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by zippergz 10y ago
You can still get contactless cards from Amex at least (I'm not sure about Chase). But you have to specifically request them (and hope you can find a CS rep who knows what you're asking for). I think it's a bit of a chicken a
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by zippergz 10y ago
I don't consider my risks to be 100% covered. I don't have to pay for fraudulent charges, but I still incur substantial costs in terms of time and hassle when a card is compromised and I have to get a new one. Time on the phone wi
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by zippergz 10y ago
Good info, thanks. I'll admit, I'm pretty terrified of having to replace one of the drives in my array. I've replaced dozens or maybe even hundreds of drives in Sun, SGI and DEC storage arrays over the years, but I have a lot
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by zippergz 10y ago
I'd be curious to hear about the issues you've had with zfs. I'm running it on a fileserver in my house, and it's been solid for a few years, but my use isn't very demanding. I'd like to know what problems I sh
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by zippergz 10y ago
I agree. I have lived in cities and in the suburbs, and I greatly prefer the suburbs. I also feel that many of the points in the article make unwarranted assumptions about priorities, or are based on opinion. European cities feel “cozy” an
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by zippergz 10y ago
I think I brought this up last time there was a post about Your Mechanic. But I am still curious about it. I wonder how much their data is skewed by the fact that they're a third-party mechanic. I don't think they necessarily see
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by zippergz 10y ago
To what benefit on their part? They don't manufacture tires, so they don't profit if you have to replace them more often. As another commenter pointed out, this is quite common on performance and luxury vehicles because it has han
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by zippergz 10y ago
Silicon Valley is so realistic that I stopped watching a few episodes into the first season. I was going through a rough and very stressful time at work, and the show was reminding me too much of that rather than being an escape (as I usual
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by zippergz 10y ago
The good part of this is that it should strongly incentivize developers to make sure their subscribers are happy. Otherwise they won't make it to the second year.
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by zippergz 10y ago
I dislike Oracle because their products (at least the ones I've used) are horrible to use, and insanely expensive. Edit: I'm talking about the Oracle database products, not Java, the stuff they acquired with Sun, etc.
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by zippergz 10y ago
By the way, this is the same reason I lock my door even though there’s a glass sidelight right next to it. Any burglar who wants to get into my house can do it in about 5 seconds by breaking that sidelight. But that doesn’t mean there’s no
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by zippergz 10y ago
No, but I disagree that running sshd on an alternate port is an arbitrary layer. It is PROVEN that it prevents the automated mass scanners from even attempting to login. This you admit yourself when you mention the reduction in log noise. Y
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by zippergz 10y ago
I’ve owned several houses. The more recently I bought, the LESS I care about the value of the house. It’s just numbers on paper. Money isn’t at stake until I’m trying to sell, which I’m certainly not looking to to do if I just recently boug
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by zippergz 10y ago
I don’t care what the value of my home is until I am ready to sell, and I don’t plan to do that for a long time. I do care if the qualities that lead me to choose to live where I do change. Additional density can drastically change those qu
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by zippergz 10y ago
Can you give me an example of a real-world worm that has scanned every port on every system on the internet? I haven't seen one, but if it exists, I'd be curious to see it. I'm speaking based on the actual exploits I've
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by zippergz 10y ago
So is this an argument that defense in depth is not a worthwhile strategy as long as you have a single "really good" layer of defense?
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by zippergz 10y ago
Even making minor changes to the Wordpress URLs from the defaults is enough to avoid getting hit by most (if not all) of the automated exploit I see on a day to day basis.
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by zippergz 10y ago
For most of us, the threat is the exact opposite of a dedicated attacker. It's an opportunist (or automated system) that doesn't need to compromise every system on the Internet. It just needs to compromise enough. You can compro
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by zippergz 10y ago
So you don't think you're less likely to be compromised by a 0day OpenSSH worm if your sshd is running on a non-standard port? Why?
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by zippergz 10y ago
Right. The voice assistant doesn't currently solve a real problem I have, except in a few limited situations (in the car, when my hands are full, etc.). And even then I don't trust it enough to do the right thing.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Invariably, if I talk to Siri when my wife is nearby, she immediately says, "what?" and it frequently confuses Siri.
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by zippergz 10y ago
Pardon my ignorance, but is this Windows-only, or what? I have an Office 365 subscription at work for Mac Office, but I barely ever use it. I can't figure out how to access this, so I'm assuming it's not available on Mac? It
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by zippergz 10y ago
> If it's a public road and I drive legally and responsibly then there's no problem I guess you and I have a different definition of "problem." No, you're not breaking any law. And no, I don't have any stand
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by zippergz 10y ago
> It has no notion of how well-lit a street is, or the incline, or how many cars are parked along the curb. GPS also has no notion of speed traps or potholes, but Waze does because they crowdsource it. They could add a way for people to
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by zippergz 10y ago
Yes. Waze has a lot of data on how people are moving on the streets, so I'd think they'd be able to figure in the average wait at any given traffic light. Maybe they do factor that in somehow, but I've seen no evidence of tha
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by zippergz 10y ago
Portraying this as a sense of "owning" the street is unneccessarily perjorative, IMHO. I don't think that many people would argue with the idea that, all else being equal, having less traffic on the street in front of your ho
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by zippergz 10y ago
Yes, this reliability is why I don't use consumer network hardware when I can avoid it. I got sick of getting calls from my wife when I was traveling and she was trying to work from home but the wireless had stopped working again. My h
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by zippergz 10y ago
I've had this problem as well. Another one I've run into is that Waze doesn't seem great at taking into account things like stop signs and traffic lights in my area. So it will re-route me down some street that has little tra
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by zippergz 10y ago
I guess I'm too used to Cisco and Juniper pricing, but "pricey" is the last thing that comes to mind when I think of Microtik... When you say "good commercial routers" that are cheaper, are you talking about consume
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by zippergz 10y ago
Yes, this is when I've had a problem with it as well. A neighbor has the option of parking in front of his own house, or mine. He chooses mine, which results in a longer walk for him. Why would he do this? Because he doesn't like

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