Posts by Anonymice 29 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Nov 2008
Unless you explicitly disable IPv6, Windows automatically generates a link-local address. In which case, even if you have v6 disabled on your gateways, the vulnerability can be exploited by anyone on the same network segment.
End of the day yesterday, I had much fun tormenting the handful of my colleagues who were still unpatched.
If you don't want the headache of CVEs & the resulting prioritized bug fixes in your experimental code, don't include that code in your mainline branch. Irrespective of the code being enabled by default or not.
nginx isn't a pet project, it's a core piece that underpins today's internet.
I've got an Epson inkjet that's exactly the same. When *any* of its colours run low, it flashes up a warning that can't be bypassed & covers the entire interface, essentially blocking the use of any of its other features.
However...if you use a generic driver instead of their 400MB monster, the touch screen remains blocked, but you can still send print/scan commands via the OS.
They don't pull this shit with laserjet. I've decided this is the last inkjet I'll ever own. It's not worth it. When you calculate the total cost of ownership, it's far cheaper just to pay a professional printshop for the odd high res prints you might need.
I get the apparent irony in the name, but it is for the most part, accurate. With exception of fowl shooting, the majority of uses would be for the euthanasia of large livestock suffering in illness (as opposed to the methods used in abattoirs), or pest control.
I'm against hunting for sport, but with the UK's apex predators having been wiped out long ago, controlled culling is an unavoidable necessity of maintaining healthy ecosystems.
"prawnsalad", an apparent well known community member & IRC developer, who was seemingly involved in the initial attempts at mediation between "rasengan" (the new emperor) & "tomaw" (ex-head of staff), posted what seems to be the least drama-filled & likely most impartial take on events, whilst announcing his own departure from the IRC community.
To quote:
Both sides had valid points, both sides extremely bad at communicating, both sides unable to work together.
Fast forward probably a week or so, both sides have legal involved, both sides attempt to silence each other. There is no one side doing harm here - both are actively involved. The biggest difference is that one side has expensive lawyers, the other side has a thousand+ strong echo chamber.
https://gist.github.com/prawnsalad/4ca20da6c2295ddb06c1646791c61953
TLDR; Stubborn nerds on a power trip, more interested in "winning" a the cost of the community, than finding compromise for the good of the community.
But now the damage has been done, I'd put more trust in those who have been maintaining the community for the past 20 years than the new emperor insistent on imposing his "best intentions" on everyone else.
Sales taxes/VAT disproportionately taxes the poor & encourages the hoarding of wealth
Think about it, those on the breadline who live paycheck to paycheck, will be taxed on 100% of their income, in comparison to someone who earns above their needs & is able to save part of their income. Those savings could then be transferred & "converted" in more favourable jurisdictions.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47514289
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The Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee indicated that Lion Air flight 610 experienced "erroneous input" from one of its sensors designed to alert pilots if the aeroplane is at risk of stalling.
The sensor and connected software work in a different way to previous models of the 737, but pilots had not been told that.
Within days of the Lion Air crash, the aircraft maker Boeing issued an operations bulletin to airlines.
The US aviation regulator then issued an "emergency" airworthiness directive to US carriers about this sensor - a so-called Angle of Attack (AOA) sensor.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the sensor "condition, if not addressed, could cause the flight crew to have difficulty controlling the airplane, and lead to excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with terrain".
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Even if they didn't strictly audit the src & dst of all the packets traversing their networks, if all communications are strongly encrypted end-to-end, especially those carrying critical &/or top secret information, then what does it matter if the network gear tries to syphon data?
And from my own limited experience working on a low-level MoD network, the job came with a 600 page manual just for the encryption & security requirements alone. I recall 4096-bit keys were a minimum.
"If it didn't have a long history of security problems, this might not be such a bad thing, but..."
Don't conflate reported issues found because of good auditing, with weak security. For the majority of cases, using a lesser audited or DIY platform attempting the same level of functionality as WP will run the risk of having *more* bugs & holes. The problem is when you start running all sorts of poorly audited third-party plugins.
As a SysAdmin, I've had far more issues with developers' in-house DIY CMS than I have with a properly configured WP.
