woodman

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by woodman 12y ago
Ah, when you said sysctl(2) I thought you were talking about the linux call - which is basically dead code. Yeah I don't really have a beef with the whole "everything is a file" design, I actually quite like it, but I really
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by woodman 12y ago
I haven't poked through the code, but the linux man page isn't encouraging: "use the /proc/sys interface instead" [0] Compare that to the freebsd man page [1] [0] http://man7.org/linux/man-
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by woodman 12y ago
> or similar Is this alternative method another SaaS with a different API and performance characteristics? That takes time as well, in addition to the vendor lock-in. BTW, stacking abstraction x infinity is what causes systems to be bl
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by woodman 12y ago
The linux sysctl is a wrapper for kernel state represented in the file system, freebsd sysctl is direct to kernel. So that is nice, everything in one place. Before my switch to freebsd, I had been a linux user since 2000 - and while I was
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by woodman 12y ago
0.1% of people in the world? That seems a little high. 0.1% of people who describe themselves as *-dev? That seems really low. Also, how do you define "need"? Dtrace isn't just for tracing functions down to the kernel le
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by woodman 12y ago
Ah, thanks. So yeah, I'd interpret the information as only accurately reflecting the results of the survey - not reality :) You'd think the BLS would be able to get anonymized IRS data.
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by woodman 12y ago
I switched from CentOS to FreeBSD as my daily driver a little over a year ago, for the ports tree. I needed a bleeding edge version of valgrind, but my ~/bin and ~/lib were already pretty unwieldy - so that is what caused the swi
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by woodman 12y ago
Unless you shoot a stuntman, rigged with bloodpacks, you aren't going to see blood jet out of a gunshot wound. You usually only get a pink mist of atomized blood (which you wouldn't be able to see in the video).
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by woodman 12y ago
I'm not able to find the BLS methodology used to come up with that $57k figure, does anybody know? Unless they're drawing that from the IRS, I really doubt the accuracy. Cops generally make quite a bit of money from overtime and
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by woodman 12y ago
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/f22-squadron-shot-down-b... More of a locale bug :)
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by woodman 12y ago
Don't forget the additional fun that terminal emulators add in the journey from libc to your eyeballs. Some of the most difficult bugs I've worked on involved grep with the color flag and automatic build systems...
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by woodman 12y ago
The terminal is in userland right? So yeah, locale makes a difference based one how the terminal software is designed to handle it.
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by woodman 12y ago
> if you're selling non-SAAS products Pretty funny, considering how much RMS dislikes SAAS.
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by woodman 12y ago
The assumption that the DPRK is an irrational actor would actually be handled just fine under Occam's Razor, it is simply an additional variable in the hypotheses.
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by woodman 12y ago
lol, well consider that against your comment at the top of this thread - none of this is logically consistent.
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by woodman 12y ago
I'd check myself, but I can't find my copy. It'd be a little surprising if that bit was included in either book, and even more surprising if it is more than a footnote, considering how well received Grossman's work is i
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by woodman 12y ago
Well didn't they enjoy titles, land and command of foot-soldiers - in exchange for an oath of loyalty? How would they be more like an inanimate object than today's generals (who have similar benefits to what I just listed)? Also
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by woodman 12y ago
re edit: Well I don't know how successful the strategy actually was. Also, a knight would be more like today's generals right? Again, not a super relevant comparison. The time and money spent on getting the actual trigger pull
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by woodman 12y ago
Well history is great, not repeating the same mistakes and all, but some events are more relevant than others :)
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by woodman 12y ago
Is that a relevant link? I've read both of Grossman's books and don't remember him touching on sociopathy. Was that added it in the 2009 edition?
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by woodman 12y ago
The same can be said of firemen, who absolutely love their job. There is nothing wrong with questioning the actual utility or riotousness of an action, but predicating it on the feelings of the actor is illogical. Yes, the concept of a ha
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by woodman 12y ago
So are you trying to insult the military, the government, or are you just demonstrating lazy thinking? If your thinking was anywhere close to reality: the military would welcome criminals, the infantry would fill the majority of the ranks
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by woodman 12y ago
The list could go on for quite a while, but this reminds me more of their handling of the anthrax attacks. Pinning the attacks on Bruce Ivins after driving him to suicide. It is pretty difficult finding anybody who actually agrees with th
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by woodman 12y ago
> That doesn't pass Occam's Razor let alone any kind of smell test. Really? So North Korea launching a cyber attack in order to prevent the release of a stupid movie seems like a plausible story to you? Of course the story is
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by woodman 12y ago
When you get to the point where you are emulating the actual hardware in the spoof (seek time, etc), I think you've already fallen below the noise floor. It would be like a side channel attack on string comparison during hash checks,
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by woodman 12y ago
> Edit: ... First, what evidence? Second, the USG has demonstrated the fact that it cannot be trusted to tell the truth. That has been the funniest thing about the whole Snowden story, the cycle of lies and spin when the lie is exposed
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by woodman 12y ago
It really depends on your goals. If your goal is simply to fake the transfer speed in a tarball you leak, the easiest way would be load up a vm of the system you're spoofing - change the clock and somehow rate limit the copy. That wo
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by woodman 12y ago
Yeah the faked timestamps aren't new to me, it is the potential faking of copy speed that is interesting. To do that you would need to replicate the transfer order of the copy algorithm (cp in linux vs windows 95), and then modify eac
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by woodman 12y ago
Faked timestamps are not uncommon, but I've never heard of somebody faking a transfer speed using fake timestamps. If anybody could point to a prior example, I'd certainly appreciate it. I wonder what other data can be extracted
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by woodman 12y ago
So I've been out of security for a while, but I don't think I've ever seen this sort of misdirection applied before - or even disused.

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