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by wmt 12y ago
If you remove all the infection points of the malware, it's gone. Computers are not magic, and you rarely win by being superstitious with them. Most malware are as good as gone once they've been detected and removed by a decent an
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by wmt 12y ago
Imagine yourself as an douchey groper - maybe you thought that the friendly pitcher was into you? You throw an offer and do a small grab imagining a solid yes followed by night of good sex. Instead, the lady immediately takes distance and t
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by wmt 12y ago
Please, read the article again, the author was the only one thinking about brushing it off while the cofounders were adamant that they should cut off the gropey investor.
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by wmt 12y ago
-"Should we ask from some known reverse engineer if this is true?" -"Of course not, why would a DRM vendor lie about whether the DRM can be cracked of not?" -"A good point!"
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Rovio's ex-managers reveal: Serious problems with strategy and management(talouselama.fi)
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by wmt 12y ago
It would be insane to demand the company to pay for the maternity or paternity leaves. That would be like charging money for elementary schools and forcing companies to also pay for thay! Small companies could collapse by just a few employe
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by wmt 12y ago
There was also that ridiculous one about "how do you put an elephant in a refrigerator" Don't tell me someone has used that as an interview question? That's a silly kids joke, after which you'd laugh childishly. T
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by wmt 12y ago
Do you mean tax reports, or just the taxable income? At least in Finland only your taxable incomes after deductions are public information, which a decent compromise between transparency and privacy.
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by wmt 12y ago
> Side note: I'm torn between leaving this place where nobody seems to understand the point of anything remotely like engineering or keeping this job where I'm obviously being extremely useful to our customers. You should alway
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by wmt 12y ago
Strange it's news now, as BBC has been already pretty openly abusing the spirit of the RIPA legislation to hunt down petty fee dodgers. Here's a word from the BBC from 2012: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthe
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by wmt 12y ago
I can imagine AV engines having massive attack surfaces due to having to support a ton of exploitable file formats and decompression methods, and often supporting decade+ old detections. It still is a surprising that some vendors (I'm
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by wmt 12y ago
I can't find the source right now, but what I've learned of heroin is that most people could actually safely try it out, and it would likely cause nothing but some mild discomfort. The people who end up wanting to keep using heroi
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by wmt 12y ago
I wouldn't call the simpler implementation "commented out code", as it's doing what the best comments are doing, making complex code more readable. Having random scribbles, alt solutions and other "shitty" comm
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by wmt 12y ago
My biggest issue with most garbage collection implementations is the lack of RAII. While I love the ease of reading and writing Python or Lua, I'd love to be able to create a local object, like an open file or a database connection, an
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by wmt 12y ago
I'd rather get informed after getting owned than be unaware of an infection, at least you then know to bin your system and start fresh. However, I'd also run EMET to make it a bit harder for an exploit getting past NoScript to ope
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by wmt 12y ago
That is a good point, some companies had very different motivations for not discussing it, e.g. Ronald Prins from Fox IT had this to say to Mashable: For Prins, the reason is completely different. "We didn't want to interfere wit
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by wmt 12y ago
Unfortunately Schneier first guesses that in reality nobody came out because they didn't have the full picture, instead of the reasons the companies actually gave, and then he goes on about how the reason he is guessing to be the real
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by wmt 12y ago
It's easy to say it should be publicised, but I'm not sure how someone can do that if the infected organisation specifically asks the antivirus company not to publicly discuss the malware, like what appears to have been the case w
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by wmt 12y ago
That's actually the problem! Many current engineering disciples were before handled by craftsmen until scientific principles were applied to it, making it engineering. There have been very few scientific studies about the basics of bui
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by wmt 12y ago
Buggy civilization? I don't think so, the improvement through evolution favors those who aim to grow exponentially. The alternative, micromanaging extremely complex systems, will unfortunately fail. Trying to force the global economic
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by wmt 12y ago
Automated tests are the closest thing to actual engineering in software. While communication methods like agile methods are important, to me they still are outside the scope of actually engineering software. I've found that one of most
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by wmt 12y ago
Next up, a blog post which shows even more readable using whitespace and syntax highlighting!
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by wmt 12y ago
Indeed it is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Miller_%28psychologist...
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by wmt 12y ago
Your masterful logician skills appear to have failed to notice that the author being wrong and being racist were unrelated. One can be racist and right, or non-racist and wrong, but in this case the author is wrong about where China is comi
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by wmt 12y ago
2. The author writes a silly racist article celebrating eugenics and racial purity
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by wmt 12y ago
I'm not sure why pointers have such bad rep, they're a pretty simple concept of storing and using memory addresses. References in dynamically typed languages however often make me nervous, as I'm never entirely sure when diff
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by wmt 12y ago
Microsoft did not buy Nokia, just its mobile division, and the exclusive right to use the Nokia brand to sell mobile phones for some time. This is the actual Nokia corporation licensing its brand for a Foxconn tablet.
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by wmt 12y ago
Foreign students from China know they'll have a very good chance at becoming one the oligarchs ruling the country, and as such likely think any tool as keeping the people subservient is a good thing. I find it unlikely that Chinese rul
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by wmt 12y ago
I don't think anyone is desperate enough to rely on VPN to access the websites of technology giants already blocked or soon to be blocked by China, as greatfire.org is also mirrored Akamai and CloudFlare. What will more likely happen i
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by wmt 12y ago
China is trying to make every CDN blocked, not Greatfire.org. Stop blaming the victims.

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