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by martinced 14y ago
"The future in personal computing I think lies squarely in an automatically updated (even managed) sandboxed environment." Until the day where the main server serving the automated updates gets compromised and instead of serving, say, an
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by martinced 14y ago
fail2ban only blocks brute-force attacks from similar IPs right? What if a botnet is used to do the brute-force, does fail2ban lock everybody out, effectively making fail2ban a tool that can be used for Denial of Service? All I'd have to do
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by martinced 14y ago
" The successful root login followed only one unsuccessful attempt" Once a system is compromised by a root exploit what makes you think that any information that this system is giving is true? While it may be likely seen the circumstance
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by martinced 14y ago
The problem is that even when people vote nationally against Europe, their corrupted lawyers/politicians still do only what they want: the french voted against entering the eurozone. Yet their leaders decided France would enter the euroz
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by martinced 14y ago
Indeed. Excepted that this is not a financial crisis. The financial crisis is just a catalyzer. The fundamental issue is state who continuously spend more than what they made because states are run by politicians who can't count (because
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by martinced 14y ago
There's something worse that lawyers who can't count. Lawyers who think they can. The problem is that politician dream up of an european union to make sure no more french / german war would happen. But politicians can't count: they're for
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by martinced 14y ago
It is way more complicated that that but basically it's the various eurozone government (just like many other governments) who did mismanages since decades and now the house of cards is starting to fall. Here's an oversimplification: basica
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by martinced 14y ago
"XP SP2" I'm nostalgic too (not about Windows that said) but... Windows XP is the most exploited Windows right now: zombie botnets are made of a huge part of Windows XP PCs. Microsoft ain't patching several critical exploits on XP and i
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by martinced 14y ago
This tax only affects residents living in Cyprus. This is already a crazy tax but if they're confiscating money on private companies' bank accounts they'll be killing the economy.
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by martinced 14y ago
Not gonna happen. Several countries moreover already have withdrawal limits per day / week / months to precisely prevent bank runs. Those limits have recently been lowered (for example in Italy). Laws are passed nearly on a daily basis t
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by martinced 14y ago
Yes but the difference is that Cyprus lost its sovereignity regarding money creation by entering the eurozone. The U.S. has its own way to confiscate citizen's money and that is called quantitative easing, which creates inflation. That's w
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by martinced 14y ago
Which benefits? Education level going down the drain in France? Police force unable to stop rising crime? Army fighting wars in Africa and Middle East just to put dictators in place? Crazy high taxing of the private sector, so high that
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by martinced 14y ago
It is shortsighted: it is a temporary to prevent the sky from falling in a few days. But it's just kicking the can a bit further down the road: economically it makes no sense. You'll destroy trust and discourage people so much that you're
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by martinced 14y ago
I've submitted this first but it didn't take off... Anyway: this is just the beginning and it's not going to stop anytime soon. The Eurozone is in big trouble: it simply cannot work when you have people who only want to work 32 hours / wee
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by martinced 14y ago
Is this something that all Chrome extensions ask for or only some? I tried to install AdBlock Plus in Chromium and it asked the same question...
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In the eurozone governments confiscate people's money(uk.reuters.com)
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by martinced 14y ago
Yes and it really showed in the beginning: they had lots of issues and you could constantly see the cat saying "sorry, i am wurkin' on fixin' yer problem" (don't remember the exact msg but it was a lolzcat message). SO is also hardly some
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by martinced 14y ago
This is kiddie stuff compared to Huxley's writings ; )
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by martinced 14y ago
"Of those that do survive, more than half of them have brain damage." I've read a theory that if as soon as someone as heart attack you put ice on his head you lower the risk of permanent brain damage. If I'm not mistaken there's been a
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by martinced 14y ago
6) This week is also the week when the "no more free Google Apps for domains" came into action. Now it's $50 per new account / year. Old accounts are fine though. Looks like anything "free" is quickly disappearing : )
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by martinced 14y ago
GOTO and weird optimization may be very useful in some circumstances but there's a case where they'll never be desirable: security. I'm 100% that the future security-wise is stuff like esL4 (the L4 micro-kernel, but which has been forma
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by martinced 14y ago
"Comments which disregard the previous paragraph will simply be deleted. Comments complaining about my deleting those comments will result in me blocking and/or mercilessly mocking you for failing to read instructions. Comments complaining
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by martinced 14y ago
> I strongly suspect that the people who can't adapt are having difficulty because they are not programming with the new syntax full time. That is very interesting. It took me indeed may months of night-time programming in Clojure
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by martinced 14y ago
Yes and Clojure has a lot of syntax too. However that is still nothing compared to the syntax of other languages, like Java. The amount of syntax in a langage like Java is just maddening: even keyword (like final ) have totally differe
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by martinced 14y ago
You are 100% spot on. I moved to Belgium (like many "wealthy" french people do) and will probably move further away. The situation in the eurozone is really degrading quickly: it's not gonna get better with the second state default of Gree
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by martinced 14y ago
I quit riding bikes the day I started going out with a doctor and her friends. They would refer to us as "organ donors" and talking about "warm ones" coming in for organs. That and videos of bikers waiting, stopped, at a red trafic light o
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by martinced 14y ago
I do certainly hate this mentality on HN where every single time someone posts some new interesting webapp then someone comes to try to rain on the other person's parade. This is simply not ok and goes totally against HN's mentality IMHO.
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by martinced 14y ago
Way to go Wired: the video refuses to play on a stock Chromium browser (no Flash). Geez: is is that hard to serve videos in a HTML5 format recognized by a Flash-less Chrome browser? I mean: many websites seems to be doing it perfectly fi
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by martinced 14y ago
Yes but it's sad to see yet another OAuth SNAFU. At which point should people consider not using a technology which has been repeatedly exploited and start using something where security has been thought about from the start? Because we a
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by martinced 14y ago
It's really tiring to see what the Spolsky and Atwood offsprings are coming up with... It's nearly always the same "idea": try to prevent users from having opinions and individuality. Atwood's discourse.org was supposed to be the "next ge

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