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by wuest 14y ago
Fantastic. I've been riding for roughly 10 years and, in the US at least, the idea of learning to ride before one hops on a scarily-powerful/heavy motorcycle is a polarizing factor (either one absolutely agrees with it, or one scoffs at th
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by wuest 14y ago
Short answer: yes. Long answer: Sometimes. It's also one of the most frustrating things you can engage in. Up until the point where you have a 'eureka' moment, you feel like every step you've taken was through a tar pit. Pentesting is de
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by wuest 14y ago
In addition to your point, Diablo 3 also introduced a real-money auction system, which necessitated a need for far deeper control over inventory etc. Online-only for such a system is a fairly obvious choice.
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by wuest 14y ago
Looks pretty sweet! I'll be digging in tonight. Looks like there's even an official build for the ODroid U2! Sweet deal, I happen to own two.
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by wuest 14y ago
The crux of this sort of issue was laid bare relatively early in this article: results and papers are more important than good science, which leads to an increased incidence of fraud and related misconduct. If good science were actually va
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by wuest 14y ago
The Adderall analogy really drives the point home. This is well put, and a powerful message more people (especially those in a position to effect policy) ought to read.
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by wuest 14y ago
There's not a lot in the way of new ideas here, but it's a nice distillation of bits and pieces that I've seen incorporated into other games. The web-based half RTS/half TBS genre has incorporated the idea of X command points per Y time per
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by wuest 14y ago
Absolutely agreed--this is a point I made in other posts. I apologize if I came across as harsh--absolutely not my intention.
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by wuest 14y ago
This is a clever bit of social engineering which really taps into the mentality, not to mention the rhetoric, of open source hackers. I like it!
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by wuest 14y ago
This sounds mostly reasonable at first glance. I'd have to dig a lot more into how it's played out in practice to have a fully-valid opinion, of course. The one thing you mention that worries me, though, is dropping 0day. Would this inclu
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by wuest 14y ago
Yeah, this is pretty likely. It's a dangerous road to go down, however, as regulatory bodies can be far from impartial. It's a difficult issue to properly address. I think the right method to go about it is to punish actions, rather than
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by wuest 14y ago
> does that impinge on free-speech? It could be argued that free speech necessarily has limitations. Depending on where you are in the world, this involves hate speech and incitation to violence. I would readily agree that distributing
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by wuest 14y ago
s/could/do/ This is the problem with these manner of laws. Criminalizing the very method by which entities guarantee their security is never a good idea.
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by wuest 14y ago
Welp. I almost purchased this book last week in addition to the IDA book, but decided to purchase one at a time. I hope the EFF enjoys my money; you forced my hand.
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by wuest 14y ago
The problem is that the behavior itself is rarely viral. What's the difference between this and, for example, gotomypc?
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by wuest 14y ago
That's beside the point. There are plenty of valid uses for other things which would have been criminalized such as Metasploit and Core Impact. Not to mention that such things as writing PoC code to validate vulnerabilities would have bee
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by wuest 14y ago
I'd be curious to find out as well. It's a very fine line between a luhn10 checker, and a luhn10 sniffer--the law's wording would need to be very precise to avoid criminalizing legitimate business software.
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by wuest 14y ago
There are blind go players, so I assume blind chess players also exist.
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by wuest 14y ago
All-too-common response: "Oh, but they're just warnings mumble compiles and runs 'cleanly' mumble..."
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by wuest 14y ago
This is true. There are ways to transact which don't compromise your identity. They are a pain; it's a trade-off. To your point at [1], I am not aware of any way which mining can compromise PII.
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by wuest 14y ago
Bitcoin is traceable. This means that it does not provide privacy. Note that cash is also traceable in edge cases thanks to serial numbers. Bitcoin is definitely anonymous. Consider: a wallet has no PII attached to it, beyond what you gi
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by wuest 14y ago
Disclaimer: I didn't read the original post, so I'm not sure where it was in your post that the word 'asshole' used to live. In my circles, at least, 'don't be an asshole' and 'you are being an asshole' is harsh-not-mean, while 'you are an
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by wuest 14y ago
Thanks for posting this--I hadn't seen the side by side comparison. If this is what's being claimed as 'copies' of their artwork, then it's clearly an empty claim. The Flat UI icons look better, to my taste.
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by wuest 14y ago
Indeed; in order for any standard like this (or UPC, EAN, etc) to gain widespread usage as opposed to very narrow, single-organization usage, it has to be EASY to adopt. This means that while the standard's official documentation might requ
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by wuest 14y ago
> It's a bit of a double standard, but they might have been expecting you to be dressed in a suit anyway. I've encountered this. My current workplace has a notoriously laid back and straight-forward culture. Knowing this, I asked the
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by wuest 14y ago
Me too. Until my family moved to an area, the schools in which didn't recognize ability as an appropriate differentiator. It was not good times for me. This doesn't mean that ability as a differentiator is bad--I think that it's a great i
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by wuest 14y ago
Nice write-up. It's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that things are "thread-safe" when writing under the iron fist of a Global Interpreter Lock. Ruby threads seems to be a fairly narrow topic on which to base a book; I'll look forwa
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by wuest 14y ago
This is a fascinating topic. I haven't heard of this in the past, but I certainly can relate. I hate talking about things I (do/have done) and usually tend to prefer to just wait and talk about things "once I actually do something worthwh
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by wuest 14y ago
I'm glad to see the Surface Pro getting some good reviews. I actually really want this sort of hardware to take off--and I _really_ want to see a compelling Linux offering on it. This sort of device would fit the needs I have both for a l
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by wuest 14y ago
At first I thought the same thing as you. However, for instances such as this where the service is especially appealing to criminals I think this solution is reasonable. Finding effective ways of detecting someone who deserves a hellbannin

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