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by uxp 9y ago
I took it to mean that Java/Python/Ruby/C# were "old tools" with flaws (bugs), but LISP is a tool for the future.
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by uxp 9y ago
Yet, if you visit that URL, you are greeted with : Current version: 2.49 (2010-07-07) Seems like the patch level on openSUSE is provided by the package maintainer, not CLISP. It looks like Debian Wheezy is at "2.49-8.1",
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by uxp 9y ago
> And all the while he sees people doing stupid stuff just like the rest of us. So it's hard for him to imagine his officers can drive around for an entire shift and never see someone speeding, running a red light, or making an ille
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by uxp 9y ago
I'm not a lawyer either, but it would seem Signal would have less culpability operating a network of users knowing that they do not have any access to the contents of the messages and thus have an implicit impetus to do nothing. Then a
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by uxp 9y ago
The NRA approach to safety and securing yourself and belongings. If everyone has a gun, everyone will be safe. Except for those who once owned guns and after a very scary mishap believe that it's safer to not own guns, and those that h
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by uxp 9y ago
Not really. Floyd can say whatever he wants to say, he just needs to warn people that they might not be able to weather the loss. Just like if I was to say that I think Apple's stock is going to soar now that they've discontinued
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by uxp 9y ago
The security aspect of this application is what turned me off. I'd love to use Ship, but being greeted with this[0] OAuth confirmation when logging in really turned me off. I was expecting something that reads the API and alerts of new
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by uxp 9y ago
While I get and understand your sentiment, the problem is that being an asshole and a creep isn't illegal in itself. If some male VC groped a female founder in the course of trying to set up a funding deal, then sure, press charges and
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by uxp 9y ago
> Only zero-days. The exploits released by Wikileaks' Vault 7 dump went public months ago. They're as much a 0-day as JFK's assassination was just a few days ago.
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by uxp 9y ago
> Let's hope it's not XP BMJ released a report[0] just two days ago alleging that up to 90% of the NHS's computers are still running XP. > Many hospitals use proprietary software that runs on ancient operating systems.
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by uxp 9y ago
Is it squirrelmail, or just IMAP(s)/POP3(s)? I guess, at least it isn't running it in conjunction with sendmail https://threatpost.com/no-fix-for-squirrelmail-remote-code-e...
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by uxp 9y ago
Agreed. That's a pretty nice injection molded case for a Pi. Too bad it costs ~$180.
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by uxp 9y ago
> If the dev doesn't have time to be a commercial web developer then they should hire an assistant. Some companies that do web development (commercially, internally, or whatever) have tighter release schedules than the cool DevOps s
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by uxp 10y ago
I came across this [0] yesterday while looking for STM32 stuff for those cheap ass $2 STM32F103 boards. To your point, however, it's still just writing values directly out to register pointers. That entire repo can be boiled down to on
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by uxp 10y ago
We're getting into the territory of "Guns don't kill people, people kill people with guns". If someone has Epilepsy this might be a concern, but as the story around the gif sent to Kurt Eichenwald, which you reference, p
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by uxp 10y ago
Hacker News is operated by a VC firm, and most articles talk about new technology and how to monetize it. HackForums is a place to talk about cracking software, distributing unwanted malware, and other generic "skiddie" stuff. Lik
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by uxp 10y ago
In the time since I read the linked article, I opened the LA Times site and navigated to a story, opened my network console, and read some comments on HN about the article. Safari says it's been about 12 minutes. It's requested ov
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by uxp 10y ago
> it would be really annoying to have my stuff washed away when folks knew it was a possibility and didn't even offer me the chance to move it first. They were more concerned about getting the evacuees out of the way before they we
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by uxp 10y ago
One of the six turbines went operational sometime yesterday (Friday, Mar 3). They are hoping to get a second online by today. https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/02/07/engineers-assess-spillw...
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by uxp 10y ago
The article points out that Apple did switch to an Intel manufactured modem at one point, but they allege Qualcomm retaliated by withholding a rebate payment to Apple. I'm assuming that Qualcomm has a list price for their chips, but ne
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by uxp 10y ago
This proprietary application has been under development for almost a decade. While it has had it's share of vulnerabilities as would any application it's age, they've also had that long to develop a reputation in the MacOS ec
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by uxp 10y ago
Specifically, one cannot be pardoned or have a sentence commuted of a crime one has not been convicted of. Snowden has not been convicted nor even tried for any crime. It's impossible for Obama to do anything about his situation.
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by uxp 10y ago
Can we stop hacking ill-conceived one-offs like this and just start to assume that a monitoring utility (Monit, Supervisor, Munin, Nagios, ServerDensity, Solarwinds to name a few) in some form is the standard for notifying of anomalies and
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by uxp 10y ago
Here you go: http://archive.is/Ui0Ap Courtesy /u/Vusys on Reddit from /r/netsec
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by uxp 10y ago
Reminds me of a European grocery store. As an American, I was confounded to see a lack of bags at nearly any store I visited that wasnt a tourist gift shop my first time I ventured across the Atlantic. Then it started to make more sense tha
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by uxp 10y ago
I've seen this packaging before. Notably, Apple uses this design when shipping iPhones. Overall, however, it doesn't seem to be very common in the States.
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by uxp 10y ago
What's the opposite of fencing? Giving away legal merchandise advertising that it's stolen goods? I agree, analogies don't really work. The fact remains that the downloaders of the movies were receiving the content from a pla
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by uxp 10y ago
I really hate throwing out analogies, but the closest I could think of is the "unlocked front door". If FTV, the producer of the video, shared themselves or allowed someone to share in their behalf a video that they produced in or
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by uxp 10y ago
> The next commissioner will be worse (for consumers). The next commissioner will probably by worse for consumers based on the historical sentiment of previous commissioners, is what you probably meant. While I absolutely agree, we have
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by uxp 10y ago
Seems like an attempt at being "clever". L2 equipment shouldn't care what kind of packet it is, but we're trying to subvert the original spec and come up with new hacks by "peeking" into the payload and make as

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