In the background was a visible HTTPS URL.I wish I was a big game dev so I could do that. But make it be a 10 GB file encrypted with some reasonably light encryption. And have it be "Never Gonna Give You Up" or something looped 100x.
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RE: Star Citizen: 80$ Million Dollar Leaky Faucet
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RE: Anyone posted the Lenovo malware news yet?
Isn't Lenovo the brand all the crazy-security-conscious Lunix users buy? Why did it take so long for this to be detected?
Yes, "Why didn't Linux users detect the certificates Lenovo installed in Windows?"Also, it doesn't sound like it was there for all that long. The article says Lenovo says that it was shipped only starting in October last year. I can't put a particularly tight upper bound on that, but I have one I bought about a year before that, and mine doesn't seem to have it installed.
It does make me want to vet all my computers' root certs though...
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
Race condition jokes.
(Shamelessly stolen from a coworker)
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
You know what never gets old?
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Today's security vulnerability: let's exploit hardware bugs!
“Rowhammer” is a problem with some recent DRAM devices in which repeatedly accessing a row of memory can cause bit flips in adjacent rows. We tested a selection of laptops and found that a subset of them exhibited the problem. We built two working privilege escalation exploits that use this effect. One exploit uses rowhammer-induced bit flips to gain kernel privileges on x86-64 Linux when run as an unprivileged userland process. When run on a machine vulnerable to the rowhammer problem, the process was able to induce bit flips in page table entries (PTEs). It was able to use this to gain write access to its own page table, and hence gain read-write access to all of physical memory.
http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2015/03/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.htmlThey anonymize the hardware they tested so you can't just look, but you can download a test program to see if you're vulnerable.
I wonder how many decades it will be until there is any chance of anything computery being even vaguely secure.
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RE: Warning: WTDWTF will be read-only soonish
One does not typically send private keys anywhere...
Au contrare, you need to back up your private keys in a number of locations because they're so important. In fact, I'm soon to be launching a dedicated website for this service. I'll be happy to give anyone a free month of service; in the interim, you can jut PM me your private keys. Be sure to tell me what they allow access to so that I can make sure they didn't get corrupted during transfer. -
RE: Git troubleshooting flowchart
The fact such a thing is even necessary is slightly worrying.
Is needing such a thing better or worse than having one that is roughly, say,
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
It's weird how it dropped so suddenly and more or less gracefully.
http://youtu.be/Te_3gfOoh8c?t=50s
(Start at 0:50 if it doesn't.)Inside job. Definitely.
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RE: Software problems that really ought to be solved by now
My big complaint in this category: line endings in text files.
Both CRLF and LF are around to stay. Why do so many tools not work with both?! (Mostly this is an indictment of a number of Unixy utilities; Notepad excluded, Windows programs in my experience almost always deal correctly with both.)
Edit: Also: not having to configure backspace/delete over SSH. (It usually works, but not always, which is pretty ridiculous.)
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RE: Windows 9 (And Pandora) appreciation thread
I think the real question is: when two gay people marry, do they get a UAC prompt?
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RE: Do You Have ESP?
proprioception
This is one of my favorite words ever.It also let me coin a succinct phrase to describe, when you are driving, how well you know where the boundaries of your car are (something that was much more relevant to me when I had to park in a lot where there was often very very little maneuverability space): "vehicular proprioception," which I think also sounds pretty awesome.
(It's not a perfect analogue as your vehicular proprioception is rooted in your sight, but it's close enough to be useful.)
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
How do you reconcile agreeing that there's a big difference with your statement thatI think if you don't at least see why the "pregnant mother" and "I have a toddler" situations are different enough to at least narrow the gap significantly, that I don't understand.
I do.
It's more like, any defense of abortion could be used against a toddler.
?Or do you view my statement as merely an argument for legality rather than whether it's moral?
I'm not going to claim progressives are innocent of that, but conservatives sure as hell aren't either. Prohibiting gay marriage, being just as complicit in the war on drugs, mandating abstinence-only sex ed, wishing they could prohibit certain sexual acts, wishing they could prohibit contraception, trying as hard as they can to prohibit abortions, etc.Gotcha. Let's stop everything we disagree with, through any means necessary, whether it is legal or not.
It's the Progressive way!
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
That's an even worse defense of abortion.
