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871.
Sergey Brin: Journey of a lifetime(too.blogspot.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
872.
by timf 17y ago
Related, PG's "On Lisp" to Clojure: http://blog.thinkrelevance.com/2008/12/12/on-lisp-clojure
873.
Legal Implications of Cloud Computing -- Part Three (Relationships in the Cloud)(infolawgroup.com)
3 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
874.
by timf 17y ago
This is all sort of pedantic but the way I read the situation is that the only authentication is proving that the entity on the other end possesses the private key associated with a certain public key. The authorization part is two fold: i
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by timf 17y ago
> duplicate functionality that belongs at the lower layer, and drag along all kinds of extra baggage I'm just talking about sending messages not any kind of new protocol on top, for example http://code.google.com/p/py-amqplib/source/br
876.
by timf 17y ago
Thanks, sorry for the confusion. So what they needed but did not have is an authorization (not authentication) callout after the daemon has verified the remote user's identity (vs. the built in 'callout' of looking at a user's authorized_k
877.
The Simple Cloud API(ibm.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
878.
by timf 17y ago
Rather than the spec (for message broker implementers, etc) I'd care more about the programming interface, toolchains, and features/performance. AMQP can be simple to use. And you can certainly send "simple" messages with it, they just g
879.
by timf 17y ago
> We have patched our SSH daemon to perform public key lookups from our MySQL database That seems strange, that could be a PAM module at the least. If you patch SSHd then you are burdened with keeping up with changes, etc. There's e
880.
by timf 17y ago
I wonder if they evaluated AMQP...
881.
Alternative Payment Method from Checkout by Amazon(amazonpaymentsblog.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
882.
Startups: How To Build A Barrier To Entry With Inbound Marketing(onstartups.com)
6 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
883.
by timf 17y ago
I was curious if the printed book included mention of the GNU license so I "searched inside" on Amazon. These two paragraphs are pretty odd sitting next to each other: http://timfreeman.org/copyright_dip.png
884.
by timf 17y ago
> Without paying for minutes? Yes, I had just the 3G data only unlimited plan on AT&T with a Blackberry (they don't allow this with an iPhone because of an agreement with Apple). I don't know about their VoIP rules.
885.
by timf 17y ago
I think this is the first thing I've voted up and also flagged :-)
886.
by timf 17y ago
Regarding the POST problem: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=889806
887.
A PubSubHubbub to XMPP Gateway(grack.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
888.
Three big myths about MapReduce(dbms2.com)
20 points by timf 17y ago|5 comments
889.
by timf 17y ago
You can do that on AT&T
890.
Robots that "show emotion" (TED talk)(ted.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
891.
by timf 17y ago
One of my favorite modules in systems class was weeks of C programming competitions/exercises where we'd try to get the most L1/L2 based speedup in several challenges. Too bad I don't get to work at this level professionally that often.
892.
by timf 17y ago
Interesting tidbit on the flickr page he links to: "Google can customize your search results based on location, recent search activity and/or other, logged out or not.... Adding &pws=0 to your query turns of personalization."
893.
by timf 17y ago
Has anyone written a browser plugin that makes it seem like everything is reversed (or 'correct' if that's your view)?
894.
by timf 17y ago
You seem to want to limit the definition of social engineering to actually coming into social contact with the password-giver. The victim trusts the hotel, the social engineering I saw here is getting into the position of being a maid (who
895.
by timf 17y ago
I usually just keep my data on a USB key and then buy a brand new laptop from a random store every time I want to access it.
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First photo of Earth and Jupiter together, taken from Mars orbiter(dvice.com)
3 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
897.
by timf 17y ago
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Full_Disk_Encryption_%28FDE%29
898.
by timf 17y ago
Very true, funny :-) At least with truecrypt you can give them only one of the passwords (it can do that secret "deniable" encrypted partition).
899.
by timf 17y ago
That is the premise you should start with IMO; which is why this is not interesting. Absolutely you need to avoid releasing physical control of your machine.
900.
by timf 17y ago
Works on all OSs and only takes a few minutes: replace the laptop keyboard with your own keylogging version. Or insert a device where the serial port connects inside the laptop. Typical 'stealth' hardware based keylogging.

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