rst

77 ms·

721.
by rst 13y ago
Most of these "coincidences" hint at a connection between Snowden and Wikileaks --- which is public knowledge anyway. I've seen no evidence that they're a Russian conspiracy. The only tie to Russia directly is the claim
722.
Derp Pirate Roberts(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by rst 13y ago|0 comments
723.
by rst 13y ago
If you're comfortable remapping the keyboard, all of this is pretty much a non-issue. What's more of a concern to me, as someone who was hoping to buy the Haswell X1 as a Linux box, is the function-key row. Lenovo generally has a
724.
by rst 13y ago
Yale did eventually force the students to take the site down (or face disciplinary action) --- but their first move was to block it from the campus network, meaning that for a time, everyone outside Yale could see it, but a Yalie who want
725.
by rst 13y ago
In which Android versions? Cyanogenmod supports this functionality, but most stock builds don't, up through the most recent Kitkat releases. (The first shipped Kitkat builds supported a form of this, but it was quickly removed, amidst
726.
by rst 13y ago
In fact, if they'd tried either of their last two launches at Vandenberg, there would have been a very substantial performance penalty. From Canaveral, the rockets head generally eastward, in the direction of the eventual orbit. From
727.
by rst 13y ago
You could say the same about "The Blacklist" right now; the FBI in that show uses violence at the drop of a hat. (And they're portrayed as the heroes even though it doesn't work for them at all --- the whole premise of
728.
by rst 13y ago
PDF facsimiles of some original manuals are here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/704/ In addition to the manual for the computer itself, describing the assembly language and so forth, these includ
729.
by rst 13y ago
But nicer by enough to make it worth the bother of invoking a translator before you can run your code? Projects using Coffeescript often go out of the way to hide that step, one way or another (Rails asset pipeline, etc.). And Coffeescrip
730.
by rst 13y ago
The reason I singled out the train as a particular case is that it's clearly domestic travel, not international. If there are foreigners on board, they'd have to come through some other border crossing before getting on the train
731.
by rst 13y ago
It may now be bad law, but if so, the Border Patrol is still using it anyway. Here's a description of some of what they've been up to in recent years around Rochester and Syracuse: http://chronicle.com/article&#x2
732.
by rst 13y ago
Google has a reputation for hiring people with stellar qualifications, and putting them in fairly mundane jobs for which they appear overqualified. See here, for example: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-conf
733.
by rst 13y ago
They might be looking for client addresses of specific targets. Then again, if they were trying for a "bank shot" attack on some particular target, they almost certainly wouldn't be trashing the front page to let the world k
734.
by rst 13y ago
In the Jeremy Brett TV series, an unusually faithful adaptation, Holmes is most commonly wearing a top hat.
735.
by rst 13y ago
You might want to look for 2.9BSD, a PDP-11 Unix variant which was more or less v7 with the TCP stack from 4.xBSD grafted in. Patching this into an x86 port would still be a bit of a project, but it's probably easier than starting wit
736.
by rst 13y ago
The health care law was passed in Obama's first term, and implemented literally years later during his second. If they were confused about what was in it, they had plenty of time to figure it out. What apparently was a genuine surpris
737.
by rst 13y ago
Note the part of the article about "split personality" cultures. A lot of the policies that this article was about were for the engineering team, and do not apply at all to what the author calls "hourly employees", whic
738.
by rst 13y ago
It would have been much more useful for a neutral party to do a comparative analysis and stated the pros and cons of each side. Like, say, tptacek, who is not in the "instant messenger" business, who is in the security audit b
739.
by rst 13y ago
One thing to consider: if the capabilities of your side project would be useful to $dayjob, a sufficiently aggressive company lawyer would be likely to argue that that makes it "related to our business". (And most of the lawyers
740.
by rst 13y ago
They're still calling it "NewCo", if that's what you're asking. And some other not-so-minor details are also still either under development or under wraps, most notably the revenue model. But the general strategy
741.
by rst 13y ago
He's no longer employed by the NSA. He left to play with a startup and some personal coding projects; the last paragraph of his post links to them. Any discussion of his employment there still gets reviewed by the NSA, but that'
742.
by rst 13y ago
Thanks for the close reading. I guess it depends what you think "no domestic intercepts" excludes, and how much you believe that everyone in the NSA follows the rules. Even if most of them do, a few have the tools to become a ve
743.
by rst 13y ago
Actually, Unix was made available only under closed-source license (most notably as "Unix System V" and its commercial derivatives, including AIX and Solaris). This lead to, among other things, a nasty lawsuit against the Univers
744.
by rst 13y ago
What's particularly interesting is that some of the recent disclosures don't seem to be visible inside the bubble. Take this assertion, for instance: "The NSA copy of my emails won't be viewed by police or FBI investiga
745.
by rst 13y ago
Also more than a few major US corporations. Some of which can't upgrade easily because of third-party tools that don't support anything newer. Or worse, internally developed software which is still in used, but is hard to upgrad
746.
by rst 13y ago
Spirit of the season, I guess. "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?" Then again, the last time the country had a really serious problem with the long-term unemployed, (a lot more severe than what we have now) the gove
747.
by rst 13y ago
Is that completely adequate? There was an earlier round of changes due to attackers being able to forge the .xhr header on requests. (This was the patch set at which Rails started checking CSRF tokens on .xhr? requests; before that, they
748.
by rst 13y ago
Intel is at least supposed to be using something like a "coin-flip" circuit, which has two stable states and can be forced one way or the other based on thermal noise: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardwa
749.
by rst 13y ago
While you're waiting, you could look at <a href=" http://appinventor.mit.edu">App Inventor</a>; it's also targeted at beginners, but lets you build at least simple apps.
750.
by rst 13y ago
FWIW, some folks may have employment contracts with $dayjob which give that company intellectual property claims on all technical work by employees whether done on or off the job. The extent of those claims obviously depends on the contrac

More ›