tehmaco

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Goodbye and good riddance: Oracle finally ditches Java browser plug-in(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
4 points by tehmaco 11y ago|0 comments
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Presumably something that would tell the avionics that: 'Radar system X (location ...), working on frequencies (...), using these waveform patterns (...), is effective out to range Y, is only effective above altitude Z' Which woul
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Not sure on the viability of it, but couldn't there be something in place that states that fines can only be levied at a maximum 10%/month of the UBI? So if you get a parking ticket (presumably <1% UBI), you can just pay it, bu
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by tehmaco 11y ago
If the UPS is connected to one of a redundant pair of PSUs, yes.
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Famous Wow signal might have been from comets, not aliens(newscientist.com)
2 points by tehmaco 11y ago|0 comments
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Open Rights Group on the Investigatory Powers Bill(openrightsgroup.org)
1 points by tehmaco 11y ago|0 comments
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by tehmaco 11y ago
'cache' being pronounced 'kash', not 'kaysh' is one that's still wrong in my brain.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Or that a hardware jumper needs to be set on the motherboard before any firmware updates can be done.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
True, but you do need to change the denominator though, as under 16's and retired people don't earn, so those ~105 million people[0] need to be excluded (otherwise it's mis-representing the facts). [0] http://www.w
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by tehmaco 11y ago
If everyone in the country gets the income, children have a government ran bank account which the money pays into (possibly with interest?) until they reach 18, then they move the money into a normal account of their choosing. That way they
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by tehmaco 11y ago
3.9% of people paid hourly wages earn at or less than minimum wage from that link. Your figure of 0.9% is for people over 25 who earn exactly minimum wage (1.6% in that line earn less than it) Edit: Also, if you're not paid hourly
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Why the Tor attack matters(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
19 points by tehmaco 11y ago|0 comments
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by tehmaco 11y ago
That clause simply adds "make use of" to the beginning of the existing paragraph in the existing legislation[0]: (a)to monitor or interfere with electromagnetic, acoustic and other emissions and any equipment producing such em
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by tehmaco 11y ago
The gas will be inside the mask when you put it back on.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Not if the users used standard file extensions: Run a report that selects the top 0.01% of users by total storage used, return % of space per file extension.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
That's not quite what I meant - the ad network provides abc.com with a js file, hosted on the abc.com servers. That js file creates an ID from browser fingerprinting, which is saved in a separate cookie, or an additional data point wit
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Just a thought - if the ad network uses js code (hosted on abc.com and xyz.com servers), which loads images from the same domain (but it loaded in on a server-to-server link, and cached and served from the the domain you're visiting).
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Windows 10 to be a recommended update in early 2016(blogs.windows.com)
105 points by tehmaco 11y ago|168 comments
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by tehmaco 11y ago
It's the 'Holy Grail' of exploitation though - if you can back-door the hardware as she's suggested in the paper, nothing in the software stack can detect it, which means you cannot know if your machine is secure or no
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by tehmaco 11y ago
A $20 fine and a criminal record, which as I understand it is something you _really_ don't want.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
There's a better link here [1], which explains with more details. Main thing seems that it's not just facial recognition, you can use a fingerprint scanner (assuming your phone has one) instead, and that it requires you to blink w
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Or there will be an exception for "Critical to the National Interest" traffic, so banking data would be exempt.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
> So, what you're saying is default and fuck over foreign investors. Yes. A government should have its own people as it's primary concern.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
They don't sell your information, they sell access to your eyeballs, _based on_ the information they have about you, combined with advertisers saying "We want to show advert X to these types of people". If they sold that info
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Falling into the Encryption Trap(lauren.vortex.com)
7 points by tehmaco 11y ago|2 comments
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by tehmaco 11y ago
It's available in the UK to pre-purchase.
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by tehmaco 11y ago
I remember reading years ago that every machine in the building was linked into the render farm. So the person on the front desk had a dual socket, multi-GB RAM monster of a machine, but only used it for light email/room bookings/
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by tehmaco 11y ago
2^128 ~= 3.4 x 10^38 [0] Age of the universe in seconds ~= 4.3 x 10^17 [1] So assuming you're using an unsigned int to represent the number of seconds from the big bang, you'll still have ~ 10^21 seconds left on the clock (31.7 tr
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by tehmaco 11y ago
Wolfram Alpha didn't recognise "Eye of Sauron": https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=graph+looks+like+Sauro...
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The wireless and cable industries just sued to kill net neutrality(theverge.com)
1 points by tehmaco 11y ago|0 comments

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