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by wmt 13y ago
The message delivered is not just to EMC, but to the technology industry as a whole. While it might not hurt EMC if RSA sales drop, I'm willing to bet there are companies that would be seriously hurt if the public perception among thei
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by wmt 13y ago
I remember reading the Dilbert http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1996-02-12/ as a teen and being really surprised learning later that the joke, Catbert eliminating sick days and making employees use vacation da
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by wmt 13y ago
NSA is not exploiting or pre-backdooring the BIOS, it's just reflashing it with an malicious payload to keep the system infection alive. No amount of open source anything would make them unable to do this.
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by wmt 13y ago
You cannot seriously believe that an NSA contractor would be morally colourblind. He was expecting those shades of grey but instead found an agency more focused on spying it's citizens than Stasi.
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by wmt 13y ago
> unless you grant me the authority to access datastore Z NSA analysts accessing datastore Z is not the problem, and never was. Datastore Z is the problem. According to the leaked documents those datastores contain data of U.S. citizens
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by wmt 13y ago
> I had to make sure that my searches didn't use US selectors, such as a US phone number or IP address. i.e. "we aggressively spy on all U.S. citizens, but we try really hard not to look at that data."
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Freedome, a VPN with protection against tracking and malware(freedome.f-secure.com)
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by wmt 13y ago
Simulating malloc failures is also very easy to do in Windows with the MS Application Verifier.
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by wmt 13y ago
I can't criticize a hypothesis if I cannot create a better one? That's extremely unscientific.
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by wmt 13y ago
If MongoDB was the wrong tool because it was still too immature, i.e. broken, wasn't the problem not that they were eating soup with a fork, but with a broken spoon. But yes, they were wrong to use a broken tool for the job.
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by wmt 13y ago
"So in other words, they misused MongoDB and because of that are telling people not to use it? Wow. ... The problem here is that Diaspora chose MongoDB when it was very immature" So the specific misuse of MongoDB was to use it? I
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by wmt 13y ago
I honestly didn't think that anyone was seriously saying that the BIOS code was doing all that, just that the BIOS was infected so that it boots the malware instead of an OS.
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by wmt 13y ago
The standard 8 hour / 5 day work week in Europe did not happen after some day the rich and powerful decided it, far from it. Strong labor unions were the key into making it a reality. While they might be impeding financial growth and m
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by wmt 13y ago
My point was that you cannot expect to get into top CS programs by being a good programmer, but yeah, I didn't really specify that chemistry is not important. CS is definitely not a natural science, which why I didn't even remotel
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by wmt 13y ago
Fixing it on visual studio would still leave it unfixed the Windows API and for almost all other software, e.g. you can't open files with path > maxpath from windows explorer. Visual studio support would not help much.
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by wmt 13y ago
Add to this that you need to be an expert in Physics, Chemistry and Maths to get to the top institutes (IIT, NIT) even if you want CSE/IT course. This filters majority of people with interest in programming. I have been programming sin
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by wmt 13y ago
Useless editorializing fluff that's been spot on the whole time about Ultrabooks being doomed thanks to Intel jacking up their price to be higher than Air's.
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by wmt 13y ago
While the users would be paying the price, it would happens because you actively made the users suffer because you were not paid enough. Even sitting on it is immoral, but in a lesser way. Users would then only lose in the case someone more
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by wmt 13y ago
That's some nice moral gymnastics to make selling exploits to criminals to mean that you actually did a favor to their victims.
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by wmt 13y ago
Like many said, it also bothers me that I don't believe that TDD code is any better than non TDD code with identical unit test code (or path) coverage.
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by wmt 13y ago
My ISP insists that I must allow them to steal my money on monthly basis or they would cut my Internet! Taxes are not theft, but a membership fee. Its perks are roads, fire department, schools, laws and law enforcement, protection from fore
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by wmt 13y ago
Nokia was not acquired by MS, Nokia sold them their burning platform, their phone department.
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by wmt 13y ago
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) is also not small
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by wmt 13y ago
I tried the Bustle.com, showcased in the article as a good example of a pure Javascript website, on my Android browser, and the Javascript was used to reserve 25 % of my screen to show me a "BUSTLE"-banner that doesn't go awa
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by wmt 13y ago
Merit bonuses for teachers from high pupil test scores would be a disaster. As children from poor homes get lower scores due to more stressful living conditions, the system would try to steer good teachers away from poor neighborhood school
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by wmt 13y ago
> The things we did included organic link-building, link-wheels, comment-spamming, forum-spamming, link-baiting So was the moral of the story that if someone is willing to employ immoral spammers, like you and Ian, he might be a con man?
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by wmt 13y ago
This is a very good point. Sweden also has a very extensive safety net, so government will give you a home and enough money to live on if you can't get a job. While it's really expensive on the surface, it's an excellent crim
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by wmt 13y ago
Why not just up the prices and the wages instead of the sneaky service charge? Is that too honest in the restaurant business?
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by wmt 13y ago
How do you avoid exploits? You don't use any exploitable browsers like Chrome, Firefox or Opera, or do you run them inside an virtual OS?
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by wmt 13y ago
Is the age of seatbelts also over? People die in car accidents by the thousands despite using seatbelts, so they must be useless. The article almost could've been written in the nineties before the commercial malware arrived, but when

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