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> Representatives from Chrome/Blink, Safari/Webkit, and Firefox/Gecko are all supportive of removing XSLT Did anybody bother checking with Microsoft? XML/XSLT is very enterprisey and this will likely break a lot of in
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Most Docker images have zero security anyway. Who cares if someone has a key to the back door when the front door and garage are unlocked (and running as root of course)?
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> The problem is that Republican-controlled states have arranged to systematically make it harder for urban people to get ID cards Source? The fact is you need ID for SNAP and Medicaid benefits. So who are all these people with no ID, no
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> Thanks in part to multiple levels of safeguards, impersonation fraud has been effectively non-existent. Unsuccessful fraud is effectively non-existent. There is no public data about successful fraud. So why not make the system bulletpr
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You can't enter Costco anymore without scanning your ID card and them checking your face because people were cheating. I asked one of the cashiers when they first rolled out more stringent ID checks and she said they were catching 5-10
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> its believed that more democratic voters are less likely to have an id This notion that Democrats keep pushing - that a sizable portion of their voting base is too dumb to get an ID - when massive developing countries like India that
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1y ago
Yes you could go full rms and not own one* and ask someone else to borrow theirs. * does anyone know if this is still true?
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White House in Talks with Intel for 10% U.S. Government Stake
(wsj.com)
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I remember being the last one of my friend group to sign up. Having been an old-school internet who grew up on IRC and such, I thought it was insane people would enter their real name and picture into what looked like some shitty PHP site a
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This article did a good job of making an unremarkable internet trolling operation sound like it's the Watergate scandal.
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Haven't they had some embarrassing RCEs in the not too distant past? It kind of calls into question the significance of that claim about holes "in the default install" - even Windows ships without any services exposed these d
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OpenBSD is many things, but 'fast' is not a word that comes to mind. Lightweight? Yes. Minimalist? Definitely. Compact? Sure. But fast? No. Would I host a database or fileserver on OpenBSD? Hell no. Boot times seem to take as long
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Are you really that bothered by a text-only sales pitch (which has an old-timey "I sell vacuum cleaners door to door" charm to it), or would you have preferred a full page interstitial demanding you disable your ad blocker, with a
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Most of these sites predate viewport tags. http://stallman.org/ is another one. Though that's more likely because your mobile device is full of non-free badware or something so why encourage it.
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Mr. Buffett seems like the kind of guy that makes you shut your phone off during a meeting. When you're conducting 'serious business' in your Brooks Brothers suit and silk tie at the oaken table you'll have a real comput
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I thought "finally, Linux is adopting CUA", then realized this was a stealthy ad selling me remappable keyboards.
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Microsoft is still releasing paid security updates for Windows Server 2008 x86
(support.microsoft.com)
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You have it backwards. This board began its life as Startup News. There are no remnants of which you speak.
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> You expect hackers to be like, "we love capitalism! We love strong hierarchies!"? You should ask the old-schoolers, if they can hear you over the roar of the air conditioning in their cushy corporate offices and the engines o
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Something something discreet hookers and a company credit card.
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That's easy to do when you have the US on speed dial.
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This is why I compose my emails in smaller fonts, to protect the environment.
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How would you like to be the guy that reported this 10 years ago and had the bug closed on some technicality: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806960 Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are closed as WONTF
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> In response, Xiao pointed out that the package description can be read by any user who chooses to install the software, and it does mention the scan feature. Wouldn't be the first (or last) time a Debian maintainer has pulled the
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Starbucks Korea bans customers from bringing desktops, printers
(upi.com)
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Because it permits such nonsensical statements such as "France has more murders per year than London" (therefore London is safer by comparison QED). When you can draw arbitrary borders, you can make the numbers mean whatever you w
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Dallas has 5.6x the land area and nearly double the population. You can't lie with numbers that are easily provable.
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What a deranged rant. I actually felt sorry for them until half-way through when they pivoted into throwing shade on Anubis, an open-source DDoS protection WAF, that could probably help them solve their problem, by literally calling it malw
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How to Alienate Your Users: A guide for responding to open source help requests
(seeleycoder.com)
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Why don't you just get a "LTE phone adapter" where you pop in a sim card, plug an analog phone into it, and be done? Sure beats fiddling with SIP and jesus christ Asterisk to do something very simple and not worth any more ti
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