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by sp0rk 9y ago
> For another simple example, look at the Fortune 500 of today vs 20 years ago. Very few companies remain, it’s still very much fluid. To my eyes, your statement seems to be completely false. http://archive.fortune.com/ma
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by sp0rk 9y ago
But a competing company can't just give a copy of the leaked source code to their developers and tell them to go to town. Even by employing clean room design, you can't get around all the patents that likely protect many of the fe
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by sp0rk 9y ago
What purpose does this comment serve?
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by sp0rk 9y ago
> and adds nothing to the description of the list "Curated" generally implies the selections were hand-picked by a single person or small group of people, presumably because they are high-quality. There's a big difference
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by sp0rk 9y ago
There are a great many sites that degrade gracefully when JS support is not available. It makes absolutely no sense to waste the resources required to run a full headless browser when simple HTTP requests will retrieve the same information
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by sp0rk 9y ago
That you had some luck being removed from some legitimate call lists does not mean that you can dismiss these extremely common tactics as "Internet myths." There's a whole spectrum of spam callers that ranges from respectable
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by sp0rk 9y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but why is somebody that hasn't heard of the WiFi Pineapple writing for an otherwise respectable network security blog?
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by sp0rk 9y ago
"Don't use it that way! That's not how it was intended." Good to see the hacker spirit is alive and well here.
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by sp0rk 9y ago
> Without a legend, I wouldn't know what they mean, and if your icons need a legend, then they really aren't doing their job effectively. They are presumably trying to establish these icons so that they will eventually become c
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by sp0rk 9y ago
> May be it's just me, but I don't really care about design at all. > I'm not really into macOS, I can use Linux or Windows just fine, but macOS is not that bad. I think it's safe to say that you fall outside of Ap
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by sp0rk 9y ago
They have a limit on the amount you can spend overall with any particular credit card without a PayPal account. I want to say it's $2500 or somewhere around there. I ran into this problem a while back and it took some research to figur
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by sp0rk 9y ago
I recently read a Vox article that explained how California courts don't enforce contracts that limit employee mobility (and partially explains why behavior like this is possible): http://www.vox.com/new-money/2017
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> Which is better: Finding a bug and bringing attention to it, or someone malicious finding the bug? The latter is objectively worse, but people keep trying to punish researchers for not following the third path of "Report it in pri
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> Any bugs on non-supported browsers would never get reported back to our team, so we'd never hear about them. Wouldn't this filter out a lot of legitimate bugs that just happened to be discovered first on an unsupported browse
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by sp0rk 10y ago
It looks like he actually replied to somebody else very recently to say they're waiting on the legal department: https://twitter.com/ed_rich/status/817065613411713025
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by sp0rk 10y ago
You may not personally launch Xfce Terminal either but it doesn't mean Qubes doesn't use it as a terminal emulator. Qubes uses Whonix for anonymous VMs. It's bizarre that you're so set on making this distinction that not
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> Qubes does not use Whonix for anything. Whonix can use Qubes, though. Qubes comes with Whonix gateway and workstation templates preloaded. How is that not "using Whonix"?
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> It's not like the guy was making it up, they had clearly-detailed logs of the problems and the car was provably misbehaving. The fact that problems exist says nothing of what caused them. I don't imagine it would be difficult
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by sp0rk 10y ago
So then use a browser whose stated goal is to be minimal. Container tabs are an amazing addition with great security and privacy benefits. If you think changing OS user profiles is comparable, you either don't fully understand the conc
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> The company didn’t even officially announce the abandonment of the API. Instead, the notice came in the form of an updated Frequently Asked Questions page outlining the termination, and an email to developers active on the platform. Th
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> I told you SSD will be permanently soldered to the PCB, received downvotes in return Just because your prediction/information turned out to be correct does not mean that your comment was useful at the time. Why would anybody trust
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by sp0rk 10y ago
There was just an article about exploits in Dolphin published yesterday that I found pretty interesting: https://dougallj.wordpress.com/2016/11/13/exploiting-dolphin... I agree this will probably catch on as
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by sp0rk 10y ago
> There is no "too far", just what their target market with a lot of discretionary income will still purchase. How do you know the author does not fall into that category?
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by sp0rk 10y ago
You think that's what websites looked like in 2006?
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by sp0rk 10y ago
>They enable the booter's free speech; they aren't enabling their actual attacks. The attacks are paid for and managed by the customers through the web portals that run behind CloudFlare. How is that not enabling the attacks?
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by sp0rk 10y ago
Botnets have notoriously bad security. Many of the people running them have no technical knowledge and/or are using "cracked" versions of paid botnet software that are backdoored or intentionally left unsecured. A lot of the
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by sp0rk 11y ago
I'm guessing you aren't talking about the ones displayed to Tor users before. The text-based ones presented to Tor users with Javascript disabled were almost impossible to answer correctly. The CAPTCHAs still irritate me, but the
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by sp0rk 11y ago
Your estimations are incredibly generous, even for somebody using a transcription pedal. The audio for the transcription jobs on sites like MTurk is often very low quality and recorded on a device that is clearly not close to the speaker(s)
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by sp0rk 12y ago
I suppose you think every video game made using the Unreal Engine is basically the same game too, right? I can understand the disappointment that they're not creating a new JS or rendering engine, especially from a community like HN t
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by sp0rk 12y ago
Small wordlists are generally used with long username lists to get the low-hanging fruit. Obviously somebody using this tool to target a specific account is going to swap out the default wordlist for something much larger and potentially c

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