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by ambiate 10y ago
You can go really cheap: AMD 8300+$40 mobo/stock cooler +500w psu + gtx 970 + generic mouse/keyboard/monitor + $30 case + 8GB ram + $20 SSD and come out around ~$600. For an upgradeable Intel solution with a decent SSD/H
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by ambiate 10y ago
CFAA is very broad. "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains— C) information from any protected computer;" A court could see "ambiate was authorized to use the
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by ambiate 10y ago
I love that the deer has figured out teleportation and the humans haven't figured out how to notice a deer.
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by ambiate 10y ago
15 years ago, that standard set used to be wget something from packetstormsecurity.org. If no wget: curl it. If no curl: just lynx it. else: move on to the next vulnerable server. Script kiddies were quite lazy back then. I feel old at thir
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by ambiate 10y ago
I plead the fifth. CFAA/RICO/Patriot Act. My hint would be: before decentralized worms, there were IRC hubs. The 'owners' would typically use their native language for the various commands (I know English is used in more
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by ambiate 10y ago
Its interesting how many HN users seem to be missing the point of a honeypot. He set this up deliberately to understand the frequency/types of attacks on a random machine on the internet. From my past experience, most of those CN compu
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by ambiate 11y ago
This is my dream job. Yet, offering a 65-75k salary for what is essentially a penta-glob of DBA/ops/programming/testing/manager positions is really weak. Using most of the tools, its very akin to a scan the barcode at a
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by ambiate 11y ago
2016 Q3/Q4's new fancy toy may not be a RiftV2 and may have a minimum requirement of a Pascal GPU or Skylake/Broadwell-e CPU. Its just a really horrible time to buy computer hardware right now.
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by ambiate 11y ago
If you're not an early adopter enthusiast: it may not be a great idea to purchase this right now. You will probably need a PC upgrade to match your new $675 toy. The new generation of Intel/Nvidia is right around the corner. Don&#
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by ambiate 11y ago
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/ That is pretty damning on the amount of users with a 970/780ti/980/980ti/titan x. My 560ti plays most games at a decent resolution in mid-setti
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by ambiate 11y ago
Here are my thoughts on the situation: 1) First generation devices are usually flops/riddled with bugs, but usually exploitable if you don't upgrade firmware/etc. 2) I would probably need to buy a 980TI ($600) or Titan X ($1k
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Linode is having an outage?
8 points by ambiate 11y ago|3 comments
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by ambiate 11y ago
Big thanks to John Carmack (and team) for Quake1 modding and replying to my emails. It was a gateway drug.
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by ambiate 11y ago
I sadly got bit today. I bought a Freedompop hotspot. After entering my billing information, and after the processing screen, a screen showed an offer for a $30 phone. I intended to click Skip, but my mind clicked Accept this offer, because
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by ambiate 11y ago
The appliance industry has it figured out. The parts are so discrete and they control the finite supply. Not worth counterfeiting/cloning, because there are too many models/factors. In fact, they won't make replacement parts
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by ambiate 11y ago
My uni offers summer classes, but mostly for intro classes. This means if you transfer in or are a second year student, you have slim pickings in the summer offering. I would have gladly attended 90% of my classes in the summer had they bee
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by ambiate 11y ago
How does Zenefits handle if a Employer paid check does not match the Zenefits charged amount? ie: reconciliation portion. Employee X terminated, check is $22.8k instead of $23k. Employee Y has three policies for a single benefit, but only t
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by ambiate 11y ago
I've provided a link to the skills a kindergartener is expected to know in Texas. The most interesting one to me: 'counting from 20 to 0 backwards.' It touched my indexing heart when they included 0. http://tea.tex
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by ambiate 11y ago
From a player perspective, Zelda is harder due to: --Larger world with set of objectives which must be completed in some order. IE: You need the bow, before you get the lance, before you get the ice wand. A program could endlessly wander in
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by ambiate 11y ago
I don't know why this is getting down voted. I've come across near duplicates of this code and its always "that's how we did it after punch cards."
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by ambiate 11y ago
Sometimes creativity is the only thing holding people back from exploiting the natural insects of the web. Case in point, ever wonder why those captchas include street addresses or 'pick the shape with a hole in it?' Spoiler: you&
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by ambiate 11y ago
I believe so. I still remember being in the local uni's lab over wifi and firesheep had ~80 entries for facebook/gmail/etc. Click a profile and hijack their session.
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by ambiate 11y ago
I am very thankful for Hover and Pinball. They made me want a faster and less buggy computer. This resulted in wonderful mishaps -- deleting Win system files, recovering into Vector Linux, trying Win 3.11 for WG, and finally ending up in Wi
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by ambiate 11y ago
I have lived in Waco for 5+ years. Never experienced a 'biker gang' or heard of biker related violence here. I had my run with the law that disenchanted me. I saw a city worker stealing mail. I was laughed at by the police officer
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by ambiate 11y ago
I do not really have this association due to the events that took place with the ping scenario. I just assumed they felt they were doing the right thing and negating any side effects from something that was misunderstood. The flute situatio
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by ambiate 11y ago
In my very similar case, I was suspended and subsequently offered to be sued or to quit school by the school board in my Mississippi hometown (100-200k pop). It was in 11th grade in 2002-2003. My mother was not even involved. I quit, becaus
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by ambiate 11y ago
My friend recommended this long path for me. I laughed and asked what the end solution was: CPAP. I ventured to craigslist and bought a used one for $100. I bought new gear off amazon. Google search led to the keystrokes to change the press
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by ambiate 11y ago
I can't help but see a Final Fantasy Tactics clone.
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by ambiate 12y ago
My solution has been a healthy dose of being outward about my awkwardness/anxiety. In a meeting two days ago, the consultant wanted to shake hands and I had to warn them about the puddle they were going to encounter in that brief hands
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by ambiate 12y ago
It is already gone, but noted: https://twitter.com/jquery/status/514811609752289281

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