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by tsally 17y ago
I don't mean to take offense, I know you don't mean any, but saying what you're saying is a bit akin to telling a cancer patient that they need to just get over it. I hear what you are saying, but I do not think he is being that harsh. T
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by tsally 17y ago
Another vote for black coffee. Once you get used to it, it's actually far more enjoyable than coffee with sugar and/or cream in it. You'll learn to be able to recognize the different tastes and types of coffee, which is pretty neat.
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by tsally 17y ago
Rent them out?
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by tsally 17y ago
The choice is obvious is my opinion. Saving one year of your life (getting a masters in one year instead of two) is extremely valuable. If you think you will ever get a masters, take the opportunity to do it in one year. If you can get
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by tsally 17y ago
Solid set of info there. Anyone know or have a guess as to the forum the botmaster linked to? Email's in profile if you don't feel like posting it for the public.
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by tsally 17y ago
This has been posted and killed on HN before. The previous submitter had the good grace to delete it right away. Stay classy Isaac.
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by tsally 17y ago
I suspect some sort of burn out. Honestly the guy was a machine. I remember looking at his commit logs for all of his public Github projects and wondering how he managed it. And mind you, that only accounts for code publicly released and
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by tsally 17y ago
I'll downmod 99.999% of all posts that contain 'ROFLOL'. Not trying to be an ass, but we can do better. ;-)
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by tsally 17y ago
Invent a word to what end? Do you think it would change the daily behavior of actual hackers? I doubt the mainstream media and the average population will ever understand the hacker mindset, even if a different term is used.
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by tsally 17y ago
There is a place for prized asshole behavior. Probably not. There's always a better way to say something. Acting like an asshole is just a fallback for not understanding how to effectively communicate. I'd be annoyed at a coworker if I
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by tsally 17y ago
Wow I'm hearing tons of complicated ways to avoid direct conversation. If you pay several thousand dollars for a machine, I'm pretty sure you get to decide to gets to do what with it. If it is your companies screen, you are still responsi
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by tsally 17y ago
Don't. :-p You could learn entire languages (programming or otherwise) with the time you spend on those.
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by tsally 17y ago
You can still hack today like they did in the 90's. You just need to smile and wear a suit. Adapt, don't die. ;-)
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by tsally 17y ago
Google has some combination of your email, calendars, bookmarks, web browser, phone number, payment service, ad service, office suite, and physical phone. All of these make Google one click closer than any competitor. It's game over, at l
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by tsally 17y ago
Try explaining tech stuff to tech-illiterate people. The road analogy has come in useful many times when explaining the ethics of vulnerability research and related security matters.
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by tsally 17y ago
The security cameras aren't exposed because of Google, but rather because of a website admin that didn't know what he was doing. Google's responsibly for this is akin to the responsibly a construction company has for building roads to an i
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by tsally 17y ago
The high school Computer Science AP exam asks you to do this with Java. Missing a semicolon is a minor deduction, but it is still a deduction.
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by tsally 17y ago
Most of the manuscripts are good, but I specifically recommend "On the cruelty of really teaching computing science". If you take the time to understand how Dijkstra was thinking when he wrote that, you're already ahead of the vast majorit
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by tsally 17y ago
I'd like to know why he went missing for so long as well, but it's hardly our business now is it? ;)
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by tsally 17y ago
Kaminsky's mail spool over 5 years has been getting emailed around for months already. Poor guy. :-/ Mitnick is nothing new, and he is smart enough to keep all of his personal stuff off of his webserver. If you are a security professional
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by tsally 17y ago
I made this mistake for about a year. Ordered/downloaded tons of books, read published papers, etc. I learned a fair bit, but honestly you don't really learn until you start doing. Your return per hour spent coding is on average far high
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by tsally 17y ago
What country/state/province law are you using for the age cutoff for the bourbon? :-p
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by tsally 17y ago
In other news, Google yanks Apple iPhone from search results, claiming the built in Safari browser "duplicates functionality" of the Google search engine.
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by tsally 17y ago
You don't need to enter in dependencies with 'make' either (suffix rules or makedepend). Don't get me wrong, fabricate looks great, but let's not misrepresent the power of make in the right hands. From the docs: files.o : files.c def
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by tsally 17y ago
Also, because of their antics, they have the ability to generate a large amount of press. This is probably more important than any actual damage they could do.
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm pretty sure they are capable of defending themselves. Wouldn't want to be an AT&T exec right now. Not saying its justified, but their past behavior speaks to what probably will happen.
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Social Security Numbers Are Not Random(schneier.com)
6 points by tsally 17y ago|1 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
Sean: So what do you really want to do? Will: I wanna be a shepherd. Sean: Really. Will: I wanna move up to Nashua, get a nice little spread, get some sheep and tend to them.
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by tsally 17y ago
Good point. Another option (as Randy mentions in his talk) is to schedule a "fake" class during the dead hour. Just go to the same spot in the library every day and work on the same class. Office hours are useful for this purpose as well.
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by tsally 17y ago
Students, take this advice to heart as well. Are all your classes grouped together? They should be. I'd go so far to claim that you should take a less interesting set of classes in order to group them all together. I'm taking Distribute

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