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by mnordhoff 12y ago
Indeed, and IBM are a collection of people who made, and still make, decisions about the uses to which their technology will be put. Technology does not amorally have the German census department -- or the Apollo program -- on speed dial.
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by mnordhoff 12y ago
"The only way of restoring a backup is to deploy that backup as a new server." Not true. You can restore a backup to a node as long as it has enough unallocated disk space. The simplest ways to create enough unallocated disk space
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by mnordhoff 12y ago
Fortunately, Linode runs Xen.
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by mnordhoff 12y ago
What I have trouble with is the spelled out versions. Every time I see some stupid newspaper article that says "HyperText Markup Language" or whatever, it takes my brain two or three seconds to process it and go "oh, duh, H
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
"Furthermore, in practice it is not enforceable, since you would have to know someone's entire ancestry to know whether they were eligible to marry another person." Not true! Knowing someone's entire ancestry since the
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
There was just some news on that front, actually. There should be an IPv6 beta in Singapore in a few weeks. http://digitalocean.uservoice.com/forums/136585-digital-ocea...
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
That's still a bit of a distance from 5000000000000000000000000000 TiB. (I'm counting 2^128 128-bit values, not just 2^128 bytes.)
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Secure XMPP communications just run over SSL, yeah? There was a report last year that XMPP software often configures SSL really badly . It's been said that NSA largely takes advantage of implementation bugs, not mathematical breakthro
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
No, it's a coincidence. The foam was a disaster waiting to happen from day 1. The second mission after the Challenger disaster was nearly destroyed by foam. The two astronauts who inspected it in orbit were certain they were going to
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Nobody wants to go to court, but a studio with a hundred million dollar legal budget can (though they won't for something silly), and your average ramen-noodling, tweeting university student can't. There is no equal representa
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Obvious USG answer: The same thing as happens if you have a living terrorist's name. The no-fly list includes dead terrorists in case terrorist identity thieves impersonate them; the Treasury OFAC SDN list (more relevant here, though I
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Incidentally, automatic rifles such as AK-47s are heavily regulated in the US. It's possible to get them, but it requires a lot of paperwork, they're all at least 25 years old, and more cannot be imported. The More You Know.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
The version number was bumped, like, yesterday. Probably just an oversight or a cached web page.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
I think it's some sort of legal thing. You know, distribute 7 KB FOSS shell script, no proprietary software here, folks, nuh-uh. The partner repository (which is for non-free software) contains a real, non-shim adobe-flashplugin packag
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Ahem. Grumbling and bad jokes aside, you're right. The fact that Adobe believes it's already being exploited is unusually concerning.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
"relevant part?" They say that every month. The only surprising thing is that it's "critical vulnerability," singular, not "critical vulnerabilities," plural.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
In the past, there have sometimes been configuration differences between the official packages for different OSes. I know SPDY is enabled on Ubuntu, but I'm not certain of all of the others.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Not the biggest crisis. Okay, they have several awful cipher suites enabled, but no sane client would ever use them. The client report shows that almost every client uses AES; a couple crappy ones use RC4 or 3DES. They don't have PFS,
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
More similar, yes, but maybe not similar enough. I wonder if it's the pathological vibration killing the Seagates. If so, you don't want to use Seagates in a file server sitting on top of your washing machine, but maybe they'
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
I would read an article about how bullet-resistant different models of car are, but I wouldn't completely change my purchasing decisions, as I avoid bullets. (Whoa, I didn't even mean to use a car analogy.) "Consumer environm
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
"With varying numbers of drives for each model, it is possible that some bad batches may have made their way into the sample pool, thus further skewing the numbers." So, to measure drive reliability, the author recommends that you
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Oregon (us-west-2) is a separate region. I don't know if the US Standard "Pacific Northwest" location actually is in Oregon, but even if it is, it's classified separately. us-east-1 is the S3 "US Standard" me
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
'“It appears Amazon is taking advantage of their copious data,” said Sucharita Mulpuru, a Forrester Research [FORR -2.03%] analyst. “Based on all the things they know about their customers they could predict demand based on a variety o
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Keep reading down to section 7.4.9. After the negotiation is finished, the client and server exchange MACs of the previous messages to be sure they weren't tampered with.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
It happens during the Finished messages. The OP covers the handshake about halfway down, and 72deluxe's Wikipedia link covers it nicely, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security#TLS_h... In TLS
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
The two examples you gave were about maximizing your returns by tricking your customers into buying things they don't need, not "maximis[ing] their returns on using your product" or "pric[ing] on the basis of value&quo
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Oh. Duh. You're right. Thank you.
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
They also said "... we also categorically state that we have never entered into any contract or engaged in any project with the intention of weakening RSA’s products ...". You know, I'm having trouble finding a hole in that o
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
NSA suggested decreasing DES's key size. IBM ultimately agreed to use effectively 56-bit* keys. This by definition makes brute force attacks easier. It was apparently criticized at the time, but it's worth noting that there's
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by mnordhoff 13y ago
Maybe they should sue the NSA for writing misleading classified slides and then letting them get leaked. :-)

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