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by omh 12y ago
The most interesting quote for me: A federal judge agreed, ruling in October that with the “overall inferiority of its proposal,” IBM “lacked any chance of winning” the contract. The corporate cliché of the 1970s and ’80s, that no one ever
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The Trouble With IBM(businessweek.com)
22 points by omh 12y ago|5 comments
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by omh 12y ago
Unfortunately it looks like the entire xip.io domain is blacklisted as "Reputation-Viruses" by the filtering service that we use. I guess this is because it's been used by some bad guys already.
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by omh 12y ago
The next campaign could encourage everyone to give a low rating at all the different sites.
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by omh 12y ago
But after the patch the advice wouldn't hold any more, everyone could go back to happily using IE. If XP wasn't patched then the news articles would be more nuanced. The "Internet Explorer is dangerous!" theme from earli
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by omh 12y ago
I'm in the UK as well. I was actually thinking of Chip & PIN transactions, but you may be right about cash points.
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Antivirus pioneer Symantec declares AV “dead” and “doomed to failure”(arstechnica.com)
3 points by omh 12y ago|0 comments
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by omh 12y ago
I like that idea. Unfortunately it doesn't prevent them using them online as well . At least for my cards, if I lock out the PIN I can still use them for non-PIN purchases.
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by omh 12y ago
I'm sure that's part of their thinking. But note that this is only on TiVos, so many (most?) of the consumers will already be used to the idea of HDD recording and series links. Once I got a TiVo it wasn't long before I got i
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by omh 12y ago
It sounds like it's only a channel in the sense that "tuning" to channel 450 will launch the app. You'd then have to search for the show you want to watch. A TiVo box already has lots of options for browsing through a da
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by omh 12y ago
This has been available in the UK for a while (on Virgin Media TiVo boxes, the only cable supplier here). I don't have a Netflix subscription so I haven't tried it properly, but the integration with TiVo is good. If you're br
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by omh 12y ago
In some cases it would be useful to perform session handling like this in nginx. I like the idea of building a reverse proxy which handles authentication and sessions, in front of a backend web page which wasn't designed to handle it.
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by omh 12y ago
This looks promising. I've got several IFTTT recipes in mind that I'd like to try out when they support my phone. Unfortunately my Facebook related recipes never go quite so well, but I think that's Facebook's fault real
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by omh 13y ago
Windows RT devices do have a native version of Office though - in fact I think that's one of their main (only?) selling points. I know it's limited compared to the full x86 version (I've only played with one briefly), but I s
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Brighter Moon – A solution to the global energy crisis(foreo.com)
2 points by omh 13y ago|2 comments
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by omh 13y ago
It looks like the server is slightly misconfigured, it isn't serving the required intermediate certificate[1]. Desktop browsers are smart enough to find the intermediate certificate and then verify the chain, but technically I don&#x27
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by omh 13y ago
Yes, I'd say most MITM scenarios are at the client end. But you could, for example, be an evil network admin near the LastPass servers. That would let you MITM almost everyone who connects.
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by omh 13y ago
Nit: I would consider one time pad to be a method of encryption. Ah, true. But the encryption algorithm is much simpler to implement than most :-)
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by omh 13y ago
If I was using one-time-pads I'd probably be using them because I didn't trust encryption, so "unencrypted" wouldn't matter here. In real-world implementations I think the security is probably based around a large n
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Microsoft in 1-year Windows XP survival deal with UK govt(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by omh 13y ago|0 comments
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by omh 13y ago
The pages says that it was based the the “Enemies of the Internet” report from Reporters Without Borders[1]. There are plenty of issues with internet freedom in the USA, UK and Western Europe but I don't think they're on the same
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A tube map of the Internet(geography.oii.ox.ac.uk)
150 points by omh 13y ago|48 comments
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by omh 13y ago
Their new OS is security certified as well: http://bizblog.blackberry.com/2012/11/blackberry-10-fips-cer...
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by omh 13y ago
In all seriousness - with modern software, there can be all too small a gap between bleeding edge and end of life. A piece of software might be supported for 5 years. But perhaps it's 4 years into that period before the new version is
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by omh 13y ago
The London Congestion Charging scheme is an interesting example of this. There is a network of number plate recognition cameras to enforce the congestion charge. But there were initially assurances that this wouldn't lead to a blanket
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by omh 13y ago
It looks like the P5 header that it uses was only added in rev2, and "intended to be a suitable attachment point for ... audio codec boards"[1]. It's definitely a shame that things are fragmented, I was considering adding aud
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by omh 13y ago
The economics are certainly moving, but I think it will be a long time before on-site storage is obsolete. A reliable fast connection is still very expensive, and there are several other considerations. When we looked at offsite backup a
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by omh 13y ago
Not even that - they say "We uploaded it into a traditional Microsoft SQL database on a 1TB drive". So it sounds like they were just using a single spindle. Purchasing an SSD for that SQL Server would probably have given comparabl
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UK hospital records data was publicly available online(twitter.com)
1 points by omh 13y ago|0 comments
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by omh 13y ago
Tags have an important difference from folders in that messages can have multiple tags and you don't think of messages as being in a folder. Personally I find this quite useful and it definitely improved the way I use email.

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