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781.
by mentat 13y ago
Most people turn off JS because of security, because loading a web page should not always lead to code (besides rendering) being run on your machine.
782.
by mentat 13y ago
You could have left the first two paragraphs off and the tone of the post would have been much improved. It sounds like you've got a chip on your shoulder which impacts the positive impact your (unofficial) representation could have.
783.
by mentat 13y ago
Wonder how many filtering proxies got triggered by the NSFW words in that list. Would be funny if Intel.com got temporarily black listed.
784.
by mentat 13y ago
That's odd because I never do. I'm using two-factor and I only have to retype login information when that expires (approximately 30 days I believe.) Also, someone did phish my Google cookies and Google immediately shutdown my account and ma
785.
by mentat 14y ago
I'm not sure chaotic good is incompatible with psychopathy.
786.
by mentat 14y ago
They really don't look that similar. Is no one supposed to use toolbars of pens now?
787.
by mentat 14y ago
Excellent, thank you so much for this. "Next train leaving in <x> minutes" is sweet.
788.
by mentat 14y ago
meta: in the interests of continuing intelligent discussion on HN, please just say what you mean instead of "this". It's an infection that's been spreading for at least a few months here.
789.
by mentat 14y ago
There are people who can write this stuff from scratch. Some of those people have "evil purposes". Do you propose making all the information secret? It still won't change things. Check out Metasploit, that improves the overall state of secu
790.
by mentat 14y ago
The one I'm currently using is 6 years old. My boss had to replace his within a couple years and they showed him how to properly wrap the cable. He taught us and it's been fine.
791.
by mentat 14y ago
Because two friends don't walk streets together carrying backpacks... Because the FBI is always accurate in their information...
792.
by mentat 14y ago
Law enforcement as a revenue generation method, especially when sold as a third party service, seems inherently subject to mismatched incentives.
793.
by mentat 14y ago
Corporate espionage rarely rises to this standard, which was the author's concern.
794.
by mentat 14y ago
"Only those with the link can access it" seems to show a basic misunderstanding about how the web works...
795.
by mentat 14y ago
The issue is that it's retroactive. That income had become an asset to suddenly be considered as income again. The retroactive nature of the proposition was not in any of the official summary documentation for the election either.
796.
by mentat 14y ago
Part of the argument is that this isn't disposable income, that it's in fact needed as a baseline against poverty.
797.
by mentat 14y ago
Did you pay attention to the problems mentioned by the NSA director? It's hard. Much much harder than making a application to share status. Much much harder than even making an application that searches big data for new drug possibilities.
798.
by mentat 14y ago
A friendly thing to do would be develop a script that took the google results, checked with whois for abuse address and sent emails. Of course that could also end up with one being sent to jail for a long time.
799.
by mentat 14y ago
Against the US who abides by WTO when it pleases them and disregards it when it doesn't.
800.
by mentat 14y ago
The basics of a well reviewed cipher do not apply to a random experimental cypher you've chosen instead. Why would you not use AES? It's the best understood cipher in the world right now. "more than safe" just doesn't make sense. Please rea
801.
by mentat 14y ago
You really misunderstand the role of HTTPS in the composition of a secure web page, namely securing the components from MITM against any of the active components which could result in a compromise of the entire page rendering. I have zero f
802.
by mentat 14y ago
They are electrifying Caltrain with high speed rail funds according to the brochures onboard.
803.
by mentat 14y ago
"Sorry the princess doesn't put out. Let it go" - Really? (at the end of the level)
804.
by mentat 14y ago
Yeah, I was wondering if it was MAC based. I ordered one so I'll see how badly it breaks once they actually ship them. It's too bad because they probably could do something clever like cross service 802.1x. One SSID for enrollment and the o
805.
by mentat 14y ago
"Is it safe? You have nothing to fear. Karma is as safe as Wi-Fi in your coffee shop. Most sites use HTTPS, like Facebook and Google, making your connection secure." "as safe as Wi-Fi in your coffee shop" is not very safe at all. Before Fir
806.
by mentat 14y ago
You can have an encrypted keystore which is opened by entering a password and using that derived key to decrypt the keystore. Firefox uses this with their "master password". You can cache the decrypted key according to some policy which doe
807.
by mentat 14y ago
PBKDF2, it works for deriving keys to decrypt other things.
808.
by mentat 14y ago
Religion major, music and philosophy minors, so yes, I instantly recognized it as well as it's philosophical context. We are here on HN too.
809.
by mentat 14y ago
Also if you flip it upside down (drag over a pole) the side to side turns backwards.
810.
by mentat 14y ago
I don't think the people here are engineers in the class you reference generally. (Though the password and JS crypto posts may contradict that.) I think more content would be specific methods that each classes uses, their overall use flow,

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