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by peeters 10y ago
I think there might be a subtext here that's not explicitly mentioned (it would have been understood at the time): the emergence of the electric telegraph. > When people took them, they thought that they could convert them into this
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by peeters 10y ago
I think so, but I don't think it's actually a correct assumption. The article talks about the list of firmware versions (and where to download them from) as being fetched from a JSON file delivered over HTTP. That json file isn&
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by peeters 10y ago
Yeah but it's kind of irrelevant because the device is already vulnerable in your example. The point of this was to say that you can turn a safe device into a vulnerable device as part of a multi-phase attack.
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by peeters 10y ago
I mentioned this elsewhere, but signing can tell you whether it's an authentic object, but usually not whether it's THE authentic object you had requested. So you then need something extra to validate that what you got is what yo
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by peeters 10y ago
Parser exploits aside, HTTPS would help ensure the signed image you received was the one you asked for. So say there's an exploitable security flaw in 1.1.5 of the firmware and the firmware requests an upgrade from http://wh
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by peeters 10y ago
This isn't some generic political stance Twitter is taking, it is challenging a specific CBP order directed at Twitter. So which specific incident(s) relating to Twitter during Obama's administration are you referring to? Otherw
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by peeters 10y ago
> they have you explicitly waive your right to a class action Almost certainly not going to be upheld by a court if there is evidence of fraud. > Also the terms of service makes it very clear that the speeds they quote on their ads ar
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by peeters 10y ago
I use a VPN and agree it's a solution, but imagine this same line of thinking were applied to telephone lines. What if tomorrow, we removed all regulation preventing telephone providers from scraping your conversations or selling them
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by peeters 10y ago
What's the use case where bezels are inconvenient? For me I want natural delineation of workspace. Being able to snap applications to 3 physical boundaries makes it easier for me to organize my work, vs one massive display where ever
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by peeters 10y ago
Yep, the law is the law. Which is why the government is changing the law instead of just complaining loudly.
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by peeters 10y ago
They brought everything they could. I'm not criticizing them for that. Taxi companies didn't even have apps 5-10 years ago. But a ton of what they have been doing obviously goes against the spirit of the laws they're lever
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by peeters 10y ago
If it quacks like a duck, it gets taxed like a duck. Uber has made a business out of exploiting legal loopholes. They know it, their users know it, the politicians know it. It's just been a race to close them. I have no sympathy fo
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by peeters 10y ago
I wonder if maybe each checkpoint is treated as the entrance to a new hedge maze in the code, so what's actually happening is that the lower-intensity AIs have more attainable path-finding goals because they're searching for the n
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by peeters 10y ago
I'm lost, probably because I know nothing about SMTP and mail routing. If you were worried about typos where they accidentally use @gail.com instead of @gmail.com, why would it not accepting @gmail.com be relevant? Or are you talking
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by peeters 10y ago
The problem is that it uses largely the same treatment as it does for actual facts. In other words, I don't think there's anything wrong with trusting Google when you search for "25 divided by 5", "33rd president of
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by peeters 10y ago
> Google is a search engine for finding webpages, not facts. How can you justify that claim? It seems pretty obvious to me that it's trying to be both. Search for "current time utc" and tell me Google is just a search en
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by peeters 10y ago
And then even anecdotally counters his own point by saying Trump's behavior as president is somehow to his credit. As if it's all a matter of theatrics and perception, and not what he's actually done.
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by peeters 10y ago
If I can nitpick a bit about your presentation here: http://rcharlie.com/htmlwidgets/fitterhappier/album_chart.ht... If you're going put each album on its own point in the X-axis, could you not just label tho
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by peeters 10y ago
Seems like a flaw in the algorithm if Effective Java is not in there. I filtered by the Java tag and "Effective C++" showed up, but not Effective Java.
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by peeters 10y ago
> During the first 18 months of the trial the nurses working shorter hours logged less sick leave, reported better perceived health and boosted their productivity by organising 85% more activities for their patients, from nature walks to
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by peeters 10y ago
I think in a democracy there should be some group of state attorneys who are not just allowed, but mandated to prosecute the law to the fullest extent possible. For example, if Congress has a law making ToU violations crimes, then there s
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by peeters 10y ago
Just out of curiosity, would deliberately hiding polling data showing Trump was taking the lead help Trump or help Clinton? I'd assume it'd help Trump, given that showing Clinton slipping would tend to encourage her supporters to
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by peeters 10y ago
I'm having trouble seeing where in your link there is any evidence presented that Obama's birth certificate is forged. It's an article about some guy saying it was forged.
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by peeters 10y ago
I switched to Colemak for a couple of years. The trick for me was using a typing tutor relentlessly over a weekend, enough that I could do around 40-50 wpm. Then I went cold turkey and never used QWERTY. Colemak is a little bit friendlier
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by peeters 10y ago
Maybe it's just a stress relief tool. Like you want to vent your frustration with a dumb site, so you can. Meanwhile it just pipes all input to /dev/null.
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by peeters 10y ago
I tried to nominate http://fixthisshittywebsite.com , but unfortunately it was so unusable I wasn't actually able to submit my comments. So I guess I'll have to list the sins here: - Input form text is unreadably set a
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by peeters 10y ago
Wouldn't that essentially give an attacker a nice list of websites where the user uses the same credentials?
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by peeters 10y ago
I know, and I never said it was--hence my confusion at being called silly for my post (which was purely objecting to calling North America an island, since it IS connected by land).
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by peeters 10y ago
...I never said it wasn't? I was just objecting to calling North America an island.
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by peeters 10y ago
Well, since you bring it up, Australia isn't connected to another continent by land like North America is (as are Europe, Africa, and Asia). You'd have to say "the Americas" are an island, or "Afro-Eurasia"

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