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Apple Laptops Vulnerable To Hack That Kills Or Corrupts Batteries(blogs.forbes.com)
4 points by trotsky 15y ago|0 comments
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by trotsky 15y ago
showing that there is a demand by going out of your way to track down and buy what you want helps it happen.
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by trotsky 15y ago
Just to give you a picture, I get most of my vegetables from a Community Supported Agriculture farm here in the spring and summer. They give me a box of what is available. Onions, peppers, beets, potatoes, cucumbers, fennel, tomatoes, garli
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by trotsky 15y ago
Nobody pays $200MM for nothing. It's exceedingly hard to believe google valued a small pre-funding startup at over low eight figures. While most of the time I look at tech crunch leaks and believe they're real albeit spin infused, this just
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by trotsky 15y ago
wow, really? Are you pulling my leg?
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by trotsky 15y ago
That makes sense, I just thought the website was only about sustainability of the populations based on some of the wording. I'm afraid to even look into the chinese catfish raising - wasn't there a recent scandal where asian catfish was bei
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by trotsky 15y ago
And vegetables and fruits? Well, practically all of the mass produced ones never EVER saw any soil or real sunlight but artificial gel to grow on Wait, what? You are going off the deep end here. I assure you that the exact opposite is tru
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by trotsky 15y ago
Why are various farmed fish listed as "not okay to eat"? Certainly farmed fish can't be under pressure like wild fish. Is it because of the environmental practices of the farms? I see us farmed raised catfish is listed ok, but apparently as
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by trotsky 15y ago
The study states that it is much more typical for a pirate to download an illegal copy of a movie to try it before purchasing. Hard to believe this is true at all based on my own personal experiences. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but
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by trotsky 15y ago
What sandbox changes did they make? Is that the app store apps can't open documents without a user selecting them in a file chooser thing?
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by trotsky 15y ago
Not really. The assumption here is that the attacker installed malware on the target computer to get their traffic redirected to the proxy. Once the computer is compromised there are any number of ways to nullify any signing benefits from s
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by trotsky 15y ago
The suspects, in 10 separate states, are accused of conspiring to “intentionally damage protected computers.” This seems to relate to refer to Title 18, Part I, Chapter 47, § 1030, Part a) 5) A): knowingly causes the transmission of a pr
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by trotsky 15y ago
Process always falls down at some point, it's why we have bugs in the first place. The point of view that "obvious bugs should never happen" is pretty obviously broken, you just try to make them as rare as humanly possible. Besides, simple
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by trotsky 15y ago
most bugs are obvious after someone has pointed them out to you.
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by trotsky 15y ago
While I can't find numbers, I suspect you'd find that one or more embedded RTOS's like VxWorks or linux outships windows by a significant margin - DVD players, TV's, dumb phones, security systems etc. Windows has the crown for desktop OS, b
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by trotsky 15y ago
Like most writing on the subject, it seems the creator had an opinion on the subject and then created the presentation to persuade the reader it is correct. Which is quite normal in the field, of course, but when presented with a chart or g
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by trotsky 15y ago
It seems like he was accessing the MIT network simply to get an MIT IP address that would authorize him in the JSTOR application. He then was running a scraper, which was probably just a python script with a bit of metering to avoid slammin
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by trotsky 15y ago
It's been almost six months since borders filed for bankruptcy, and they were having cash flow problems before that. Many suppliers have been insisting on cash terms, which must have put a serious dent in their stocks. I was at a borders la
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by trotsky 15y ago
It's mostly about attention seeking.
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by trotsky 15y ago
we'll show those jerks that hacking people's voicemail is unacceptable... by hacking their CMS.
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by trotsky 15y ago
It seems that the system relies on a single private key for secrecy, but deploys it widely - to every participating ISP. It seems difficult to believe that you could distribute a key like that and have it stay private, especially with so mu
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by trotsky 15y ago
And yet it is trivial to teach every one of them to identify 128kbit (at least) from uncompressed in just a few short minutes. And it's the kind of thing you pretty much can't un-hear. Those who want better quality have a legitimate gripe,
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by trotsky 15y ago
I'm sure it's service dependent, with some services the frequency would likely be essentially 0, but some services like popular online games you'd see it happen widely the first day you allowed it. The problem is, one person does this you p
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by trotsky 15y ago
You need to worry about users who have other people maliciously requesting resets just to bother them. A password reset link in email is the more easily ignored. If you send a new password, you need to make sure you still accept the old one
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by trotsky 15y ago
looks like it was designed as a firewall bypass
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by trotsky 15y ago
weren't you recently searching for exploitable webgl driver bugs?
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by trotsky 15y ago
Curious that the neighbors would rather have an unmaintained and abandoned property sit vacant and all of the potential associated problems with that rather than occupied by someone who presumably has an interest in keeping it up.
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by trotsky 15y ago
Pretty out there for a "more plausible explanation" that hackers would be launching attacks from desktop pcs of high level australian government officials. I'm not even sure what you're arguing about - you actually think either a) the US do
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by trotsky 15y ago
Why not cut to the chase and just offer a substantial block of positive Tech Crunch coverage for a fixed % of the startup?
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by trotsky 15y ago
If you're looking for smoking guns in state intelligence matters you either need to not be a civilian or wait 40 years after the event. For everyone else there is reading between the lines.

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