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841.
by wiml 12y ago
I'm not sure that's so unlike Netflix's Chaos Monkey.
842.
by wiml 12y ago
Might well have been the predecessor to or inspiration for GNU Superopt (which has been moribund for twenty years now...).
843.
by wiml 12y ago
You can get loose-leaf mate for cheaper than that per drink, but probably more than $3 per purchase.
844.
by wiml 13y ago
My mistake. I'd been under the impression that the discussion of removing Diginotar from the trust list had fizzled, like Trustwave's did [1,2]. It's good to learn that I was wrong. There are counterexamples, though. Comodo[3
845.
by wiml 13y ago
Experience shows that there are no repercussions [edit: usually no repercussions] if a commercial CA is hacked, either (or even if it intentionally issues fraudulent certificates).
846.
by wiml 13y ago
Possibly the situation where a public resource or right of way (eg. a lake) is completely enclosed by private properties (eg. a developer or HOA acquiring all lots which have any of the lake's shoreline)?
847.
by wiml 13y ago
As a hobbyist, I'm curious: other than what the markings say (value and tolerance) and an estimate of power capacity, what would you expect the interviewee to be able to say about the resistor? Assuming you're not interviewing in
848.
by wiml 13y ago
This is entirely up to the issuing CA's process. Thawte, for example, happily revokes-and-reissues certificates for free (perhaps only for "enterprise" customers?), and the newly issued certificate has the same end-validity d
849.
by wiml 13y ago
I wonder if it's simply that the DTLS heartbeat is modeled on the ICMP echo-request packet? Pings also contain a blob of up to 64kB of arbitrary data (in the case of ICMP, this is/was handy for detecting pattern-dependent link pro
850.
by wiml 13y ago
ssh frequently uses either application-level or TCP-level keepalives. But it doesn't have to; you can just turn off ssh keepalives and your quiescent connections will survive network outages.
851.
by wiml 13y ago
The machine-specific parts of OSX already run on ARM in the form of iOS. Also remember Apple has already successfully made two or three architecture transitions already: m68k to PPC to i386 to x86_64.
852.
by wiml 13y ago
Yes, it's really easy if you know what IPs and ports you want to allow. You can whitelist a handful of services in your torrc and reject all others by default. I've been running a mostly-relay node for years now with a few allowed
853.
by wiml 13y ago
It's not a hypothetical; it's a thing that actually happens[1]. You seem to be confusing the notion of classification with the question of whether something is easily available. The Snowden and Manning leaks, for example, did not
854.
by wiml 13y ago
Do you have any favorite compact Forth implementations for AVRs? Each time I find myself writing a configuration-and-introspection parser for a microcontroller project I think to myself, "I should just expose a REPL here", and FOR
855.
by wiml 13y ago
Airspace over private property is still public right-of-way. Deliveries by pneumatic tube would be pretty great though.
856.
by wiml 13y ago
The `indent` tool has been part of the normal BSD distro for decades, I think.
857.
by wiml 13y ago
stretchwithme addresses that in the third (and subsequent) sentences of his comment. I know that's a lot to read, but still. They were in fact describing a voter-verified paper trail system.
858.
by wiml 13y ago
I'm curious why you think GHCQ claims that Ubuntu is the most secure Linux. Where do they say that?
859.
by wiml 13y ago
For a while, RC4 was recommended because it's immune to the BEAST attack.
860.
by wiml 13y ago
They ship Apache, but they only ship obsolescent (0.9.8) versions of OpenSSL. So their system Apache is built against OpenSSL 0.9.8y.
861.
by wiml 13y ago
A post by Greenwald on the subject of "dump it all" vs. "vet and dribble": http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/2013/12/questionsresponse...
862.
by wiml 13y ago
A column in some old programming magazine— I think it might have been Dr. Dobbs'— had a similar ongoing contest. Some situations could cause a compiler's error-message generator to loop indefinitely, and some compilers would produ
863.
by wiml 13y ago
You could almost call it ... dense wavelength-division multiplexing.
864.
by wiml 13y ago
With a factor of 10^60 in there, the difference between a century and a millennium is down in noise anyway. :)
865.
by wiml 13y ago
What's funny to me is… isn't this exactly how cable TV came about in the first place? Putting a broadcast-TV receiver on a hilltop with good reception, then piping the signal to homes without good reception? Cable's business
866.
by wiml 13y ago
They don't need a way into the government's supply chain if the keyboards and mice have processors whose firmware is updatable over USB. Which is not exactly rare. PoC: http://it.slashdot.org/story/09/08&
867.
by wiml 13y ago
I've been flummoxed by this too, but I think they're installing those textured yellow panels in the crossing ramps. I gather they're a standardized marker to help blind or sight-impaired people navigate the street environme
868.
by wiml 13y ago
Yes. In fact it's called Terminal.app; it's just a terminal emulator, but one that doesn't particularly suck. The shell is ordinary bash (or ksh or zsh or whatever; I forget what the default is).
869.
by wiml 13y ago
Yes, these have been around as resistance / capacitance / inductance "decade boxes" for at least a century, for example: http://nistdigitalarchives.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem... http:&#
870.
by wiml 13y ago
I think it'd be much easier to use spread-spectrum techniques. With enough coding gain the signal can even be well below the noise floor and still reliably recoverable. (This is the spread-spectrum equivalent to sending a very narrowba

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