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Error and Fraud at Issue as Absentee Voting Rises (nytimes.com)
1 points by zorlem 14y ago|1 comments
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by zorlem 14y ago
It certainly moves us forward, but I'm not sure I like the direction. With the traditional (paper ballot) voting there are several principles that are key to the legitimacy of the election process: 1) The paper ballot could be verified by a
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by zorlem 14y ago
And here is the individual advisory for Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1618-1/ . Debian's advisory (DSA-2566-1) has not propagated to http://security.debian.org/ yet.
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Exim4 in Debian/Ubuntu: Fix for a remotely exploitable heap overflow(article.gmane.org)
2 points by zorlem 14y ago|1 comments
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by zorlem 14y ago
What a poor title, sadly the article itself is even worse. The Wired article is much better: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4692453
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by zorlem 14y ago
self-promoted blogspam
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by zorlem 14y ago
This works only for entries that are in HN's memory cache. Older stories don't appear, unless somebody has read them soon. For a full list of stories with high-scores you can consult HNSearch [1] [1]: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request
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by zorlem 14y ago
So far I haven't solved the problem of keeping a non-trivial service without any interventions. How does running your servers and services on a PaaS provider solve the need for OS updates and security? What are your typical architecture and
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The Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon (Frequency Illusion)(damninteresting.com)
1 points by zorlem 14y ago|0 comments
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by zorlem 14y ago
Sigh, embed.ly's blog can't handle the incoming traffic. Google has the cache if you want to look at the article - [1]. [1]: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&q=cac... edit: clarification: it's their blog that can't
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by zorlem 14y ago
I mostly agree with this. That's why I asked about GP's motivation. I suspect, though, without any actual data to back this up, that the drives that go into (low-cost) external HDD enclosures have lower MTBF ratings than the desktop-oriente
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by zorlem 14y ago
>This isn't Dropbox and nowhere as reliable as S3 - its literally as if you're renting remote consumer external drives for offsite backup What are their reliability promises? I think that they're doing some mirroring of the data, but
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by zorlem 14y ago
Why would you do that? Due to reliability concerns, since they're using 3TB SATA drives, sourced by Cotsco and Best Buy?
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by zorlem 14y ago
That's one of the things that caught my attention as well. It seems strange, I would've imagined that at 50TB/day (~500 x 3TB HDDs/month) they could get a nice deal with a direct importer. I guess there is a small PR twist to the whole stor
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by zorlem 14y ago
The original is written in a much better style, indeed. I've submitted the story to HN ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4631027 ) as well and hope it catches up more than this entry.
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Farming hard drives: how Backblaze weathered the Thailand drive crisis(blog.backblaze.com)
187 points by zorlem 14y ago|100 comments
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by zorlem 14y ago
FreeMind (and I'd guess Freeplane) supports symlinks [1], [2] between nodes, so you can break the hierarchy somewhat. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Arrow_link http://blog.mindleaders.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Freem.
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by zorlem 14y ago
In my opinion Humble Bundle have managed to build a solid reputation and following, I hope this plays out well for them. I'm eager to see how this experiment will work out for the organizers and the artists. I have some doubts about the v
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by zorlem 14y ago
By giving access to the X server, he effectively gives access to all keyboard and mouse events, so recording the audio of the keystrokes is not necessary (but could be another attack vector, if firefox could not be exploited for code execut
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by zorlem 14y ago
With the read-only media you've got a problem with upgrading the kernel, which, recently, you need to be doing quite often. As for the PGP smartcard, I've posted a comment on the blog that it could hold the private key used for decrypting t
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by zorlem 14y ago
Great article, these metrics are much better than those provided by the PerfMon. The "Signal waits" metric was new for me. I'd really appreciate it, if people stop calling MS-SQL Server just SQL server. This way the title is a little mislea
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by zorlem 14y ago
Unfortunately my experience is not the same: i've done several job interviews in the past months here in Italy and I had difficulties also having negative replies (they just dont tell you anything and after weeks/months you're supposed to
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by zorlem 14y ago
See the link to the w3c - several times they've started delivering 503 HTTP error codes, hoping that the applications would start to break. It didn't have a big effect, either because the application didn't actually use the DTD they've retr
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by zorlem 14y ago
thanks :) the "| wc -l" was tacked in for the submission :)
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by zorlem 14y ago
I'm not sure the situation with java.sun.com, but those provided by w3c do have a 90 days expiration (according to one of the links I've posted). In all cases, since the DTDs are more or less versioned through their filenames, with quite a
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by zorlem 14y ago
On several occasions I've used the Tomcat Security Manager and it have not given me any problems. I find it fine-grained enough for my purposes, although not as fine-grained as you wish. I've used it to limit JVM's access to a specific set
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Java.sun.com is down again - breaking bad apps across the land
97 points by zorlem 14y ago|36 comments
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by zorlem 14y ago
I guess the things are much easier in Europe than in USA in this regard. Not facing a huge risk of being sued by a candidate you've turned down due to their lack of skills is liberating both for the employer and the potential employee. I pe
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by zorlem 14y ago
One of the possible reasons it took the companies two or more weeks to give a negative answer to Matt (OP) would be that usually the candidates are "ordered" by preference. When you get several strong candidates you propose to the one you c
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by zorlem 15y ago
I've been more than happy with the services offered by Skrill/Moneybookers [1], and AFAIK they have no issues working with UK merchants. Might be worth checking them. [1] https://www.moneybookers.com/

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