dwj

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by dwj 14y ago
I think the customer got hacked some other way, and the hacker just wrote to the .htaccess file AFTER hacking the site. Probably the .htaccess is a quick and easy way of taking over the website.
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by dwj 14y ago
enjo is absolutely right. I regularly require inspiration in order to solve difficult problems. This inspiration generally never happens when sitting in front of a computer screen - most of my ideas come when I am walking, swimming, cycling
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by dwj 14y ago
Just checked my servers, and not infected (but neither even have libkeyutils, so I don't think I'm vulnerable to this). After being burned in the past, I always install iptables and block incoming connections. Plus I only allow ssh access t
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by dwj 14y ago
Speaking as someone who has actually been suicidal, it does seem pretty clear that he was depressed. From his blog posts it seems that he typically had a lot of stress-related health symptoms over the years, including depression. It seems t
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by dwj 14y ago
If you read Aaron's blog, you'll see he posted about his illnesses back in 2007. From his account, it sounds like he suffered from burnout/CFS (chronic fatigue syndrome). I would suspect that his 'flu' 2 weeks before his death might have be
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by dwj 14y ago
Twitter uses bcrypt, so in theory this hack should also be nothing to worry about.
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by dwj 14y ago
My own solution is to have two different passwords for everything - one for banking and credit cards, another for crap like twitter/linkedin. I haven't changed my passwords for years (no point really, as you're likely to have the breaking a
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by dwj 14y ago
Doesnt seem a great idea. When it gets hacked they get all your passwords.
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by dwj 14y ago
Yes, I agree...it's just spam. I certainly would never respond to this spammy crap. In fact I now never respond to any company spamming me, because in general they tend to be evil in other ways and provide a crappy service. If I want someth
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by dwj 14y ago
And then the employees of startup X would tell the CEO that they should be working for 6 hours a day rather than 16.
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by dwj 14y ago
Who cares if the html is crufty as long as it works. I use table layouts quite often, and if you look at the source of stackoverflow they use tables too. What I would like to see are a few functionality tweaks to make HN more useful. The ma
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by dwj 14y ago
Yes, I know - that is the whole point of the article. What I meant is that they don't generally have a free team version. It would be better perhaps to have a limited free version for everyone, and then charge educators if they want a more
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by dwj 14y ago
Not sure this is such a good idea. I operate a similar business and most of our profit comes from educational customers. Universities have massive budgets and a few thousand dollars is peanuts to them. School boards also tend to have large
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by dwj 14y ago
I think this is the crux of the matter...RMS believes that making money from software is somehow evil.
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by dwj 14y ago
My own experience is the same. Our facebook page has over 2000 likes, our twitter feed has about 360 followers, but we only have 19 people following us on google+ (even though we've been on there for a year, post all the same things on goog
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by dwj 14y ago
Sounds like a paedophile's rationalisation...
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by dwj 14y ago
Agreed. The issue is that people are getting upset with the police seizing the computers, which would seem to be reasonable in the given situation.
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by dwj 14y ago
No, not exactly. Perhaps I didn't word it correctly. A crime has been committed using the user's internet connection, so in most civilized countries (i.e. places I would like to live in), that means the police have the legal and moral right
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by dwj 14y ago
It's up to the user to prove that the child porn isn't on his computer. As someone pointed out earlier, you could just download a bunch of child porn with a tor exit node running on your computer and say it was someone else.
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by dwj 14y ago
The big difference is ISPs keep track of users' ip addresses and they give that information to the police when they get a warrant. tor doesn't keep that information, so basically the exit node is all that the police have. The trail stops at
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by dwj 14y ago
No, you misunderstood. My point is that someone else's child porn is going through your computer when you operate a tor exit node - that isn't the case when you just use encryption and transfer it yourself. Also UPS maintains logs of who se
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by dwj 14y ago
So you think it's fine to allow someone to use your computer to transfer child porn and other illegal stuff with no consequences? While tor might have some legitimate uses, I think 99% of the time it's used for trolling or illegal stuff. It
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by dwj 14y ago
It looks like this also requires a server with a wrapper. The difference is that websockify is more efficient.
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by dwj 14y ago
Doesn't websockify do this better?
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by dwj 14y ago
I think it is an ego thing, but I wouldn't be too harsh on the OP. I think the whole karma/likes/followers thing is based on a basic human need for recognition and acceptance. People basically like to be liked. For some reason I'm one of th
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by dwj 14y ago
Seems to be $39/month for the cheapest one now.
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by dwj 14y ago
Why does it matter?
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by dwj 14y ago
I didn't mean 'trigger an event', I meant 'spin the event loop'. Unfortunately web workers have too many limitations, and won't work in many situations. And the solution of 'don't use a loop' isn't possible/feasible in certain cases. No poi
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by dwj 14y ago
The problem is that while in a loop, the browser's event loop is not fired. You have to use setTimeout and break out of the loop. Sometimes it's not feasible to use setTimeout for various reasons, and sometimes the browser chugs along even
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by dwj 14y ago
While these features are nice, they doesn't really enable us to do anything we couldn't do already. What I'd like to see are features that would actually make javascript more useful for developing apps, such as an ability to dispatch events

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