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by riskable 9y ago
Let's ignore the fact that this may or may not be true (offshore code quality is bad) and just assume it's true... Why is offshore-developed code not the same quality? What is it about living (growing up?) in the US that has de
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by riskable 9y ago
> I don't know about you, but it happens more often than I would like that I update Linux (Ubuntu) and, lo and behold, I can't really use any programs until I reboot. Sometimes the window rendering gets messed up, sometimes I g
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by riskable 9y ago
I feel his pain about the lack of decent WebSockets support in Rust. There's a few Websockets implementations but all of them are meant to run on a separate port from the web server. As in, they want you to run your web server on port
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by riskable 9y ago
https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne It can even display images in your browser if you do something like, 'cat someimage.jpeg' (I wrote it)
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by riskable 9y ago
The problem with this proposal is that it only works with full-screen applications. Want to have multiple tabs open to many different desktops? Forget it. Ctrl-w will screw you. Browsers already have an API for overriding built-in ke
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by riskable 9y ago
Based on the plethora of methods Microsoft has (intentionally) provided to bypass UAC I'd argue that it's the very definition of "security theater". UAC is nothing but a minor annoyance to attackers at this point. An e
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by riskable 9y ago
No way man. After the Goldilocks scandal I can't bear that company anymore.
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by riskable 9y ago
"I usually look for the ones that stand out... Like if they're wearing red shirts. Those will be removed before the other attendants. I mean, they're just asking for it! No more than 8 allowed per shipment!"
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by riskable 9y ago
You're missing the fact that if they're all using the same layer (base image) for the JVM all the images will be deduplicated (well, CoW) so you could have a hundred different apps and they would only use the equivalent of a sing
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by riskable 9y ago
Define, "powerful" because WeChat is the only chat application I know if that has built-in government censorship. That sounds like the opposite of "powerful" to me. "Enjoy chatting with your friends while the govern
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by riskable 9y ago
"War is apt" because that's precisely what a child will think when you take their screen away. "This means war!" Younger: <hissy fit ensues> Older: <being intentionally annoying until they get the screen ba
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by riskable 9y ago
"Meaningless and endless" would be how I would've described cable TV ~20 years ago, ~10 years ago, ~5 years ago, and today . Go back further than that and it's just, "meaningless" because it wasn't as &q
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by riskable 9y ago
> Sexist stereotypes are used today to justify not hiring women programmers, [Citation Needed] Only once (recently) have I ever had the chance to interview a woman for a job. She was fine. I gave my approval. We didn't end up hir
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by riskable 9y ago
> You can use non-blockchain cryptography to guarantee that. Not in the same way though. An attacker could still modify the transaction after-the-fact at both endpoints during or after reconciliation processes (sadly, most banking trans
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by riskable 9y ago
You're right: It's not practical to run a blockchain on a single server or even just a collection of servers. For it to work properly it needs to be constructed as a P2P system. So each system that wants to use the blockchain h
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by riskable 9y ago
I know I already replied but I forgot to mention another great usage of a blockchain: Logging. Not general-purpose logging, no. I'm talking about SOX-like "must be tamper-proof" transaction logging. So say you've got
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by riskable 9y ago
Well, for a bank it can be super duper useful because it's "incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions" (the very definition of a blockchain). So if you're transferring money from one bank to another it makes
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by riskable 9y ago
There are lots of things that can cause hearing loss but I think the most illogical reason would be some sort of high-tech spying device or weapon. That's just silly. A more reasonable explanation would be tropical diseases: https:
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by riskable 9y ago
Guerrilla radio? Not rebels, decibels.
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by riskable 9y ago
> "you can include a remote kill switch" Just don't label it "kill switch" or people will get very confused.
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by riskable 9y ago
Considering that AI will likely take away most regular jobs that leaves... Entertainment. Will super smart brainiacs really have an edge in entertainment in 30 years?
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by riskable 9y ago
Why on Earth would you run OpenVPN through ssh? That makes zero sense. It's like running ssh through ssh. OpenVPN is pretty much the ultimate VPN that can do anything and handle any situation. It is indistinguishable from regular web S
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by riskable 9y ago
Proving that a patent's claims cover disparate implementations is how you successfully defend yourself against patent lawsuits. If a patent's claims are ambiguous enough to cover multiple, novel implementations it is by definitio
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by riskable 9y ago
> Copyright covers implementations, not ideas. Patents cover implementations, not ideas. Copyright covers "artistic works" like text (files), audio, and video. To further clarify: The purpose of copyright is to grant contro
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by riskable 9y ago
I've sat through probably thousands of demos in my IT career and I must say this quote featured in the article is bullshit: People don’t buy features, they buy solutions, trust, and relationships. -Rob Gonzalez I can't co
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by riskable 9y ago
Gold and silver buyers would disagree. Though I suppose "purity" is considerably more exact than, "quality".
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by riskable 9y ago
For NSA documents classified "top secret" they don't just watermark when printing, they watermark the text . How do they do this? For NSA documents classified "top secret" they don't just watermark when print
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by riskable 10y ago
It actually wasn't the trees it was mostly their bark! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Rocks_and_coal So it wasn't mountains of wood that lay on the ground during the Carboniferous period, it was
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by riskable 10y ago
You are grossly oversimplifying the issues. You're referring to Polylactic Acid (PLA) which is made from corn and biodegradable. Except it only biodegrades when eaten by bacteria that only lives in soil . Meaning: If plastic made fr
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by riskable 10y ago
Food production won't impact the US much. That's infinitely more adjustable than the location of people's homes and businesses. Unless, of course, your worst nightmare is a severe shortage of almonds. Yeah, they're lik

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