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by sdkmvx 15y ago
That's not a fair comparison. Apple's kernel is Mach/XNU, which is a completely different architecture than the 4.4BSD derived kernels used by Free-, Net-, Open-, etc. BSD. That said, the API for kauth has been implemented (albeit not via o
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
It's using IMAP IDLE ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMAP_IDLE ), which is push email.
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> I don't think I've known a single person since the late 90s who doesn't on at least rare occasion download or otherwise acquire unlicensed music. That may be a matter of definitions. While I wouldn't say I have any unlicensed music, I
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> This is no different when they have a warrant for files (papers, information) on your encrypted drive (safe) and are asking you to open it by whatever means. This seems acceptable if they have a warrant for the contents of your safe.
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
This may be the one-in-a-million chance to disregard that guideline. A big rule in interface design is to do what users expect. In Vi/Vim, this means quitting on :q. Assuming that this is non-standard enough that Apple would go find somebod
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
I found it confusing too. Edison built the Kinetograph in 1891, back when traveling across the country was quite difficult, and I'm going to assume that it was slightly easier to get ignored in California than in New York, and that is proba
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
Making good music can be done by a few sufficiently talented people in a garage, and good enough microphones to record that aren't that expensive. Making good movies requires hundreds of people to cooperate, a huge time commitment, and equi
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
More than that. The US is a really really big place and I highly doubt they really cover all of it. Apparently they're based in San Francisco. Orbitz is claiming $830 to get them to the nearest airport. Add shipping their supplies and actua
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
The manpage says: > On Debian GNU/Linux this file is a symbolic link pointing to /var/run. > The contents of this file are regenerated upon every system boot based > on the contents of /etc/motd.tail. I do not know how one can
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> Neither term has a very well defined meaning, other than for a few select issues like, say, gay marriage. Not really. I'm conservative in that I don't think that being radical will ever help your cause (see the French Revolution). I'm
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
The vendor specific thing allows vendors to do widespread bug testing. People who coded border-radius expect it to work, and (I'm not 100% sure of the current state of that) people who wanted it before they were sure it worked had to do -we
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
You are absolutely right, and I really appreciate this from Valve. There is only one thing that would have made it better: even more info. He says passwords were "hashed and salted." This could be anything from the naïve MD5(pass+salt) to t
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
I strongly disagree. If you are the person tasked with implementing password verification, then you really should learn enough about the field to give a rough explanation of why you've used bcrypt (or whatever you use). If you know what MD5
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
I see that link referenced a lot and don't think that's a good thing. He's right, but he doesn't explain why we should use bcrypt (or any other adaptive password hashing function). Picking bcrypt without knowing why is just as bad as pickin
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
This reminds me of the old UNIX login hack. Because some terminals did not have lowercase capabilities, older versions of login would lowercase everything (including to the shell after login) if you typed your username in all caps. This wou
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
She can sue for trademark infringement via normal channels (courts) for both of those, even if she has not registered marthastewart.xxx.
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> Reached this afternoon, Calderón confirmed that only two of the six people who came to his home actually entered the house. He said those two did not specifically state they were police officers. > However, he said he was under th
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> Really: you need to get your head out of app space if you want to talk about platforms. Do you know that comex has written several jailbreaks for iOS? I think he's more qualified to talk about mobile platforms than either of us. When
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
It's interesting that you say this. If POSIX was all that there is to it, then isn't Apple iOS/Mac OS the same as Android and (insert-your-favorite-distro-here) Linux? I think ultimately the differences between user-facing (and even develop
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
It wasn't even in Lion. They just added an option to disable the white dot in the Dock preference pane at some point. It's in Lion, but I don't remember when they added it, so it could have been there for a while (and I _know_ it's been dis
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
Yep. But they are hex strings that look like (are) hashes, and that's all I need to make the point. Next time I'll use /dev/urandom for that :) In a real scenarios, use PBKDF2 or bcrypt!
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
You're right. I would never advocate using MD5. Use PBKDF2, bcrypt, etc! I just needed some hex strings to make my point about the hashes (hopefully) not being reversible to the actual password, and thus useless for the purposes of seeing i
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
There's still the question of why he would need the password hashes. Assuming he wanted the plaintext passwords to see if they are 'complex' and 'strong,' he would have a hard time telling that from the hashes. 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882c
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
Calling it vi is probably used here to mean anything that acts somewhat like the original vi. There are quite a few editors like that, and vim is probably the most common. > I have never seen a box that used vi in lieu of vim I'm going
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
In a terminal, do killall iTunesHelper. Apple did mess up, but that will get you through. If you don't know, iTunesHelper is the thing that starts iTunes when you plug in an iThing.
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
'Scammed' is not the right word. Ever heard the aphorism "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence"? Manager types (and unfortunately probably quite a few programmers) have no idea what CAPTCHAs do, and I would bet m
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
I didn't run an ActiveX control. I did it from my Mac. Granted this isn't Chrome on Ubuntu, but I would be very curious to find out what would happen if you have Chrome on Ubuntu report it's user agent as Safari on Mac. It would be even bet
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
Any (machine) code can call private APIs, so it's simply a matter of getting/hacking Nitro to generate the correct machine code to do it. I think that's what they would worry about. Remember Jailbreakme.com? It was PDF (and kernel, so no sa
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
It's interesting to see that this guy wants to transfer BTC -> USD in the form of Newegg shipments, but I have yet to see anyone major accept Bitcoins directly. Newegg has something of useful value (like a hard drive). Both BTC and USD
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
PCC would probably be easier, and it is still open source. Although a BSD-userland Linux would be interesting, I think the GCC compiler has become so widespread that it is almost impossible not to use it (except for Windows, of course). Eve

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