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by wmt 11y ago
What's unsafe about this? You download a tarball, extract it, run an installer, and then you can run the program. If the archive get corrupted on the way, unxz will complain. If it's about running programs from the internet you ha
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by wmt 11y ago
The original story at https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/01/19/insecure-by-design-p... seems to be not coping well with the traffic, here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.c
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by wmt 11y ago
Yeah right. Until 1999 it received wide support from Chinese officials, but then decided it was too big and started a silly propaganda campaign feeding the gullible with lies like you just told at the same time when they started a violent p
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by wmt 11y ago
You write bloated code for job security? Shame on you. Typically bloated code comes from legacy and years of organic growth. I'd imagine almost any 30k LOC project in any language that has been developed more than just a few years coul
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by wmt 11y ago
Imagined quality differences shouldn't be recognised where don't actually exist. To quote the story: "in David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell draws upon research that shows it’s actually more advantageous for a student to atte
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by wmt 11y ago
I really hope he was happy that his nefarious plan worked where he managed to make his job easier while improving the product.
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by wmt 11y ago
If the business model cannot survive an even bargaining table (i.e. where both parties have equal power instead), maybe it's not as sustainable and profitable as the traditional businesses which make a profit with unionised labor. I pe
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by wmt 11y ago
Come on, bootkits are hardly new. You can detect them by just like you'd detect a rootkit, as they rather rarely cover each and every system API that can reveal its presence, and you remove them by firdt booting into an alternative OS,
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by wmt 11y ago
Microsoft has introduced Antimalware Scan Interface in Windows 10 which tries to accomplish this, idea being that applications with possibly malicious content can feed buffers to be scanned by whichever antivirus programs that have register
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by wmt 11y ago
(The article is almost a year old, but the issues remain) The AV MITM certs are not exactly Dell- or Lenovo-bad, as they are all uniquely generated in each installation, so you can only fake traffic on computers you have Admin access - and
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by wmt 11y ago
Complexity tamed! With Products.CustomUserFolder.interfaces.IGSUser.interfaces.IGSAnnouncementGroup.
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by wmt 11y ago
Instead of what exactly? Eudora? Windows Live Mail?
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by wmt 11y ago
That almost sounds like a case of criminally corrupt city officials and police department? Shows how important it is to separate PDs from politicians to enable them act as independently as possible to just uphold the law. "Suddenly, tw
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by wmt 11y ago
Globally the demise of MTV was even more obvious. During the music videos + beavis & butt-head years there globally was only one channel, which was awesome as you knew that the same thing was being watched by all other teens watching it
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by wmt 11y ago
Always using VPN has really made using Internet a lot nicer place, I can use any Wifi without any fears, don't have to care about ISPs doing funny things with my traffic, and if I get country blocked content I can just quickly route my
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by wmt 11y ago
The bug was found with American Fuzzy Lop from optipng ( https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787647 ) and later the optipng author noticed that the same bug also affects libpng ( http://sourceforg
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by wmt 11y ago
"Mr. Kohn was referring to the National Security Agency, the arm of the Pentagon that develops and breaks the complex algorithms that are used to keep the most secret electronic secrets secret" Funny how this needed explaining bac
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by wmt 11y ago
Maybe the file was stolen from phewitso:s computer? Or someone who actually knew what they were doing and adjusted the metadata.
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by wmt 11y ago
*while illuminated by a bright laser. By dimming the laser the quantum behaviour returned, and you watching the atoms or not had no effect on the phenomenon. Despite the misleading title, I imagine affecting the quantum behaviour of atoms w
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by wmt 11y ago
"Isä" and "äiti".
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by wmt 11y ago
You do know that Schrute Facts like http://www.quickmeme.com/img/72/725fc27cb2efcb89cbde96955e32... are a joke, right?
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by wmt 11y ago
The article says multiple times that when young people make choices about e.g. should they learn programming, they of course use their own free will, but they often decide based on incorrect expectations. As another example it mentioned how
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by wmt 11y ago
From my experience in Finland kids very rarely have been taught to read before school, and typically just a few kids on a first grade can read. Of course, having phonetic language helps, as once you know all the letters you can correctly wr
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by wmt 11y ago
Remember that this article was talking about preschool. Once you get to the first school grade in Finland, you will be taught to read.
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by wmt 11y ago
They fight back exploit peddlers like Zerodium or criminals who sell their findings to the highest bidder. You know, PR. They're basically do a huge service to their users and software companies by allowing the best exploit finders to
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by wmt 11y ago
The kind where they used Chrome to browse to an internal testing website? Though using a real website, like Google, instead of a mock is quite wtf. What I'm curious about is whether the fired* Symanted engineers were just scapegoats or
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by wmt 11y ago
When you can't counter an argument, attack the motives!
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by wmt 11y ago
There are more good artists today than there ever has been, but the issue is that the Jimi Hendrixs of today are typically tossed to the "not quite good enough" -pile by those who professionally discover new artists. It's unf
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by wmt 11y ago
Damn, that article took a strange leap with discussing what better ads would be. Somehow it entirely skipped the possibility that more ads might resemble the ads of the most successful advertisers of the web (like google, facebook, twitter)
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by wmt 11y ago
R beats Julia if you ignore all the cases where Julia beats R!

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