On paper, Backpage was owned by a German shell company, which in turn was owned by 4-5 layers of US shell companies. It was apparently a poorly executed attempt at masking the true ownership, which was the obvious aim, as it provided no tax or other financial benefits. He still ran the day-to-day operations of the company from within its HQ of ~120 staff
Come on guys, this ain't the BBC, where're the technical details?
You rope us in with a headline about supposed privacy leaks in DNS, and then spend the entire article talking about old-hat browser fingerprinting & behavioural analysis. That was news 15 years ago!
“Many websites produce a so distinctive DNS retrieval pattern” that requests can be recognised “more or less unequivocally.”
How does the content on a *website* produce a distinctive enough pattern to identify specific pages?
"IT?" 'cause who the freud do you think your readership are?
"For me having ZFS is a major useful step in it provides both data checksums and file system snapshots. Though it remains to be seen if this is well-used (e.g. can you snapshot the OS partition/share before any update/upgrade to allow roll-back without also rolling back your own data? Is that the default option in the upgrade manager?)"
In this respect, just as with LVM snapshots - you can only snapshot whole partitions. However that shouldn't be an issue if you partition your disks properly. User data & sysem data are best kept to their own FS'.
I'm absolutely terrible with opening endless streams of tabs throughout my day at work. I tend to leave a tab open, but "unloaded", as a way to keep a note of something I'll need later in the day. This means it's not uncommon for me to have up to 100 tabs open by the end of the day.
I'm much better now, I used to average over 200!
Firefox still handles this relatively well, however open 20 tabs in Chrome & it'll chew up all your RAM & then freeze.
Whilst I'm not entirely well versed in the peculiars of Middle East politics, your arguments have had several shortcomings.
1) You dismissed suggestions that the US was involved in any sort of proxy wars allied with Israel, as no US Army clad soldiers set foot on those lands, yet have repeatedly pointed the finger at Iran for supporting proxy wars via supposedly linked organisations.
Why can the US shirk responsibility when it (officially) funds & supplies Israeli military actions, yet Iran can't (allegedly) do the same?
I point out I'm not giving any justification for either, but you have been using contradictory arguments in what appears to be your uncritical support of US actions.
2) You've so far provided little justification for Israel's actions other than "because the other side did similar".
Two wrongs make a right?
I've used the bikes a few times now & the only real complaint I've had so far is the low gearing. You have to pedal just shy of 1000rpm to get anywhere.
It would also be nice to have a proper mobile optimised website to find the nearest stations & their availability. Android & iPhone apps are of little use when I'm using a Blackberry.
Despite the teething issues, I've been very impressed with the system overall.
Re: No Oyster?
The reason PAYG users are limited to paying by credit/debit card is to insure the bike against theft & damage (which can incur fees up to £300).
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling/14811.aspx
As far as I can tell, the annual just lets you take advantage of the no-hassle FOB, and possibly the free 1/2 hr?
How exactly do they stop the one-time users scarpering with the bikes?
I'm quite interested in watching this scheme in action.
...Metro supports a large variety of phones.
Metro - http://chotto.free.fr/tatami/Metro/
I've been using this on a number of my phones, for years.
It doesn't have the GPS mapping, but it's very handy to have when planning routes on public transport.
It covers both tube, train & (night) bus routes, their schedules, details of each station/stop & it's not just limited to London - it covers cities all over the world. All for the mighty price of £0.00
He may only have provided access, but I presume he had full knowledge of what was intended? If he knew what was going on, then in my opinion, he is equally responsible.
I suspect Willams' sentence may have something to do with his publishing child pornographic images...
Now, I hate to be the antagonist here, but...
"viewed images of child pornography since he was only 11 or 12"
...does that still class as child porn, or just porn? - Regardless, he's no long 12.
Re: Did you see them?
> how do you know they were child abuse images instead of just regular child porn?
Because regardless of whether acquiring these images involved physical or mental abuse, involvement in it is pure abuse of power & trust.
Re: Digerati
> I find it very hard to believe that this young well spoken guy would be interested in this stuff
Again, being the antagonist, I doubt people have much control over their attractions. Whether they choose to pursue them or not, is a different matter.
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