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by uxp 10y ago
A lot of the "Why is X illegal if doing Z, which itself is X & Y, is also illegal" argument reminds me entirely of the software developer's fallacy in code reduction. I can easily re-engineer a core business application i
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by uxp 10y ago
They state in the post that of 17 million requests to their git-proxy server, only 230 of those requests could be identified as successful responses to incorrect data/repos, at a percent of 0.0013%. I don't know of anyone that wou
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by uxp 10y ago
> I'm usually all for paranoia when it comes to the police but knowing your identity based on your appearance isn't really a violation of your rights. It would be one thing if there was some RainMan FBI agent who was the databa
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by uxp 10y ago
NSLs aren't signed by "The FBI", but rather some Agent of the FBI, which includes their case number and contact information. Even if one had to cold call the FBI operator, they could probably ask for the investigator in charg
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by uxp 10y ago
I'm capable of reading and writing a number of languages, but I'm not proficient at it. This also means that I probably have the writing level of a lower grade school child in those languages, and if I was to try and speak, I&#x27
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by uxp 10y ago
Science is not a white/black min/max field. Failure in science is to end up not knowing more about why your original idea or theory is either wrong or right. It's the literal equivalent to a sealed glass of water containing t
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by uxp 10y ago
I find Facebook to be a boring site, with friends complaining about the same things day in and day out, with an occasional link about something interesting, but mostly filled with inspirational memes and images that I don't particularl
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by uxp 10y ago
> VirusTotal runs its own passive DNS replication service, built by storing DNS resolutions performed when visiting URLs and executing malware samples submitted by users. It will run malware samples and store any DNS and/or direct I
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by uxp 10y ago
"Copied" is a strange word. https://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/getting_started/
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by uxp 10y ago
PRISM is just a frontend to a database. If I was to build a queryable database, I'd grab something like Lucene, and stick that on top of something like Postgres. The next step would be to build an interface so my non-technical business
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by uxp 10y ago
Does RKHunter scan userspace for mtimes? I haven't used it in years, so I'm honestly curious. Back when I did, it was customary to install it side-by-side with Tripwire, which essentially does only that; scan userspace and categor
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by uxp 10y ago
I don't see any issue with this title. A "source code dump" is usually an act of vandalism, as opposed to a "source code release", or "released as open source". Additionally, there was source code availabl
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by uxp 10y ago
Yes I am. I know iOS allows someone to dial their emergency contact from a locked phone, so in that case I will receive a call from the person's phone that I know about. Otherwise, they leave a message and I get to it immediately and c
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by uxp 10y ago
One app I've always wanted to write is one that intercepts incoming phone numbers that are not on your contact list and do a quick lookup on those reputation service sites and display it side-by-side with the number. Similar to how iOS
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by uxp 10y ago
The house I bought last year came with a cheesy "No Solicitation" sign stuck to the screen door near the handle. I've wanted to remove it, but laziness and the fact that it has some utility has kept it in place. Oddly, Jehova
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by uxp 10y ago
Generally, if it's not in my contacts list, then it's unsolicited and flagged spam. I won't answer unknown phone numbers (as I get a large number of spam calls in Spanish for immigration and high interest loans coming from or
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by uxp 10y ago
Filesystems, by and large, are supposed to be pushed into the kernel (via extension, or direct compilation). I'd hardly say that they've "shifted" into pushing code into their kernel, but that much of what differentiates
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by uxp 10y ago
Since you brought up Apple... How is it that Apple was legally bound to sell the FaceTime app for Mac OS X, or the 802.11n update, because adding new features to an already sold product crossed some weird accounting issue, but Sony had to b
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by uxp 10y ago
Isn't Barclay/BarclayCard (arguably) not a US bank though?
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by uxp 10y ago
Powershell is an interesting environment. On one hand, it's almost a C#/CLR REPL with amazing power to program and script almost anything you could think of, but on the other it's not a shell and anyone coming from *nix that
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by uxp 10y ago
It was released on Mac. http://halo.bungie.net/projects/halo/
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by uxp 10y ago
> It seems that the only thing keeping Elsevier and their ilk alive is the built-up reputation of the scientific journals that they have control over. Isn't the reputation of those journals somewhat derived from the work that Elsevi
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by uxp 10y ago
> I've read before that DMCA takedowns only cause content to become inaccessible publicly but not actually deleted This is a violation of the takedown request, and can result in harsher penalties for the host. It's not a great
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by uxp 10y ago
Common core is _what_ they should be teaching. Soft skills is _how_ they should be teaching. I'm fine if you want to hate on the Common Core like so many, but these points are so completely unrelated this argument doesn't make any
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by uxp 10y ago
Because one person or company that is bound to lose millions of dollars, or their entire business model (deceptive advertising and marketing, for one) has more of an incentive to lobby against a regulation than a million unorganized people
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by uxp 10y ago
The author reads like they have a pretty high sense of self worth, which rubbed me the wrong way. Your comments which I noticed myself, and the other post they linked to about moving off of Gmail and onto a postfix/dovecot self-hosted
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by uxp 10y ago
Hey, I'm not arguing one way or the other. I like using Ansible for configuration in the way I work. I can trust that I can show my best friend and my worst enemy my project and they won't have the capability of making my life hel
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by uxp 10y ago
> a failed initial pricing model by GitHub It's been 8 years since they revealed their pricing model, which has remained mostly unchanged on the lower end and only adjusted on the high end to account for GitHub Enterprise and sugges
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by uxp 10y ago
The newfangled approach is something like HashiCorp's Vault, which is a dream when you're looking at more than half a dozen systems with similar roles. A different approach that I like to use for single or smaller cluster systems
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by uxp 10y ago
Absolutely correct. Most employment agreements in the US have an indefinite probationary period. Consider today your last day every day (speaking mostly in the financial sense).

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