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by nandhp 11y ago
Someone else here points out that a MITM to Let's Encrypt could cause you to host someone else's ownership challenge for the domain, thus the attacker could use you to prove the attacker controls your domain name. https:/&#x
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> What the web is increasingly unable to do today: provide text content without requiring a code execution environment. This site is another example of that. I was about to argue that this website is actually an excellent example of wha
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by nandhp 11y ago
Not if it's primarily to accommodate bring-your-own-license for per-machine-licensed software. Needing to have control over what machine runs your instances doesn't mean you can't allow other people to run their instances on
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by nandhp 11y ago
This isn't too far-fetched -- there's already a marketplace for buying and selling used reserved instances. https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/purchasing-options/reserved-insta...
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by nandhp 11y ago
And hopefully soon they can pop up scary warnings for unencrypted sites.
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by nandhp 11y ago
On my (newish) SB6183, I get "Read error: connection reset by peer".
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by nandhp 11y ago
Firefox for Android added one in the last version. I don't see why that's better than a separate QR code app, but it's there if you want it.
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by nandhp 11y ago
> if not, how do you expect it to know where you are? IP addresses are usually enough to get to the right city.
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by nandhp 11y ago
For the concurrent distribution, I believe they are referring only to international distribution. For example, House of Cards was broadcast on traditional TV channels in countries that did not have Netflix (like Australia, New Zealand, and
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by nandhp 11y ago
Because five years down the road, nobody wants to have to remember to stick that in when the vendor-specific version is removed. An example of someone who didn't do this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765
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by nandhp 11y ago
It depends on your local station; my Fox affiliate does have subchannels. But the Fox network is only 720p anyway, so they should have the bandwidth available.
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by nandhp 11y ago
I also remember when LogMeIn changed the number of users allowed in the free tier of Hamachi (a P2P VPN) -- it went from 10 to 5 with no notice, just randomly disconnecting half of the peers.
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by nandhp 11y ago
Not that I approve at all of what Verizon is doing, but apart from the item about opting out ("Verizon Wireless will stop inserting the UIDH after a customer opts out of the Relevant Mobile Advertising program"), this stands out:
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by nandhp 11y ago
Do the changes to the regular expression syntax seem woefully under-publicized here? Was: $str =~ m/^\d{2,5}\s/i Now: $str ~~ m:P5:i/^\d{2,5}\s/ # :P5 indicates Perl5-compatibile regex syntax Was:
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by nandhp 11y ago
I find that anything involving a lot of regular expressions is easier to write in Perl than in Python. Perl and JavaScript are the only two mainstream languages I know of where regular expressions are first-class citizens (compared to Pytho
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by nandhp 11y ago
The US is a big market and, unfortunately, the kind of bank transaction I think you have in mind isn't a thing here. We still use checks.
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by nandhp 11y ago
> Status: RESOLVED, VERIFIED, CLOSED Content: chair > Zarro Boogs found. I don't know what I expected -- there's no "Other > Desk furniture" in the products list of the public Bugzilla....
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by nandhp 11y ago
And then you killed off the public version and you keep that fun (and useful) toy to yourself. (But as great as Google Code Search was, my grudge is because of Reader.)
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by nandhp 11y ago
> Was shown this address but it isn't valid Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz would disagree with you: http://www.wlrk.com/ But perhaps you were referring to the fact that there should be a newline between the car
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by nandhp 11y ago
Except that's malicious to a much greater extent -- an extent that ought to catch the attention of anti-virus software makers.
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by nandhp 11y ago
> Support for ssh-dss, ssh-dss-cert-* host and user keys is disabled by default at run-time I guess I upgraded to an RSA key "just in time", though obviously far later than I apparently should have.
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by nandhp 11y ago
Could this exploit also be used to write to files? I have a feeling that it probably could, and that makes it even scarier.
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by nandhp 11y ago
You're probably looking for ITA Software (by Google): https://www.itasoftware.com/solutions/ However, it's not cheap. I think you have to ask for a price quote for the full QPX product, though Google offers a
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by nandhp 11y ago
Not any more: "Toshiba gobbles IBM's POS biz for $850m" - 17 Apr 2012 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/17/toshiba_buys_ibm_ret... Starbucks seems to be in the process of upgrading to newer
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by nandhp 11y ago
Sounds like they need a loyalty program, so customers have an incentive not to simply take "Uber or Lyft, whichever isn't surging right now." So: UberMiles -- earn and redeem miles when you take an Uber. And there can be Gold
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by nandhp 11y ago
It's not a question of drone deliveries coming in 5-10 years, it's already happening in some places: for example, DHL has a drone in service (albeit as a research project) shuttling urgent pharmacy orders to an island 10 km off th
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by nandhp 11y ago
I really like the Debian version of whois because it solves this problem by automatically picking the correct server based on the query (even for .ninja) and following referrals to a whois server with more details. https://packag
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by nandhp 11y ago
And the frequent charitable donations Samsung makes to causes in Marshall, TX, home of many of the the court's jurors. https://ipcloseup.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/for-samsung-chari...
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by nandhp 11y ago
The railroad companies did some of this themselves -- the SPR in Sprint stands for Southern Pacific Railroad.
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by nandhp 11y ago
It would be really exciting to have something like Google Contributor go mainstream: https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/ Basically, solving this problem by allow users to set up a prepaid fund with Google

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