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by sveiss 11y ago
They publish a GPG key to use for this purpose, which puts them leaps and bounds ahead of most other hosting/domain providers who do identify verification.
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by sveiss 11y ago
It's mostly a matter of layering. Think of a "subsystem" as a "pluggable system call interface layer". The Win32 layer (mostly) sits on top of the Native layer. The Native API is mostly implemented by the kernel its
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by sveiss 11y ago
Hopefully they'll include emulation for ptys, which will make it very easy for you to run your terminal emulator of choice instead of relying on on conhost. If they're smart, they'll allow a Linux ABI exe to sit on one end of
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by sveiss 11y ago
Sure there's a technical way to do it: you unplug the server hosting it (or more likely, your hosting provider does that for you). No court is going to shed any tears over fact this has wider consequences than if you'd been able t
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by sveiss 11y ago
The upgrade notification system does make the effort to check against known-bad hardware and software, including 3rd party software, and will warn and/or block the upgrade if it's known to be incompatible. As for managed machines,
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by sveiss 11y ago
The IE security upgrade with the Windows 10 ads went out in the same push that seems to have turned on more aggressive auto-upgrade behaviour, so lots of people -- including media -- are conflating the two. I wonder how many people are goin
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by sveiss 11y ago
The photographer shared this set on Reddit around a month ago and included some additional commentary in the thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/46ahkv/illegal_photo_... It was, and is, a fasc
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by sveiss 11y ago
That's not a general requirement for H-1B. (It is a requirement for EB-2, which is the immigration category for a permanent worker with a degree, versus a temporary H-1B worker). For "H-1B dependent employers and willful violator
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by sveiss 11y ago
You can count US social security contributions towards the requirements in other countries (and vice versa) if they're covered by one of the treaties: https://www.ssa.gov/international/agreements_overview.html . I
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by sveiss 11y ago
I haven't tested it, but I'd expect not. Given a limited EDNS0 buffer size, UDP responses would either come back with a truncated flag or not at all. Either case would trigger a TCP retry, and the bug can be triggered that way.
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by sveiss 11y ago
Datagrams larger than the MTU can be sent, they'll just be fragmented. The point of PMTU is to avoid fragmentation where necessary, but it's still possible.
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by sveiss 11y ago
You'd usually make a CHAPS payment for high value payments, instead of through Faster Payments. (There's mention of this in the article, in the Net Settlement section). CHAPS costs a little bit of money (~£30), and for that sort o
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by sveiss 11y ago
It did take some moderately heavy leaning on the UK banks by government before the Faster Payments System finally got introduced, though.
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by sveiss 11y ago
This is actually one of the things (some of) United's frequent flyers complain about -- very cheap day-of-travel upgrades which prevent complimentary upgrades for their most loyal/highest spending customers from clearing.
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by sveiss 11y ago
If your phone is lying to you about being switched off, then it's already compromised (and you're probably under some highly targeted surveillance already). If I had any evidence this had happened to me, I'd get rid of the ph
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by sveiss 11y ago
I'd have thought simply switching the phone off would be easier? Much better on your battery life too, if the phone turns the transmit power up to try and reach a base station.
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by sveiss 11y ago
But unlike, say, extensive airport screening procedures, it's fairly easy to test if dummy CCTV cameras have an impact on crime rates. I don't know if such a study has been done, but if it works and impacts the intended endpoints,
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by sveiss 11y ago
> Aren't checks an anachronism in the US yet? I'd have thought bank transfers would have been more widely adopted in the US by now. Not only are checks not an anachronism yet, in some cases a bill payment done through online ba
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by sveiss 11y ago
Why not? At the risk of putting myself on a watchlist somewhere, stringing together a Raspberry Pi-class computer and a RFID reader to replace the mobile phone remote detonator in an IED doesn't make it any less improvised.
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by sveiss 11y ago
Which makes sense when you think of libc as "the library which provides the system call interface to the OS, and just happens to provide a C runtime library as well". Making libc dynamic link only allows the OS developers to chang
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by sveiss 11y ago
Some public wifi providers (like the mentioned hotels) hand out IPv6 addresses but don't actually route v6 traffic. So any connections which use v6 by preference will be broken from those connections.
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by sveiss 11y ago
Why is having PowerShell be the focal point for this bizarre? PowerShell is Windows' native command line interface. Most of the scriptable administration tools (which are being heavily promoted as the primary way to administer Windows
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by sveiss 11y ago
It's treated the same as any other Windows VM (and thus depends on the product/edition and what channel you acquired the license from). In practical terms, the proper license would usually be a MSDN subscription; they're inte
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by sveiss 11y ago
The implementation is different to Intel's. AFAIK, bhyve has code to support one but not the other.
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by sveiss 11y ago
A "near miss" in aviation terms would be anything close enough to potentially compromise safety if anything else went wrong. This tends to be taken very seriously – for example, every such reported incident in the UK is investigat
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by sveiss 11y ago
They already have a dedicated PCIe card -- it's the standard 10GigE NIC they're using. What they're doing is bypassing the kernel overhead of header parsing, demultiplexing and copying to user space. Instead, the network ca
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by sveiss 11y ago
Doing that is inherently racey (as acknowledged in your man page quote), and you will lose some log data while the rotation happens if it's being written to quickly enough. If you need all your log data, you can't rotate or shrink
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by sveiss 11y ago
This doesn't appear to have anything to do with how long free updates are provided; rather the issue is how revenue is recognized from sales of Windows 10 which are actually bought. The source presentation doesn't appear to apply
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by sveiss 11y ago
Raymond Chen's blog in particular has been well worth reading for insight into why MS has made some of the crazy-seeming technical decisions it has for well over a decade now. A lot of them boil down to "incredible contortions to
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by sveiss 11y ago
Shipping libusb and Python would probably mean spending an extra 50¢ on flash or RAM per unit. From the point of view of a race-to-the-bottom consumer hardware manufacturer, the choice is obvious.

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