peterwwillis

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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Er, so, are they using a separate database application to abstract the mysql operations? They don't mention it in the article. Not abstracting your database leads to major issues from unusual load and operations. And there's a lot
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
It's not "my thinking". And it can be worse than sending them to prison. Neither are good options.
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Actually much cheaper to give them all bus tickets out of town, like Portland, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, San Diego, San Francisco, NYC, Colorado Springs, Houston, Las Vegas, and other cities have done. But Prisons probably generated
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
"So far, Google's only description of it is: "Pink + Purple == Fuchsia (a new Operating System)". You know it's Google's because the name is horrible.
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
O’Reilly [..] came to the U.S. in 1983 to attend Villanova University on a track scholarship. As a junior, he ran the mile in less than four minutes —a feat he repeated six times. He led Villanova to a conference championship an
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Hmm. Well it seems like it's possible the cars i've had have shared the same indicator for multiple brake notifications. But i've not noticed a dedicated light for brake fluid. There's one for the e-brake engagement, and
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
I didn't read the article, but is the lock RF shielded? Also, slides show a 1/4" hole, and then the lock and an EEPROM; could it be feasible to melt plastic enough through this hole that one could then expose and flash the EE
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Only truck brakes are designed to fail closed. Passenger vehicles aren't, even though they could be. In fact, there's a lot of safety systems that passenger cars don't have, for no discernible reason. There's no warning
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Good flow chart/overview here: https://benohead.com/tcp-about-fin_wait_2-time_wait-and-clos...
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
"But there's no reason to not use HTTPS! What could go wrong?" But, you know... we have to secure our blog posts from MitM...
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs Arabs (Arabic: عرب‎‎, ‘arab) are a panethnicity of peoples native to the Arab world. They primarily inhabit Western Asia, North Africa, and parts of the Horn of Africa. In
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
IRC is a community. The application layer has its own grammar, the way the web does. The IRC community is simply made up of different kinds of users of this community application, separated by servers and channels. The way the web is. I don
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Optimism means you assume a good outcome. Pessimism means you generally perceive risk as more likely. Anger is a reaction to a potential threat; you already see risk and think you can change it. Happiness is a state of contentment. So.... Y
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
This was a network authentication module on a domain controller. It's intercepting every low level token used to authenticate a network transaction, including encryption keys.
3525.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
You have to research and implement new attacks to design its defense.
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
You would also need proper shielding to prevent van Eck phreaking from PS/2, monitor, video card, sound card, internal memory bus, and other rf noise.
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Not supposedly. Every pen testing company worth their salt uses dropped USB drives and have a very high success rate, because humans suck at security. The malware infects non-gapped systems until it infects a file which is being copied to a
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
He's complaining that the Bazaar is not efficient, and that it's a pile of hacks. No. Shit. Yes, it's an inefficient pile of garbage built one heap on top of another. But it's also incredibly useful . Modularity and
3529.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
> no web version means I won't bother at all That's too bad. Lyft and Tinder users seem to be getting along without the web, though.
3530.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
And most tech job requirements are flexible. It says "or equivalent"... that means equivalent experience, or skill. If you don't have a degree, or even experience, you can still demonstrate your skill, and they may take you a
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
I can use existing products to identify your particular device even in a completely encrypted connection; if I can see the requests' content, I can tell even more, regardless of user agent string. And if I can see the requests, I can p
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
It's not for anonymity, it's for privacy. And the VPN extensions are actually nice... You can do something similar now with a bunch of extra tools, but building them all into one seamless interface enables regular people to get th
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
How do you hope to monetize your product, considering there are already free secure browsers and paid VPN providers? Are you going to become your own VPN provider as well as browser developer? edit: Oh, I see all the other media apps now. Y
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
There's a significant portion of tech jobs that don't require degrees, yet these jobs aren't being filled by women either. I would have dropped CS immediately if it required difficult math, as even simple math problems can ta
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
I've been reading LWN off and on for 10 years and just now found out it's a subscription service. They might want to think about marketing.
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
For Gray Whales, Bahia Magdalena, Puerto Vallarta and Laguna Ojo de Liebre all have great whale watching, and in Bahia Magdalena you can pet them from a boat; don't know about restrictions on kayaks there but it should be open in Puert
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Nobody got the joke. :/
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
I'm waiting for someone to fork Firefox and strip out anything not totally necessary to strictly browse 99% of the web, to make it light, fast, simple and memory-efficient. They could even rename it something familiar... something that
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Two really basic flaws in the logic here. > As my Aïkido professor says, the more you practice, the better you get … Oh, sure, because every Aikido practicioner who has practiced the same number of hours has the same ranking. (That&#x2
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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Fun things to note: * ssh(1), sshd(8): Reduce the syslog level of some relatively common protocol events from LOG_CRIT. bz#2585 This will change the reporting of some systems' logs, which could result in different log report

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