I probably choose a somewhat poor wording, but I think it's just a restatement of one of the main arguments for having abortion legal, which is that the mother should have the right to choose what goes on with her body. Early on in pregnancy, I view that right as overriding the fetus's right to life. That's what I meant by significant imposition: not just tangible things like having to deal with morning sickness and the eventual birth, but what I view as a suppression of those rights. There's no need to impose on that right at all in the case of a toddler. That's what I meant.Now, I realize that you disagree with the "override" part of that explanation, and that's the part of the argument I'm actually sympathetic to. But to rephrase what I said before, I think if you don't at least see why the "pregnant mother" and "I have a toddler" situations are different enough to at least narrow the gap significantly, that I don't understand.
that a fetus is life is countered by saying life doesn't matter, only convenience.
I don't think that the fetus doesn't matter by any stretch. I view it as a situation where both mother and fetus have rights that are in direct conflict. My valuation the mother comes out on top early in the pregnancy and (because both the mother's "share" has decreased and the fetus's "share" has increased) the fetus comes out on top late in the pregnancy -- but concluding the first part doesn't mean I put the fetus at zero or even close to zero.Edit: And to tie that view to what I said in the first part of this response, late in the pregnancy I also view abortion prohibitions as a significant imposition on the mother and her rights -- but in this case, that imposition is worth it because it's for a greater good. Her rights aren't at zero there either, just less than the fetus's.
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
It's more like, any defense of abortion could be used against a toddler.
Bull-fucking-shit.Toddlers can be given up for adoption immediately and without a significant imposition on the mother. Fetuses can't. I'm not saying you have to agree that this makes a difference in the end equation of what's moral, but if you don't see that there's an extremely significant difference between the two situations I think you're blind.
Maybe when prisons were self-sufficient and prisoners had to work for a living. That was good preparation for being released to society as a productive member.
Don't forget locking up productive members of society because they liked the wrong plant.Now we just give them cable to offset the prison brutality (from guards and other prisoners alike) and teach them that they can only get ahead by being paranoid.
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
To massively over-simplify, in China, 3rd trimester abortions are acceptable, if less so than a decade ago. In the US, 2nd trimester. In Europe, 1st. And each one of those examples are of very large political units which are made up of smaller ones, which have their own laws and regulations. Who has the right number- and how can we prove it to everyone else?
To be honest... I don't know who has the right number. I kind of don't think there is a right number, and I think that, for example, the variance between Europe and US and China is not a bad thing. (Well, at least between US and Europe.) Like I said, I'm actually even pretty sympathetic to the pro-life argument even if I consider myself pretty squarely in the pro-choice camp. -
RE: Sexiïst air conditioning
Do they also get Intel Pentium 4 HT Extreme Edition space heaters?
I did an internship at IBM literally a decade ago. There were three of us working on this project, and they put all three of us into this slightly larger room that used to house computer equipment. And because it used to have computer equipment, it was set up so that the room got a lot of cooling. Of course, once you remove the equipment it was incredibly cold. We would show up wearing jackets, and eventually they gave us a space heater. To run to compensate for the air conditioning. -
RE: The Official Status Thread
Arrrg.
OK, in some sense I'm the WTF here, but in my defense it's not like I typed that out, the ripping software got the name from the CDDB or something. But that error is really obnoxious. OK, what folder is that in? Won't tell me. What about the most useful action to take: copy under another name? No, Windows doesn't give you a good way to do that.
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
Do they ever have similar values? By that I mean, is it ridiculous at 12 weeks, still ridiculous at 22 weeks, understandable at 30, reasonable after birth?
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
In short, it's a simple minded opinion that ignores the reality of the situation. Plus, yeah, a lot of people do view it as something as evil as Hitler.
Speaking of simple minded opinion that ignores the reality of the situation...It's a simple fact than nearly everyone thinks that not all cases where someone causes the death of another -- even one who is innocent and has no say in the matter -- are morally equivalent. (Consider civilian deaths in wartime; unless you're Quaker-level pacifist, you almost certainly have many wars for which you view civilian deaths as a regrettable consequence of something for which the overall good outweighs that evil. Edit: heck, most people think that military actions for which it is known that they will cause catastrophic civilian deaths -- and to at least some extent are designed to -- can sometimes be justified.) And to put a "Holocaust death" on the same level as an "abortion death"... IMO that's ridiculous.
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RE: Planned Parenthood is in Denial
Unless you know of people who thought it was morally wrong to dig up potatoes.