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by nisa 13y ago
You are only able to make a conscious choice about things in your control. There are also a lot of things outside of your control. Blaming the victims of poverty and disease for their lack of success and positive thinking is a real downside
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by nisa 13y ago
This is effective but unfortunately there is already malware that plants itself inside the database. If you are able to execute code remotely you can also almost always write to /tmp
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by nisa 13y ago
Maybe I'm naive but I'd thought along the line that they could issue a warning that he needs a visa to enter and will unlikely be granted access without it. If he gives false information in the visa that process is probably the on
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by nisa 13y ago
We don't know how good the translation is but I've read the article in German and there it clear that he studied in the US and presented a paper at a conference: http://www.euce.org/eusa/2011/papers/
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by nisa 13y ago
I don't have knowledge about the US border and visa requirements and procedures. But even if he did made a mistake wouldn't it be easier to inform him before he enters the plane? And avoid interrogating him without letting him kno
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by nisa 13y ago
While I attended a retreat I somehow never felt lonely. I was around other poeple all the time, we ate together and of course meditated together, despite not sharing eye contact and staying silent. After the ten days on the last day everyon
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by nisa 13y ago
Derivates of GPL software are also GPL licenced. If you use a lot of GPL code in your product you have to provide the source. The possibility of a dual licence gives the creator a compensation because he waives the rights the GPL gives him
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by nisa 13y ago
Line tapping is pretty much a given. Looks like the BND has the possibility to do so. But this is still not officially confirmed. However a german blogger (fefe) had some examples for overly detailled dementi from german companies. E.g. no
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by nisa 13y ago
Just stop beeing depressed. Just stop beeing sucidal. Just stop taking drugs. Just stop drinking alcohol. Would be great if the world would work this way.
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by nisa 13y ago
Just my take it on it as a 29 year old with no money and a bag of procrastination issues and some traits that look like ADD (I've once got diagnosed for general anxiety disorder, no ADD, but never did a test for it): Technical solution
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by nisa 13y ago
Out of the box it's probably useless but if you spend some time to configure rkhunter it can be a worthwhile help in finding malware. But for anything that goes beyond script-kiddie attempts I'd not count on it. - It can verify ha
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by nisa 13y ago
I don't understand how you can run a illegal service and use similiar pseudonyms and @gmail.com or @live.com e-mail addresses. Reminds of these excellent slides for opsec: http://slideshare.net/grugq/opsec-for-hackers There are similiar s
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by nisa 13y ago
I've explained myself in more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707453
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by nisa 13y ago
I've saw the post in the context of homelessness that is discussed in the article. I also don't share his woldview maybe I understood it in a wrong way but "The world simply doesn't need many of the people born into it." came across as just
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by nisa 13y ago
We all have to deal with reality. The question is how we want to shape our societies and reality. Is it acceptable to have few lucky ones with huge incomes that are far beyond the necassary amount for living a fullfilled live and have the r
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by nisa 13y ago
See you on the other side of this discussion if you loose your wealth and your job for whatever reasons. You'll enjoy beeing jugded by your own words. Empathy and social justice are crucial for any society that wants to be respected. You ar
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by nisa 13y ago
And that many choices are not documented in an accessible way. Even default choices. People complaining that desktop Linux is full of bugs and does not work. I think it works pretty well now, but the lack of man pages for anything desktop r
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by nisa 14y ago
Yes. I won't impeach them. I think it is worth pointing out because it shows a certain lack of creativity to use a slogan from a very popular conference held in the same city just some years ago. This and considering their presentation as
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by nisa 14y ago
Fluffy marketing bullshit. Sorry. Privacy concerns are legitimate. Google Glass may not even be the problem. But the impact of the availability of ever more personal data in the hands of government and corporations for our society needs to
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by nisa 14y ago
If you can join a sports club. Be it soccer, martial arts or whatever fits you needs. You learn more and meet new people. If you need more workout you can go running or do body weight exercices. You also don't need any machines. Body weight
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by nisa 14y ago
Thanks! As someone that is right now deep inside a such hole I can relate. This autopilot you mention is what cracks me time and time again. If you are not somewhat relaxed after days or weeks of heavy exercise you fail to accomplish the
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by nisa 14y ago
The article may be polemic but I don't see how LIBOR fixing was not a criminal act[1]. If something similiar happened with ISDAfix it is worth reading about it. And a failure to apply a certain law does not invalidate the crime alligations
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by nisa 14y ago
Ubuntu backports newer kernel versions and xorg packages[1]. I hope this will land in precise soon. That's good enough for me + the additional ppa here and there. I won't be upgrading to anything non-LTS on any non home machine again. It's
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by nisa 14y ago
I did not wanted to say that disabling version information is a security measure. It is not. Sorry if I was not clear on that. I just wanted to say it may give you some time. That's debatable. You and others disagree. I remember an exploit
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by nisa 14y ago
> especially in an age when running bots hitting every public facing piece of equipment is so cheap? For me exactly that is a reason to disable versions. If I would be the attacker I would probably do a SELECT hostname FROM scan
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by nisa 14y ago
Also check for this dangerous configuration bug if you are using FastCGI and PHP (I'm not sure if this also applies to other FastCGI applications) https://nealpoole.com/blog/2011/04/setting-up-php-fastcgi-an...
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by nisa 14y ago
Apache can fill your 100Mbit line just fine for most cases. It's Wordpress where 98% of your processing time is spend. Switching to nginx does not help at all in most cases. I really like nginx but Apache gets a lot of unfounded hate.
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by nisa 14y ago
> I'd love to understand. In my biased opinion I'd suggest you study western and northern European democracies. The government provides essential services (decentralized up to the district level) like education, water, streets, police,
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by nisa 14y ago
> I could solve 90% Equatorial Guinea's problems for <$10mm and a promise of immunity from prosecution or extradition by major world powers (i.e. places I'd actually be, afterward). How so? And why is immunity required?
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by nisa 14y ago
> 12 hours per weekday 8am waking up 9am finished breakfast / shower 10am finished commute to work 10pm finished workday 11pm at home even if you cut commuting out of the equation you won't have a life. that may be fine with you if yo

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