the key -- the time it takes to crack your pass phrase should be more than the time it takes
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by majelix 14y ago
chkconfig is redhat specific. I believe debian-varients use update-rc.d. Generically (for Linux), take a look at /etc/init.d , /etc/inittab, or /etc/rc?.d.
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by majelix 14y ago
> without losing face. Honestly, isn't the crux of the problem? Even if you are a superstar, you'll still get typecasted as smart-but-lazy and find yourself on the outside. Generally speaking, this is an organizational problem.
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by majelix 14y ago
Unless the work from rate is vastly higher or mass transportation vastly better where you are than me, 90% of jobs requiring a car is a huge understatement. People own several cars over their lifetime and it's one of the largest purchases t
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by majelix 14y ago
>> it would almost certainly poison the minds of the people who have no interest in it > ...what exactly do you mean by "poison the minds"? Not the OP, but I think he's afraid that the level of education provided for coding will
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by majelix 14y ago
This sounds like a trick question. If you want to measure passion for the job, ask about the job and listen to them. Don't ask them about something else and wait for them to bring it back up.
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by majelix 14y ago
This is actually why two factor authentication is great. In this instance, users were still protected (at the least) by their PIN. This is somewhat equivalent to losing your ssh private key. Yes, it's bad, but your passphrase should ("shoul
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by majelix 14y ago
> Its just that geeks are more likely to stand up to a manager (They respect ideas, not authority) How much of this is inherit in "geeks" and how much is just because we're lucky enough to be in one of the strongest job markets around?
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by majelix 14y ago
WARNING: DO NOT USE A THUMBLESS GRIP. Yes, it's a slightly better angle for your wrists, but you can get that anyways, and it will kill you.
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by majelix 14y ago
It's possible, but difficult. Like many other extraordinary feats like doubling your bench press in a month, it's most often seen in people just starting out. In general, gaining strength means a caloric surplus, and in general, losing weig
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by majelix 14y ago
It tends to be more about ethnicity than nationalism per se, but yes. Your membership in the Albanian/Serb/Roma/Croat/etc. community is central to your personal identity in the Balkans, far outweighing where you happen to live or where you
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by majelix 14y ago
It's because it's something we suck at and so have to consciously work on. I imagine that there's an extrovert party going on somewhere where they're all talking up how important being right actually is.
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by majelix 14y ago
Being clever is all well and good as long as you're right. But all those enemies you're making by being a jagoff are waiting for you to slip (or at least won't be forgiving). In the mean time, Forrest Gump has buddies everywhere who willing
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by majelix 14y ago
"Being mean" is about HOW you present the facts. Yes, this is more or less difficult with some facts (such as getting fired), but there are ways(It's not you, it's me). It's up to us to care enough to be nice and how we're perceived.
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by majelix 14y ago
The obvious counterpoint here is that we're trying to teach skills before they're needed. After all, it would suck to have to rediscover Calculus on your own in the middle of your Physics II exam just because you didn't see a point to it at
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by majelix 14y ago
> disabling this is offered in the privacy settings, and it is even put in front of your face during OS install. What's the default behavior? I think we've all had experiences (or know of) of not-entirely-reading all things and ending u
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by majelix 14y ago
Que the "Apple locked me out of my OWN DATA!" screed in 3, 2, ...
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by majelix 14y ago
Given the anecdotal basis of the account, there may be a good bit of selection bias on both sides of the cut here. He may be forgiving or forgetting those times when something did slip (either because it was so rare or because it was so eas
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by majelix 14y ago
> Gold, silver, jewelry and other forms of portable wealth will not be able to be taken out of the country. Does the TSA assist with customs now?

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