Posts by Anne-Lise Pasch 142 posts • joined 31 Jul 2008
Because if you access the emails of a financial person, you can send fake emails that say things like:
"Please be aware that we are changing our invoicing details from XYZ to ABC as of 1st September."
And because your email looks similar to previously received, and because you knew the previous invoicing details (thanks to the emails you steal) then financial person will remit to your new invoice address.
That's just one way.
Why do most commenters instantly assume that pro-Brexit = Racist? Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there's an overlap. Maybe even a weighted overlap. But I know quite a lot of Brexiters who wanted to pull out for other reasons. One friend of mine just wanted fluctuations in forex to trade on, and another wants some sort of trade union with Canada... :)
I'm on the pro-Uber (from consumer perspective) side of the argument. The benefits over standard taxis are immense. Knowing who, when, where my taxi is (and sharing that information with family for safety sometimes) is what I want/need. I could wish the company itself was better, but I don't want the service broken. I want it fixed.
My experience of Hull, living on the Anlaby Road and working at BP Saltend Plant was:
1. My car window was smashed and my tax disc stolen
2. Armed robbery, purse taken
3. Tooth chipped on kerb when tackled to the floor by 3 men who stole my laptop case
4. Cars blaring horns when I stopped at red lights
5. Open drug dealing
6. Good trains
7. Halfway decent broadband
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice with the palace has the brew that is true
systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix
So systemd parses DNS correctly (Netflix had underscores in hostnames, not labels, which is forbidden) and people are blaming someone for following the RFCs because Netflix are special sparkle ponies?
When I threatened to leave, they let me keep AYCE One Plan for 18/month. They only restrict me to 8GB/month for tethered usage.
> Also as an American I haven't seen a country that much better than the US
... Too easy.
GPS off ... check
Wifi off... check
Bluetooth off... check
NFC off... check
data plan, non-existent... check
cell tower triangulation... bugger.
If you know my password, its not secure. If you know a salted hash of my password, I smile upon you.
> maybe there should be a OS level icon
And then something will bypass that, and so the game continues
Maybe they're using the medieval Latin version, and stealing their tents. That would be kinda awesome.
I would actually welcome cell phones in the cinema, IF (and only if) they have cell-free showings which are actively 'policed'. that way the self-important millennial with the phone can legitimately be told to turn it off, and not get aggravation in response.
Yep. Adobe.
Don't need a new internet. Just put adverts on a new tld (.advertising) and enforce metadata for sizing. Then, if you opt out of advertising, your pages are still the same size. Then browsers can flag if your advertising is on/off for the purposes of paywall checks for those websites that use a freemium model.
Its a function of getting older. You wake up one day, look at the clutter on the desk, and grab a bin bag. Then you realise you're 40, and haven't done a 3-day coding stint in 20 years. As you wipe the sad glass panel with a cloth (accidentally smearing it worse with your tears) you vow to get a white-oak desk (possibly with Tuscan legs) to match your furniture.
I work in such an environment, and it can work very well. DevOps thrives where your staff is experienced, multi-disciplined and professional. You don't need to be a DBA to maintain a SQL system, or promote a deployment through environments, but you do have to know when you need your DBA, or when to allocate resource from your most experienced server admin. And that distinction is where DevOps can fall down if you sacrifice any of the trinity (experience, knowledge, professionalism). There's a massive difference between having a professional senior developer supporting a live deployment, and a junior cowboy developing in production.
Took the credit for the working bits, delegated blame to the BAs. Made a PM cry once. Swapped the BAs and PMs around by calling them both Scrum Masters and pretended to understand ITIL while calling everything AGILE. Sacked half the ops team and made the developers do their job too, which worked for a while as they were then able to code in production, like it was the Wild West. I just called it DevOps. Once QA complaints reached high decibels, I sacked the QA resources and offshored their function to three countries in the same timezone, while pretending we had follow-the-sun by making one team work night shifts, then took a job at a competitor before it all blew up underneath me, with glowing references. Repeat.
