mhurron

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by mhurron 11y ago
> Guess I'm only getting exposed to the Chinese 1% That's probably part of it. Of course, to extrapolate large trends such as 'China's Millennials are happy to own nothing' based on 5000 or so people without look
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by mhurron 11y ago
> I think jpmattia was joking. Honestly, with the way the comments are for this article, it's impossible to tell.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Very nice, singular and plural they.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> The author would have done well to include several examples, and they doesn't include any examples. There's your example.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Why do they have a public discussion to justify their actions. If they choose to, fine but I do not see why they have too. > the web is not the browser Actually yes, the web is the browser, or more correctly the browser is your interface
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by mhurron 11y ago
How is focusing on Firefox not inline with a mission statement of 'building a better web for it's users?'
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by mhurron 11y ago
> use an open source project that doesn't include a license. It's not open source if it doesn't include a license stating that it is.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> the Dark Ages were "dark". In Europe perhaps, but there's a whole world out there.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Ya I'm not really sure what they were getting at there. Is it that they think the OpenBSD source layout is hard to understand, they saw cvs and stopped looking or is it that they believe OpenBSD ships with tools that do not have the so
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by mhurron 11y ago
For the government surveillance parts of the article perhaps, though lets be honest, people were saying TLA's had been watching everything you've been doing for a while before that. Another large part of the article is corporate c
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by mhurron 11y ago
I'm not saying that you were putting them forward as valid, I'm saying that list should be ignored.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Can only host one site per IP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication The rest of the excuses are basically 'it's not 100% perfect some of the time so why bother any of the time.'
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by mhurron 11y ago
Yes, but by default a modem from your ISP is acting as a NAT device routing to a private IP space. By default, it has an externally available IP address and will answer on that or those addresses. Many can, however, be configured as a bridg
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by mhurron 11y ago
I don't believe management from the CableCo is done over IP and the other management end requires being plugged into the LAN port.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Wouldn't putting the Arris modem in bridging mode mitigate it? It should no longer be accessible via an outside IP at that point.
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by mhurron 11y ago
They worked out in the end.
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by mhurron 11y ago
My goodness, has no one else ever heard that before? http://www.perc.org/blog/rahms-rule-never-let-serious-crisis... And further - "You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an
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by mhurron 11y ago
Never let a crisis go to waste.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> or they will kill us? Or you will need to expect repercussions that come from disenfranchising groups of people, and yes, that can include that group taking up arms against you. A group of people that are being marginalized over and ov
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by mhurron 11y ago
> socializing is definitely a perk No, it's not. It is a hindrance to the reason you are there, which is to get a job done. I do not wish to socialize at work, I do not wish to work when I socialize.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> That in a reasonably democratic society, the majority makes way for the minority? Otherwise it's not a democratic society, it's apartheid. Would not an unregulated democratic society not care to cater to the wishes of a minor
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by mhurron 11y ago
> titles do matter No they don't. Companies align positions to industry standard rates, not job titles. One place will call you programmer level 3, some other place will call you Senior developer but if they have the same responsibi
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by mhurron 11y ago
But titles don't matter outside of that organization. Because what you do may be called a developer in one organization doesn't mean you'll get paid more or less in another because they call that position a Software Engineer
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by mhurron 11y ago
Command-E
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by mhurron 11y ago
Still requires you to be accurate.
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by mhurron 11y ago
Can you fix your post? Low impact should be low visibility and high impact should be high visibility.
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by mhurron 11y ago
> So by that logic, it is unfair to criticise flash and or Java as Windows security issues? Uh, yes. They are not Windows security issues. > Heartbleed and Shellshock are Linux (OS) issues. No they were not. Run OpenSSL on Windows and
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by mhurron 11y ago
> Why do I keep seeing Heartbleed and Shellshock mentioned in articles specifically about Linux security? Because they're big, popular, well known names that effect software that typically runs on Linux systems so everyone goes &quo
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by mhurron 11y ago
> I do disapprove of this implication. I don't want people to refrain from putting things out there, just because they don't want to feel obligated to support them. I agree, anything I put out comes with one expectation on my p
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by mhurron 11y ago
> I also don't agree with your point about fax machines as they are still commonplace in the UK. They're common in the US too. They're not unsupported equipment.

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