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901.
by timf 17y ago
Not my hard drive, the disk itself is fully encrypted and won't work in other laptops without that bios password (I also use a truecrypt-like thing at the filesystem level). The main attack I need to worry about is someone replacing the ke
902.
by timf 17y ago
You get/let someone to trust the physical situation of their machine. In this case of the "maid" getting to play the maid is the engineering part. Once you have physical access to a machine, cracking is usually guaranteed (this is not new
903.
by timf 17y ago
This is like countless other social engineering attacks, getting people to unwittingly enter their passwords (e.g. phishing) has a high ROI and physical access just makes this very easy (e.g. ATM skimming).
904.
by timf 17y ago
awk? cut.
905.
by timf 17y ago
Facebook also "has about 30,000 servers supporting its operations, hosts 80 billion photos, and serves up more than 600,000 photos to its users every second." (check out http://www.facebook.com/Engineering?v=wall )
906.
Study: Most Internet traffic bypasses tier-one networks(telephonyonline.com)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
907.
by timf 17y ago
It does have something to do with them, it's awarded by the same institution that decides on the real Nobel Physics and Chemistry. The technically accurate name is apparently "Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred
908.
by timf 17y ago
Shit work is definitely less painful if you "just take care of it" and get it out of your consciousness faster. I think learning to let that "lesser of two evils" trade-off motivate you to action is something that will take many years and w
909.
by timf 17y ago
I'm on Firefox 3.5 and didn't see that behavior.
910.
by timf 17y ago
Agreed. But like I said, you won't get the benefits of the history incremental search. Also, I maybe should have mentioned I have a lot of other one letter shortcuts like that so "g" fits rights in.
911.
by timf 17y ago
I don't like going to the front page or even using the browser's search box. Better to type CTR-L to get to the address bar and then use a shortcut registered "g". "g terms" and you are quickly at the results. alias "g" to " http://www.go
912.
by timf 17y ago
That is a datacenter, not a "cloud."
913.
by timf 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=757204
914.
EC2 estimates: 40k servers, 220M+ revenue(cloudscaling.com)
9 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
915.
by timf 17y ago
Got my hopes up for a second, I thought this was the real, remote API that is sure to materialize at some point.
916.
New Public Data Set: Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR6 Subset(aws.typepad.com)
2 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
917.
by timf 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=840542
918.
Liars, Thieves & Virtualization Statisticians(community.citrix.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
919.
Your boss will weigh you now (junkfoodscience.blogspot.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
920.
by timf 17y ago
I wonder if someone will now habitually look at their own comment's position in http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments to infer the (relative) value of other people's comments in different threads :-)
921.
by timf 17y ago
Yup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=844979
922.
Cities at night from space (taken from ISS)(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments
923.
by timf 17y ago
Agreed
924.
by timf 17y ago
That is bit.ly's problem for not making an exception (assuming they want one in the first place, it's not required), not a general problem.
925.
The Evolution of Overconfidence(technologyreview.com)
7 points by timf 17y ago|5 comments
926.
How far can you get from a McDonald's in the continental US?(weathersealed.com)
140 points by timf 17y ago|26 comments
927.
by timf 17y ago
" Casey is the sole engineer for Ravelry and to run it takes only a few people. " Looking over the setup, that's quite a lot for one person to do during nights and weekends in 4 months. Pretty cool.
928.
by timf 17y ago
I'd never heard of HopToad before, that looks interesting.
929.
How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using Rails(highscalability.com)
49 points by timf 17y ago|25 comments
930.
A conversation with Larry Halff about the relaunch of Ma.gnolia(crunchgear.com)
1 points by timf 17y ago|0 comments

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