I wonder how bad it would be if his actual evil twin performs another robbery in the next couple of years... Proving he wasn't lying, just strange. LifeTime would have an awesome TV movie on their hands.
My pro tip, for what its worth, is to browse within a vm that has its hard drive set to refresh on reboot. I have IE11 (I do a lot of web testing with various browsers) within VM workstation set up that way, and with Unity switched on can access IE as if its part of my desktop. If I get hit by a virus, a reboot will kill it. It has no permissions to my real desktop at all, (runs in a seperate virtual network, seperate user account.) Brought this method of working across from my VM Fusion days on my mac, and am happy with the extra layer of security it provides.
We had cartridge games on the C64. We just hardly used them because we all had an Action Replay cartridge for cheating on tape games that we used Action Replay to clone onto a floppy...
If they capture themselves coding the script, might even be worth hiring them. (head explodes from too much meta)
Which is that same thing as saying not to use any cloud, co location hosting, or possibly even the internet.
Github is over SSL, and is stored encrypted at the remote end.
If the story had been Dropbox spewed man's financial credentials in bad app update, the story would be focused on the tool and service, not how stupid the user was for using the service. The user had an expectation of security AND privacy.
A private github *should be* no different to using any 3rd party cloud provider.
Because its a *private* repository he was supposed to be uploading to. In private repositories we do things like store keys and binaries because we abuse Github for non-build purposes, like the ability to git pull remotely and have a complete working copy of our code. Despite Github not being a backup service, our own private repositories where we work contain private keys, license files, database backups, all sorts of dll binaries. Convenience, ne? Until something like this happens.
Totally agree. The idea of a gaming machine that I can still use as a commuting device appeals to me.
Looking at the remaining data, I have no problem with them retaining 90% of the data. Height, age, weight, etc. I can see how that would be useful for firmographics. I just don't know why they need to keep the town, longitude and latitude which can identify a person. (Especially in a small town.) And this is why they are culpable.
Its one thing if it makes it slightly gibberish, but another if the accent changes the meaning to "Welcome to Penisland, Population: You." So I'll give the councillor the obligatory hat doff on this one and let it slide.
it IS a hassle (and a con) that you have to use Pay As You Go on a bus to get to a tube station to activate the Weekly ticket that should have covered you for the bus journey. And you cant claim that back.
This is true, but a separation of the routing information and payload would be beneficial. For instance, assume the entire payload was deeply encrypted, adding a tag to say the payload contained encrypted video traffic would allow for as much information as an ISP should need to know for rate limiting, without having to deep packet inspect every last byte.
As an application developer, I want the protocol to do all the heavy lifting. I don't want to have to code a lot of stuff into my app that shouldn't have to be there, and potentially get it wrong. I just want to be able to either create a connection, or receive a connection, and know that what I pass down that pipe will get there in a fast and secure fashion. Today, I find myself using API after API; MSMQ, signalR, IOCP->ImmutableStack, because the heavy lifting is bubbled up to the application layer. But its not like my requirements are fundamentally different to 99.9% of everyone else doing TCP development, who just need to get the data to get from A to B, or A to Many. If this means losing the 'value add' of rate-limiting protocol-massaging that my ISP believes is 'helping me', then so be it.
Some days I wish we could just have 802.11zz - Use ALL the spectrum (yes, all of it) for a single world network. And then run everything on top of that network. No more not-spots. We could call it Skynet...
In some ways they share a lot in common, but the Ant-Man is a better popcorn movie. I disagree with most of the reviewer's commentary; I liked Paul Rudd's direction. I had issues with the science. (When you're small, you have the same density as when you're big... so why can I carry a tank in my pocket again?) But otherwise it was amusing fluff in line with Guardians of the Galaxy.
I'm just embarrassed those arrested called themselves hackers; they didn't go to a hacking-orientated website via an anonymising VPN service (iPredator, etc.). This is a bit like the London Met hiking the crimes-solved numbers by fining speeding drivers on the A40.
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